SOVEREIGNTY IS the supreme political power or authority of the person or persons whom the citizens as a body habitually obey. The term sovereignty implies the right to make valid laws. Originally, this right was restricted to the king, later on to the Parliament, and the validity to the kingdom, country or district concerned. The interdependence of the safety and security of mankind today is so obvious a fact that only in some isolationist corners are doubts entertained concerning it. Our new understanding of an ancient situation renders it clear that to the extent to which it implies the absolute power of legislation, sovereignty must be restricted. Not only to the end that every member of the nation be assured of basic equality before the law, but especially also to prevent interference with, diminution, or complete cancellation of, the rights and privileges of any other nation. Within the family, the group, the district, the states of any nation, it has become self-evident that individual or group sovereignty is a matter of the past, due for abandonment with the burning of witches and resigned acceptance of epidemics, physical or mental, of the centuries before. The Bible knows no bitterer censure of lawlessness in the twilight periods of Jewish history than that every man was a rugged individualist, establishing his own laws of conduct and 'doing what so ever was right in his own eyes.' The modern man has learned from the failure of the Treaty of Versailles how dangerous it is to permit even liberated nations the exercise of national sovereignty. For in a melodramatic way yesterday's victims of tyranny have shown a habit of changing into today's oppressors of minorities. Only God remains sovereign. No man or group of men. Upon the sovereignty of the Lord does Judaism base the equality of man. But the elementary fact must not be ignored: the folly of thoroughgoing national egoism, and its effect on international affairs. Three recent volumes, each written by men of authority, bear out the implications. In This Age of Conflict2 the collaborators found the undermining of