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Now, because the sovereign is made out of nothing but its constituent individuals, it doesn't and can't have any interest contrary to theirs; so there's no need for it to provide its subjects with guarantee of treating them well, because the body can't possibly wish to hurt [...] its members [...]. The sovereign, merely by virtue of what it is, is always what it ought to be
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