And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven.[9]
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I was taking a shot in the dark when I saw a Reuters reporter complaining about the flag earlier today when I asked Gab.ai if anyone had ever hung a KKK flag outside of their office door in congress?
Sure enough, Rep. John Rankin, a Democratic Congressman from Mississippi hung a KKK flag outside his congressional office door. Rankin served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953.