If modern civilization is, as historians and others so frequently assert, the fruit of a series of revolutions, then the greater part of the civilized world is still in the throes of one of these, namely, the Social Revolution. For most nations that can lay claim to progress, democracy, in some form, seems to be the goal of all political activity. The rapid changes in the institutional life all nations and peoples during the last century have demanded a radical adjustment in their governmental methods and technique, and a thorough sifting of the principles on which states may be established with some hope of promoting the peace and prosperity of their citizens.