ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the extent to which the model constitution is rooted within Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s own philosophy. It explains how Hegel system can be read to provide a comprehensive theory within which democratic monarch fits even more neatly than does Hegel’s own constitutional monarchy. The model claim to philosophical necessity will be seen to rest heavily both on Hegel’s social and political theory and on his wider system. The Appendix and the Glossary record Hegel’s own use of such equivalents for “Reason” as “the Idea” and “the Absolute”. Hegel uses many equivalent terms for “the conception of Reason” and these are recorded in the Appendix and in the Glossary. The human achievement of “the conception of Reason” in modern times is said by Hegel both to mark and to be Reason’s own highest development.
