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It is time to question ourselves now about the legitimacy that a people could have to govern itself and especially by what means? Is it correct to say that there is freedom only within the framework of a collective and institutional structure? How can we preserve our own freedom when we agree to submit to laws? In this (dense) video I offer you a summary of the presuppositions on which the Rousseauist conception of the general will is based as well as a development of this theory. We will ask ourselves in particular if a unanimous agreement of the people on laws is possible and if the State still has a role to play even in the perspective where the people would be sovereign. Finally, we will delve a little deeper into Rousseau's political theory in order to determine if the general will can apply to any form of political regime or if it is relative to a type of privileged political regime. My fb page: /philo-man-106007574829774