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Comment: “I give the name to every state that is governed by laws, no matter what the form of its administration.” (Rousseau)

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  • Theories of the State

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The name Jean-Jacques Rousseau gives is Republic. The sentence belongs to The Social Contract (1762), Book II, chapter 6 ("Law"): only where laws govern does the public interest govern, and the res publica rank as a reality, so every legitimate government is republican. Legitimacy moves from the form of government to the sovereignty of general…

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  • Law as the Act of the General Will
  • Why the Form of Administration Does Not Matter
  • The Afterlife of the Idea
  • Critiques
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