64. Rousseau conceives the community to be in continual exercise of the power which Locke conceives it to have exercised once and to hold in reserve
65. In his view of the motive for passing from the state of nature into the civil state he is more like Spinoza than Locke
66. His statement of the origin and nature of the 'social contract'
67. Its effects upon the individual
68. His idea of the sovereign is really that of a supreme disinterested reason, but he fuses this with the ordinary idea of a supreme coercive power
69. The practical result of his theory has been a vague exaltation of the will of the people, regardless of what 'the people' ought to mean
70. Further consequences of his ideal conception of sovereignty. It cannot be alienated, represented, or divided
71. Thus the 'government' is never the same as the 'sovereign,' and constitutions differ according to where the government, not the sovereignty, resides
72. The institution of government is not by contract, but by the act of the sovereign, and this act must be confirmed or repealed periodically
73. His distinction between the 'will of all' and the 'general will': the latter always wills the common good, though it may be mistaken as to means