Chapter seven explains the qualifications needed to be an exemplar legislator. Rousseau states that in order for a society to be run successfully, the legislator should not have any power over man and the lawgiver should not have any power over the law: “the legislator is the engineer who invents the machine, the prince merely the mechanic who sets it up and makes it go.” Furthermore, a legislator should be one that can express man’s passions and needs in the laws without actually experiencing any of them because man does not really know what is best for him until he is told, through this the society will continue to grow …show more content…
In the section of sovereignty and law, Rousseau states that though there exists a separation between these two concepts, they are bound together by the community as a whole; that one is needed to reinforce the other, this argument takes the reader back to the legislator/lawgiver argument that even though the legislator is the drafter, the founding father of the laws the lawgiver is ultimately the one that will lead the state to success or to failure. He makes note that even if the legislator is given the power to be the creator, he must answer to his political office in order to prevent the inception of extreme ideologies and measures such as dictatorship and tyranny tendencies within the