ABSTRACT
All groups within itself are to be but the ministrants to its life; their reality is the outcome of its sovereignty, since without it they could have no existence. Henry VIII mistakes the popular basis of the Tudor throne, and thinks a sovereignty in practice theoretical also. And here clearly enough Sovereignty emerges. The State must triumph and has need of some organ whereby its end may be attained. For the State, as Louis XVI have tried to show, is simply what Mr. Graham Wallas calls a will-organisation, and the essential feature of such a thing is its ultimate dependence upon the constituent wills from which the group will is made. Herr Liebknecht have tried to show that the monistic theory of the State, making it sovereign and, therefore, absolute, runs counter to some of the deepest convictions we can possess. Where sovereignty prevails, where the State acts, it acts by the consent of men.
