The limits of state action / by Wilhelm von Humboldt, edited with an introduction and notes by J.W. Burrow.

This text is important both as one of the most interesting contributions to the liberalism of the German Enlightenment, and as the most significant source for the ideas which John Stuart Mill popularized in his essay On Liberty. Humboldt's concern is to define the criteria by which the permissi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835
Other Authors:	Burrow, J. W. (John Wyon), 1935-2009 (Editor)
Other title:	Ideen zu einem Versuch die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen. English.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English German
Published:	London, Cambridge U.P., 1969.
Series:	Cambridge studies in the history and theory of politics.
Subjects:	State, The. Political science.