Principles of Law

This book is a translation of Book II of The Doctrine of Law and State, originally entitled “The Law” [Das Recht]. The title here given it better reflects its contents: it contains the principles, the nuts and bolts, of Stahl’s doctrine of law and state, which find specific application in Books III and IV, on private law and state law, respectively. It is, as it were, the wheelhouse: here in concentrated form are the elements which distinguish Stahl’s common-law, Historical-School approach, cast in terms of his Christian faith. Stahl was a worthy and distinguished successor to Edmund Burke and Friedrich Karl von Savigny.