Book IV, Chapter 2
Explains how the minority is bound by majority votes and how this is consistent with freedom.
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From The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Outside the original compact (which requires unanimity), the majority binds the rest; if my opinion loses, this proves only that I was mistaken about the general will.
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