What is, for rousseau, the first society

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1. What is, for Rousseau, the "first society"? How is it an embodiment of a free society?
2. What is wrong with the idea that might is right (the right of the strongest)?
3. How have thinkers in history justified the existence of slavery? What is Rousseau's counter-argument?
4. Are people obligated to the Sovereign or is the Sovereign obligated to the people? What comes first?

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