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[OC III, 328]Book II, Chapter FourOf the Nature of the Laws, and of thePrinciple of Civil Justice

[OC III, 328]Book II, Chapter FourOf the Nature of the Laws, and of thePrinciple of Civil Justice

pp. 164-165

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Edited and translated by , Wesleyan University, Connecticut
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The greatest advantage that results from this notion [of the law] is to show us clearly the true foundations of justice and of natural right. Indeed the first law, the only genuine fundamental law that flows immediately from the social pact, is that each man in all things prefer the greatest good of all.

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