emain in a constant, living movement. Not dead
institutions but living principles determine the nature of
the new constitutional order.[8]

In developing his thesis Huber points out that the National Socialist
state rests on three basic concepts, the _Volk_ or people, the Fuehrer,
and the movement or party. With reference to the first element, the
_Volk_, he argues that the democracies develop their concept of the
people from the wrong approach: They start with the concept of the
state and its functions and consider the people as being made up of
all the elements which fall within the borders or under the
jurisdiction of the state. National Socialism, on the other hand,
starts with the concept of the people, which forms a political unity,
and builds the state upon this foundation.

There is no people without an objective unity, but there is
also none without a common consciousness of unity. A people
is determined by a number of different factors: by racial
derivation and by the character of its land, by language and
other forms of life, by religion and history, but also by
the common consciousness of its solidarity and by its common
will to unity. For the concrete concept of a people, as
represented by the various peoples of the earth, it is of
decisive significance which of these various factors they
regard as determinants for the nature of the people. The new
German Reich proceeds from the concept of the political
people, determined by the natural characteristics and by the
historical idea of a closed community. The political people
is formed through the uniformity of its natural
characteristics. Race is the natural basis of the people ...
As a political people the natural community becomes
conscious of its solidarity and strives to form itself, to
develop itself, to defend itself, to realize itself.
"Nationalism" is essentially this striving of a people which
has become conscious of itself toward self-direction and
self-realization, toward a deepening and renewing of its
natural qualities.

This consciousness of self, springing from the consciousness
of a historical idea, awakens in a people its will to
historical formation: the will to action. The political
people is no passive, sluggish mass, no mere object for the
efforts of the state at government or protective welf