ABSTRACT
Other facts tend to make clear the disappearance from statute of the ideas of a sovereign command. And it is exactly here that there is to be discerned the profoundest change of modern times. The theory of a sovereign state, indeed, its emanation from a nationality, situated on definite territory, and organised into a government, was rigorously logical enough. It swept all wills save its own from the field of control. The texts bear witness to the immense influence it exerted. 1
