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