But no matter what the scenario, one must make sure that people fully acknowledge that this sovereign authority is from God and not from man. The destructive delusion of popular sovereignty must be permanently abandoned and remain banned. If a people imagines it can grant sovereignty it will also view itself as supreme; then it will want to dominate instead of obey, and “sit in the seat of God.”5 And if one tries to camouflage popular sovereignty with milder expressions like “the social contract
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