Famous Utopias : being the complete text of Rousseau's Social contract, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the sun /
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New York :
Tudor Publishing Company,
[1937]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Book one : Subject of the first book ; Primitive societies ; The right of the strongest ; Slavery ; That it is always necessary to go back to a first convention ; The social pact ; The sovereign ; The civil state ; Real property
- 2. Book two : That sovereignty is inalienable ; That sovereignty is indivisible ; Whether the general will can err ; The limits of sovereign power ; The right of life and death ; The law ; The legislator ; The people ; The people (continued) ; The people (continued) ; The different systems of legislation ; Division of the laws
- 3. Book three : Government in general ; The principle which constitutes the different forms of government ; Classification of governments ; Democracy ; Aristocracy ; Monarchy ; Mixed governments ; That every form of government is not fit for every country ; The marks of a good government ; The abuse of the government and its tendency to degenerate ; The dissolution of the body politic ; How the sovereign authority is maintained ; How the sovereign authority is maintained (continued) ; How the sovereign authority is maintained (continued) ; Deputies or representatives ; That the institution of the government is not a contract ; The institution of government ; Means of preventing usurpations of the government
- 4. Book four : That the general will is indestructible ; Voting ; Elections ; The Roman comitia ; The tribuneship ; The dictatorship ; The censorship ; Civil religion ; Conclusion.