ABSTRACT
From the beginning of the seventeenth century down to 1919, the word ‘sovereignty’ employed in relation to a state had a meaning which was sufficiently definite to render it a convenient term for the use of statesmen and writers on Inter-national Law. There are two outstanding dangers which have to be recognized and avoided by those who are concerned with schemes which are designed for the maintenance of peace. On the one hand there is a prevalent tendency on the part of statesmen and jurists to be unduly hampered by dogmas about Sovereignty. On the other hand there is a readiness on the part of some who have not had the advantage of political experience or legal training to be allured by schemes which involve the creation of an entity which would in reality be a world-state.
