Finally, each man, in giving himself to all, gives himself to nobody; and as there is no associate over which he does not acquire the same right as he yields others over himself, he gains an equivalent for everything he loses, and an increase of force for the preservation of what he has.
If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its, essence, we shall that it reduces itself to the following terms:
“each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an in indivisible part of the whole”