Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I THE ECLIPSE OF SOVEREIGNTY -- I. The Roman Conception of Imperium -- II. The Partial Eclipse of Sovereignty in the Feudal Period -- How It Survived -- III. Its Reconstruction as a Royal Instrument on the Model of the Roman Imperium -- IV. Theories of Bodin, Loyseau, Lebret and Domat -- V. The Revolution Substitutes the Sovereignty of the Nation for the Sovereignty of the Monarch -- VI. Criticism of the Revolutionary Dogma -- VII. Its Incompatibility with Important Facts -- VIII. Particularly with Decentralisation and Federalism -- IX. And Its Inability to Protect the Individual Against Despotism -- CHAPTER II PUBLIC SERVICE -- I. The Theory of Sovereignty Has Thus Broken Down -- II. Though the Theorists of Public Law Hesitate to Admit This -- III. For It Has Been Substituted the Idea of Public Service -- IV. Which Is Now the Basis of Modern Public Law -- V. Which Is Now the Basis of Modern Public Law -- VI. It Guarantees Regular Supply of Public Needs (a) by Privately Exploited Franchises -- VII. Or by Their Direction Operation by Government -- CHAPTER III STATUTE -- I. The Nature of Law. Why It Has the Force of Compulsion. What Is Meant by Normative Laws -- II. What Is Meant by Constructive Laws -- III. The Difference Between Laws and Ordinances -- IV. Statutes and the Theory of Administration -- V. The Theory and Its Case-Law -- CHAPTER IV SPECIAL STATUTES -- I. Local Acts -- II. Bye-Laws of Decentralised Authorities -- III. Disciplinary Regulations -- IV. Rules of voluntary Associations -- V. Statutory Agreements: (a) Collective Contracts -- VI. Statutory Agreements: (b) Franchises in Private Hands -- VII. The Sanction of Statutory Agreements