The Conclusion discusses the unsuccessful attempt by James VI and I’s government to create the “Imperial Crowne” of “Great Brittaine” out of the kingdoms of Scotland and England in 1604–08. It examines union treatises by Thomas Craig, John Hayward, and David Hume of Godscroft that struggled to reconcile sovereignty discourse’s stress on historical narrative, legalistic precedent, and jurisdictional independence with a proposed merger of equals. Indeed, in the Atlantic Archipelago only the combination of crises that resulted in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms created the circumstances for revolutionary political thought about sovereignty that dispensed with arguments from a historical sequence of precedents. In this way, the conclusion reflects on the enduring effects that conceiving sovereignty in terms of the recognition of superiority had on premodern writers despite a long series of attempts in England and Scotland to envisage political relations differently.