Prefatory Note 2
Introductory Note 3
BOOK ONE 5
Chapter 1 Subject of the First Book 5
Chapter 2 Primitive Societies 6
Chapter 3 The Right ofthe Strongest 8
Chapter 4 Slavery 9
Chapter 5 That It Is Always Necessary to Go Back to a First Convention 13
Chapter 6 The Social Pact 14
Chapter 7 The Sovereign 17
Chapter 8 The Civil State 19
Chapter 9 Real Property 21
BOOK TWO 25
Chapter 1 That Sovereignty Is Inalienable 25
Chapter 2 That Sovereignty Is Indivisible 27
Chapter 3 Whether the General Will Can Err 29
Chapter 4 The Limits of the Sovereign Power 31
Chapter 5 The Right of Life and Death 35
Chapter 6 The Law 37
Chapter 7 The Legislator 40
Chapter 8 The People 44
Chapter 9 The People(continued) 46
Chapter 10 The People(continued) 49
Chapter 11 The Different Systems of Legislation 52
Chapter 12 Division of the Laws 54
BOOK THREE 57
Chapter 1 Government in General 57
Chapter 2 The Principle Which Constitutes the Different Forms of Government 62
Chapter 3 Classification of Governments 65
Chapter 4 Democracy 67
Chapter 5 Aristocracy 69
Chapter 6 Monarchy 72
Chapter 7 Mixed Governments 77
Chapter 8 That Every Form of Government Is Not Fit for Every Country 79
Chapter 9 The Marks of a Good Government 84
Chapter 10 The Abuse of the Government and Its Tendency to Degenerate 86
Chapter 11 The Dissolution of the Body Politic 89
Chapter 12 How the Sovereign Authority Is Maintained 91
Chapter 13 How the Sovereign Authority Is Maintained(continued) 92
Chapter 14 How the Sovereign Authority Is Maintained(continued) 94
Chapter 15 Deputies or Representatives 95
Chapter 16 That the Institution of the Government Is Not a Contract 99
Chapter 17 The Institution of the Government 101
Chapter 18 Means of Preventing Usurpations of the Government 103
BOOK FOUR 105
Chapter 1 That the General Will Is Indestructible 105
Chapter 2 Voting 107
Chapter 3 Elections 110
Chapter 4 The Roman Comitia 112
Chapter 5 The Tribuneship 122
Chapter 6 The Dictatorship 124
Chapter 7 The Censorship 127
Chapter 8 Civil Religion 129
Chapter 9 Conclusion 139