Resist the crazy extension of the doctrine that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed to an extreme never imagined by the men who framed it, and never for one moment acted upon in their own practice.
Reid critiques the extreme interpretation of the principle that government derives its powers from the consent of the governed.
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