1. Social Contract Rousseau
These property laws legitimize the "Right of "first occupancy"" which stresses, again, the power of the sovereign over its subjects. ... This may be seen in his treatment of law as a whole, in which he defines laws as "acts of the general will," and, agreeing with Montesquieu in making law the "condition of civil association," goes beyond him only in tracing it more definitely to its origin in an act of will (Book II: VI). The Social Contract renders law necessary, and at the same time makes it quite clear that laws can proceed only from the body of citizens who have constituted...
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