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Rousseau: The Social Contract

'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains': a government is legitimate only by the general will.

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Volume
35 of the 1990 set
Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Work
The Social Contract 1762

Ideas: Freedom and its limits Kinds of government Rights and consent

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