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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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Machiavelli was a proper man and a good citizen; but, being attached to the court of the Medici, he could not help veiling his love of liberty in the midst of his country's oppression. The choice of his detestable hero, Caesar Borgia, clearly enough shows his hidden aim; and the contradiction between the teaching of the Prince and that of the Discourses on Livy and the History of Florence shows that this profound political thinker has so far been studied only by superficial or corrupt readers. The Court of Rome sternly prohibited his book. I can well believe it; for it is that Court it most clearly portrays.

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Tacitus, Histories, i. 16. "For the best, and also the shortest way of finding out what is good and what is bad is to consider what you would have wished to happen or not to happen, had another than you been Emperor."

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In the Politicus.

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