- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Book I
- I. Subject of the First Book
- II. The First Societies
- III. The Right of the Strongest
- IV. Slavery
- V. That We Must Always Go Back to a First Convention
- VI. The Social Compact
- VII. The Sovereign
- VIII. The Civil State
- IX. Real Property
- Book II
- I. That Sovereignty Is Inalienable
- II. That Sovereignty Is Indivisible
- III. Whether the General Will Is Fallible
- IV. The Limits of the Sovereign Power
- V. The Right of Life and Death
- VI. Law
- VII. The Legislator
- VIII. The People
- IX. The People (Continued)
- The People (Continued)
- XI. The Various Systems of Legislation
- XII. The Division of the Laws
- Book III
- I. Government in General
- The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government
- III. The Division of Governments
- IV. Democracy
- V. Aristocracy
- VI. Monarchy
- VII. Mixed Governments
- VIII. That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries
- IX. The Marks 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. The Same (Continued)
- XIV. The Same (Continued)
- XV. Deputies or Representatives
- XVI. That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract
- XVII. The Institution of Government
- XVIII. How to Check the Usurpations of Government
- Book IV
- I. That the General Will Is Indestructible
- II. Voting
- III. Elections
- IV. The Roman Comitia
- V. The Tribunate
- VI. The Dictatorship
- VII. The Censorship
- VIII. Civil Religion
- Conclusion
- Back cover
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