Stahl
Excerpts from the work of Friedrich Julius Stahl
Of the Doctrine of State in General
From Friedrich Julius Stahl, The Doctrine of State & the Principles of State Law (Aalten: WordBridge, 2009), pp. 1–16.
§. 1. Concept of the Ethical Kingdom
The doctrine of the state, as put forward in this book, is grounded in the concept of ...
The State as Ethical Kingdom
Here Stahl situates the state within the larger context of the ethical kingdom, rescuing it from various notions by which it either is divorced from the kingdom of God in various secular iterations, or made into a direct expression of the kingdom of...
The Two Principles of State Order
Assuming the rightness of the critique provided by anti-revolutionary thinkers such as Groen van Prinsterer , what then should be the result? Obviously, by the nature of the case, Christians, being anti-revolutionaries (whether Rousseauian or Jeffersonian: ...
The Monarchical Principle
Taken from chapter twelve of Friedrich Julius Stahl, The Doctrine of State & the Principles of State Law (WordBridge Publishing), pp. 275-314.
Chapter 12: The Monarchical Principle[1]
§. 110. The English Parliamentary Principle
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