The citizen is attached to his fatherland. He enjoys by her the fundamental goods like safety, the property and especially freedom. “The fatherland shows the common mother of the citizens”; “they are on their premises”.

Also the citizens are ready to defend the fatherland to preserve it, and keep the advantages which it gets. How this wonder is possible? We see indeed today only of the middle-class men. Those use the community property - the social order and its advantages - to serve their private interest. The citizen is in the opposite situation: “its particular will is in conformity in all with the will general”.

The good legislator knew “to denature” the man so that he becomes citizen, while turning it as of childhood towards the fatherland and while making it virtuous. It is the public education which formerly trained the Crétois citizens, Lacédémoniens, Perses. As it is not possible any more in the too large modern States, too dependant on material needs, the existence of true citizens is completed, except perhaps in Switzerland.

The citizen likes the laws. He understands that they are the guarantors of its freedom. Its virtue is to obey to them. It thus yields always itself with the general will. The citizens are thus the support of the State, and the best guarantors of the laws. It is because this general will became the one second nature for them that Jean-Jacques Rousseau speaks “denatured” citizens.

If the natural man “is very for him” and” has report only with its similar “, the citizen on the contrary exists only compared to the whole of the city; ” it has a fractional existence ". If one threatens the city to which it is identified, it reacts as if it defended its own life. The citizen is all the opposite of a slave, it is a free political subject.