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Our fathers did not believe in the sovereignty of the State in the sense of absolute power, nor did they believe in the sovereignty of the people in that sense.
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Beck reflects on the founders' beliefs regarding the limits of state and popular sovereignty.
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They differed, at times heatedly, but always as gentlemen of candour and honour.
To this we owe the elasticity of the instrument.
Assuredly, the man of to-day, with the rich heritage of countless ages, can do no less.
They nobly conceived that human society was a single unit and that it was governed by a law that was both antecedent and paramount to the law of Rome.
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