Social Contract , in his criticism of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre ’s Project of Perpetual Peace , and in the second chapter of the original draft of the Social Contract , Rousseau takes into account the possibility of a still higher individual, “the federation of the world.” In the “ Political Economy ,” thinking of the nation-state, he affirms what in the Social Contract (Book II , chap. III ) he denies of the city, and recognises that the life of a nation is made up of the whole complex of its institutions, and that the existence of lesser general wills is not necessarily a menace to the General Will of the State. In the