Senator Minihan mentioned the issue of sovereignty. His references to multilateral and unilateral approaches were interesting. Sovereignty is not immutable. There was a time when sovereignty was the divine right of kings, bestowed by God. If an act of regicide was committed, it was then considered that the divine right did not come from God, but from parliament. The sovereign parliaments, however, consisted of only male landowners, as only they were seen as sufficiently intelligent and strategically minded to know what to do. Sovereignty was then passed to men in general, but women were not trusted with the right to vote until the advent of universal suffrage. Éamon de Valera was one of the early advocates of the League of Nations after the First World War, when an attempt was made to recognise that multilateralism might work better than power politics and imperialism.