Universal Social Right
Contents
| The Limits of this Treatise on Social Right |
| Factors of Society |
| The concept of society differentiated from similar concepts |
| Classification of more or less general concepts of society |
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| Logical principles used to deduce the various classes of society |
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| Deduction of the different classes of societies |
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| Classes of societies, deduced from the various, possible determinations of the first factor |
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| Classes of societies, deduced from the various, possible determinations of the second factor |
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| Classes of societies, deduced from the various, possible determinations of the third factor |
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| Classes of societies, deduced from the various, possible determinations of the fourth factor |
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| Continuation - Classification of the concepts of societies of action |
| The different extension possible to the science of social Right |
Schema of concepts of society
| Origins of societies |
| The three principal parts of universal social right |
| Seigniorial right as the first part of universal social right |
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| The difference between the concept of seigniorial right and similar concepts |
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| The right of seigniory can apply both to society and to its members |
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| Can bond-servants unite to form a society? |
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| Societies are presumed free as long as their servitude is not demonstrated |
| Political or administrative right as the second part of universal-social right | ||
| Who has the right to govern a society? | ||
| Who has the right to govern a subject society? | ||
| Who has the right to govern a free society? | ||
| A | Who has the right to govern a free society prior to any convention? | |
| I | The part of administration or government pertaining to each member | |
| II | The part of administration or government pertaining to the majority of members | |
| a). | Norms of justice and equity that must regulate associations | |
| 1st | Voting power must be proportionate to input | |
| 2nd | Every member has the right to be represented by proxy | |
| b). | The principle for judging that a matter can be settled by majority vote | |
| c). | Matters to be decided by majority vote | |
| 1st | Matters to be decided by majority vote in all societies | |
| 2nd | Societies which can make more use of the majority vote, and those which can use it less | |
| d). | The calculation to be used if the majority vote is to express the prevalent will of the voters | |
| III | The part of administration or government pertaining to all the members | |
| a). | Matters to be decided unanimously in all societies | |
| b). | Societies which require a unanimous vote more frequently, and less frequently | |
| c). | How unanimity can be more easily obtained | |
| d). | Remedies for cases where unanimity is impossible | |
| B | Conventions relative to the right to govern | |
| I | The right to govern can be alienated | |
| II | The different kinds of possible conventions relative to the right to govern | |
| III | Maxims directing conventions relating to the right to govern which tend to determine, in accordance with prudence, what social justice leaves indeterminate | |
| a). | Every member has the right to claim that conventions be established about certain matters | |
| b). | The principal matters dealt with by these conventions | |
| 1st | Conventions about voting procedures | |
| 2nd | Conventions aimed at determining the input of each member | |
| 3rd | Conventions for determining members' burdens and expectations | |
| 4th | Conventions for determining how certain social activities should be carried out under reciprocal guarantee from the members | |
| 5th | Conventions relating to social organisation | |
| A | Freely chosen conventions that are inequable and imprudent | |
| B | Equable, prudent conventions relating to social organisation | |
| Duties of social government | ||
| Duties common to the seven social subjects | ||
| The duties proper to each of the seven subjects | ||
| The rights of social government | ||
| Every social office can be considered as an alienable right | ||
| A | Can a person receiving full ownership over the right of government of a society pass it to another? | |
| B | In cases of abuse, can the society deprive of the right of government the individual or collective person who has received the entire, absolute ownership over the right? | |
| Every social office is a true power | ||
| Rights of every official relative to the society | ||
| Possible collisions between social right and extra social right | ||
| How these collisions are to be resolved | ||
| The origin of jural-social and politico-social laws | ||
| Communal right in so far as it is the third part of universal social right | |
| Right to freedom of association | |
| Unlawful societies | |
| Lawful societies | |
| Right to social recognition | |
| Right to social ownership | |
| Can members withdraw from a society as they please? | |
| Members with a right to leave their society must do so without harming their fellow members | |
| Can a member be excluded from a society, and if so, when and how? | |
| Are social rights and obligations passed on by inheritance? | |
| The ways in which societies cease |