The social contract & discourses

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. A Note on Books
  3. Bibliography
  4. Foreword
  5. Book I
  6. Subject of the First Book
  7. The First Societies
  8. The Right of the Strongest
  9. Slavery
  10. That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention
  11. The Social Compact
  12. The Sovereign
  13. The Civil State
  14. Real Property
  15. That Sovereignty Is Inalienable
  16. That Sovereignty Is Indivisible
  17. Whether the General Will Is Fallible
  18. The Limits of the Sovereign Power
  19. The Right of Life and Death
  20. Law
  21. The Legislator
  22. The People
  23. The People ( continued )
  24. The People ( continued )
  25. The Various Systems of Legislation
  26. The Division of the Laws
  27. Government in General
  28. The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government
  29. The Division of Governments
  30. Democracy
  31. Aristocracy
  32. Monarchy
  33. Mixed Governments
  34. That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries
  35. The Marks of a Good Government
  36. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
  37. The Death of the Body Politic
  38. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself
  39. The Same ( continued )
  40. The Same (continued)
  41. Deputies or Representatives
  42. That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract
  43. The Institution of Government
  44. How to Check the Usurpations of Government
  45. That the General Will Is Indestructible
  46. Voting
  47. Elections
  48. The Roman Comitia
  49. The Tribunate
  50. The Dictatorship
  51. The Censorship
  52. Civil Religion
  53. Conclusion
  54. Preface
  55. Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences
  56. The First Part
  57. The Second Part
  58. What Is the Origin of Inequality Among Men, and Is It Authorised by Natural Law?
  59. Republic of Geneva
  60. Preface
  61. On the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind
  62. The First Part
  63. The Second Part
  64. Appendix
  65. A Discourse on Political Economy

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