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The Social Contract
Jean-jacques Rousseau
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The Social Contract
Jean-jacques Rousseau
I MEAN to inquire if, in the civil order, there can be any sure and legitimate rule of administration, men being taken as they are and laws as they might be. In this inquiry I shall endeavour always to unite what right sanctions with what is prescribed by interest, in order that justice and utility may in no case be divided. I enter upon my task without proving the importance of the subject. I shall be asked if I am a prince or a legislator, to write on politics. I answer that I am neither, and that is why I do so. If I were a prince or a legislator, I should not waste time in saying what wants doing; I should do it, or hold my peace. As I was born a citizen of a free State, and a member of the Sovereign, I feel that, however feeble the influence my voice can have on public affairs, the right of voting on them makes it my duty to study them: and I am happy, when I reflect upon governments, to find my inquiries always furnish me with new reasons for loving that of my own country.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 10, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9781770833500 |
Publishers | Theophania Publishing |
Pages | 144 |
Dimensions | 150 × 8 × 226 mm · 199 g |
Language | English |
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