ABSTRACT
If Hegel walked the streets of today’s Berlin, what would he make of modern Germany? A more unified German nation, check. Professional civil servants, check. Bicameral legislature, controls on the market and corporations, social welfare system, check. But no constitutional monarch, no estates general, not enough farmers, either really big wars or uncivilized small wars. A mixed result, he might conclude, but moving in the right direction for a modern nation.
