ABSTRACT
“The Law and Its Limits” addresses the role of the law in western population engineering. The law both prevented, and abetted, population engineering as a response to the unstable pillars of the new democracy. That the law sometimes became a strategy for the pursuit of western population engineering did not mean that the law was a sham. Instead, much as with the attempts to deal with minority representation, applications of the law for this purpose were a symptom of the awkward intersection between the liberalism and national self-determination being used to underpin the new democracy.
