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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole”
The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter VI, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
The formula of the social compact, printed in italics in the source.
Citation: "Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter VI, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
