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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract: Book III

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Social Contract: Book III

Book III - On The Forms Of Government

Introduction:

In Book III, Rousseau defines his concept of government and its
relationship to the previously mentioned ideas of law, sovereignty, the state,
the legislator, and other parts of the civil society. A clue to understanding
this section once more lies in his use of the General Will. For if sovereignty
of the General Will is power (power that is inalienable, indivisible, and
unrepresentable), and law is the ability of the General Will to act for all as
opposed to the ...

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