THE CIVIL RELIGION AND THE LEGISLATOR IN THE ROUSSEAU CONTRACTUALIST MODEL

The chapters "Legislator" and "Civil Religion" in the Social Contract do not seem to conciliate with the idea of a self-instituted political body that is solely submitted to laws established by its own members. This article aims at examining the exposition method adopted by Rousseau to describe - tradition considered - his contractual doctrine and, in particular, at elucidating, in this doctrine, the necessity of a relation between Politics and Religion in the issue of Society's origin.