Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World: Althusius on Community and Federalism

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I N D E X Aboriginal peoples, treaty federalism of, 179n. 36 absolute ruler, Bodin's doctrine of, 58, 175-76 absolutism, 18, 38-39, 45, 48 governance, 181; princely, 25, 170; state, 50, 93; territorial, 15,24,34,72,111-12, 133 administration: of the city, 121-22; and the common good, 98; decentralized , 47-48, 51; ecclesiastical, 100; forms of, 129; and governance , 94-95; of justice, 112; political, 100; secular, 90 adversarial litigation, 214 agrarian estate, 190 agriculture: city neglect of, 123; importance of, 92 agro-industrial federation, 222 Althusius, Johannes, 15, 18, 19, 22, 198 Aristotelian influence on, 5860 ; compared to Marsilius, 138-39; contextual world of, 10, 23-24, 38; life of, 29, 32, 37; methodology of, 71; on order and authority, 88; on the poor and the rich, 159; radicalism of, 189-90; relevance of, 1,5-10, 197, 210; religious pact of, 176; on women, 64, 88 See also federalism;Politica; political theory Johannes Althusius Society (Germany), 18 American Federalists, 11, 19 American Revolution, 109 and taxation, 126 anarchism, 69 anarcho-federalism, 209 Antholz, Heinz, 25 anti-absolutism, of Althusius, 38 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 59, 80, 105, 139 Aristotle, 88, 114 on the active citizen, 43, 44, 59-60, 69, 95, 161; challenge to Christianity, 139; on justice and law, 143 Arnisaeus, Henning, 97 ascending theory: of consociationism, 184; indirect group representation, 228-29; of popular representation , 147; of representative authority, 11, 137, 142, 145-46 association, 65, 205 associative democracy, 206 Augsburg Treaty of Religious Peace, 29, 34, 188 Augustine, Saint, 114 Austro-Marxist group, 203 authority, 171-72 absolute, 181; ascending and descending, 137-38; centralized , 169; co-operation and, 172; divine right of kings, 178; and governance, 97; legislative, 148 autonomy: of cities, 120; of colleges, 6365 ; of estates, 63-67; of guilds, 63-67; personal, 224; plural political order, 65; of selfgovernance , 161; and solidarity , 153, 160, 224 253 A 254 EARLY MODERN CONCEPTS FOR A LATE MODERN WORLD B Barclay, William, 101 Bauer, Otto, 203 Bible, 74 citations from, 42; and natural law, 24; New Testament, 56 Bloch, Ernst, 21 Bodin, Jean, 2, 10, 105 Christian universalism, 114; compared to Althusius, 43-49, 95, 128-30; and consociation, 86; definition of politics, 76; on guild system, 63, 119; on just society, 59; natural law theory, 173; and organized social life, 220-21; on positive law, 175; on power, 72; on social order, 78; sovereignty theory, 4, 15-16, 45, 49, 128, 169-70, 181; on women, 88 Borkenau, Franz, 25, 27 Buber, Martin, 20, 209 and Althusian tradition, 209-10 Bullinger, Heinrich, 56 Calvin, John, 30, 56-57, 189 Calvinism, 31, 35, 38, 57, 221 of Althusius, 24, 53, 56, 72-73, 188-89 Cambridge History of Political Thought, 25 Canada: federalism and separatism, 21; as federal state, 2 Canadian Political Science Association, 21-22 capitalism, 107-108, 203 capital mobility, 228 Carney, Frederick S., 124 Catholicism, 38, 155 in France, 29; social doctrine, 154 Catholic Leagues, 188 centre and periphery, 123, 132 Charles I (king of England), 49 Charles II (king of England), 49 Charles V (emperor), 29, 172n. 11 Charles IX, 30 charter of rights and freedoms, 216 checks and balances, 55, 110-11, 127, 146, 161, 163-64 between supreme magistrate and ephors, 183 Christian, Rudolf, 35-36 Christian tradition, 90 Cicero, 79, 85 Cirksena, Imperial status of, 34 cities, 120-23 communities, 88; in Greek theory, 61; as parts of federal order, 36, 113; political organization of, 138-39, 165; power distribution in, 165; and provincial authority, 121, 164-65; socio-economic life in, 91-93, 132-33; status of, 62 See also rural communities citizenship, 202 for Althusius, 118, 134; Aristotelian idea of, 161; European, 223-24; federalized, 221-28; and legislative power, 140-41; modern critique of, 224-25; political, 105; rights, 134 city syndic, Althusius as, 15, 35 civil disobedience, 188, 191 civil law: of community, 130; and natural law argument, 173-74 civil society, 202, 220-21 Althusius' notions of, 105; horizontal partnership in, 167-68; instability of, 105-106; moral values in, 160; as neo-conservative , 219; and political society, 105-106; postrational, 218-19; state and economy in, 217; subsidiarity and solidarity in, 160; theory, 106, 218 See also state and society civil war, dangers of, 181 c Index 255 Cleisthenes, 133 Cold War, 20 Cole, G.D.H., 206 Coligny (admiral of France), 30 collective...