The public force therefore needs an agent of its own to bind it together and set it to work under the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau
The public force therefore needs an agent of its own to bind it together and set it to work under the direction of the general will, to serve as a means of communication between the State and the Sovereign, and to do for the collective person more or less what the union of soul and body does for man.
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