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The social contract & discourses

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

63 chapters, about 120,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION 14,900 words
2. A NOTE ON BOOKS 200 words
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY 700 words
4. BOOK III 300 words
5. BOOK I 200 words
6. SUBJECT OF THE FIRST BOOK 200 words
7. THE FIRST SOCIETIES 700 words
8. THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST 400 words
9. SLAVERY 1,700 words
10. CHAPTER V 300 words
11. THE SOCIAL COMPACT 700 words
12. THE SOVEREIGN 800 words
13. THE CIVIL STATE 400 words
14. REAL PROPERTY 1,000 words
15. THAT SOVEREIGNTY IS INALIENABLE 500 words
16. THAT SOVEREIGNTY IS INDIVISIBLE 700 words
17. WHETHER THE GENERAL WILL IS FALLIBLE 600 words
18. THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER 1,400 words
19. THE RIGHT OF LIFE AND DEATH 800 words
20. LAW 1,200 words
21. THE LEGISLATOR 1,500 words
22. THE PEOPLE 600 words
23. CHAPTER IX 800 words
24. CHAPTER X 900 words
25. THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF LEGISLATION 800 words
26. THE DIVISION OF THE LAWS 500 words
27. GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL 1,900 words
28. CHAPTER II 900 words
29. THE DIVISION OF GOVERNMENTS 400 words
30. DEMOCRACY 700 words
31. ARISTOCRACY 700 words
32. MONARCHY 2,000 words
33. MIXED GOVERNMENTS 300 words
34. CHAPTER VIII 1,900 words
35. THE MARKS OF A GOOD GOVERNMENT 700 words
36. CHAPTER X 1,200 words
37. THE DEATH OF THE BODY POLITIC 400 words
38. HOW THE SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY MAINTAINS ITSELF 300 words
39. CHAPTER XIII 500 words
40. CHAPTER XIV 300 words
41. DEPUTIES OR REPRESENTATIVES 1,300 words
42. CHAPTER XVI 500 words
43. THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT 400 words
44. HOW TO CHECK THE USURPATIONS OF GOVERNMENT 700 words
45. THAT THE GENERAL WILL IS INDESTRUCTIBLE 800 words
46. VOTING 1,100 words
47. ELECTIONS 700 words
48. THE ROMAN COMITIA 3,600 words
49. THE TRIBUNATE 700 words
50. THE DICTATORSHIP 1,100 words
51. THE CENSORSHIP 600 words
52. CIVIL RELIGION 3,600 words
53. PREFACE 300 words
54. OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES 300 words
55. THE FIRST PART 3,900 words
56. THE SECOND PART 5,300 words
57. REPUBLIC OF GENEVA 3,700 words
58. PREFACE 2,200 words
59. A DISSERTATION 1,100 words
60. THE FIRST PART 12,000 words
61. THE SECOND PART 12,100 words
62. APPENDIX[1] 3,100 words
63. A DISCOURSE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY 15,800 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Aristocracy
• Common good
• Compassion
• Cult
• Deme
• Dictator
• Election
• General will
• Government
• Law
• Republic
• Sovereignty
• Tax
• The Law (Bastiat book)
• Tranquillity
• World religions

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