Sovereignty : Inquriy in to the Political Good.

This book is the direct sequel to Power'! It has cost me much hard work and may, I fear, cost the reader no less. Anyone wishing to follow me will find himself engaged in a difficult piece of exploration, and I know well that I am not a good guide; but I feel strongly that this exploration is necessary and should be attempted by whoever would exercise the duties of a citizen with full awareness of what he is about. In a word, though what I say may be of small importance, the subject itself is of vast importance.
These meditations of mine, which have been taken up at intervals during the last nine years, have reverted progressively to the very
heart of the problem of politics. Each of us, even if he gives no thought to it, has a political activity and exercises an authority; we
should achieve awareness of this role and of the obligations which it entails and should strive to play it better. Politics as an everyday activity at once more widespread and more necessary than is commonly thought, authority as present in some degree in every man, the good to which this activity and this force, observable everywhere, should be directed-these themes are inseparable from the inquiry undertaken in this book.