Book I |
1. Subject of the First Book |
2. The First Societies |
3. The Right of the Strongest |
4. Slavery |
5. That We Must Always Go Back to a
First Convention |
6. The Social Compact |
7. The Sovereign |
8. The Civil State |
9. Real Property |
Book II |
1. That Sovereignty is Inalienable |
2. That Sovereignty is Indivisible |
3. Whether the General Will is
Fallible |
4. The Limits of the Sovereign
Power |
5. The Right of Life and Death |
6. Law |
7. The Legislator |
8. The People |
9. The People (continued) |
10. The People (continued) |
11. The Various Systems of
Legislation |
12. The Division of the Laws |
Book III |
1. Government in General |
2. The Constituent Principle in the
Various Forms of Government |
3. The Division of Governments |
4. Democracy |
5. Aristocracy |
6. Monarchy |
7. Mixed Governments |
8. That All Forms of Government Do
Not Suit All Countries |
9. The Marks of a Good Government |
10. The Abuse of Government and Its
Tendency to Degenerate |
11. The Death of the Body Politic |
12. How the Sovereign Authority
Maintains Itself |
13. The Same (continued) |
14. The Same (continued) |
15. Deputies or Representatives |
16. That the Institution of
Government is not a Contract |
17. The Institution of Government |
18. How to Check the Usurpations of
Government |
Book IV |
1. That the General Will is
Indestructible |
2. Voting |
3. Elections |
4. The Roman Comitia |
5. The Tribunate |
6. The Dictatorship |
7. The Censorship |
8. Civil Religion |
9. Conclusion |