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The Marquis de Condorcet was the only one of the great French enlighteners to live to see the Great Revolution, which began in 1789. Inspired by the example of the American Revolution, he sought to translate the high ideals of the era into political practice.

The main themes of the selection of texts offered to the reader are: scientific criticism of the method of conducting elections, which, incidentally, is still the most common today; elaboration of a new electoral method that would significantly limit the influence of random factors on the results of voting and would protect against both ochlocracy and oligarchically simulated democracy. Condorcet pays special attention to effective means of citizen control over the actions of the authorities and the incompatibility of the disenfranchisement of women with the very nature of the republic.

For teachers and students of law, philosophy, sociology, and history, and anyone interested in the principles of democratic electoral systems and the history of republicanism.