Book TwoQuoteIn addition to those categories of law there is a fourth, which is the most important of all; it is not graven in marble or bronze, but in citizens' hearts; in it lies the true constitution of the state; its strength augments day by day; when other laws decay or become extinct it revives or replaces them. Notes🔥 "Sovereignty, being only the exercise of the general will, can never be transferred ... Power can be delegated, but the will cannot." 🔥 "Sovereignty is indivisible for the same reason that it is untransferable: a will is either general or it is not; it is the will of the body of the people, or of a part only." 🔥 Political theorists often divide the sovereign into separate pieces, each being a separate power or authority. They "take manifestations of its authority to be parts of it." In fact, these "parts" of the sovereign are all subordinate to it. 🔥 The general will, being the emergent common interest of all people, is always right. But people can be misled, and…
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