Foreword

In Which It Is Inquired Why Man Passes From the State of Nature to the State of Society and What Are the Essential Conditions of the Compact

	I	The Subject of the first Book
	II	The first Societies
	III	The Right of the Strongest
	IV	Slavery
	V	That we must always go back to a first Convention
	VI	The Social Compact
	VII	The Sovereign
	VIII	The Civil State
	IX	Real Property

Which treats of legislation.

	I	That Sovereignty is inalienable
	II	That Sovereignty is indivisible
	III	Whether the general Will is fallible
	IV	The Limits of the Sovereign Power
	V	The Right of Life and Death
	VI	Law
	VII	The Legislator
	VIII	The People
	IX	The People (continued)
	X	The People (continued)
	XI	The various Systems of Legislation
	XII	The Division of the Laws

Which treats of political laws, that is to say, of the form of government.

	I	Government in General
	II	The constituent Principle in the various Forms of Government
	III	The Division of Governments
	IV	Democracy
	V	Aristocracy
	VI	Monarchy
	VII	Mixed Governments
	VIII	That all Forms of Government do not suit all Countries
	IX	The Marks of a good Government
	X	The Abuse of Government and its Tendency to Degenerate
	XI	The Death of the Body Politic
	XII	How the Sovereign Authority maintains itself
	XIII	How the Sovereign Authority maintains itself (continued)
	XIV	How the Sovereign Authority maintains itself (continued)
	XV	Deputies or Representatives
	XVI	That the Institution of Government is not a Contract
	XVII	The Institution of Government
	XVIII	How to check the Usurpations of Government

Which treats further of political laws and sets forth the means of strengthening the Constitution of the State.

	I	That the general Will is indestructible
	II	Voting
	III	Elections
	IV	The Roman Comitia
	V	The Tribunate
	VI	The Dictatorship
	VII	The Censorship
	VIII	Civil Religion
	IX	Conclusion