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...

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...

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 ...

  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 ...

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...

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: ...

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> ...