Assertion: constitution's people | /r/HasProperty | sovereign
Facets:
value: under decrees
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: By passing the Act of 1871, Congress committed TREASON against the People who were Sovereign under the grants and decrees of the Declaration of Independence and the organic Constitution.
text: According to this view, Congress as a legislature should be only equal to any state legislature, and only the people in each state might be sovereign.