Johannes Althusius: The First Federalist

Johannes Althusius (about 1563 – August 12, 1638) [1] was a German jurist and Calvinist political philosopher.
He is best known for his 1603 work, "Politica Methodice Digesta, Atque Exemplis Sacris et Profanis Illustrata"; revised editions were published in 1610 and 1614. The ideas expressed therein have led many to consider him one of the first true federalists as the greatest intellectual thinker in the early development of federalism in the 16th and 17th centuries and the construction of subsidiarity. In Alain de Benoist book called “The First Federalist:” Johannes Althusius “ , the author says that Althusius has been called by Carl Joachim Friedrich : “the most profound political thinker between Bodin and Hobbes ” . Althusius was a protestant that became a public trustee in Bremen after he was a law professor at
It may also be referred to as the mutual survival of different organisms in the biological world. Each species or partner interacting in a particular symbiotic relationship is called the symbiont.Althusius finds the source of all cooperation in man’s social nature and in his need for a broader life.No man can live isolated ; everyone belongs to one or more of these organic unions. A symbiotic relation is established between those who have the same needs , and who fiind themselves in the neighbourhoods of all sorts. Althusius distinguishes between “social pacts” which guarantee the autonomy of different communities which aim at organizing them hierarchically. He says that society is composed of groups attached to one another ,and, understood in the sense of links and relationships exists by nature. Althusius describes the passage(trecerea) from household or villager to citizen, from the social to the political . The communication of law establishes and guarantees the autonomy of symbiotic