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''No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.''

In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state''s only legitimate political authority comes from its people.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics'' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

The Body Politic

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Quintin Hoare

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 03/03/2016
      ISBN13: 9780241252017, 978-0241252017
      ISBN10: 0241252016
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.''

      In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state''s only legitimate political authority comes from its people.

      One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics'' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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