Men and thought in modern history . reciate, none can be verygood.—Walter Bagehot. Sovereignty is the daily operative power of framing andgiving efficacy to laws. It is the originative, directive,governing power. It lives; it plans; it executes. It is theorganic organisation of the state, of its law and policy,and the sovereign power is the highest originative organof the state. It is none the less sovereign because it mustbe observant of the preferences of those whom it obedience of the subject has always limited the powerof the sovereign.—Woodroiv Wilson. The difference between t
Men and thought in modern history . reciate, none can be verygood.—Walter Bagehot. Sovereignty is the daily operative power of framing andgiving efficacy to laws. It is the originative, directive,governing power. It lives; it plans; it executes. It is theorganic organisation of the state, of its law and policy,and the sovereign power is the highest originative organof the state. It is none the less sovereign because it mustbe observant of the preferences of those whom it obedience of the subject has always limited the powerof the sovereign.—Woodroiv Wilson. The difference between the kinds or forms of common-wealth consisteth not in a difference between their powers,but in a difference between their aptitudes to produce thepeace and security of the people, which is their —Hobbes. Solon, being asked what city he thought best governed,answered, That city where such as receive no wrong do asearnestly defend wrong offered to others as the very wrongand injury had been done unto themselves.— METTERNICH. [Page 44 Chapter IV. METTERNJCH AND ABSOLUTISM. PRINCE METTERNICH was for half a century oneof the principal figures in the politics ofEurope, and for over thirty years he prob-ably exercised more influence in internationalaffairs than any statesman among his as Austrian Ambassador, later as Foreign Min-ister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lastly asChancellor, he acquired an exceptionally large experienceof diplomacy; he had an intimate acquaintance with themonarchs and ministers who directed the policies of statesin this period; and during the whole of his long officialcareer he held with undeviating tenacity to a perfectly rigiddoctrine of government. Metternichian is as well estab-lished a word in politics as Machiavellian, and what theformer signifies is far more fairly attributable to the Aus-trian statesman than the common meaning of the latter isto the Florentine philosopher. Born to great wealth and the
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