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The First Federalist: Johannes Althusius

Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) has been called "the most profound political thinker between Bodin and Hobbes."² By the 18th century, however, he rated only a few lines in Bayle's historical dictionary: "Althusius, German jurisconsult, famous at the end of the 16th century. He wrote a book on politics. Several other jurisconsults opposed him, because he argued that the sovereignty of the state belonged to the people.... In the two previous editions, I failed to mention that he was a Protestant, that, after having been a law professor at Herborn, he became a public trustee in Bremen, and that the Jesuits,...