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The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free and everywhere in chains: the general will, popular sovereignty, civil religion. Short, brilliant, dangerous in the wrong hands.
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you want democratic theory's most radical founding text.
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Three things you will actually use
- The general will.
- Sovereignty belongs to the people.
- Freedom through law.
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Rousseau's contract.
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