Book ThreeQuoteThe political body, like the human, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries within it the causes of its own destruction. Notes🔥 "I am ignorant of the art of making myself clear to those who do not with to concentrate," Rousseau says to open this book. 🔥 Every free act has two causes: will and force. These correspond to the legislative and executive power. The legislative is made up of the people, but the executive has to be more distinct. 🔥 Government is an "intermediate body set up between subjects and sovereign to ensure their mutual correspondence, and is entrusted with the execution of laws and with the maintenance of liberty." 🔥 The size or population of a state impacts the size and strength of a government. Though its power needs to be restrained, same as it can restrain the liberties of the people for the common good. 🔥 There are three types of wills: individual will, corporate will (of the government), and the general will. Ideally, the general will…
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