Mi autoridad emana de vosotros y cesa ante vuestra presencia soberana.
“My authority emanates from you, and it ceases before your sovereign presence.”
Political authority is granted by the people and remains accountable to them, never above them.
— José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguay
Source: José Artigas, Instrucciones del Año XIII (1813); widely cited in Uruguayan historiography and inscribed at Uruguayan civic monuments
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