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    Enlightenment · English

    The Social Contract and Discourses

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    The Social Contract and Discourses, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    61
    Variants
    61
    Genre
    Political Theory
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Introductionprose
    2. 02A Note on Booksprose
    3. 03Foreword, Book Iprose
    4. 04Chapter I: subject of the first bookprose
    5. 05Chapter II: the first societiesprose
    6. 06Chapter III: the right of the strongestprose
    7. 07Chapter IV: slaveryprose
    8. 08Chapter V: that we must always go back to a first conventionprose
    9. 09Chapter VI: the social compactprose
    10. 10Chapter VII: the sovereignprose
    11. 11Chapter VIII: the civil stateprose
    12. 12Chapter IX: real propertyprose
    13. 13Book II, Chapter I: that sovereignty is inalienableprose
    14. 14Chapter II: that sovereignty is indivisibleprose
    15. 15Chapter III: whether the general will is fallibleprose
    16. 16Chapter IV: the limits of the sovereign powerprose
    17. 17Chapter V: the right of life and deathprose
    18. 18Chapter VI: lawprose
    19. 19Chapter VII: the legislatorprose
    20. 20Chapter VIII: the peopleprose
    21. 21Chapter IX: the people (continued)prose
    22. 22Chapter X: the people (continued)prose
    23. 23Chapter XI: the various systems of legislationprose
    24. 24Chapter XII: the division of the lawsprose
    25. 25Book III, Chapter I: government in generalprose
    26. 26Chapter II: the constituent principle in the various forms of governmentprose
    27. 27Chapter III: the division of governmentsprose
    28. 28Chapter IV: democracyprose
    29. 29Chapter V: aristocracyprose
    30. 30Chapter VI: monarchyprose
    31. 31Chapter VII: mixed governmentsprose
    32. 32Chapter VIII: that all forms of government do not suit all countriesprose
    33. 33Chapter IX: the marks of a good governmentprose
    34. 34Chapter X: the abuse of government and its tendency to degenerateprose
    35. 35Chapter XI: the death of the body politicprose
    36. 36Chapter XII: how the sovereign authority maintains itselfprose
    37. 37Chapter XIII: the same (continued)prose
    38. 38Chapter XIV: the same (continued)prose
    39. 39Chapter XV: deputies or representativesprose
    40. 40Chapter XVI: that the institution of government is not a contractprose
    41. 41Chapter XVII: the institution of governmentprose
    42. 42Chapter XVIII: how to check the usurpations of governmentprose
    43. 43Book IV, Chapter I: that the general will is indestructibleprose
    44. 44Chapter II: votingprose
    45. 45Chapter III: electionsprose
    46. 46Chapter IV: the roman comitiaprose
    47. 47Chapter V: the tribunateprose
    48. 48Chapter VI: the dictatorshipprose
    49. 49Chapter VII: the censorshipprose
    50. 50Chapter VIII: civil religionprose
    51. 51Preface (1)prose
    52. 52A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences Decipimur specie recti.—Horace.prose
    53. 53The First Part (1)prose
    54. 54The Second Part (1)prose
    55. 55dedication to the REPUBLIC OF GENEVAprose
    56. 56Preface (2)prose
    57. 57A Dissertation on the origin and foundation of the inequality of mankindprose
    58. 58The First Part (2)prose
    59. 59The Second Part (2)prose
    60. 60Appendixprose
    61. 61A Discourse on Political Economy (2)prose