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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Introduction
  4. Epigraph
  5. Foreword
  6. The Social Contract
    1. Book I
      1. I: Subject of the First Book
      2. II: The First Societies
      3. III: The Right of the Strongest
      4. IV: Slavery
      5. V: That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention
      6. VI: The Social Compact
      7. VII: The Sovereign
      8. VIII: The Civil State
      9. IX: Real Property
    2. Book II
      1. I: That Sovereignty Is Inalienable
      2. II: That Sovereignty Is Indivisible
      3. III: Whether the General Will Is Fallible
      4. IV: The Limits of the Sovereign Power
      5. V: The Right of Life and Death
      6. VI: Law
      7. VII: The Legislator
      8. VIII: The People
      9. IX: The People (Continued)
      10. X: The People (Continued)
      11. XI: The Various Systems of Legislation
      12. XII: The Division of the Laws
    3. Book III
      1. I: Government in General
      2. II: The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government
      3. III: The Division of Governments
      4. IV: Democracy
      5. V: Aristocracy
      6. VI: Monarchy
      7. VII: Mixed Governments
      8. VIII: That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries
      9. IX: The Marks of a Good Government
      10. X: The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate
      11. XI: The Death of the Body Politic
      12. XII: How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself
      13. XIII: The Same (Continued)
      14. XIV: The Same (Continued)
      15. XV: Deputies or Representatives
      16. XVI: That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract
      17. XVII: The Institution of Government
      18. XVIII: How to Check the Usurpations of Government
    4. Book IV
      1. I: That the General Will Is Indestructible
      2. II: Voting
      3. III: Elections
      4. IV: The Roman Comitia
      5. V: The Tribunate
      6. VI: The Dictatorship
      7. VII: The Censorship
      8. VIII: Civil Religion
      9. IX: Conclusion
  7. Endnotes
  8. Colophon
  9. Uncopyright

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