ABSTRACT
In a famous passage, Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes:
The act of association produces a moral and collective body, which … receives from this same act its unity, its common MOI [self], its life and its will. This public person … is called by its members State when it is passive, Sovereign when it is active, Power when it is compared to similar bodies. [The associates] take collectively the name of People, and are called individually Citizens, as participating in the sovereign power [the moi’s], and Subjects, as subjected to the laws of the state.
