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— Alexander Hamilton"They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign."
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[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.
— Charles Edward Merriam
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