The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract. Trans. Maurice Cranston. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1968.

Wokler, Robert. Rousseau. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

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