Can any sizeable society have a "general will" or a general interest?
Law is the expression of the general will.
He dies in 1825 knowing that Peru is "free and independent because of the general will of its people".
He called for a Führerstaat in which the president would personify the general will.
The nation is the paymaster of everything, and everything must conform to its general will.
The people themselves can do these things, combining to enforce the general will.
He has also written extensively on the general will of Rousseau and Kant's political philosophy.
The government is composed of magistrates, charged with implementing and enforcing the general will.
We make the world a better place through our concrete relationships, not through our vague, general good will.
Robespierre believed that the Committee of Public Safety represented the general will.