The view ahead

In accordance with the universal precept of the rule of law, human relations are to be freed from arbitrariness and violent force and are to be subjected to a law based on justice. However, responsibility for this just law must not remain with the parties involved, but be transferred to common ‘public’ powers, to a state in the wider sense. Instead of dissolving individual states, maintaining a state must be a universal precept. As the universal precept of democracy stipulates, a government becomes just when it submits to the demands of qualified democracy, undertakes normative modernisation, and is committed to human rights, the sovereignty of the people and the separation of powers.