The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.