Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a ...

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~

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