Book II: The Legislator and Building a Nation
The second half of Book II is where Rousseau gets practical. Now he asks the hard question: who actually writes the laws, and what kind of people can handle them?
Nation building
Singapore Unlikely Power Chapter 7 Part 1 - Kicked Out and Starting From Scratch
On August 9, 1965, Lee Kuan Yew went on TV, cried, and told Singapore it was now a country. Not because they wanted to be. Because Malaysia kicked them out.