The Social Contract

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
A Note on the Text and Translation......Page 25
Select Bibliography......Page 26
A Chronology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau......Page 28
POLITICAL ECONOMY......Page 32
I.......Page 40
II.......Page 45
III.......Page 56
THE SOCIAL CONTRACT......Page 74
Prefatory Note......Page 75
i. The Subject of the First Book......Page 76
ii. The First Societies......Page 77
iii. The Right of the Strongest......Page 79
iv. Slavery......Page 80
v. That It Is Always Necessary to Go Back to an Original Convention......Page 84
vi. The Social Pact......Page 85
vii. The Sovereign......Page 87
viii. The Civil State......Page 90
ix. Property......Page 91
i. That Sovereignty Cannot Be Transferred......Page 94
ii. That Sovereignty Cannot Be Divided......Page 95
iii. Whether the General Will Can Err......Page 97
iv. The Limits of Sovereign Power......Page 98
v. The Right of Life and Death......Page 102
vi. The Law......Page 104
vii. The Legislator......Page 107
viii. The People......Page 110
ix. The Same Continued......Page 112
x. The Same Continued......Page 115
xi. The Various Systems of Legislation......Page 117
xii. The Categories of Law......Page 120
i. Government in General......Page 122
ii. The Constituent Principle of the Various Forms of Government......Page 127
iii. The Classification of Governments......Page 130
iv. Democracy......Page 131
v. Aristocracy......Page 133
vi. Monarchy......Page 135
vii. Mixed Forms of Government......Page 141
viii. That Not All Forms of Government Are Suitable for Every Country......Page 142
ix. The Signs of Good Government......Page 147
x. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate......Page 149
xi. The Death of the Body Politic......Page 152
xii. How Sovereign Authority Is Maintained......Page 153
xiii. The Same Continued......Page 154
xiv. The Same Continued......Page 156
xv. Deputies or Representatives......Page 157
xvi. That the Institution of a Government Is Not a Contract......Page 160
xvii. The Institution of a Government......Page 161
xviii. A Means of Preventing Government from Usurping Power......Page 163
i. That the General Will Is Indestructible......Page 165
ii. Voting......Page 167
iii. Elections......Page 170
iv. The Roman Comitia......Page 172
v. The Tribunate......Page 182
vi. The Office of Dictator......Page 184
vii. The Office of Censor......Page 187
viii. The Civil Religion......Page 189
ix. Conclusion......Page 199
Appendix: The General Society of the Human Race......Page 200
Explanatory Notes......Page 207
D......Page 244
L......Page 245
R......Page 246
X......Page 247