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To exercise continuous sovereign authority over




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How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people. - Che Guevara

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly. - David Souter

Those who own the country ought to govern it. - John Jay

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. - James Madison

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. - Jefferson Davis

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. - Joan of Arc

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy. - Howard Rheingold

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