The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right

by Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Foreward
• Book I
  • 1. Subject of the First Book
  • 2. The First Societies
  • 3. The Right of the Strongest
  • 4. Slavery
  • 5. That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention
  • 6. The Social Compact
  • 7. The Sovereign
  • 8. The Civil State
  • 9. Real Property
  • Notes
• Book II
  • 1. That Sovereignty is Inalienable
  • 2. That Sovereignty is Indivisible
  • 3. Whether the General Will is Fallible
  • 4. The Limits of the Sovereign Power
  • 5. The Right of Life and Death
  • 6. Law
  • 7. The Legislator
  • 8. The People
  • 9. The People (continued)
  • 10. The People (continued)
  • 11. The Various Systems of Legislation
  • 12. The Division of the Laws
  • Notes
• Book III
  • 1. Government in General
  • 2. The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government
  • 3. The Division of Governments
  • 4. Democracy
  • 5. Aristocracy
  • 6. Monarchy
  • 7. Mixed Governments
  • 8. That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries
  • 9. The Marks of a Good Government
  • 10. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
  • 11. The Death of the Body Politic
  • 12. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself
  • 13. The Same (continued)
  • 14. The Same (continued)
  • 15. Deputies or Representatives
  • 16. That the Institution of Government is not a Contract
  • 17. The Institution of Government
  • 18. How to Check the Usurpations of Government
  • Notes
• Book IV
  • 1. That the General Will is Indestructible
  • 2. Voting
  • 3. Elections
  • 4. The Roman Comitia
  • 5. The Tribunate
  • 6. The Dictatorship
  • 7. The Censorship
  • 8. Civil Religion
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Notes

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