LEADER 05135nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910973041103321 005 20251117092403.0 010 $a1-61487-854-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275726 035 $a(EBL)3327273 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756644 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463367 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756644 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753622 035 $a(PQKB)11026624 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3327273 035 $a(BIP)42484685 035 $a(BIP)10080597 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275726 100 $a20060825d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe present state of Germany /$fSamuel Pufendorf ; translated by Edmund Bohun, 1696 ; edited and with an introduction by Michael J. Seidler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIndianapolis $cLiberty Fund$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 225 1 $aThe works of Samuel Pufendorf 225 0$aNatural law and enlightenment classics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-86597-493-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index. 327 $a""Samuel Pufendorf, The Present State of Germany ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction, p. ix ""; ""A Note on the Text, p. xxix ""; ""Acknowledgments, p. xxxv ""; ""Pufendorf's Preface to the First Edition of 1667 ""; ""Preface to the Second Edition (1706), p. 9 ""; ""To the Reader, p. 15 ""; ""The Contents, p. 17 ""; ""Chapter I. Of the Origene of the German Empire, p. 25 ""; ""Chapter II. Of the Members of which the present German Empire is composed, p. 49 ""; ""Chapter III. Of the Origene of the States of the Empire 327 $aand by what Degrees they arrived to that Power they now have, p. 80 """"Chapter IV. Of the Head of the German Empire, the Emperor, and of the Election and the Electors, p. 96 ""; ""Chapter V. Of the Power of the Emperor, as it now stands limited by Treaties; and the Laws and Customs of the Empire; and the Rights of the States of Germany, p. 111 ""; ""Chapter VI. Of the Form of the German Empire, p. 159 ""; ""Chapter VII. Of the Strength and Diseases of the German Empire, p. 179 ""; ""Chapter VIII. Of the German State-Interest, p. 210 ""; ""Bibliography, p. 249 ""; ""Index, p. 259 "" 330 $aAlthough "The Present State of Germany" was first made available in English over three centuries ago, it has been virtually unavailable in English since the period of the American Founding.By 1696, Pufendorf was well known in England as a staunch defender of the Protestant cause and as one of the renovators of natural law. His writings were familiar to such luminaries as Locke and figured prominently in James Tyrell's "Patriarcha non Monarcha" (1681).The editor of this volume, Michael J. Seidler, describes this work of Pufendorf as "an account of German constitutional law detailing the historical relations between the Emperor and the Estates as well as an examination of the legitimating foundations of Imperial authority, a general analysis of the nature and requirements of political sovereignty, and a reconceptualization of the different forms of political order. . . . Its central distinction between so-called regular and irregular states, resting on the question of the locus of sovereignty, demotes the traditional political categories into mere administrative possibilities and thereby creates a more general problematic of freedom and authority with which we are still wrestling today. That is, it raises, at a very early stage in the contractarian tradition which we have inherited, the basic question of how effective political unity is compatible with competing values of diversity and individual liberty."Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) was one of the most important figures in early-modern political thought. An exact contemporary of Locke and Spinoza, he transformed the natural law theories of Grotius and Hobbes, developed striking ideas of toleration and of the relationship between church and state, and wrote extensive political histories and analyses of the constitution of the German empire.Edmund Bohun (1645-1699) was an English press license official and political writer who ended up as chief justice of South Carolina.Michael J. Seidler is Professor of Philosophy at Western Kentucky University.Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England. 606 $aConstitutional history$zHoly Roman Empire 606 $aConstitutional law$zHoly Roman Empire 615 0$aConstitutional history 615 0$aConstitutional law 676 $a342.43029 700 $aPufendorf$b Samuel$cFreiherr von,$f1632-1694.$0251922 701 $aSeidler$b Michael J.$f1950-$01594644 701 $aBohun$b Edmund$0819458 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973041103321 996 $aThe present state of Germany$94481738 997 $aUNINA