The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right

Subscribe for ad free access & additional features for teachers. Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154, Forum Posts: 1,238,602, Quizzes: 344 Foreward This little treatise is part of a longer work which I began years ago without realising my limitations, and long since abandoned. Of the various fragments that might have been extracted from what I wrote, this is the most considerable, and, I think, the least unworthy of being offered to the public. The rest no longer exists. About Jean Jacques Rousseau Text Summary Foreward Book I 1. Subject of the First Book 2. The First Societies 3. The Right of the Strongest 4. Slavery 5. That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention 6. The Social Compact 7. The Sovereign 8. The Civil State 9. Real Property Notes Book II 1. That Sovereignty is Inalienable 2. That Sovereignty is Indivisible 3. Whether the General Will is Fallible 4. The Limits of the Sovereign Power 5. The Right of Life and Death 6. Law 7. The Legislator 8. The People 9. The People (continued) 10. The People (continued) 11. The Various Systems of Legislation 12. The Division of the Laws Notes Book III 1. Government in General 2. The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government 3. The Division of Governments 4. Democracy 5. Aristocracy 6. Monarchy 7. Mixed Governments 8. That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries 9. The Marks of a Good Government 10. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate 11. The Death of the Body Politic 12. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself 13. The Same (continued) 14. The Same (continued) 15. Deputies or Representatives 16. That the Institution of Government is not a Contract 17. The Institution of Government 18. How to Check the Usurpations of Government Notes Book IV 1. That the General Will is Indestructible 2. Voting 3. Elections 4. The Roman Comitia 5. The Tribunate 6. The Dictatorship 7. The Censorship 8. Civil Religion 9. Conclusion Notes Sorry, no summary available yet. Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time. Sonnet-a-Day Newsletter Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets! Join our Sonnet-A-Day Newsletter and read them all, one at a time.