Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...says, 'of unconscious holiness is of an urgent and inevitable nature, it persuades the weak, the timid, the wavering, and the inquiring; it draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces of unearthly majesty...
...lower laws and conditions under which it lives are subordinate to higher laws, and that its bondage in a certain sphere becomes transformed into liberty when it is lifted up into a higher sphere where he that seweth and that is sewed are subject unto Him who is sovereign over both...
...Democratic Congress will remit to the states the rights that justly belong to them. The National Government will retain its sovereign power of taxation, but this taxation shall go no further than to meet necessary expenses. The Democratic party pledges itself to economy, and the luxuries of life shall bear the burdens of taxation...