the word 'association'. Most scholars would argue that this is a misrepresentation of his meaning and the word consociation is more appropriate because Althusius was referring to social groups that you cannot remove yourself from rather than associations by choice. The term 'consociatio' was used by the political scientist Arend Lijphart to give name to stable democratic systems in deeply divided societies: consociationalism.
He was married in 1596 in Siegen to Margarethe Neurath (born 1574), with whom he had at least six children.
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