ABSTRACT
THUS far in all our incursions into various regions of thought we have had to touch upon the course of ideas as to the relation of the State to Law, and have learned to recognize in Althusius one of the warmest advocates of the idea of the Legal State. We shall now proceed to trace the growth of ideas on the relation of the State to Law in consecutive order from the middle ages to the culmination of the ‘Nature-Right’ theories of the State.
