Book II, Chapter 6
Defines law: 'When I say that the object of laws is always general, I mean that law considers subjects en masse and actions in the abstract.'
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From The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laws are acts of the general will having a general object; what one man commands is not a law but a decree.
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