The General Will

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According to Rousseau, the government is charged with implementing and enforcing the general will and should be composed of a smaller group of citizens. He was very opposed to the idea of representative democracy. He believed in making laws directly from the general will of those in the sovereignty. Believing that the democratic government is set up to serve the people rather than rule over them...
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He believed in making laws directly from the general will of those in the sovereignty. Believing that the democratic government is set up to serve the people rather than rule over them. The idea that the general will is inalienable is because it is applied to everyone equally. Rousseau say's "since the sovereignty is merely the exercise of the general will, it can never be alienated and that the sovereign, which is only a collective being, cannot be represented by anything but itself...
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