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The Social Contract & Discourses

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2A Note on Books
  3. 3Bibliography
  4. 4Foreword
  5. 5The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right Fœderis Æquas…
  6. 6Book I
  7. 7Chapter I — Subject of the First Book
  8. 8Chapter II — The first Societies
  9. 9Chapter III — The Right of the Strongest
  10. 10Chapter IV — Slavery
  11. 11Chapter V — That we must always go back to a first Convention
  12. 12Chapter VI — The Social Compact
  13. 13Chapter VII — The Sovereign
  14. 14Chapter VIII — The Civil State
  15. 15Chapter IX — Real Property
  16. 16Book II
  17. 17Chapter II — That Sovereignty is indivisible
  18. 18Chapter III — Whether the general Will is fallible
  19. 19Chapter IV — The Limits of the Sovereign Power
  20. 20Chapter V — The Right of Life and Death
  21. 21Chapter VI — Law
  22. 22Chapter VII — The Legislator
  23. 23Chapter VIII — The People
  24. 24Chapter IX — The People (Continued)
  25. 25Chapter X — The People (Continued)
  26. 26Chapter XI — The various Systems of Legislation
  27. 27Chapter XII — The Division of the Laws
  28. 28Book III — Chapter I — Government in General
  29. 29Chapter II — The constituent Principle in the various Forms of Gove…
  30. 30Chapter III — The Division of Governments
  31. 31Chapter IV — Democracy
  32. 32Chapter V — Aristocracy
  33. 33Chapter VI — Monarchy
  34. 34Chapter VII — Mixed Governments
  35. 35Chapter VIII — That all Forms of Government do not suit all Countries
  36. 36Chapter IX — The Marks of a good Government
  37. 37Chapter X — The Abuse of Government and its Tendency to Degenerate
  38. 38Chapter XI — The Death of the Body Politic
  39. 39Chapter XII — How the Sovereign Authority maintains itself
  40. 40Chapter XIII — The Same (Continued)
  41. 41Chapter XIV — The Same (Continued)
  42. 42Chapter XV — Deputies or Representatives
  43. 43Chapter XVI — That the Institution of Government is not a Contract
  44. 44Chapter XVII — The Institution of Government
  45. 45Chapter XVIII — How to check the Usurpations of Government
  46. 46Book IV
  47. 47Chapter II — Voting
  48. 48Chapter III — Elections
  49. 49Chapter IV — The Roman Comitia
  50. 50Chapter V — The Tribunate
  51. 51Chapter VI — The Dictatorship
  52. 52Chapter VII — The Censorship
  53. 53Chapter VIII — Civil Religion
  54. 54Chapter IX — Conclusion
  55. 55A Discourse Which Won the Prize at the Academy of Dijon in 1750, on…
  56. 56Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences — Decipimur Specie Recti — H…
  57. 57The First Part
  58. 58The Second Part
  59. 59A Discourse on a Subject Proposed by the Academy of Dijon
  60. 60Dedication to the Republic of Geneva
  61. 61Preface
  62. 62A Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Ma…
  63. 63The First Part
  64. 64The Second Part
  65. 65Appendix
  66. 66A Discourse on Political Economy

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