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Such, fellow-citizens, is the Popular Sovereignty of the Declaration of Independence, drawing its life, first, from the inalienable Rights of Man, and then, by positive words, restrained to what is Right.
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Sumner defines Popular Sovereignty as rooted in human rights and limited by moral principles.
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