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  • As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines.

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.51, Verso