To regard the introduction of jurisdiction by sovereign princes and governments as merely a matter Sache of arbitrary grace alldfovour, as Herr von Haller Restoratioll ofPolitical Science), is an example of does (in his that thoughtlessness which fails to realize that, since legal and political institutions in general are rational in character, they are necessary in and for themselves, and that the form in which they first arose and were introduced has no bearing on a discussion of their rational basis.