ABSTRACT
Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard's philosophy was connected with the Charter of 1814. He was the seminal mind of the active political group known as the Doctrinaires. Liberal thought differed in France and England. Bentham and Austin were supporters of sovereignty, while Royer-Collard annihilated the concept. England in 1832 was embarking on a peculiar revolution of its own; the execution of earlier reforms had been arrested with the Reaction against the Revolution. Royer-Collard did reflect on how society relates to the political system. According to him the government must correlate itself with the structure underlying it. A state has to be geared to the basic needs of society. Royer-Collard was trying to think through the problem of politics in a society that had been torn apart. Royer-Collard was ready to institutionalize those political inequalities that represented social diversities. Royer-Collard also proposed that a political order, in and of itself, has a symbolic weight.
