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[12] See, for example, the work of the Althusius Society (Dieter Wyduckel, President), Juristische Fakultät, Technische
Universität Dresden, Mommsenstr. 13, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
[13]
Interview with Professor Jovan Djorvec, March 1973.
[14] Op cit., footnote 7.
[15] See Daniel J. Elazar, The American Constitutional Tradition (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).
[16] See Daniel J. Elazar, “Europe and the Federal Experience,” in Federalism and the Way to Peace (Kingston, Ontario,
Canada: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queens University, 1994), 53–71.
[17] Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, 2nd ed., translated by Samuel Shirley (New York: E. J. Brill, 1991).
[18] On mishpat hamelukhah, see “King, Kingship: The Covenant of Monarchy,” in Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10 (Jerusalem:
Keter, 1972), 1019–20; also see Daniel J. Elazar and Stuart A. Cohen, The Jewish Polity: Jewish Political Organization from
Biblical Times to the Present (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), Part I, Epoch IV.
[19] See Albert P. Blaustein and Gilbert H. Flanz, Constitutions of the Countries of the World (Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana
Publications, 1971).
[20] See Vincent Ostrom, The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment, 2nd ed., rev. and
enl. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987); and Daniel J. Elazar and John Kincaid, Covenant, Polity and Constitutionalism
(note 2 above).
Althusius’ Literary Sources Referred To In This Translation
Although Althusius’ sources were entirely in Latin, this list whenever possible directs the reader not only to an English translation
but also to editions in French and German. In addition, proper names for the most part have been supplied in an appropriate
vernacular language.
Many of the items of this list have been personally examined through the graciousness of a number of American libraries; the
standard bibliographic catalogues and reference works have been consulted for others; and great care has been taken to make
this list as accurate as possible. Nevertheless, the bibliographic confusion and occasional obscurity that surround some of these
books make it all too probable that errors will be found. Moreover, it is difficult in certain instances to determine which of several
editions of a book should be listed since Althusius never identified which edition he was using. This difficulty burdens the
conscience all the more when it is realized that later editions of the same book in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were
often successively supplemented and even given different internal organization, and that therefore a particular edition, unless
personally examined to ascertain whether it answers to Althusius’ citations of it, may not be the right one for this list.
Presumably a translator of materials of this sort must learn to live with this burden of conscience if he is to avoid a lifetime of
labor dedicated largely to minutiae.
This list contains all of Althusius’ literary sources referred to in this translation. For a listing of the sources contained in the entire
Latin work, see the index in Latin that Carl J. Friedrich provided for his 1932 edition of the Politica methodice digesta, an index
to which this list is also indebted.
Andrea Alciati (1492–1550). Commentari (Code), in Omnia opera. Basle, 1546.
Alexander ab Alexandro (1461–1523). Genialium dierum libri sex. With a commentary by André Tiraqueau. Lyon, 1586.
Johannes Althusius (1557?–1638). Civilis conversationis Libri duo. Edited by Philip Althusius. Hanau, 1601.
— —. Dicaeologicae Libri tres. Frankfurt, 1617. Photographically reproduced 1967.
Scipio Ammirato (1531–1601). Dissertationes politicae siev discurus in C. Cornelium Tacitum. Frankfurt, 1612.
Thomas Aquinas (1224?–1274). On Princely Government, in Aquinas: Selected Political Writings. Edited by A. P. d’Entreves. Oxford,
1948. ( De regimine principum et rusticorum ad regem Cypri Libri IV. Paris, 1509.)
Benedict Aretius (1505–1574). Problemata theologica continentia praecipuos nostrae religionis locos. Lausanne, 1573.
Aristotle (384–322 B.C. ).
— —. Politics.
Ethics.
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