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Date: 1762
"The legislative power is the heart of the State; the executive power is its brain, which causes the movement of all the parts."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1762
"The public force therefore needs an agent of its own to bind it together and set it to work under the direction of the general will, to serve as a means of communication between the State and the Sovereign, and to do for the collective person more or less what the union of soul and body does for...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)