Key Terms
What is the Sovereign?
The oldest of all societies and the only natural one.
What is, the family?
The four classes of laws.
What are, Political, Civil, Criminal, and Moral Laws?
The city-state J.J. was born and raised in.
What is Geneva?
The form most disconnected between the government and people.
What is monarchy?
The one with superior intelligence to discover the rules of society that best suit a nation.
What is the Lawgiver?
Man's first law for himself that doesn't contradict nature.
What is, self-preservation?
The remarkable change that happens to man when he enters civil society.
What is, the moral quality of his actions that they previously lacked now that there is the general will?
J.J. despises him because he separated the theological system from the political and brought disunity in the state.
Who is Jesus?
The form where the most people need to be virtuous and morally upright.
What is democracy?
The intermediary body between the Sovereign and the State.
What is the government?
The wills at work in any government.
What are the private, magisterial, and general/sovereign will?
Man, in refernce to both his natural state and the state in which in finds himself in society.
What is, "man is born free, and is everywhere in chains?"
The doctrine that J.J. hated at his Protestant Christian school.
What is, total depravity?
The form most liable to civil war.
What is democracy?
A government of "representation" or "representatives."
What is a republic?
The reason a body politic needs a Lawgiver.
Because the general will can be led astray or not always discern its best interest?
The four forms of government.
What are democracy, aristocracy, monarchy, and mixed?
The nation/group he condemns and the nations/groups he praises.
What is Athens?
What are Jews, and Muslims?
The form that is, "the best and most natural arrangement."
What is aristocracy?
The first, without temples, altars, or rituals and limited to inward devotion. The second established by a single country that gives to its people their Gods, dogmas, rituals, and external forms.
What are the religion of man
and the religion of the citizen?
One of two possible signs that a government is degenerating.
What are either:
1) the government contracting
or
2) the state dissolving because the prince administers not according to law
The three things that a body politic should be aware of if they hope to live long and prosperous.
What are:
1) Know your body politic won't live forever
2) You are the sovereign that makes political laws and not the government
3) Regularly assemble to discuss if you like the form of government and the administrators (drivers) or it?
The purpose of writing, "The Social Contract."
What is, "to consider if, in political society, there can be any legitimate and sure principle of government, taking men as they are and laws as they might be, always bringing together what right permits (justice) with what interest prescribes (utility)?"
The form with the most perceptible disadvantage when it comes to continuity of succession.
What is monarchy?