 His theories, sometimes growing wildly from the foundations of rational law, expressly justified revolution as long as it didn't formally conflict with rational law.These ideas seemed to the authorities of the German Confederation to begin to become dangerous as he started to mint them in the small change of political agitation in articles in "The Independent" () which was targeted at the public at large.He had founded this journal in 1832 in Freiburg in cooperation with Carl Welcker.