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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Hegel's Idea of the Constitution and its Historical Background

Fehmi Ünsalan1
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1 Kocaeli Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe Bölümü 41380, Kocaeli , Turkey
BIJP 2019, 9(3), 779–796; https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.1508
Received: 16 July 2019 | Published online: 20 August 2019
© 2019 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Modern state debates within the context of the restriction of power take the problem of the constitution as a fundamental issue. Historically, ongoing philosophical debates on the nature of the constitution predominantly share the same ground with the law theory; both based on the idea of a “constitutional state” or a “constitutional state”. Another approach that distinguishes itself in the philosophical context is the approach based on the idea that the state and the constitution are essentially identical. Hegel had this idea that the state and the constitution are essentially identical in light of the ongoing debates in Germany in his era. In this study, an examination of the origin and the context of Hegel's idea of the constitution will be presented. It will be argued that this historical approach reveals a certain process in terms of the course of the modern state debate.

Keywords
G. W. F. Hegel
constitutionalism
German constitution
philosophy of right
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