如果要评定影响人类历史的一百部经典，卢梭的《社会契约论》必定榜上有名；如果只评定十部这样的经典，《社会契约论》同样不会名落孙山。处在革命时代的各国资产阶级把它当作福音书，天赋人权的思想至今仍然深刻地影响着这个世界。本书是全英文版。

1 BOOK Ⅰ

 1.1 THE SUBJECT OF THE FIRST BOOK

 1.2 THE FIRST SOCIETIES

 1.3 THE RIGHT OF THE STRONGEST

 1.4 SLAVERY

 1.5 THAT WE MUST ALWAYS GO BACK TO A FIRST CONVENTION

 1.6 THE SOCIAL COMPACT

 1.7 THE SOVEREIGN

 1.8 THE CIVIL STATE

 1.9 REAL PROPERTY

BOOK Ⅱ

 2.1 THAT SOVEREIGNTY IS INALIENABLE

 2.2 THAT SOVEREIGNTY IS INDIVISIBLE

 2.3 WHETHER THE GENERAL WILL IS FALLIBLE

 2.4 THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN POWER

 2.5 THE RIGHT OF LIFE AND DEATH

 2.6 LAW

 2.7 THE LEGISLATOR

 2.8 THE PEOPLE

 2.9 THE PEOPLE (continued)

 2.10 THE PEOPLE (continued)

 2.11 THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF LEGISLATION

 2.12 THE DIVISION OF THE LAWS

BOOK Ⅲ

 3.1 GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL

 3.2 THE CONSTITUENT PRINCIPLE IN THE VARIOUS FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

 3.3 THE DIVISION OF GOVERNMENTS

 3.4 DEMOCRACY

 3.5 ARISTOCRACY

 3.6 MONARCHY

 3.7 MIXED GOVERNMENTS

 3.8 THAT ALL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT DO NOT SUIT ALL COUNTRIES

 3.9 THE MARKS OF A GOOD GOVERNMENT

 3.10 THE ABUSE OF GOVERNMENT AND ITS TENDENCY TO DEGENERATE

 3.11 THE DEATH OF THE BODY POLITIC

 3.12 HOW THE SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY MAINTAINS ITSELF

 3.13 HOW THE SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY MAINTAINS ITSELF (continued)

 3.14 HOW THE SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY MAINTAINS ITSELF (continued)

 3.15 DEPUTIES OR REPRESENTATIVES

 3.16 THAT THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT IS NOT A CONTRACT

 3.17 THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT

 3.18 HOW TO CHECK THE USURPATIONS OF GOVERNMENT

BOOK Ⅳ

 4.1 THAT THE GENERAL WILL IS INDESTRUCTIBLE

 4.2 VOTING

 4.3 ELECTIONS

 4.4 THE ROMAN COMITIA

 4.5 THE TRIBUNATE

 4.6 THE DICTATORSHIP

 4.7 THE CENSORSHIP

 4.8 CIVIL RELIGION

 4.9 CONCLUSION