Which theory holds that individuals give up certain rights in return for receiving certain protections from the state?

Social contract theory holds that people surrender certain rights as an end-result of accepting certain securities from the state. Social contract theory, about as old as rationality itself, is the view that people's good and political commitments are reliant upon an agreement or understanding among them to frame the general public in which they live.

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.