The Essential Rousseau

The Essential RousseauIntroduction The Social Contract Discourse on Inequality Discourse on the Arts and Sciences The Creed of a Savoyard Priest ForewordBook I I. The Subject of This First Book II. The First Societies III. The Right of the Strongest IV. Slavery V. We Must Always Go Back to a First Agreement VI. The Social Pact VII. The Sovereign VIII. The Civil State IX. Real Property Book II I. Sovereignty Is Inalienable II. Sovereignty Is Indivisible III. Whether the General Will Can Err IV. Limits of the Sovereign Power V. The Right of Life and Death VI. Law VII. The Lawgiver VIII. The People IX. The People (continued) X. The People (continued) XI. Various Systems of Law XII. Classification of Laws Book III I. Government in General II. The Constitutive Principle of the Various Forms of Government III. Classification of Governments IV. Democracy V. Aristocracy VI. Monarchy VII. Mixed Governments VIII. All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries IX. The Signs of a Good Government X. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate XI. The Death of the Body Politic XII. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself XIII. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself (continued) XIV. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself (continued) XV. Deputies or Representatives XVI. The Institution of the Government Is Not a Contract XVII. The Institution of the Government XVIII. The Means of Preventing Usurpation of the Government Book IV I. The General Will Is Indestructible II. Voting III. Elections IV. The Roman Public Assemblies V. The Tribunate VI. Dictatorship VII. Censorship VIII. Civil Religion IX. Conclusion Notes