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The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right

  
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FOREWARD

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BOOK I
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CHAPTER 1. SUBJECT OF THE FIRST BOOK
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CHAPTER 2. THE FIRST SOCIETIES
  
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CHAPTER 3. THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST
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CHAPTER 4. SLAVERY
  
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CHAPTER 5. THAT WE MUST ALWAYS GO BACK TO A FIRST CONVENTION
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CHAPTER 6. THE SOCIAL COMPACT
  
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CHAPTER 7. THE SOVEREIGN
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CHAPTER 8. THE CIVIL STATE
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CHAPTER 9. REAL PROPERTY
  
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BOOK II
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CHAPTER 1. THAT SOVEREIGNTY IS INALIENABLE
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CHAPTER 2. THAT SOVEREIGNTY IS INDIVISIBLE
  
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CHAPTER 3. WHETHER THE GENERAL WILL IS FALLIBLE
  
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CHAPTER 4. THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER
  
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CHAPTER 5. THE RIGHT OF LIFE AND DEATH
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CHAPTER 6. LAW
  
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CHAPTER 7. THE LEGISLATOR
  
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CHAPTER 8. THE PEOPLE
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CHAPTER 9. THE PEOPLE (continued)
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CHAPTER 10. THE PEOPLE (continued)
  
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CHAPTER 11. THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF LEGISLATION
  
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CHATPER 12. THE DIVISION OF THE LAWS
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BOOK III
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CHAPTER 1. GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL
  
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CHAPTER 2. THE CONSTITUENT PRINCIPLE IN THE VARIOUS FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
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CHAPTER 3. THE DIVISION OF GOVERNMENTS
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CHAPTER 4. DEMOCRACY
  
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CHAPTER 5. ARISTOCRACY
  
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CHAPTER 6. MONARCHY
  
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CHAPTER 7. MIXED GOVERNMENTS
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CHAPTER 8. THAT ALL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT DO NOT SUIT ALL COUNTRIES
  
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CHAPTER 9. THE MARKS OF A GOOD GOVERNMENT
  
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CHAPTER 10. THE ABUSE OF GOVERNMENT AND ITS TENDENCY TO DEGENERATE
  
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CHAPTER 11. THE DEATH OF THE BODY POLITIC
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CHAPTER 12. HOW THE SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY MAINTAINS ITSELF
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CHAPTER 13. THE SAME (continued)
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CHAPTER 14. THE SAME (continued)
  
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CHAPTER 15. DEPUTIES OR REPRESENTATIVES
  
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CHAPTER 16. THAT THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT IS NOT A CONTRACT
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CHAPTER 17. THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT
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CHAPER 18. HOW TO CHECK THE USURPATIONS OF GOVERNMENT
  
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BOOK IV
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CHAPTER 1. THAT THE GENERAL WILL IS INDESTRUCTIBLE
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CHAPTER 2. VOTING
  
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CHAPTER 3. ELECTIONS
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CHAPTER 4. THE ROMAN COMITIA
  
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CHAPTER 5. THE TRIBUNATE
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CHAPTER 6. THE DICTATORSHIP
  
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CHAPTER 7. THE CENSORSHIP
  
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CHAPTER 8. CIVIL RELIGION
  
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CHAPTER 9. CONCLUSION

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If the object is to give the State consistency, bring the two extremes as near to each other as possible; allow neither rich men nor beggars. These two estates, which are naturally inseparable, are equally fatal to the common good; from the one come the friends of tyranny, and from the other tyrants. It is always between them that public liberty is put up to auction; the one buys, and the other sells.

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"Any branch of foreign commerce," says M. d'Argenson, "creates on the whole only apparent advantage for the kingdom in general; it may enrich some individuals, or even some towns; but the nation as a whole gains nothing by it, and the people is no better off."

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