As a republic grows and its magistracy becomes proportionally smaller, this concept is replaced with its “corporate” counterpart. Nicolas Malebranche used this term to name the attribute of God that causes ordinary events. This concept is derived by removing the “pluses and minuses that cancel each other” from a related concept. The idea that “moral liberty” is “obedience to a law that we prescribe to ourselves” may explain why those who submit to this concept are (*) “forced to be free.” (10[1])The sovereign, (10[1])but not the government, is an expression of this two-word phrase according to a book that distinguishes it from the mere aggregation of people’s desires, or a similar concept “of all.” For 10 points, what representation of society’s common interest is the basis of the social contract according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau? ■END■