1. Social Contract
... completely democratic government is not at the same time the Sovereign; its members are sovereign only in a different capacity and as a different corporate body, just as two different societies may exist for different purposes with exactly the same members. Pure democracy, however, as the government of the ... right to interfere in every particular case. Rousseau believed that the people as a whole should be sovereign (the term Rousseau uses for the body of citizens acting collectively, with authority over themselves). In The Social Contract, he argues that government is justified only i...
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