On the social contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [print]

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  • Du contrat social. English
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  • JC179.R864.O584
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Contents:
The First Societies -- The Right of the Strongest Slavery -- That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention -- The Social Compact -- The Sovereign -- The Civil State -- Real Property
That Sovereignty Is Indivisible -- Whether the General Will Is Fallible -- The Limits of the Sovereign Power -- The Right of Life and Death -- Law -- The Legislator -- The People -- The People (cont.) -- The People (cont.) -- The Various Systems of Legislation -- The Division of the Laws
The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government -- The Division of Governments -- Democracy -- Aristocracy -- Monarchy -- Mixed Governments -- That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries -- The Marks of a Good Government -- The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate -- The Death of the Body Politic -- How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself -- The Same (cont.) -- The Same (cont.) -- Deputies or Representatives -- That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract -- The Institution of Government -- How to Check the Usurpations of Government
Voting -- Elections -- The Roman Comitia -- The Tribunate -- The Dictatorship -- The Censorship -- Civil Religion -- Conclusion.
Subject: On the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems found in commercial society. This book was a progressive work that helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in France, along with the rest of Europe, and beyond. It argued against the idea that rulers were divinely empowered to legislate; as Rousseau asserts, only the people should have that all-powerful right.
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Book I. Subject of the First Book -- The First Societies -- The Right of the Strongest Slavery -- That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention -- The Social Compact -- The Sovereign -- The Civil State -- Real Property

Book II. That Sovereignty Is Inalienable -- That Sovereignty Is Indivisible -- Whether the General Will Is Fallible -- The Limits of the Sovereign Power -- The Right of Life and Death -- Law -- The Legislator -- The People -- The People (cont.) -- The People (cont.) -- The Various Systems of Legislation -- The Division of the Laws

Book III. Government in General -- The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government -- The Division of Governments -- Democracy -- Aristocracy -- Monarchy -- Mixed Governments -- That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries -- The Marks of a Good Government -- The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate -- The Death of the Body Politic -- How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself -- The Same (cont.) -- The Same (cont.) -- Deputies or Representatives -- That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract -- The Institution of Government -- How to Check the Usurpations of Government

Book IV. That the General Will Is Indestructible -- Voting -- Elections -- The Roman Comitia -- The Tribunate -- The Dictatorship -- The Censorship -- Civil Religion -- Conclusion.

On the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems found in commercial society. This book was a progressive work that helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in France, along with the rest of Europe, and beyond. It argued against the idea that rulers were divinely empowered to legislate; as Rousseau asserts, only the people should have that all-powerful right.

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