The Social Contract

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genre: *Non-fiction, Philosophy, Political Science

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The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas)

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1-01-Subject of the First Book1-02-Primitive Societies1-03-The Right of the Strongest1-04-Slavery1-05-That it is always necessary to go back to a first convention1-06-The Social Pact1-07-The Sovereign1-08-The Civil State1-09-Real Property2-01-That Sovereignty is inalienable2-02-That Soverignty is indivisible2-03-Whether the General Will can ere2-04-The limits of the sovereign power2-05-The right of Life and Death2-06-The Law2-07-The Legislator2-08-The People2-09-The People (continued)2-10-The People (continued)2-11-The Different Systems of legislation2-12-Division of the Laws3-01-Government in general3-02-The Principle which constitutes the different forms of Government3-03-Classification of Governments3-04-Democracy3-05-Arisctocracy3-06-Monarchy3-07-Mixed Governments3-08-That every form of government is not fit for every country3-09-The Marks of a good Government3-10-The Abuse of the Government and its tendency to degenerate3-11-The Dissolution of the Body Politic3-12-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained3-13-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued)3-14-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued)3-15-Deputies or Representatives3-16-That the Institution of the Government is not a contract3-17-The Institution of the Government3-18-Means of Preventing Usurpations of the Government4-01-That the General Will is indestructible4-02-Voting4-03-Elections4-04-The Roman Comitia4-05-The Tribuneship4-06-The Dictatorship4-07-The Censorship4-08-Civil Religion4-09-Conclusion

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