Spencer proceeds to say with all plainness, “Hence it is undeniable that, taken in its widest acceptation, the feeling of the community is the sole source of political power; in those communities, at least, which are not under foreign domination.
Wilson cites Spencer's assertion about the community's feeling as the source of political power, emphasizing popular sovereignty.
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