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Governor Thomas Marshall (Harris & Ewing Collection, United States Library of Congress)<\/p><\/div>\n

“In that remote and despotic period, when the sovereign king chartered rights and liberties to his subjects \u2013 the people \u2013 all governmental powers were assumed to be his by divine right. In him were combined the legislative, executive and judicial powers of government. He was the lawgiver, interpreter and enforcer. When the powers were executed by agents,\u00a0the agents were his, and responsible to him alone. On this continent we came to the time when the people, by revolution, took to themselves sovereignty, and in exercising supreme political power chartered governments by written constitutions. These organic instruments declared and guaranteed the rights and liberties of the individual, which had come to the people through centuries of struggle against absolutism in government. The majority was to rule, but under restraints and limitations which preserved to the minority its rights. ‘By the constitution which they establish, they not only tie up the hands of their official agencies, but their own hands as well; and neither the officers of the State, nor the whole people as an aggregate body, are at liberty to take action in opposition to this fundamental law.’ Cooley, Const. Lim. (7th ed.) 56.”<\/p>\n

Ellingham v. Dye<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> 178 Ind. 336, 342; 99 N.E. 1, 3 (1912).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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