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Title The Social Contract, Discourses
Author Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Translator George Douglas Howard Cole
Year 1913
Publisher Everyman's Library
Location London
Source djvu
Progress Ready for Match and Split
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed

CONTENTS

PAGE
introduction by G. D. H. Cole v

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

FOREWORD 2
BOOK I
In which it is inquired why man passes from the state of nature to the state of society and what are the essential conditions of the compact.
CHAP.
I. Subject of the first Book 3
II. The first Societies 4
III. The Right of the Strongest 6
IV. Slavery 7
V. That we must always go back to a first Convention 10
VI. The Social Compact 11
VII. The Sovereign 13
VIII. The Civil State 15
IX. Real Property 16
BOOK II
Which treats of legislation.
I. That Sovereignty is inalienable 20
II. Thar Sovereignty is indivisible 21
III. Whether the general Will is fallible 22
IV. The Limits of the Sovereign Power 24
V. The Right of Life and Death 27
VI. Law 29
VII. The Legislator 32
VIII. The People 35
IX. The People (cont.) 37
X. The People (cont.) 39
XI. The various Systems of Legislation 42
XII. The Division of the Laws 44
BOOK III
Which treats of political laws, that is to say, of the form of government.
I. Government in General 46
II. The constituent Principle in the various Forms of Government 51
III. The Division of Governments 53
IV. Democracy 54
V. Aristocracy 56
VI. Monarchy 58
VII. Mixed Governments 63
VIII. That all Forms of Government do not suit all Countries 64
IX. The Marks of a good Government 69
X. The Abuse of Government and its Tendency to Degenerate 70
XI. The Death of the Body Politic 73
XII. How the Sovereign Authority maintains itself 74
XIII. How the Sovereign Authority maintains itself (cont.) 75
XIV. How the Sovereign Authority maintains itself (cont.) 76
XV. Deputies or Representatives 77
XVI. That the Institution of Government is not a Contract 80
XVII. The Institution of Government 81
XVIII. How to check the Usurpations of Government 83
BOOK IV
Which treats further of political laws and sets forth the means of strengthening the constitution of the State.
I. That the general Will is indestructible 85
II. Voting 87
III. Elections 89
IV. The Roman Comitia 91
V. The Tribunate 100
VI. The Dictatorship 102
VII. The Censorship 104
VIII. Civil Religion 106
IX. Conclusion 116


A DISCOURSE ON THE ARTS AND SCIENCES 117
A DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY 143
A DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY 231