Mr. McArthur is right to reframe the debt debate as a question of sovereignty, rather than one of constitutionality. All governments derive their legitimacy – their right to sovereign power – from The People. (Indeed, this has been a legal axiom in the West at least since the creation of Roman law.) It follows that …
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