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“Sovereignty | “Sovereignty | ||
is the exercise of the general will.” | is the exercise of the general will.” | ||
The body politic is also a | |||
moral being, possessed of a will, and this general will, which | |||
tends always to the preservation and welfare of the whole and | |||
of every part, and is the source of the laws, | |||
First, he | |||
rejects representative government; will being, in his theory, inalienable | |||
representative Sovereignty is impossible. | |||
Montesquieu's tripartite system | Montesquieu's tripartite system | ||