Historical Examples. 1  And let the same rule be observed about the registration of the property of the metics. Laws Plato.  2 Let me see the registration slip from the Prefecture, he said, at last. The Destroyer Burton Egbert Stevenson. 3  The poet's registration in the parish records at Stratford is dated April 26, 1564.
After years of thought Rousseau wrote a book on the origins of government, 'The Social Contract', stating that no laws are binding unless agreed upon by the people. This idea deeply affected French thinking, and it became one of the chief forces that brought on the French Revolution about 30 years later.
However, Rousseau had already arranged to have it published elsewhere and like the First Discourse, it also was also widely read and discussed. In 1756, a year after the publication of the Second Discourse, Rousseau and Therese Levasseur left Paris after being invited to a house in the country by Mme.