The social contract & discourses
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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- THE SOCIAL CONTRACT & DISCOURSES
- JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY ROUSSEAU'S SOCIAL CONTRACT, ETC. TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION BY G. D. H. COLE, FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD
- INTRODUCTION
- A NOTE ON BOOKS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CONTENTS
- THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
- PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL RIGHT
- Fœderis æquas Dicamus leges. (Vergil, Æneid XI.)
- 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 (continued)
- THE PEOPLE (continued)
- 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 (continued)
- THE SAME (continued)
- 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
- A DISCOURSE
- HAS THE RESTORATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES HAD A PURIFYING EFFECT UPON MORALS?
- MORAL EFFECTS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
- THE FIRST PART
- THE SECOND PART
- A DISCOURSE
- WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY AMONG MEN, AND IS IT AUTHORISED BY NATURAL LAW?
- PREFACE
- A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN AND FOUNDATION OF THE INEQUALITY OF MANKIND
- THE FIRST PART
- THE SECOND PART
- APPENDIX[1]
- A DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY
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