The Theory of the State

By Bluntschli, Johann Caspar

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Excerpt: The ?Theory of the Modern State? (Lehre vom modernen Stat) by the late Professor Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, of Heidelberg, may be described as an attempt to do for the European State what Aristotle accomplished for the Hellenic. The material being far more complex, the task is very much more difficult, but Bluntschli?s is, at least, the most successful attempt that has been made. We have hardly any works in English which we can put beside it in respect of intention and compass; and of these, none is equally useful for the student. No writer can escape the influence of his surroundings, and although Germany was only his adopted country, he being a native of Zrich, Bluntschli?s point of view is sometimes too exclusively German. But perhaps this is not altogether a disadvantage to us: the endeavour to understand a mode of looking at some political subjects, different from that to which we are accustomed, may not be without its uses. On the whole, Bluntschli is a candid and fair critic both of actual constitutions and of political theories. Occasionally he may betray some of the prejudices of German officialism; occasionally, too, he may push to a somewhat amusing extreme his ?organic? or ?psychological? conception of the State. But these are slight defects, more likely to throw light on the individuality of the author than to mislead the judicious reader.

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Contents Translators? Preface ........................................................................... 7 Introduction .......................................................................................11 Chapter I: Political Science .............................................................. 12 Chapter II: Scientific Methods ......................................................... 15 Chapter III: General and Special Political Science .......................... 19 Book I: The Conception of the State ............................................. 21 Chapter I: The Conception and Idea of the State. The General Conception of The State ................................................................... 22 Chapter II: The Human Idea of the State. The Universal Empire .... 30 Chapter III: History of the Development of Idea of The State. The Ancient World............................................................................ 39 Chapter IV: The Middle Age ............................................................ 43 Chapter V: The Modern Idea of The State ....................................... 50 Chapter VI: Chief differences of the Modern Conception of the State from the Ancient and Mediaeval. .....................................57 Chapter VII: Development of Different Theories of the State .......... 63 Book II: The Fundamental Conditions of the State in the Nature of Men and of Nations ............................................................. 73 Chapter I: Mankind. The Races of Men, and Families of Nations ... 74 Chapter II: The Conceptions ?People? And ?Nations? ...................... 79 Chapter III: The Rights of Nationalities .......................................... 85 Chapter IV: Nationality, as a Principle in the Formation of States .. 88 Chapter V: Society ........................................................................... 98 Chapter VI: Tribes ......................................................................... 101 Chapter VII: Castes ....................................................................... 103 Chapter VIII: Privileged Classes or Estates ................................... 107 Chapter IX: The Clergy .................................................................. 111 Chapter X: The Nobility .................................................................116 Chapter XI: The Nobility ............................................................... 123 Chapter XII: The German Nobility. (1) Princes ............................. 129 Chapter XIII: The German Nobility. (2) Knights ........................... 134 Chapter XIV: The Citizens ............................................................. 138 Chapter XV: The Peasants ............................................................. 145

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