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It is possible, however, to perceive what underpins modern German constitutional law on the basis of a second understanding of self-determination. … According to this understanding one is self-determining if one is a law unto oneself. Being a law unto oneself requires being true to oneself. The self-given law is the law on the ground of which the self is what it is.

People get nervous about poison, especially parents, but the truth is that rat poison is all over every building and street in Manhattan. Anything you see that resembles berry blue Pop Rocks or green kibble, you know rats have been spotted nearby.

You with your foes combine, / And seem your own destruction to design.