Contents
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men
Rousseau’s Notes to Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men
Discourse on Political Economy
Chapter 1: Subject of the First Book
Chapter 2: Of the First Societies
Chapter 3: On the Right of the Strongest
Chapter 5: That It Is Always Necessary to Return to a First Agreement
Chapter 6: On the Social Compact
Chapter 1: That Sovereignty Is Inalienable
Chapter 2: That Soverighty Is Indivisible
Chapter 3: Whether the General Will Can Err
Chapter 4: On the Limits of Sovereign Power
Chapter 5: On the Right of Life or Death
Chapter 9: The People (continued)
Chapter 10: The People (continued)
Chapter 11: On the Various Systems of Legislation
Chapter 12: Classification of the Laws
Chapter 1: On Government in General
Chapter 2: On the Principle That Constitutes the Various Forms of Government
Chapter 3: Classification of Governments
Chapter 7: On Mixed Government
Chapter 8: That Not All Forms of Government Are Suited to All Countries
Chapter 9: On the Signs of a Good Government
Chapter 10: On the Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
Chapter 11: On the Death of the Body Politic
Chapter 12: How the Soverieng Authority Is Maintained
Chapter 15: On Deputies or Representatives
Chapter 16: That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract
Chapter 17: On the Institution of the Government
Chapter 18: The Means of Preventing Usurpations of the Government
Chapter 1: That the General Will Is Indestructible