Neue Aspekte einer kontroversen „Gesetzgebungswissenschaft" bei Filangieri und Constant.

The article examines the interpretation of "Scienza della legislazione," a late 18th-century treatise on politics and the legislative power of governments by Italian legal philosopher Gaetano Filangieri, by the early 19th-century French politician and political theorist Benjamin Constant. It outlines the context of Filangieri's work, its publication history, and its reception in Europe in the Napoleonic era. It then details its critique by Constant, especially its emphasis on civil rights and natural law, and the influence of this critique on early European liberalism and its understanding of constitutional theory and republicanism.