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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Social contract. New York, Dutton, 1950 (OCoLC)578021841 Online version: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Social contract. New York, Dutton, 1950 (OCoLC)608724668 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau; G D H Cole |
| OCLC Number: | 179547 |
| Description: | liv, 330 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Book I: In which it is inquired why man passes from the state of nature to the state of society and what are the essential conditions of the compact -- Subject of the first Book -- First societies -- Right of the strongest -- Slavery -- That we must always go back to a first convention -- Social compact -- Sovereign -- Civil State -- Real property -- Book II: Which treats of legislation: That sovereignty is inalienable -- That sovereignty is indivisible -- Whether the general Will is fallible -- Limits of the sovereign power -- Right of life and death -- Law -- Legislator -- People -- People - cont. -- People - cont. -- Various systems of legislation -- Division of the laws -- Book III: Which treats of political laws, that is to say, of the form of government: Government in general -- Constituent principle in the various forms of government -- Division of governments -- Democracy -- Aristocracy -- Monarchy -- Mixed governments -- That all forms of government do not suit all countries -- Marks of a good government -- Abuse of government and its tendency to degenerate -- Death of the body politic -- How the sovereign authority maintains itself -- How the sovereign authority maintains itself - cont. -- How the sovereign authority maintains itself - cont. -- Deputies or representatives -- That the institution of government is not a contract -- Institution of government -- How to check the usurpations of government -- Book IV: Which treats further of political laws and sets forth the means of strengthening the constitution of the State: That the general Will is indestructible -- Voting -- Elections -- Roman Comitia -- Tribunate -- Dictatorship -- Censorship -- Civil religion -- Conclusion -- Discourse on the arts and sciences: Discourse on the origin of inequality: Discourse on political economy. |
| Series Title: | Everyman's library., Theology & philosophy ;, 660A. |
| Other Titles: | Du contrat social. |
| Responsibility: | by Jean Jacques Rousseau ; translated with an introduction by G.D.H. Cole. |
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