By the spring and early summer of 1806 the magnitude of the French threat to Prussia had become clear for all to see. The resulting debate about policy and personalities has been examined at length in the previous chapters. However, the Prussian response to the mounting French threat did not exhaust itself in those controversies. It was articulated at a level other than that of international relations, namely the related, though nonetheless discrete, area of the reform of the state and its highest institutions. This chapter will prove that the Reform debate and its associated politics form part of a continuous narrative of the Prussian response to Napoleon and follow naturally from the methodology employed to explain this response throughout the book. The crisis in Prussia's foreign political situation and her system of government which resulted from the British war and the preceding humiliations at the hands of France triggered a reform process which, though it did not come to fruition until after the catastrophe of Jena/Auerstädt, should more properly be considered in the context of the crises and political enmities of the early part of the year. What follows is thus a natural extension of the preceding chapters.