Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History by Immanuel Kant

Author:Immanuel Kant [Kant, Immanuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300117943
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Published: 2013-10-06T16:16:48+00:00

The autocrat is the sovereign, the monarch only represents it.— One readily recognizes that the autocratic form of state is the simplest, namely, a relation of one (the king) to the people, whereby only one is the legislator. The aristocratic form of state is already composed of two relations, namely, of the nobility among themselves (as legislators), constituting the sovereign, and then the relation of this sovereign to the people. The democratic form of state is the most complex of all, uniting first the will of all in order to make a people, then uniting the will of the citizens in order to build a commonwealth, and then to place over this the sovereign, which is this united will itself.*

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