joseph sugarman wrote:
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In our Consitutional Republic, the United States of America; and our constitutional republics, the fifty states; sovereingty exists in the whole people.
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It was explained by Justice James Wilson, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Chisholm v Georgia: "...how true it is, that States and Governments were made for man; and, at the same time, how true it is, that his creatures and servants have first deceived, next vilified, and, at last, oppressed their master and maker. ...Let a State be considered as subordinate to the PEOPLE: But let every thing else be subordinate to the State." He noted that in the practice of politics there has been a strong current against the nature of things: "As the State has claimed precedence of the people; so, in the same inverted course of things, the Government has often claimed precedence of the State; and to this perversion in the second degree, many of the volumes of confusion concerning sovereignty owe their existence." Concerning the State, he noted, "It is an artificial person." He explained that the term sovereign has, as its correlative, subject. He also noted that sovereignty is derived from a feudal source, such as existed in Europe. Sovereigns and subjects were abolished in this country by the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States.
Our hierarchical relationship exists in Article Ten of the Bill of Rights.