Carolina QuotesTrue republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate, just as national sovereignty is above the secondary agreements of the government.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Speech (3 January 1834), quoted in Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1999), p. 256
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- speech
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- 1834
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- p. 256
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