sovereignty and the Modern Democratic State. Later, people began prealise that the king was a part f the governmental machine and, accord ngly, an agent rather than a master, and, as such, he possessed subordinate and delegated authority, which could be revoked at the will of the master. the people. It was a protest against absolute monarchy. It began with John Locke n English political justified the Glorious Revolution and found its fullest expression in the French Revolution. The French Revolu tion made the people sovereign, and not only transferred to it as Soltau remarks. all the ttributes of the old monarch of ine righL but removed und that the peop when governing itself, had no limitations, on t need to restrict its authority Time State, in its corporate capacity, was, thus, tendowed with all the attributes of sovereignty which the monarch previously possessed. Two factors reinforced the absolutism of the new democratic State. ne was nationalism wh added the crams of the nation to those of the reign people The national State claimed not only unti home over its members, but also the right to expand abroad at the expense of others The second factor was the enormous increase in the province of the State following the Industrial Revolution. The activities of the State were not only limited o protection, administration an dispensaion of justice, but it every aspect of the collective existence This meant an ever-increasing mass of islation and a great increase in the importance of the State as Supre aw-maker nforcing the dogma of sovereignty, by givin it a much wider field of application