CONTENTS The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right BOOK I 1. Subject of the First Book.................................................................2 2. The First Societies............................................................................3 3. The Right of the Strongest..............................................................5 4. Slavery ...............................................................................................6 5. That We Must Always Go back to a First Convention.................11 6. The Social Compact.........................................................................12 7. The Sovereign ...................................................................................14 8. The Civil State..................................................................................16 9. Real Property....................................................................................18 BOOK II 1. That Sovereignty is Inalienable .......................................................21 2. That Sovereignty is Indivisible........................................................22 3. Whether the General Will Is Fallible .............................................24 4. The Limits of the Sovereign Power................................................26 5. The Right of Life and Death...........................................................29 6. Law ....................................................................................................31 7. The Legislator ...................................................................................35 8. The People ........................................................................................39 9. The People (Continued) ..................................................................41 10. The People (Continued) ................................................................43 11. The Various Systems of Legislation...............................................46 12. The Division of the Laws...............................................................49 BOOK III 1. Government in General...................................................................51 2. The Constituent Principle in the Various Forms of Government .....................................................................................57 3. The Division of Governments ........................................................59 4. Democracy........................................................................................61 5. Aristocracy ........................................................................................63 6. Monarchy..........................................................................................65 7. Mixed Governments ........................................................................71 8. That All Forms of Government Do Not Suit All Countries........72 9. The Marks of a Good Government ...............................................78 10. The Abuse of Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate ....79 11. The Death of the Body Politic.......................................................82 12. How the Sovereign Authority Maintains Itself............................84 13. The Same (Continued)....................................................................85 14. The Same (Continued) ...................................................................86 15. Deputies or Representatives..........................................................87 16. That the Institution of Government Is Not a Contract ............91 17. The Institution of Government ....................................................92 18. How to Check the Usurpations of Government.........................94 BOOK IV 1. That the General Will Is Indestructible.........................................97 2. Voting ................................................................................................99 3. Elections............................................................................................102 4. The Roman Comitia ........................................................................104 5. The Tribunate....................................................................................115 6. The Dictatorship..............................................................................117 7. The Censorship.................................................................................120 8. Civil Religion ....................................................................................122 9. Conclusion........................................................................................133 A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind Introductory Note ...................................................................................136 QUESTION Proposed by the Academy of Dijon................................138 A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality .............................................................................................139 Part I .........................................................................................................143 Part II........................................................................................................178