The court gave their sanction to the monopoly of money in these three separate cases, _viz._: _Veazie Bank vs. Fenno_, 8 _Wallace_, 549 (1869). _National Bank vs. United States_, 101 _U. S. Reports_, 5 _and_ 6 (1879). _Juilliard vs. Greenman_, 110 _U. S. Reports_ 445-6 (1884). Section XXIII. If anything could add to the disgust and detestation which the monstrous falsifications of the constitution, already described, should excite towards the court that resorts to them, it would be the fact that the court, not content with falsifying to the utmost the constitution itself, _goes outside of the constitution, to the tyrannical practices of what it_ calls the "_sovereign_" governments of "_other civilized nations_," to justify the same practices by our own. It asserts, over and over again, the idea that our government is a "_sovereign_" government; that it has the same rights of "_sovereignty_," as the governments of "other civilized nations"; especially those in Europe. What, then, is a "sovereign" government? It is a government that is "sovereign" over all the natural rights of the people. This is the only "sovereignty" that any government can be said to have. Under it, the people have no _rights_. They are simply "subjects,"--that is, slaves. They have but one law, and one duty, _viz._, obedience, submission. They are not recognized as having any _rights_. They can claim nothing as their own. They can only accept what the government chooses to give them. The government owns them and their property; and disposes of them and their property, at its pleasure, or discretion; without regard to any consent, or dissent, on their part. Such was the "sovereignty" claimed and exercised by the governments of those, so-called, "civilized nations of Europe," that were in power in 1787, 1788, and 1789, when our constitution was framed and adopted, and the government put in operation under it. And the court now says, virtually, that the constitution intended to give to our government the same "sovereignty" over the natural rights of the people, that those governments had then. But how did the "civilized governments of Europe" become possessed of such "sovereignty"? Had the people ever granted it to them? Not at all. The governments spurned the idea that they were dependent on the will or consent of their people for their political power. On the contrary, they claimed to have derived it from the only source, from which such "sovereignty" could have been derived; that is, from God Himself. In 1787, 1788, and 1789, all the great governments of Europe, except England, claimed to exist by what was called "Divine Right." That is, they claimed to have received authority from God Himself, to rule over their people. And they taught, and a servile and corrupt priesthood taught, that it was a religious duty of the people to obey them. And they kept great standing armies, and hordes of pimps, spies, and ruffians, to keep the people in subjection.