1. Social Contract
... government, always secondary and derivative, and the judicial power merely a function of government. This division he makes, naturally, is one of will and power. The government's role is merely to carry out the decrees, or acts of will, of the Sovereign people. Just as the human will transfers a command to its members for execution, so the body politic may give its ... ever come when the [government] has a particular will of its own stronger than that of the sovereign and makes use of the public power which is in its hands to carry out its own particular will-when there are thus two sov...
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