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Okay lawdog, now YOU need to understand how our current system stands.
If you read up on your history, the short history of sovereignty in the U.S. is this: At first, good old George held all the chips. The colonists were isolated enough from George that they got rather pissed off about his ridiculous claims of god-given sovereignty. Maniac editorialists of the time like Pain and Jefferson really kicked over the bee hive. We're all pretty familiar with the result: the colonists said get lost George and George was so busy bickering with his neighbors in France that when he turned around, it was too late and the colonies were already independent enough politically that it wasn't worth the effort anymore.
The net effect of this is summarized very well in Chisholm v. Georgia.
Read the entire case, but the key parts are:
"...at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects...with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens,and as joint tenants in the sovereignty." CHISHOLM v. GEORGIA(US) 2 Dall 419, 454, 1 L Ed 440, 455 DALL 1793 pp471-472
Now we are getting a little of subject here. With that, read your OWN states constitution, it says your sovereign, mine does anyway.
The government only has what the people give from their own, people includes the individual(case after case on that!)
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