https://grundlinien.de/en/316/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://grundlinien.de/en/316/#comment-2247 Wed, 29 May 1833 14:24:55 +0000 https://grundlinien.de/?p=901012#comment-2247 Public opinion is the unorganized way in which what a people wills and thinks makes itself known. What actually asserts itself in the state must, of course, operate in an organic way, and this is the case in the constitution. But at all times public opinion has been a great power, and it is so especially in our time, where the principle of subjective freedom has this importance and significance. What is now to hold good no longer holds good through force, little through custom and habit, but rather through insight and reasons.

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