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Comment: “As soon as a nation appoints representatives, it is no longer free, it no longer exists.” (Rousseau)

  • UPSC 1994
  • Theories of the State

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The sentence comes near the close of Book III, chapter 15 ("Deputies or Representatives") of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762). It follows strictly from his theory of popular sovereignty: if freedom means obeying laws one has made, handing law-making to others ends freedom. The claim fails as an institutional programme but survives as the…

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