Individual Sovereignty And Limited Government

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Sunday, July 25, 2010Individual Sovereignty and Limited Government


Individual Sovereignty and Limited Government:



The Divine Right of Kings view of sovereignty was already in deep trouble prior to the American Revolution which, contributed greatly to its demise. This tyrannical system was replaced with individual sovereignty based on Natural Rights derived from the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God according to the founding fathers.



This simple change from top-down to bottom-up changed the world. In the old top-down system the least powerful entity was the individual citizen. He had no authority to demand changes or redress from any official or government body. Additionally, the extent of power and authority of each official and government division was determined by the highest official or branch of government which had unlimited sovereignty.



In the new bottom-up system, the only entity with unlimited sovereignty is the individual. These individuals using their sovereignty formed local and state governments granting to them limited power and authority, the rest being naturally reserved to the people. These local and state governments, limited in the authority and powers by constitutions, subsequently formed the federal government. As the federal government was formed by the states which had limited sovereignty granted by the sovereign individuals that formed them, it had even more restricted sovereignty than the states that formed it.



In short, individuals are the only entities with unlimited soverienty, local governments are the next most soveriegn, followed by state governments and finally by the federal government. This soverienty ladder doesn't imply anything about the extent or distribution of powers. For example, the individual sovereigns granted to their state and the states grantes to the federal government the exclusive power to negotiate treaties with foreign governments. If the individual sovereigns want to take this power back, they are within their rights to do so. In the same way, sovereign individuals directed their states to maintain their right to maintain and bear arms permanentely uninfringed and the states directed the federal government to preserve this right against all encroachments Federal, State, and Local...

This is the essence of the American Revolution, which was really a International Revolution that established Individual Sovereignty, and Constitutionally Limited Government via a system of bottom up soveriengty.



When asked who I am, my response is I am a sovereign individual endowed by my creator with inalienable Rights. My government may not understand that anymore, by I am dedicated to helping them remember so help me God!

Posted by Walter L. Brown Jr. at 9:27 PM