ABSTRACT
Between the ideal of a political and economic world order which embodies both liberty and solidarity, justice and peace, such as haunts to-day the mind of western man, and that seventeenth century’s vision of the new Zion, there stands at least for the Continent of Europe and the non-Anglo-Saxon World, the French Revolution. We know how much this marvellous event was determined by the American War of Independence and how markedly the French “Rights of Man” show the influence of the American formulation. An extensive literature has confirmed the penetrating conjecture of Jellinek, 1 as his opponents only touch minor points.
