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The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole

NonfictionPhilosophyabout 7 hours of listening

Rousseau explores the political philosophy of authority originating from the consent of the people.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Introduction
  3. Epigraph
  4. Foreword
  5. The Social Contract
  6. Book I
  7. I: Subject of the First Book
  8. II: The First Societies
  9. III: The Right of the Strongest
  10. IV: Slavery
  11. V: That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention
  12. VI: The Social Compact
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  1. VII: The Sovereign
  2. VIII: The Civil State
  3. IX: Real Property
  4. I: That Sovereignty Is Inalienable
  5. II: That Sovereignty Is Indivisible
  6. III: Whether the General Will Is Fallible
  7. IV: The Limits of the Sovereign Power
  8. V: The Right of Life and Death
  9. VI: Law
  10. VII: The Legislator
  11. VIII: The People
  12. IX: The People (Continued)
  13. X: The People (Continued)
  14. XI: The Various Systems of Legislation
  15. XII: The Division of the Laws
  16. Book III
  17. I: Government in General
  18. II: The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government
  19. III: The Division of Governments
  20. IV: Democracy
  21. V: Aristocracy
  22. VI: Monarchy
  23. VII: Mixed Governments
  24. VIII: That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries
  25. IX: The Marks of a Good Government
  26. X: The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
  27. XI: The Death of the Body Politic
  28. XII: How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself
  29. XIII: The Same (Continued)
  30. XIV: The Same (Continued)
  31. XV: Deputies or Representatives
  32. XVI: That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract
  33. XVII: The Institution of Government
  34. XVIII: How to Check the Usurpations of Government
  35. I: That the General Will Is Indestructible
  36. II: Voting
  37. III: Elections
  38. IV: The Roman Comitia
  39. V: The Tribunate
  40. VI: The Dictatorship
  41. VII: The Censorship
  42. VIII: Civil Religion
  43. IX: Conclusion
  44. Endnotes
  45. Colophon
  46. Uncopyright

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