Social Contract, The by ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
Summary: The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas)
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1-01-Subject of the First Book
1-02-Primitive Societies
1-03-The Right of the Strongest
1-04-Slavery
1-05-That it is always necessary to go back to a first convention
1-06-The Social Pact
1-07-The Sovereign
1-08-The Civil State
1-09-Real Property
2-01-That Sovereignty is inalienable
2-02-That Soverignty is indivisible
2-03-Whether the General Will can ere
2-04-The limits of the sovereign power
2-05-The right of Life and Death
2-06-The Law