Political Sovereignty: The Supreme Authority in the United States

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Contents

The Significance of Sovereignty
1
Definition of a Sovereign State
8
The Rise of the Age of Reason
15
The Second Treatise of Government
24
The Powers of Government
33
Sovereignty in the United States
39
The American Theory of Government
57
Review and Summary
84
The WebsterHayne Debate
200
The Orator of Consolidation
246
The WebsterCalhoun Debate
291
We the People
337
Some Common Misconceptions
363
Conclusions
414
The Declaration of Independence
431
The Constitution of the United States
441

Two Schools of Thought
137

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