The Social Contract & Discourses

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Author

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778

Title

The social contract & discourses

Credits

E-text prepared by Marc D'Hooghe ( www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project ( books.google.com)

Language

English

LoC Class

JC: Political science: Political theory

Subject

Social contract

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46333

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333

Release Date

July 19, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE SOCIAL CONTRACT & DISCOURSES — BY
2. 2.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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