Book III, Chapter 10
On the abuse of government and its inevitable tendency to degenerate.
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From The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every body politic eventually dies; government tends to usurp sovereignty and degenerate, just as the human body decays.
Book III, Chapter 11
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born.Read in Books4Free →
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