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A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

Individual Sovereignty

We the People
As citizens, and legal immigrant residents, of this greatest

Nation, we are empowered by our Bill of Rights. We live in a state of
being free – that is our ‘free state’ as originally drafted and

amended to in the Second Amendment as ‘free State’. Both are
important, placing the sovereignty of the state above the federal

government and the protection of the state, from the federal
government, to the people. To what degree is an individual – a

citizen – sovereign? The Tenth Amendment empowers the people
with those rights and authorities not specifically enumerated in the

Constitution or designated to the states. As noted in the chapter of
national and state sovereignty, it is important to understand this

essential interpretation – individual rights come first, which cannot
be infringed upon by the state or federal governments, and states’

rights cannot be infringed upon by the federal government. In

reviewing all the empirical founding documents, it is conclusive that
the empowerment of the individual and their rights supersede
states’ rights and authority, and both of these supersede federal

authority; the federal government has no rights. The individual is

the ultimate authority of our greatest Nation and states.
How is that for short and sweet! Of course the empowerment

and sovereignty of the individual is useless if not exercised and
protected. Avoid Tunnel Intelligence – read and know our Bill of

Rights!

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