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Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas)

Year of Publication: 1901Genres: Philosophy,Political Science,*Non-fiction
Running Time: 4 hours 46 minutes 47 seconds(48 chapters)
Language: EnglishRead by: Sibella Denton, Sienna, Daniel Watkins
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1-01-Subject of the First Book
Diana Majlinger
1:40
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1-02-Primitive Societies
Neeru Iyer
4:33
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1-03-The Right of the Strongest
Neeru Iyer
2:44
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1-04-Slavery
Rex Koontz
10:28
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1-05-That it is always necessary to go back to a first convention
Justin Tovar
2:33
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1-06-The Social Pact
Justin Tovar
5:23
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1-07-The Sovereign
Christian Al-Kadi
5:50
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1-08-The Civil State
Christian Al-Kadi
3:15
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1-09-Real Property
Christian Al-Kadi
7:36
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2-01-That Sovereignty is inalienable
Sienna
3:08
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2-02-That Soverignty is indivisible
Sienna
4:43
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2-03-Whether the General Will can ere
Sienna
2:58
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2-04-The limits of the sovereign power
Sienna
8:49
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2-05-The right of Life and Death
Availle
5:15
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2-06-The Law
Patrick Wells
7:51
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2-07-The Legislator
Anna Simon
8:32
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2-08-The People
Ezwa
5:32
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2-09-The People (continued)
Ezwa
6:11
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2-10-The People (continued)
Ezwa
7:22
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2-11-The Different Systems of legislation
Daniel Watkins
4:09
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2-12-Division of the Laws
Daniel Watkins
3:10
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3-01-Government in general
Christian Al-Kadi
15:20
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3-02-The Principle which constitutes the different forms of Government
Christian Al-Kadi
7:34
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3-03-Classification of Governments
Anna Simon
3:22
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3-04-Democracy
Anna Simon
4:48
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3-05-Arisctocracy
Anna Simon
4:49
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3-06-Monarchy
Anna Simon
12:43
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3-07-Mixed Governments
Sienna
2:43
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3-08-That every form of government is not fit for every country
Sienna
11:56
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3-09-The Marks of a good Government
Sienna
2:54
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3-10-The Abuse of the Government and its tendency to degenerate
Sienna
4:48
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3-11-The Dissolution of the Body Politic
Sienna
3:06
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3-12-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained
Sibella Denton
2:26
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3-13-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued)
Sibella Denton
3:37
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3-14-How the sovereign Authority is Maintained (continued)
Sibella Denton
2:00
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3-15-Deputies or Representatives
Sibella Denton
7:36
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3-16-That the Institution of the Government is not a contract
Sibella Denton
2:51
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3-17-The Institution of the Government
Sibella Denton
2:44
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3-18-Means of Preventing Usurpations of the Government
Sibella Denton
4:33
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4-01-That the General Will is indestructible
Sibella Denton
4:54
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4-02-Voting
Sibella Denton
6:20
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4-03-Elections
Sibella Denton
4:31
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4-04-The Roman Comitia
Rex Koontz
21:51
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4-05-The Tribuneship
Daniel Watkins
4:06
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4-06-The Dictatorship
Daniel Watkins
6:06
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4-07-The Censorship
Daniel Watkins
3:47
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4-08-Civil Religion
Rex Koontz
22:33
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4-09-Conclusion
Daniel Watkins
1:07

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