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Can someone explain this speech? Jean-Jacques Rousseau!?

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The Social Contract and Discourses: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I MEAN to inquire if, in the civil order, there can be any

sure and legitimate rule of administration, men being

taken as they are and laws as they might be. In this in­

quiry I shall endeavour always to unite what right sanc­

tions with what is prescribed by interest, in order that

justice and utility may in no case be divided.

I enter upon my task without proving the importance

of the subject. I shall be asked if I am a prince or a legis­

lator, to write on politics. I answer that I am neither,

and that is why I do so. If I were a prince or a legislator,

I should not waste time in saying what wants doing;

I should do it, or hold my peace.

As I was born a citizen of a free State, and a member

of the Sovereign, I feel that, however feeble the influence

my voice can have on public affairs, the right of voting

on them makes it my duty to study them: and I am happy,

when I reflect upon governments, to find my inquiries

always furnish me with new reasons for loving that of my

own country."

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  1. Jean Jacques Rousseau cannot explain your speech, because he is dead.

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