The Modern Idea of the State

lxxxi, 281 pp. "The theory of the state developed in this book grew out of the results of [the] book, Die Lehre der Rechtssouveranitat (1906). The latter was in the main a criticism of the theory of the sovereignty of the state, while the present volume aims chiefly to explain the positive principles of the opposed theory of the sovereignity of law and thus to formulate the modern idea of the state." Originally written in Dutch, this text has been translated into German.