The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right 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) 1o. 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. AristocracYr 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 A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind Introductory Note QUESTION Proposed by the Academy of Dijon A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Part I Part II
