Public opinion in politics

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In Anglo-American political theory, the constitutional law is determined by the people. A political constitutional law whose validity depends on the people was unknown in the German world in earlier times. In those days, the Germans understood the state as a machine. This 18th century German metaphor of the state as a machine was foreign both to the Anglo-American as well as to the French political concept. Hegel tried to look at this foreign concept in his Philosophy of Right of 1821. This book is not an attempt, therefore, to discuss Hegel’s entire political theories, but it wants to treat the issues of public opinion in politics in a systematic way using Hegel’s interpretation in his Philosophy of Right as a basic foundation.