This is the position adopted by Jean- Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau argues in terms not of interest but of will and will is truly personal. One person can will instead of others but there is no guarantee of the will of the one coinciding with the will of those others. Accordingly, people are free only when self-governing; they are legitimately bound only by laws which they have "ratified in their own person," enacted by their own will expressed in direct participation (Rousseau 1974: 260).