Trump v. Barbara · ¶425

In this system of soil and servitude, the Court sees “emancipation.” Ante, at 26. But our Founders disagreed. The Declaration of Independence emphatically rejected the British theory of government. It proclaimed that governments “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed,” not divine right. ¶2. And it “[a]bsolved” the people of the United States “from all Allegiance to the British Crown.” ¶32.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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