Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

"The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before."

by:	Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Political philosopher, educationist and essayist
Source:	The Social Contract, 1762
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Categories:	Altruist, Government, Independence, Unification, Utopia
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I think The CONSTITUTION of UNITED DIVERSITY meets this criteria http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uniteddiversity  -- Triaka, Kaua'i
-- gofields, Fort Worth TX
And, we are still looking.  -- GWD, Detroit
-- Emma, Melbourne, Australia
brillian man with good ideas about thematic elements of government that would come well after his time.  -- Dante Robinson, Bronx, New York
to my mind the best quote ever made!  -- PL, paris
.....But there's a mistake insofar as this quote does not come from the Social contract but from the discourse about the origin of inegalities among mens  -- PL, paris
The natural law's representative republic, limited by the Constitution was a phenomenal answer to the statement. A social contract is an unlawful oxymoron and a despotic lie.  -- Mike, Norwalk      1
Yes, that is the problem isn't it. Just goes to show that Liberty requires constant attention and defense. Great ideals such as this started the French Revolution, unfortunately after the monarchy was torn down, the socialists assumed the same power. Something to be watchful about in America should revolution come again...  -- E Archer, NYC      1
The solution of course is a republican form of government chartered by the people in their sovereign capacity, with a system of checks and balances, with limited powers strictly enumerated and enforced, individual ownership of land in allodium, a hard currency, a 'well-regulated' armed populace, freedom of religion/conscience and the right to speak and print — basically the ideals upon which the American republic was founded.  Of course, only a people that will govern themselves according to the laws of Nature and of Nature's god will be able to uphold such principles.  -- E Archer, NYC      1
-- Clueso, Ravenna

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