On the Social Contract

Name: On the Social Contract
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ISBN: 9780486426921

ISBN-10: 0486426920

ISBN-13: 9780486426921

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole

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Rousseau's powerful treatise expresses views on the rights, liberty & equality of all people. It remains a classic of political theory & one of the most influential works of abstract political thought in the Western tradition.

Book details

List price: $6.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.66" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



Foreword






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






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 (cont.)



The People (cont.)



The Various Systems of Legislation



The Division of the Laws






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 (cont.)



The Same (cont.)



Deputies or Representatives



That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract



The Institution of Government



How to Check the Usurpations of Government






That the General Will Is Indestructible



Voting



Elections



The Roman Comitia



The Tribunate



The Dictatorship



The Censorship



Civil Religion



Conclusion