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A footnote in this work praises Genoa for putting the word “liberty” on the front of prisons and the chains of galley-slaves. This work’s third chapter points out that the fact that all sickness comes from God does not forbid us from summoning doctors, to support the thesis that “force does not create right.” This work’s fourth book spends four chapters on the history of Roman government, beginning with the comitia, before arguing for the need to establish a faith composed of the social sentiments that make someone a good citizen, called a “civil religion.” This work states that governments should not be guided by aggregate private desires, or “will of all,” but rather by the “general will.” For 10 points, the declaration “Man is born (10[1])free, and everywhere he is in chains” begins what political treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau? ■END■

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