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Thus the right to honor in the state is really only the right not to be
declared dishonorable unless one has done something wrong. The state
has guaranteed this right by virtue of the fact that - in consequence of
the law of right - both the state as a whole and individual citizens have
refrained from interfering in the natural course of events and public
opinion concerning honor. This is a purely negative right.

But now the state is nevertheless supposed to protect every citizen's
absolute property What can it do to protect it against dishonorable
deeds? Nothing more than to warn all citizens against people who are
known to be dishonorable.

A citizen's honor consists in others' belief that he is faithful and
trustworthy in cases where the state cannot guarantee anything, for
where it does provide guarantees, everything is a matter of coercion (in
which case good faith and trust are irrelevant).

Schweben - svävande - motsats till det greppbara. Jag tror mig förstå Fichte bättre med den översättningsdetaljen.

And this would not be problematic, but certain, if
each person's mere entrance into the state automatically entailed that he
has already fulfilled protection contract; that is, if each person's promise
and fulfillment of the promise were synthetically united, if word and
deed were one and the same.

(X) The security of the whole commonwealth depends on the
absolute freedom and personal security of the ephors. By virtue of their
position, their job is to serve as a counter-weight to the executive
authorities, who have been endowed with superior power.

Ephorer