Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the library

3 works in the library quote Jean-Jacques Rousseau — 3 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

A. V. Dicey 1 citation · John Taylor of Caroline 1 citation · Wordsworth Donisthorpe 1 citation

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1. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 21

   Rousseau's approach of grounding reform in abstract right is named and reported as a doctrine distinct from utilitarian legislative reform, without the passage endorsing or refuting it outright.

   If, however, he is guided by some idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility, he may, like Rousseau, popularise ideas which kindle a revolution, but he will hardly become a systematic law reformer.

2. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 1 refuted 1 citation

   section 6.: property.

   Rousseau is named directly and his influence characterized as an illusion that wrongly alarms men into wishing to curtail constitutional liberty and property.

   Many wise and good men, however, alarmed by the illusions of Rousseau and Godwin, and the atrocities of the French revolution, honestly believe that these principles have teeth and claws, which it is expedient to draw and pare, however constitutional they may be;

3. Law in a Free State Wordsworth Donisthorpe 1 refuted 1 citation

   ch. 3

   Rousseau's Contrat Social is directly named and dismissed alongside Locke's theory as unfounded.

   Locke's pretence that the individual citizens reserved certain liberties when the State was formed is of course the merest allegory, without any more foundation, in fact, than Rousseau's Contrat Social.