# The printed contract treatise becomes a later heading for popular rights against inherited office

Date: 1762

## The fact

Du contrat social’s sovereignty of the people, as later constitutions and school editions reused it, is a documented heading against purely inherited rule. The dated lead book is 1762. Later charters are other people’s signatures.

## Context

Twin of the force-to-be-free row. Medium confidence on any one constitution’s unique debt. High that the heading is in the book.

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/people/jean-jacques-rousseau) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, encyclopedia, or public-domain edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: The Social Contract — Cole translation, public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Printed popular sovereignty is a resilience heading, not a 1793 committee.

Printed popular sovereignty is a resilience heading, not a 1793 committee.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-jacques-rousseau

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521572651
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46333

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-popular-sovereignty-later-rights