The Social Contract
by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Introduction
Foreword
BOOK I
Chapter I: subject of the first book
Chapter II: the first societies
Chapter III: the right of the strongest
Chapter IV: slavery
Chapter V: that we must always go back to a first convention
Chapter VI: the social compact
Chapter VII: the sovereign
Chapter VIII: the civil state
Chapter IX: real property
BOOK II
Chapter I: that sovereignty is inalienable
Chapter II: that sovereignty is indivisible
Chapter III: whether the general will is fallible
Chapter IV: the limits of the sovereign power
Chapter V: the right of life and death
Chapter VI: law
Chapter VII: the legislator
Chapter VIII: the people
Chapter IX: the people (continued)
Chapter X: the people (continued)
Chapter XI: the various systems of legislation
Chapter XII: the division of the laws
BOOK III
Chapter I: government in general
Chapter II: the constituent principle in the various forms of government
Chapter III: the division of governments
Chapter IV: democracy
Chapter V: aristocracy
Chapter VI: monarchy
Chapter VII: mixed governments
Chapter VIII: that all forms of government do not suit all countries
Chapter IX: the marks of a good government
Chapter X: the abuse of government and its tendency to degenerate
Chapter XI: the death of the body politic
Chapter XII: how the sovereign authority maintains itself
Chapter XIII: the same (continued)
Chapter XIV: the same (continued)
Chapter XV: deputies or representatives
Chapter XVI: that the institution of government is not a contract
Chapter XVII: the institution of government
Chapter XVIII: how to check the usurpations of government
BOOK IV
Chapter I: that the general will is indestructible
Chapter II: voting
Chapter III: elections
Chapter IV: the roman comitia
Chapter V: the tribunate
Chapter VI: the dictatorship
Chapter VII: the censorship
Chapter VIII: civil religion
Chapter IX: conclusion
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