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The right to change them is not founded on their being incorporated, but on their being the instruments of government, created for its purposes.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The right to change them is not founded on their being incorporated, but on their being the instruments of government…”
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He asserts that the authority to change institutions is based on their role as government instruments, rather than their incorporation status.
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