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