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Meaning that by uniting their separate powers, they can achieve a congruent force strong enough to prevail over any form of obstruction. This second premise follows Rousseau's first premise adequately. First, he presents the inevitable obstacle and then he follows to state that a sum of forces is required to overcome barriers that are too strong...
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Succeeding the premises, he poses the following question, "How to find a form of association which will defend the persons and goods of each member with the collective force of all, and under which each individual, while uniting himself with the others, obeys no one but himself and remains as free as before (Rousseau:60)...
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