ABSTRACT
Political institutions have become cosmopolitan, in the sense that they owe their existence, not to national history, but to international thought. In the Constitutions which emerged as a result of the Great War, democracy was regarded as the inevitable form of government. The individual is safeguarded by a translation of the English guarantees into constitutional right. “The liberty of the person is inviolable”; he cannot be detained or imprisoned except in accordance with law, his dwelling is inviolable and may be forcibly entered except in accordance with law. The counterpart of the relation of the individual to the State is to be found in the relation of the State to other States. Many of the post-War constitutions, being the product of an alliance between constitutional and national movements, begin with a preamble to the effect that the people of the country have given themselves a Constitution.
