They are obliged to proclaim a theory of unlimited popular powers.
To be sure, a democracy may impose rules of action upon itself--as the American democracy did in accepting the Federal Constitution.

But in adopting the Federal Constitution the American people did not abandon either its responsibilities or rights as Sovereign.

Difficult as it may be to escape from the legal framework defined in the Constitution, that body of law in theory remains merely an instrument which was made for the people and which if necessary can and will be modified.

A people, to whom was denied the ultimate responsibility for its welfare, would not have obtained the prime condition of genuine liberty.

Individual freedom is important, but more important still is the freedom of a whole people to dispose of its own destiny; and I do not see how the existence of such an ultimate popular political freedom and responsibility can be denied by any one who has rejected the theory of a divinely appointed political order.