ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant distinguishes several types of state constitution according to the "form of government". Ulrich Klug points out that Kant's system in the Anthropologie is, according to his own choice of terminology, incomplete. If the concepts freedom, power, and law are taken as the parameters of the possible combinations, then it turns out that there are not only four, but rather a total of eight basic forms which can be distinguished from one another. Klug shows the completeness of these eight basic forms with the aid of a chart. Kant examines the several possible combinations relating to the parameters law, freedom, and power. With regard to the passage from Kant's Anthropologie it must first be clarified what Kant may have understood by the concepts law, power, and freedom. The interpretation of the combinations are apparently deviate from those which Kant employs in the Anthropologie only with respect to language usage, and in any case not in terms of content.
