The Social Contract and Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
BOOK I
CHAPTER I: subject of the first book
CHAPTER II: the first societies
CHAPTER III: the right of the strongest
CHAPTER IV: slavery
CHAPTER V: that we must always go back to a first convention
CHAPTER VI: the social compact
CHAPTER VII: the sovereign
CHAPTER VIII: the civil state
CHAPTER IX: real property
BOOK II
CHAPTER I: that sovereignty is inalienable
CHAPTER II: that sovereignty is indivisible
CHAPTER III: whether the general will is fallible
CHAPTER IV: the limits of the sovereign power
CHAPTER V: the right of life and death
CHAPTER VI: law
CHAPTER VII: the legislator
CHAPTER VIII: the people
CHAPTER IX: the people (continued)
CHAPTER X: the people (continued)
CHAPTER XI: the various systems of legislation
CHAPTER XII: the division of the laws
BOOK III
CHAPTER I: government in general
CHAPTER II: the constituent principle in the various forms of government
CHAPTER III: the division of governments
CHAPTER IV: democracy
CHAPTER V: aristocracy
CHAPTER VI: monarchy
CHAPTER VII: mixed governments
CHAPTER VIII: that all forms of government do not suit all countries
CHAPTER IX: the marks of a good government
CHAPTER X: the abuse of government and its tendency to degenerate
CHAPTER XI: the death of the body politic
CHAPTER XII: how the sovereign authority maintains itself
CHAPTER XIII: the same (continued)
CHAPTER XIV: the same (continued)
CHAPTER XV: deputies or representatives
CHAPTER XVI: that the institution of government is not a contract
CHAPTER XVII: the institution of government
CHAPTER XVIII: how to check the usurpations of government
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I: that the general will is indestructible
CHAPTER II: voting
CHAPTER III: elections
CHAPTER IV: the roman comitia
CHAPTER V: the tribunate
CHAPTER VI: the dictatorship
CHAPTER VII: the censorship
CHAPTER VIII: civil religion
CHAPTER IX: conclusion
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