An inquiry into the nature of the social contract, or, Principles of political right. Translated from the French by John James Rousseau
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'The high honours which have been recently paid to the memory of Rousseau, by the National Assembly of France; avowedly from a persuasion that a treatise of his, entitled Du Contrat Social, had prepared the way for the Revolution which has lately taken place in that country, must naturally excite a desire in the minds of Englishmen, to be acquainted with a work, which could lay the foundation of so important an event. A translation is therefore offered to the public; in which care has been taken to give the sense of the author, in the plainest language; that all who choose to trace, in this treatise, the principle of the new system of French government, may do so, without that difficulty which is sometimes found in reading translations of philosophical works'.
Notes
Integral preface.