Table of Contents

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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