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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Denis Diderot
War, People, Sovereign
Denis Diderot, John Hope Mason, Robert Wokler (1992). “Diderot: Political Writings”, p.81, Cambridge University Press
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.