Excerpt from Political Ideas of the American Revolution: Britannic-American Contributions to the Problem of Imperial Organization 1765 to 1775
This work is intended in the first place as a contribution to International Law. In the second place, it is a chapter of Britannic Imperial History, arid in the third place it may be regarded as a fragment of the history of the United States. As I conceive it, the thing which George Washington deplored as the "monster of sovereignty" is the chief stumbling block of international cooperation. Jealous nationality will not surrender its title to a supposed supremacy, and as a consequence, international adjustments are rendered difficult, if not impossible. It is my belief that the British Empire, or, as it is better known today, the Britannic Commonwealth of Nations, presents one of our most completely equipped laboratories for the study of international relations, for there is being worked out the idea of a league of nations without too much idle discussion as to the residence of sovereignty. I have, therefore, selected that period of American history in which the thirteen colonies were struggling to become self-governing dominions, as indicative of the contribution America made to the supreme problem of politics while working within the laboratory of the Britannic Commonwealth. The separation from Great Britain took the colonies out of that laboratory, so there my story stops. Nevertheless, a proper understanding of the fundamental political and legal conceptions upon which the thinkers of this period worked takes us in some instances into material which was not set down until as late as 1790. It seems to me, however, that this fact, and the further fact that I do not concern myself with many of the ideas which the Americans formulated during the Revolution, but after the separation from Great Britain, do not invalidate my title.
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