Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
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Marianne Williamson109 quotes“Our problem is not that we don’t have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.”
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Gaur Gopal DasGaur Gopal Das A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
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