Modern bourgeois society abandoned traditional correctives for power misuse.

Evidence

Since its early days the bourgeois society of the modern era has been conscious that its conditions have developed beyond this definition of danger, and beyond these remedies. The reasons for this are complex and cannot be analysed here in detail. They lie in the societal inter-systemic relationships of politics with other social systems, in the increasing generalization of political goals and of other formulae for consensus, as well as in the societally necessary increases in power. Furthermore, they culminate around the subject-matter in the debate about sovereignty. After these changes, the bourgeois revolution, when it finally came to be expressed as a political matter, did not construct any of the usual correctives for particular cases of power misuse, and this was also completely clear to the conscious minds of those engaged in the revolution. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 748

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why exactly did the bourgeois revolution decline ‘the usual correctives’? Luhmann defers detail; worth chasing for the fuller picture of how institutional ethic breaks down.
• XREF: connects to: The technical knowledge interest’s value-basis was forgotten through capitalist modernization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 601