National sovereignty is the enemy of international law. Its affirmation is the negation of law above the national level. The people must abandon the false doctrine of national sovereignty if they are to unite in a world government of law. They must assert and exercise the sovereignty vested in each of them as human beings. So, and only so, can men of many nations form an enduring union of laws superior to their own national laws, for the protection and regulation of the interests they, as human beings, have in common.
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts
"Sovereignty" in The New Federalist
Roberts, Owen J., John F. Schmidt, and Clarence K. Streit
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), 12-13.
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