ABSTRACT
Persons are the subjects of rights and duties which the courts will, at need, enforce. If a body corporate is a person, it will be the subject of rights and duties. If it is a person, it is so because the state has conferred upon it the gift of personality; for only the state can exercise that power. On the relation between individual personality and social groups the reader will find much of deep interest in Wilfred Richmond, Personality as a Philosophical Principle. Truly the supposed sovereignty of the state is not apparent in relations thus discovered. A sovereignty that is but doubtfully sovereign, an unincorporate body of which the bodiliness may yet equitably be recognized certainly one fictions have served to conceal much. The sovereignty of theory is reduced by the event to an abstraction that is simply ludicrous. It well be urged that any similar interference with the life of trade unions result in a not dissimilar history.
