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[Review of the] Proceedings in the Assembly of the Estates of the Kingdom of Württemberg in the Years 1815 and 1816. XXXIII Instalments.
Hegel’s review of the Württemberg constitutional proceedings, published in 1817 in the “Heidelbergische Jahrbücher der Literatur” (nos. 66–68 and 73–77). Translated from the German text of the Werke (vol. 4, “Nürnberger und Heidelberger Schriften”).
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Cross-reference: The review in which Hegel settles the question that returns in § 3 Remark: whether the old right of a country holds against a rational constitution. On the estates element and representation § 301 ff., on the election of deputies § 308 and § 311, on levies § 299, and on the question who makes the constitution the Remark to § 273. Akin to it is his examination of the English Reform Bill of 1831. The German text is on the German side of this edition.
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The business begun two and a half years ago, of completing a German monarchy, which we have seen come into being in our times, through the introduction of a representative constitution, has from its very beginning aroused so general an interest among the German public that nothing more agreeable could have happened for that public than that the proceedings of the Württemberg assembly of estates have been made publicly known. In place of the hopes which accompanied the beginning and the progress, there must at the close appear outcome and judgement. The 33 issues to which this consideration is in the first instance confined do indeed not yet contain the completion of the principal purpose, but they form a historical whole in so far as, on the one hand, they present the course of events up to the death of the king who founded the monarchy and also began the second step, that of its inner free constitution, and as the peculiar development of this event could, in its principal features, be regarded as belonging to his government; – on the other hand, the work on the part of the estates appears as something completed, in so far as a committee commissioned by them for this purpose has finished with its draft of a constitution, which has likewise appeared in print.
These proceedings, furthermore, present chiefly only
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