The Pact, by itself, is an empty declaration; but its logic, like that of the Covenant, is likely to take it much further in the direction of international government than its authors intended it should go.
Laski argues that the Kellogg Pact's implications may lead to greater international governance than intended.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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