CAILLAUX, J., et al. La Réforme de l'état. Pp. 290. Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1936. Fr. 15
| Author | Hymen Ezra Cohen |
| Published date | 01 March 1938 |
| Date | 01 March 1938 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271623819600149 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
247
of
a
&dquo;Fascist
party
with
the
state,
and
of
the
state
with
the
nation.&dquo;
Duguit’s
idea
of
social
solidarity
and
the
primacy
of
the
group
leads
to
the
same
result
once
this
solidarity
is
conceived
as
national
and
the
group
in
control
of
the
state
is
identical
with
the
nation.
Kelsen’s
meta-juristic
world
order
of
legal
norms
to
which
all
states
and
individuals
are
subject
has
not
imposed
any
serious
obstacles
in
the
path
of
dictators
and
imperialists
in
extending
their
territories
by
force
of
arms.
Perhaps
the
final
verdict
on
such
inter-
national
law-breakers
will
be
pronounced
only
in
the
court
of
world
history.
For
the
present,
it
would
appear
that
the
most
effective
sanction
to
insure
their
good
con-
duct
is
the
one
that
Bodin
himself
recog-
nized-the
use
of,
or
the
threat
to
use,
the
sovereign
right
of
revolution.
At
any
rate,
the
study
of
sovereignty
will
go
on
&dquo;so
long
as
the
problems
of
social
control
divide
men
into
rulers
and
ruled,
into
leaders
and
led.&dquo;
Dr.
Cohen
has
performed
a
most
useful
service
in
presenting
this
compact
sum-
mary
and
analysis
of
Recent
Theories
of
Sovereignty.
It
should
be
required
read-
ing
for
all
students
of
political
theory,
and
especially
those
chapters
dealing
with
&dquo;Sovereignty
as
Auto-Limitation,&dquo; &dquo;Socio-
logical
Jurisprudence,&dquo;
&dquo;Pure
Jurispru-
dence
and
International
Law,&dquo;
&dquo;Sov-
ereignty
and
the
British
Empire,&dquo;
and
&dquo;Political
Pluralism.&dquo;
PETER
H.
ODEGARD
Ohio
State
University
CAILLAUX,
J.,
et
al.
La
Réforme
de
l’état.
Pp.
290.
Paris: Librairie
Felix
Alcan,
1936.
Fr. 15.
A
series
of
five
lectures
delivered
at
the
Ecole
Libre
des
Sciences
Politiques
by
for-
mer
alumni,
this
book
affords
a
keen
insight
into
the
present
attitude
of
politically
sophisticated
French
officials
as
to
the
na-
ture
of
the
state
and
the
French
Constitu-
tion.
It
presents
some
mature
considera-
tions
concerning
the
relation
of
the
French
state
to
such
significant
problems
as
the
civil
service,
the
family,
and
production.
M.
Fournol
traces
the
idea
of
the
state
historically
and
examines
the
present
totalitarian
doctrines
in
the
light
of their
antecedents.
M.
Metre
explains
the
dif-
ferences
in
the
character
of
the
early
revo-
lutionary
constitutions
and
that
of
1875
as
due
to
the
different
philosophic
and
socio-
logical
outlooks
dominant
in
the
two
periods.
M.
Puget
presents
the
problems
of
the
civil
service,
its
history,
its
tend-
encies,
and
dangers
in
Republican
France.
He
suggests
borrowing
some
ideas
and
in-
stitutions
from
sister
democracies,
notably
the
Whitley
System
from
England.
M.
Hermant
voices
a protest
against
the
encroachments
of
the
state
on
the
family
in
matters
of
marriage
and
divorce,
of
prop-
erty
and
inheritance,
and
of
education.
It
is
a
plea against
state
interference
from
the
religious
point
of
view.
M.
Dalbouze
re-
views
the
history
of
state
as
it
relates
to
production,
and
sketches
some
of
the
pres-
ent
forms
of
state
intervention.
He
sug-
gests
voluntary
limitation
by
capitalism
in
democracy
as
the
alternative
to
involun-
tary
loss
of
economic
liberty
and
forced
socialization.
The
book
is
good.
The
lectures,
the
in-
troductions,
and
the
summaries
are
meaty
contributions
to
questions
concerning
the
internal
government
of
France.
They
de-
scribe
quite
concretely
the
actual
situations
which
call
for
reform,
and
indicate
in
some
measure
the
nature
of
proposed
or
possible
solutions.
HYMEN
EZRA
COHEN
University
of
Chicago
JOHNSON,
CLAUDIUS
O.
Government
in
the
United
States
(rev.
ed.).
Pp.
xii,
735.
New
York:
Thomas
Y.
Crowell
Company,
1937.
$4.00.
This
revision of
a
general
text
in
Ameri-
can
government,
first
published
in
1933,
represents
an
attempt
to
take
account
of
the
many
significant
changes
of
the
past
four
years.
As
in
the
original
edition,
the
chapters
on
the
three
major
branches
of
the
government
are
arranged
topically,
rather
than
on
the
usual
historical
and
area
basis
for
the
units discussed.
The
pub-
lishers
describe
this
compromise
between
an
extreme
form
of
topical
treatment
and
the
conventional
arrangement
of
chapters
as
a
&dquo;functional
approach&dquo;-all
of
which
raises
the
question
as
to
what
a
functional
approach
really
is.
The
term
seems
to
be
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