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Catechism› 3.Life in ChristPart 3› 1.Man’s Vocation Life in the SpiritSection 1› 2.The Human CommunionChapter 2› 2.Participation in Social LifeArt. 2› I.AuthorityI.

CCC 1904

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"It is preferable that each power be balanced by other powers and by other spheres of responsibility which keep it within proper bounds. This is the principle of the 'rule of law,' in which the law is sovereign and not the arbitrary will of men."

In the Compendium: Q406

Read the full chapter 2. The Human Communion ¶1877–1948

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