Abstract

The problem of the mixed constitution relates to a way of thinking politics as centred on the principle of government, and it is bound to disappear within the political scenario centred on the principle of sovereignty. In Althusius there is no specific constitutional model, because the author deals with the mixed nature of the Republic, whatever form of government it may have. The democratic element inherent in this model does not consist in the democratic form of government, but in the constituted and plural people, which, organized through collective bodies, is able to act politically towards that or those who govern it.