If here I look again for the origin of sovereign authority, then of course I have to find a power that could govern all these generations combined; a power that held in its hand the entire history of our nation and other nations; in short, a power not for one age but for all ages. And again we ask: who else could possess such power but God? In sum, sovereign political authority that is exercised among the nations of the earth has to cooperate with the laws that govern the life of mankind; with the
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