ABSTRACT
The state has the imperfect duty to itself to reform the constitution, just as the individual has the imperfect duty to himself to develop his talents. The state has perfect duties to other states corresponding to the three Ulpian formulae honeste vive, neminem laede and suum cuique tribue similar to duties of law as applicable to individuals. The chapter argues that Immanuel Kant viewed the state of nations, than any other arrangement among states, as representing the Idea of an association of states. The state acquires its moral personality through the original contract, which unites people under a constitution. For the individual, duties to self include the perfect duty to maintain oneself and the imperfect duty to strive toward self-perfection. The chapter argues that the parallel on the state level is the perfect duty to maintain the civil condition, or the prohibition against revolution and a return to the state of nature, and the imperfect duty to perfect the constitution.
