Constitutional

These articles explore issues of importance to the theory of constitutionalism. Friedrich Julius Stahl’s work is emphasized here. The Stahl Dossier at WordBridge Publishing has a biography and translations of his most important work.

Popular Sovereignty

Popular Sovereignty

What is meant by this, and why is it so important? Sovereignty is one of the key concepts of the social order. Properly defining it helps one avoid a multitude of errors. Essentially what sovereignty establishes is the ultimate right of arbitration...
Christianity is Antirevolutionary

Christianity is Antirevolutionary

From Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Christian Political Action in an Age of Revolution (Aalten: WordBridge Publishing, 2015), pp. 73–104. The anti-revolutionary principle is none other than the Christian principle Was I wrong to claim that t...
The Christian State

The Christian State

Friedrich Julius Stahl, Der christliche Staat und sein Verhältniß zu Deismus und Judenthum (Berlin, 1858 [1847]), pp. 1–6. Introduction Of all the negotiations of the United Diet, none had such a profound impact on the innermost foundation of ...
Of the Doctrine of State in General

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

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

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

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 <275> ...