About the book: year / "Every kind of government has its own property, its own subject and its own special basis. Its property consists in an established legal provision that has a known object as its goal; its object is the point to which it is essentially attracted; and its foundation is an active spring, which fulfills this object. From this general concept of government it is clearly meant that its foundation is the most essential part, which, so to speak, can be called its soul, and is the very beginning that sets the machine in motion, giving it life and strength…»