This book brings to a culmination in later modern times the long
and complicated history of ideas on sovereignty and the state that
has occupied previous volumes in this series. The 19th and 20th
centuries have witnessed the fruition of the legislative state "par
excellence" as well as its companion concept, legislative
sovereignty. This book tackles the ideas of numerous writers such
as Bentham, Austin, Hegel, Marx, Savigny, Kelsen, Lenin, Bosanquet,
Rawls, Hart, to mention a few, along with the views of many leaders
like Gladstone, Lloyd George, Napoleon III, Bismarck, Cavour,
Hitler, and Mussolini.
The common denominator of legislation is seen to underlie their
concepts of sovereignty and the state across a diverse range of
isms such as utilitarianism, positivism, idealism, socialism, and
nationalism, in the 19th century and in related neo and anti-neo
forms in the 20th century. This book's organization and
classification of these and other issues is on the whole novel and
comprehensive. As various reviewers have indicated, nothing of this
magnitude on the subjects at hand has ever before been attempted.
Finally, the book brings historical issues together to bear on the
shape of sovereignty and the state today and into the future.
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