The Republic of Republics; Or, American Federal Liberty
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e. the people and their belong- SOCIETIES ARE SOVEREIGN. 295 ings. To illustrate, I will draw four horizontal lities, to represent the diflferent grades spoken of : — SOVEREIGNTY — THE PEOPLE.
THE CONSTITUTION.
THE GOVERNMENT.
THE PEOPLE AS SUBJECTS.
4 — ■**— •• We see here that the people govern, and the people are governed.
This necessitates, in each republican citizen, two capacities, one cor- porate and political, and the other personal. In the former, he is a member and an integral part of... society, and therefore a part of the governing authority, and in the latter he is a subject. It is, however, only as a commonwealth that the citizens have political sovereignty, this being only predicable of an organized community.
An amusing Mistake. — Owing to ignorance or forgetfulness of this double capacity of citizens, our modern so-called statesmen, in their expositions of the constitution, make most amusing mistakes.
Mr. William M. Evarts, in defending President Johnson against im- peachment, in 1868, thus alludes to the people: "Masters of the country, and masters of every agent and agency in it, they bow to nothing but the constitution." By not heeding the above distinction, he makes the people, in their governing capacity, bend the knee to their own authority, — a genuflexion impossible even in Utopia, and the veiy one alluded to by Gov.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
e. the people and their belong- SOCIETIES ARE SOVEREIGN. 295 ings. To illustrate, I will draw four horizontal lities, to represent the diflferent grades spoken of : — SOVEREIGNTY — THE PEOPLE.
THE CONSTITUTION.
THE GOVERNMENT.
THE PEOPLE AS SUBJECTS.
4 — ■**— •• We see here that the people govern, and the people are governed.
This necessitates, in each republican citizen, two capacities, one cor- porate and political, and the other personal. In the former, he is a member and an integral part of... society, and therefore a part of the governing authority, and in the latter he is a subject. It is, however, only as a commonwealth that the citizens have political sovereignty, this being only predicable of an organized community.
An amusing Mistake. — Owing to ignorance or forgetfulness of this double capacity of citizens, our modern so-called statesmen, in their expositions of the constitution, make most amusing mistakes.
Mr. William M. Evarts, in defending President Johnson against im- peachment, in 1868, thus alludes to the people: "Masters of the country, and masters of every agent and agency in it, they bow to nothing but the constitution." By not heeding the above distinction, he makes the people, in their governing capacity, bend the knee to their own authority, — a genuflexion impossible even in Utopia, and the veiy one alluded to by Gov.
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