ABSTRACT
Civil society is economic society considered with the means of coercion that ensures its order. The German civil code allows associations without economic purposes to be established freely with a simple declaration. Hegelian thought depends a great deal on the governmental ideas of the eighteenth century which found their complete expression in the monarchy of Frederick II, whose influence on all modern political theory is enormous. The law demanded a decree emanating as a consequence of an opinion of the Conseil d'Etat, and a government commission was charged with supervising their direction. The negotiations the German center undertakes with the government regarding any important vote shocks anyone accustomed to the usual theories of parliamentary regimes. The social reformers who begin with a statist conception and who hope to generate the economy and private law by means of public law, consider themselves as fully conscious organs of society who do the thinking for it.
