A Treatise On the Social Compact Or the Principles of Politic Law
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1 hus they preferved their liberty ; this petty ftate, included within that great empire, being, in the end, the caufe of its ruin. ty, SOCIAL COMPACT. 83 ty, might defervedly excite fome wife man to teach them how to preferve it. I cannot he\p Jt UtJS 'b-/ux, furmifing, that this little iflaad will, one day ox, j^^^/ if; 1$, ^ other, be the aflonilliment of Europe. C H A P. XI. Of the various fyji em i of legtjlature, IF we were to enquire, in what confifls pre- cifely the greateft good, or wh...at ought to be the end of every fyftem of legiflature ; we fhould find it reducible to two principal ob- je(5ls, liberty and equality:, liberty, becaufe all partial dependence deprives the whole body of the ft ate of fo much ftrength ; equality, be- caufe liberty cannot fubfid without it. I have already explained the nature of fecial liberty j and with regard to equality, we are_ not to underftand by that term, that individuals fhould all abfolutely pofTefs the fame degree of wealth and power; but only that, with refpe(5t Jo the latter, it ftiould never be exercifed con* trary to good order and the laws ; and with refpedt to the former, that no one citizen fhould be ri^ch enough to buy another, and that none ftiould be fo poor as to be obliged to fell him- E 6 Mi.
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