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...attend the ceremony, but viewed it on television via the Relay satellite in his London home. Standing in for him, his son Randolph read his acceptance of the unique honor. "It is," read Randolph, "a remarkable commentary on our affairs that the former Prime Minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another. I say 'great sovereign state' with design and emphasis, for I reject the view that Britain and the Commonwealth should now be relegated to a tame and minor role in the world . . . In this century of storm...
McIntyre points up a very common problem. Though supposedly independent of the sovereign people longer than anyone, and free to exercise his own judgement, each Senator decides for himself how much discretion is the better part of wisdom. The amount of discretion among the freshmen is actually quite surprising...
...Iron Curtain Catholics, the Vatican would like to regularize these portents of good will-and may well establish formal diplomatic relations with Moscow some day. Last week, L'Osservatore Romano front-paged a theoretical article, written by Msgr. Cardinale, on the general necessity of consular relationships between sovereign states. Asked at a Rome press conference about exchanging consuls with the Vatican, Adzhubei certified that it was "a good idea." Another reporter wondered if Father-in-Law Nikita, who may visit Rome later in the year, would also call on the Pope. Atheist Adzhubei, who earlier had noted that...
There is no such thing as a vacuum in politics or government. If the rights of a sovereign state and local units of government are taken away, they will be replaced by a totalitarian government--a police state. Only our Constitution stands between the people and a dictatorship. If politicians are allowed to circumvent, misconstrue, cripple or disobey the Constitution, then Constitutional government is in jeopardy and the liberty and freedom and right of every American citizen to the pursuit of happiness are menaced...
...people of the U.S. or by the people of the 13 colonies voting in a mass referendum. It was ratified by the legislatures of the 13 states, acting as the duly constituted officers of the people. In other words, the states ratified the Constitution in their capacities as sovereign political communities...