...loses, and with it greater force to j keep what he has." There results from this act of association "a moral and collective body composed of^ as many members as the assembly has voices." " The clauses of this contract are so determined by the nature of the act that the least modification...

...receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole body." 1 The social contract, says Rousseau, produces a moral and collective body composed of as many members as the assembly has voices. The association gives to the body resulting therefrom its unity, its common self (sonmoi commuri),...

...we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole." Immediately, instead of the individual person of each contracting party, this act of association...body, composed of as many members as the assembly has votes, which receives from this same act its unity,—its common being, its life and its Tvill. This...

...and that the sovereign who exercises this General Will is a "collective being,"1 a " public person," a " moral and collective body composed of as many members as the assembly has voices," and produced by an act of voluntary association, from which act it receives " its unity, its common...

...each individual as an indivisible member of the whole. Instantaneously, in place of the particular person of each contracting party, this act of association...as many members as the assembly has voices, which receives from this same act its unity, its common self (son moi commun), its life, and its will. This...

...with the hypothesis of the social " "Instantaneously," says Rousseau, "in the place of the particular person of each contracting party, this act of association produces a moral and collective body. . . which receives from this same act its unity, its common ego, its life and its will." "Contrat Social."...

...with the hypothesis of the social " "Instantaneously," says Rousseau, "in the place of the particular person of each contracting party, this act of association produces a moral and collective body. . . which receives from this same act its unity, its common ego, its life and its will." "Contrat Social,"...

...once, in place of the individual personality of each contracting party, this act of association creates a moral and collective body, composed of as many members as the assembly contains votes, and receiving from this act its unity, its common identity, its life and its will.'...

...once, in place of the individual personality of each contracting party, the act of association creates a moral and collective body, composed of as many members as the assembly contains voters, and receiving from the act its unity, its common identity (moi commun), its life and...

...we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.' Immediately, instead of the individual person of each contracting party, this act of association...body, composed of as many members as the assembly has votes, which receives from this same act its unity,—its common being, its life and its will." (Book...