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In this independent character a special higher authority is of necessity involved and this highest authority we intentionally call – sovereignty in the individual social spheres, in order that it may be sharply and decidedly expressed that these different developments of social life have nothing above themselves but God, and that the State cannot intrude here, and has nothing to command in their domain.

Abraham Kuyper Lectures on Calvinism (Stone Lectures, 1898)

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