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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Introduction
ROUSSEAU’S LIFE AND BACKGROUND
MORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORY
THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
BEYOND OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
IMPACT AND INFLUENCE
NOTES
Further Reading
Of the Social Contract
Of the Social Contract
Prefatory Note
Foreword
BOOK I
Chapter 1: Subject of This First Book
Chapter 2: Of the First Societies
Chapter 3: Of the Right of the Strongest
Chapter 4: Of Slavery
Chapter 5: How It Is Always Necessary to Go Back to a Primary Pact
Chapter 6: Of the Social Pact
Chapter 7: Of the Sovereign
Chapter 8: Of the Civil State
Chapter 9: Of Real Estate
BOOK II
Chapter 1: How Sovereignty Is Inalienable
Chapter 2: How Sovereignty Is Indivisible
Chapter 3: Whether the General Will Can Err
Chapter 4: Of the Limits of Sovereign Power
Chapter 5: Of the Right of Life and Death
Chapter 6: Of the Law
Chapter 7: Of the Legislator
Chapter 8: Of the People
Chapter 9: Of the People – continued
Chapter 10: Of the People – continued
Chapter 11: Of the Various Systems of Legislation
Chapter 12: Division of Laws
BOOK III
Chapter 1: Of Government in General
Chapter 2: Of the Principle That Constitutes the Diverse Forms of Government
Chapter 3: Division of Governments
Chapter 4: Of Democracy
Chapter 5: Of Aristocracy
Chapter 6: Of Monarchy
Chapter 7: Of Mixed Governments
Chapter 8: How Every Form of Government Does Not Suit Every Country
Chapter 9: Of the Signs of a Good Government
Chapter 10: Of the Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
Chapter 11: Of the Death of the Body Politic
Chapter 12: How Sovereign Authority Is Maintained
Chapter 13: How Sovereign Authority Is Maintained – continued
Chapter 14: How Sovereign Authority Is Maintained – continued
Chapter 15: Of Deputies or Representatives
Chapter 16: How the Institution of Government Is No Contract
Chapter 17: Of the Institution of Government
Chapter 18: Means of Preventing Usurpations by Government
BOOK IV
Chapter 1: How the General Will Is Indestructible
Chapter 2: Of Suffrages
Chapter 3: Of Elections
Chapter 4: Of the Roman Comitia
Chapter 5: Of the Tribunate
Chapter 6: Of Dictatorship
Chapter 7: Of the Censorship
Chapter 8: Of Civil Religion
Chapter 9: Conclusion
GENEVA MS
Prefatory Note
BOOK I
Chapter 2: Of the General Society of Mankind
PRINCIPLES OF THE RIGHT OF WAR
Prefatory Note
Principles of the right of war
What the State of War Is
Of the Social State
General Idea of War between State and State
Fundamental Distinctions
LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE MOUNTAINS
Prefatory Note
Letters Written from the Mountains
Sixth Letter
Extract from the Seventh Letter
Extract from the Eighth Letter
CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR CORSICA
Prefatory Note
Constitutional Proposal for Corsica
Foreword
Proposal
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE GOVERNMENT OF POLAND
Prefatory Note
Considerations on the Government of Poland
[I] State of the Question
[II] Spirit of the Institutions of Antiquity
[III] Application
[IV] Education
[V] Radical Defect
[VI] Question of the Three Orders
[VII] Means of Maintaining the Constitution
[VIII] Of the King
[IX] Particular Causes of Anarchy
[X] Administration
[XI] Economic System
[XII] Military System
[XIII] Plan for Subjecting All Members of the Government to a Gradual Advancement
[XIV] Election of Kings
[XV] Conclusion
Notes
Chronology
Penguin Story
Copyright Page
Footnotes
BOOK I
Chapter 2: Of the First Societies
Page 11
Page 12
Chapter 4: Of Slavery
Page 16
Chapter 6: Of the Social Pact
Page 20
Chapter 9: Of Real Estate
Page 27
BOOK II
Chapter 2: How Sovereignty Is Indivisible
Page 30
Chapter 3: Whether the General Will Can Err
Page 32
Page 33
Chapter 4: Of the Limits of Sovereign Power
Page 34
Chapter 6: Of the Law
Page 41
Chapter 7: Of the Legislator
Page 42
Page 43
Page 45
Chapter 10: Of the People – continued
Page 51
Chapter 11: Of the Various Systems of Legislation
Page 53
BOOK III
Chapter 1: Of Government in General
Page 58
Chapter 4: Of Democracy
Page 68
Chapter 5: Of Aristocracy
Page 69
Chapter 6: Of Monarchy
Page 71
Page 74
Chapter 8: How Every Form of Government Does Not Suit Every Country
Page 81
Chapter 9: Of the Signs of a Good Government
Page 82
Chapter 10: Of the Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
Page 83
Page 85
Chapter 14: How Sovereign Authority Is Maintained – continued
Page 90
Chapter 15: Of Deputies or Representatives
Page 93
Page 94
Chapter 18: Means of Preventing Usurpations by Government
Page 98
BOOK IV
Chapter 2: Of Suffrages
Page 102
Chapter 4: Of the Roman Comitia
Page 106
Page 107
Page 111
Page 113
Page 115
Chapter 6: Of Dictatorship
Page 119
Page 120
Chapter 7: Of the Censorship
Page 122
Chapter 8: Of Civil Religion
Page 124
Page 126
Page 130
Page 131
Page 132
PRINCIPLES OF THE RIGHT OF WAR
Principles of the right of war
Page 158
LETTERS WRITTEN FROM THE MOUNTAINS
Letters Written from the Mountains
Page 178
Page 182
Page 185
CONSIDERATIONS ON THE GOVERNMENT OF POLAND
Considerations on the Government of Poland
Page 317
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