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REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION Popular sovereignty resides in people as individuals. Starts with the natural and inalienable rights of equal sovereign individuals as preceding the formation of governments. First comes individual rights and then comes government to protect those rights. “Under a Republican Constitution, to ensure that these servants remain within their just powers, this lawmaking power itself must be limited by law. The Republican constitution then provides the law that governs those who govern us … each of whom must swear a solemn oath to obey "this constitution."… In short, under a republican Constitution, the meaning of the written constitution must remain the same until it is properly changed - which is another way of saying that the written constitution must be interpreted according to its original meaning until it is properly amended. (Our Republican Constitution, p24)

⁠— Armon Eaton