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62. The difficulty indeed is not so great as that of conceiving the act of original devolution of power, and is inherent in the theory of contract

63. In the particular case of the reform of the English representative system, Locke does not contemplate the carrying out of his own theory.

E. Rousseau.

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