associations NSA. Rousseau. The concept of popular sovereignty and the identification of eithe people with the State was actually the result of the teachings of Rousseau, hich he had propagated thirty years before the French Revolution Rousseau popular sovereignty the doctrine of individual freedom, but th myD of the Genera which was always right made of it a vindication of much more comprehensive State power than any previous political thinker had offered since Plato. Rousseau, injected into the nascent modern democracies notion of sovereignty which was destructive of democracy and pointed towards the totalitarian State. People and the State having become one, the personality of the individual is merged in the social whole, for it is only the power of the State which makes the freedom ofits members. Ro Eithat the will of the State is the will of the individual in so far as he has accepted