OurCivicDuty.com: Liberty: Sovereignty

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."

- Samuel Adams.

Sovereignty

Understanding our country requires an understanding of the terms "sovereign" and "sovereignty," yet these are words unlikely to be mentioned by our government or media. It is completely contrary to the interests of those to whom we appear to have given power to acknowledge the individual sovereignty of each person. If this was again widely recognized, it would strip certain individuals and institutions of their undue authority and begin to reveal our true situation. This recognition, however, is the very essence of the Bill of Rights and the republican form of government that the Constitution was meant to establish. In fact, the very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to protect the exercise of our sovereignty so that it may not be subverted by government. Unfortunately, this is exactly what Corp. U.S. has done and continues to do.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

- Thomas Jefferson, 1791.

We are Kings

In many governments previous to 1776, only the king could truly be regarded as a sovereign before the backwards law of the time because all other people in the kingdom were subjects and inferior to the authority of the king. The Founders rightfully saw this as injustice and knew of only one way to correct it: recognize before the law that which is the inherent right of each person. This means that we are each in complete control of ourselves, our actions, and our decisions. We are also, therefore, the only ones responsible for these actions. There is no authority to which we must submit except the law (Constitution) which recognizes our sovereignty and any authority which is higher than law (namely God and His Law). This is an empowering concept, one that is so powerful that it is almost inconceivable that we have submitted the will of institutions that wish to remove the concept of this inherent truth from our lives.

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance.

- Thomas Jefferson, 1770.

The Source of Sovereignty

The Constitution recognizes that our inalienable rights come from the Creator and therefore cannot be changed by earthly law to which we do not submit. It is important to note that the Constitution itself does not give us our sovereignty, instead it recognizes man's sovereign nature. This sovereignty of the individual is basic fact of the human experience even if you do not believe in a Creator.

It is important to realize that you, as a human being, cannot lose your sovereign nature. You simply are not in any position to deny or forfeit sovereignty, though you are able to allow the full exercise of your sovereignty to be limited.

A Sovereign State

We must also acknowledge another type of sovereignty that relates to a group of people (a nation). In the United States, the sovereignty of our country is meant to be embodied by the government. It is meant to be a sovereign (the state) that represents a body of sovereigns (the individuals comprising the nation). This allows the nation to speak with one unified voice to other states (who are also sovereign) through the state. Recently the idea of all states (as in countries, not US states) being sovereign is in jeopardy because of our government's uncontrolled power and organizations like the U.N.

*Note that the words nation and state are used very carefully in the above paragraph.

Dictionary Definitions

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition defines "sovereignty" as follows:

1. Supremacy of authority or rule as exercised by a sovereign or sovereign state.
2. Royal rank, authority, or power.
3. Complete independence and self-government.
4. A territory existing as an independent state.

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