1. Social Contract
... by realizing that the legislator is, in fact, in Rousseau's system, the spirit of institutions personified; his place, in a developed society, is taken by the whole complex of social custom, organization and tradition that has grown up with the State. This is made clearer by the fact that the legislator is not to exercise legislative power; he is merely to submit ... genuinely free country," says Rousseau, "the citizens do all with their strong right arms, nothing with their money" (Book III: XV 259). **4*4* In the fourth book, Rousseau speaks of certain social institutions. The general w...
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