Book I, Chapter 7
The notorious passage justifying coercion as liberation from particular wills contrary to the general will.
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From The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau's controversial claim that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be 'forced to be free' by the whole body.
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