Levi Woodbury - The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it...

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The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

Levi Woodbury

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Der bloße Gedanke des Gesetzes in einer Verfassungsrepublik setzt die Voraussetzung voraus, dass es eine Regel, ein Leitfaden, eine Uniform, fest und für alle gleich ist, bis sie durch dieselbe hohe politische Macht verändert wird, durch die es gemacht wurde. Das macht es zu seinem souveränen Gewicht.

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