The general will is always upright and always tends to the public advantage; but the deliberations of the people do not always have the same rectitude.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Early Modern

Social contract theory

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The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter III

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1762

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Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46333/46333-h/46333-h.htm

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