I. ORIGINS
1. Medieval Origins 17
I. The Theological-Political Question 18
II. The Papal Monarchy 19
III. Empire and Papacy 22
IV. Theocratic Kingship 25
V. Regnum and Sacerdotium 28
VI. Conciliarism 32
VII. The Secularization of Government 37
VIII. Medieval and Modern Constitutionalism 46
2. The Birth of Public Law 50
I. The Methodological Turn 51
II. Bodin’s Method 56
III. Absolutism 62
IV. The Constitution of Sovereignty 69
V. Modern Natural Law: Subjective Right,
VI. Transition Paradoxes 83
II. FORMATION
3. The Architecture of Public Law 91
I. Right Ordering 91
II. Early-Modern Formation 94
III. The Architectural Metaphor 98
IV. The Architecture of Power 102
V. Constitutional Architecture 106
4. The Science of Political Right: I 108
I. Political Right 108
II. Rousseau’s Science of Political Right 112
III. Sovereignty and Government in The Social Contract 117
IV. Modernity and German Idealism: Kant’s Rechtslehre 120
V. The Formal Science of Political Right 127
5. The Science of Political Right: II 132
I. Rousseau’s Pessimism 132
II. The Political Pact in Historical Practice 134
III. Rousseau’s Sociology of Political Right 137
IV. Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right 140
V. The Concept of Political Right in Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie 146
VI. The Struggle for Recognition 153
6. Political Jurisprudence 157
I. Public Law as Political Jurisprudence 158
II. Power 164
III. Liberty 171
IV. The Grammar of Public Law 178
III. STATE
7. The Concept of the State 183
I. Sovereignty: A Conceptual Sketch 184
II. Status, Estate, State 186
III. Staatslehre 190
IV. Community, Society, State 196
V. The State as a Scheme of Intelligibility 205
8. The Constitution of the State 209
I. The Concept of the Constitution 209
II. The Normative Power of the Factual 216
III. Constituent Power 221
IV. The Public Sphere 228
V. Droit Politique as the Constitution of the State 231
9. State Formation 238
I. European State-building Practices 239
II. The Formation of the English Parliament 243
III. Parliament and the Formation of the Modern State 250
IV. The Struggle for Responsible Government 255
V. The Formation of the Parliamentary State 259
VI. Representative and Responsible Government 262
VII. State, Law, and Constitution 268
IV. CONSTITUTION
10. The Constitutional Contract 275
I. Modern Constitutions 276
II. The Constitution as Contract 278
III. Revolution and Constitution 282
IV. The Constitution as Fundamental Law 288
V. Constitutional Maintenance 297
VI. Constitutional Patriotism 305
VII. Reflexive Constitutionalism 310
11. Rechtsstaat, Rule of Law, l ’Etat de droit 312
I. The Ambiguous Character of the Rule of Law 312
II. Origins 314
III. Mode of Association 324
IV. The Rule of Law as Liberal Aspiration 332
V. Rechtsstaat or Staatsrecht? 337
12. Constitutional Rights 342
I. Natural Rights, Civil Rights, Constitutional Rights 343
II. Civil Society 346
III. Bills of Rights 350
IV. Constitutional Adjudication 356
V. Subjective Rights and Objective Law 367
V. GOVERNMENT
13. The Prerogatives of Government 375
I. Prerogative Power 376
II. Locke on the Prerogative 383
III. The Executive within Modern Republican Government 387
IV. Government Growth, Executive Power,
and Modern Constitutions 391
V. Prerogative Transformed 396
VI. Prerogative Sublated 402
14. Potentia 407
I. The Disciplinary Revolution 408
II. Cameralism 417
III. The Police Power 422
IV. Justice and Police 429
V. The Growth of Administrative Power 432
15. The New Architecture of Public Law 435
I. The Emergence of Administrative Law 435
II. The English Quarrel with Administrative Law 440
III. Administrative Government and the Separation of Powers 445
IV. The Rise of the Ephorate 448
V. The New Separation of Powers 452
VI. The Transformation of Public Law 456
VII. The Triumph of the Social? 461
Bibliography 467
Index 511