Between the article on political economy, of 1755, and the Social Contract, of 1762, Rousseau's notion of law changes from "celestial voice" to "declaration of general will". The purpose here is to defend that this change in law's definition from one text to another does not implicate contradiction. In order to achieve it, the presence of "law above men" image will be analyzed in several texts of Geneva's Citizen, especially in the chapter "The Legislator" (book II of the Social Contract). This aims at showing that such image, being expressed in particular ways along Rousseau's work, corresponds to a same principle of opposition between liberty, related to obedience duty, and slavery, related to passions impulse.
Rousseau; law; liberty; passions; legislator