ABSTRACT
The political development in Denmark went partly Schleswig's way. Due to the language dispute in Schleswig, the liberals gave clear priority to the question of nationality above individual rights and freedoms, but their claims for a free constitution were certainly not to his liking. In an Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences from 1933, the Social Democratic lawyer and social scientist Hermann Heller defined the constitutionalism of the old world in the following way: "Thus in the constitutional state the legislative and governmental agencies enjoy a virtual monopoly of political power to the exclusion of the administrative and the judicial". Herder's philosophy from the latter part of the eighteenth century concluded that a nation's identity can only be found in its language, its literature, and its culture. Thus, his philosophy of history was a vigorous reaction against the then widespread understanding of a common European culture.
