If you hold the right at will of your State, then you can invoke no power but the State for its vindication.
George F. Hoar: “If you hold the right at will of your State, then you can invoke no power but the State for its vindication.”
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Hoar discusses the implications of holding citizenship rights at the state level versus the national level, highlighting issues of state authority.
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