The social contract
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- ISBN: 0140442014
- ISBN: 9780140442014
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187 pages ; 20 cm. - Publisher: Harmondsworth [London], Penguin, 1968.
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General Note: | Translation of Du contrat social. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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The Social Contract
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Table of Contents
The Social Contract
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Foreword | p. 11 | |
Book I | ||
I | Subject of the First Book | p. 14 |
II | The First Societies | p. 14 |
III | The Right of the Strongest | p. 16 |
IV | Slavery | p. 17 |
V | That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention | p. 21 |
VI | The Social Contract | p. 22 |
VII | The Sovereign | p. 24 |
VIII | The Civil State | p. 26 |
IX | Real Property | p. 28 |
Book II | ||
I | That Sovereignty Is Inalienable | p. 31 |
II | That Sovereignty Is Indivisible | p. 32 |
III | Whether the General Will Is Fallible | p. 34 |
IV | The Limits of the Sovereign Power | p. 36 |
V | The Right of Life and Death | p. 39 |
VI | Law | p. 41 |
VII | The Legislator | p. 44 |
VIII | The People | p. 48 |
IX | The People (cont.) | p. 50 |
X | The People (cont.) | p. 52 |
XI | The Various Systems of Legislation | p. 55 |
XII | The Division of the Laws | p. 57 |
Book III | ||
I | Government in General | p. 59 |
II | The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government | p. 64 |
III | The Division of Governments | p. 67 |
IV | Democracy | p. 68 |
V | Aristocracy | p. 70 |
VI | Monarchy | p. 73 |
VII | Mixed Governments | p. 78 |
VIII | That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries | p. 79 |
IX | The Marks of a Good Government | p. 84 |
X | The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate | p. 85 |
XI | The Death of the Body Politic | p. 88 |
XII | How a Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself | p. 89 |
XIII | How a Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself (cont.) | p. 90 |
XIV | How a Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself (cont.) | p. 92 |
XV | Deputies or Representatives | p. 93 |
XVI | That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract | p. 97 |
XVII | The Institution of Government | p. 98 |
XVIII | How to Check the Usurpations of Government | p. 99 |
Book IV | ||
I | That the General Will Is Destructible | p. 103 |
II | Voting | p. 105 |
III | Elections | p. 108 |
IV | The Roman Comitia | p. 110 |
V | The Tribunate | p. 120 |
VI | The Dictatorship | p. 122 |
VII | The Censorship | p. 125 |
VIII | Civil Religion | p. 126 |
IX | Conclusion | p. 137 |