ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES

Rousseau: legitimate authority arises from the general will, not the sum of private wills. The Provisional Collective (§3.2.1) is governed by a procedural fiction of general will: motions pass when the meeting recognizes the work, not when the votes count. Calm is the precondition. The general will is not aggregated. It is waited for. When it arrives, the minutes record it. When it does not, the meeting adjourns without resolution.