A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations ... is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations ... is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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