The Social Contract

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The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , translated by George Douglas Howard Cole

1913

[edit] Table of Contents

• Book I
  • 1. Subject Of The First Book
  • 2. The First Societies
  • 3. The Right Of The Strongest
  • 4. Slavery
  • 5. That We Must Always Go Back To First Convention
  • 6. The Social Compact
  • 7. The Sovereign
  • 8. The Civil State
  • 9. Real Property

• Book II
  • 1. That Sovereignty Is Inalienable
  • 2. That Sovereignty Is Indivisible
  • 3. Whether The General Will Is Fallible
  • 4. The Limits of The Sovereign Power
  • 5. The The Right of Life And Death
  • 6. Law
  • 7. The Legislator
  • 8. The People
  • 9. The People
  • 10. The People
  • 11. The Various Systems of Legislation
  • 12. The Division of Laws

• Book III
  • 1. Government in General
  • 2. The Constituent Principle in Various Form
  • 3. The Division of Governments
  • 4. Democracy
  • 5. Aristocracy
  • 6. Monarchy
  • 7. Mixed Governments
  • 8. Appropriate Governments
  • 9. The Marks of a Good Government
  • 10. The Abuse of Government
  • 11. The Death of the Body Politic
  • 12. How Sovereign Authority Maintains It Self
  • 13. The Same
  • 14. The Same
  • 15. Deputies or Representatives
  • 16. Institution of Government Is Not a Contract
  • 17. The Institution of Government
  • 18. How to Check the Usurpations of Government

• Book IV
  • 1. That the General Will Is Indestructible
  • 2. Voting
  • 3. Elections
  • 4. The Roman Comitia
  • 5. The Tribunate
  • 6. The Dictatorship
  • 7. The Censorship
  • 8. Civil Religion
  • 9. Conclusion

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