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The social contract & discourses

Note 1 — Chapter II

G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole translation

This should of course be understood as applying to a free State; for elsewhere family, goods, lack of a refuge, necessity, or violence may detain a man in a country against his will; and then his dwelling there no longer by itself implies his consent to the contract or to its violation.

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