Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
ANOINT, v. t. : To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.
It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
