The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
One must always keep one's government under control.
IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
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