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He may exclaim, with Louis the Fourteenth, “The State, it is I,” while, like this magnificent king, he sacrifices the innocent, and repeats that fatal crime, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
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In this metaphor, Sumner compares the President's self-assertion of power to that of the absolute monarch Louis XIV, warning of the consequences.
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