On the Social Contract

Name: On the Social Contract
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ISBN: 9780872200685

ISBN-10: 087220068X

ISBN-13: 9780872200685

Edition: Revised

Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Donald A. Cress, Donald A. Cress

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"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. How did that transformation take place? I don't know. How may the restraints on man become legitimate? I do believe I can answer that question..." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, Du Contrat Social. Arguing that all government is fundamentally flawed, and that modern society is based on a system that fosters inequality and servitude. Rousseau demands nothing less than a complete revision of the social contract to ensure equality and freedom. Noting that government derives its authority by the people's willing consent (rather than…

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 109
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
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