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This, I say, is generally the case, for it has not been so universal. But
in a republic, all the citizens as such, are equal, and no citizen can
rightfully exercise any authority over another but in virtue of a power
constitutionally given by the whole community, and such authority,
when exercised, is in effect an act of the whole community, which forms
such body politic. In such governments, therefore, the sovereignty
resides in the great body of the people, but it resides in them not as so
many distinct individuals, but in their political capacity only. Thus A,
B, C, and D are citizens of Pennsylvania, and as such, together with
all the citizens of Pennsylvania share in the sovereignty of the state.
Suppose a state to consist exactly had a number of 100,000 citizens,
and if it were practicable for them all to assemble at one time and in
one place, and that 99,999 did actually assemble, the state would not
be in fact assembled. Why? Because the state in fact is composed of all
the citizens, not of a part only, however large the part may be, and one
is wanting.” – Penhallow v. Doane, 3 Dall. 93.
The protections we gave ourselves as living souls and a sovereign body
politic were incorporated into the Constitution as the first ten Amendments,
which are often referred to as the Bill of Rights. These rights were specifically
enumerated because, from our colonial experience, these rights were the most
often abused by the king and his agents and are deemed to be so fundamental,
that without them, there would be no humanity.
The Constitution was written in order to protect the commerce of the
independent sovereign states from foreign aggression and equal treatment
among the contracting states. The individual living souls of the states that
compacted together by the Constitution were protected in their fundamental
rights from its creation, the federal government, in the exercise of the
enumerated powers that we granted it and nothing more. The Constitution
did not create a sovereign government over the member states to the compact
or over the people of those states.
The Congress and the state legislatures are cognizant of the authority
delegated them by “We the People” – the sovereign body politic – under the
federal and state constitutions, and are specific when legislating law for the
sovereign body politic and for subjects of the federal government. In order to
gain control over us, “We the People,” they use “word art,” and by definitions
such as “person,” “including,” “states,” etc., they begin stripping away our
basic fundamental rights by sophistry. For their success, they depend upon
our apathy towards government and the general obscurity of knowledge
regarding our status vs. the citizen subject of the District.