[261] Mackintosh's.
[262] Cont. Soc., II. v.
[263] IV. ii.
[264] For instance, Gouvernement de la Pologne, ch. xi. p. 305. And Corr., v. 180.
[265] Cont. Soc., I. viii.
[266] Cont. Soc., II. i.
[267] Ib., III. x. "Let every individual who may usurp the sovereignty be instantly put to death by free men." Robespierre's Déclaration des droits de l'homme, § 27. "When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection becomes for the people the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties." § 35.
[268] Cont. Soc., III. x.
[269] See May's Constitutional Hist. of England, ch. iii; and Lord Stanhope's Life of Pitt, vol. ii. ch. xii.
[270] In the 6th book of the Moral Philosophy (1785), ch. iii., and elsewhere. In the preface he refers to the effect which Rousseau's political theory was supposed to have had in the civil convulsions of Geneva, as one of the reasons which encouraged him to publish his own book.