Origins of Civil Society

THAT WE MUST ALWAYS GO BACK TO AN ORIGINAL COMPACT
· Resulting relationship will ever be that of Master and Slave, never of People and Ruler
· The body of men so controlled may be an agglomeration; it is not an association
· We consider the act by which a People chooses their king, it were well if we considered the act by which a People is constituted as such
· What right have the hundred who desire a master to vote for the tem who do not?

OF THE SOCIAL PACT
· “Some form off association must be found as a result of which the whole strength of the community will be enlisted for the protection of the person and property of each constituent member, in such a way that each, when united to his fellows, renders obedience to his own will, and remains as free as he was before.”
· That is the basic problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution
· Broken down to: “each of us contributes to the group his person and the powers which h...