The Present State of Germany

• Samuel von Pufendorf (author)
• Michael J. Seidler (editor)
• Edmund Bohun (translator)

The editor of this volume, Michael J. Seidler, describes this work of Pufendorf as “an account of German constitutional law detailing the historical relations between the Emperor and the Estates as well as an examination of the legitimating foundations of Imperial authority, a general analysis of the nature and requirements of political sovereignty, and a reconceptualization of the different forms of political order…”