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."
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Date: 1762
"Along with these three kinds of law goes a fourth, most important of all, which is not graven on tablets of marble or brass, but on the hearts of the citizens."
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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...
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