Society, nor of courſe to the Inequality of Inſtitution.
I ſhall not now enter upon the Enquiries which ſtill remain to be made into the Nature of the fundamental Pacts of every kind of Government, but, following the common Opinion, confine myſelf in this place to the Eſtabliſhment of the Political Body as a real Contract between the Multitude and the Chiefs elected by it. A Contract by which both Parties oblige themſelves to the Obſervance of the Laws that are therein ſtipulated, and form the Bands of their Union. The Multitude having, on occaſion of the ſocial Relations between them, concentered all their Wills in one Perſon, all the Articles, in regard to which this Will explains itſelf, become ſo many fundamental Laws, which oblige without Exception all the Members of the State, and one of which
