TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

 Introduction. 



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§ 1 Tlie Theory of the State Defined, and Its Scope Determined. . 189 



§ 2 Of Certain Current Political Theories 189 



§ 3 The Doctrine of Sovereignty 191 



(1) Of Personal Sovereignty 191 



(2) Of Corporate Sovereignty 191 



(3) Of the Sovereignty of the State 193 



(4) Of the Sovereignty of Law or Bight 193 



(5) Of the Variations of the Above Doctrine 193 



§ 4 Observations Upon the Doctrine of Sovereignty 194 



§ 5 Of Hobbes' Argument 194 



§ 6 Of Kant's Argument 197 



g 7 Of Huxley's Argument 198 



(1) Donisthorpe's Theory 199 



(2) Tiedeman's Theory 199 



(3) Observations on These Theories 200 



§ 8 Of Austin's Argument, and of His Theory Generally 202 



(1) Observations Upon His General Theory 202 



(2) Of His Doctrine of Rights, or of Justice 203 



(3) Of His Doctrine of Sovereignty 204 



g 9 Of Bodin's Argument 207 



§ 10 Historical Refutation of the Doctrine of Sovereignty 208 



§ 11 Historical Genesis of the Doctrine of Sovereignty 211 



Chapter I. 

 Of the Nature of the State. 



12 Of the Definition of the State ; and herein 222 



(1) Of Definition in General 222 



(2) Of Current Definitions of the State 224 



(3) Definition of the State ; and Its Several Kinds. . 225 

 § 13 Of the Federal States ; and herein Particularly of the United 



States of America 229 



§ 14 Of the Historical Origin of the State 232 



§ 15 Of the Causal Origin, or Raison d' Etre of the State 232 



§ 16 Of the Distinction Between the State and the Government 233 



§ 17 Of the Causal Origin, or Raison d' Mre of Government 233 



§ 18 Of the So-called Organic Nature of the State 235 



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