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sect. vi]
The Conception of Sovereignty
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already dwelt upon between the three countries may, after all, tend to disappear through partial and gradual assimilation. They proceed in part from the fact that, while all three nations are influenced by a common democratic movement, the progress of this movement has, in the case of England and of the United States, been delayed, whilst in France it has been hurried on, so that France has reached a more advanced stage of the movement than the other two countries. This explanation is necessary in order to make the exact bearing of my preceding remarks intelligible, and with this I close this already too lengthy essay.
