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Immanuel Kant Quotes: The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.
         

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.


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