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Woodrow Wilson: Sovereigns have always been subject in greater or less degree to the community; have always been organs of the State…

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Sovereigns have always been subject in greater or less degree to the community; have always been organs of the State; have never been the State itself.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson states that sovereigns have always been subject to the community and are not the state itself.

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