Sovereignty Exists For Correct Government

What is this thing called sovereignty? It is the supreme power of a state by which it rules over its land and its citizenry. Well, here we are in the 21st century, having witnessed every form of government that humanity's imagination has been capable of conceiving. And still we speak of sovereignty, but do we know of what we speak? Sovereignty - that which gives to kings and emperors the right to tell their subjects what to do and how to arrange their affairs. Sovereignty - that which permits nations to tell other nations to remain behind certain borders and not to interfere in the affairs of their neighbors. Sovereignty - that which permits tyrants to persecute, enslave, torment, and destroy the societies over which they have gained control through violent revolution or other illegitimate means. How far are we willing to let the definition be stretched? We are commonly asked to accept that freedom means the right to do as one pleases. Well, we know that this is a fallacious idea. Unbridled freedom is not freedom at all. Neither does sovereignty convey the right to control a territory or rule over a people by any means at all. Freedom is the freedom to live according to just principles, not to act in any way at all. Sovereignty extends to the limit of a government's just rule, and not one inch farther. When a government ceases to rule justly, it no longer has a legitimate claim to sovereignty. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Men do not consent to unjust treatment of themselves; they may tolerate it, but without consent. Men do not possess the right, even, to consent to the injustices of a government, because they do not possess the right to permit injustice toward anyone. Therefore, if I consent to the injustice of a government toward anyone, I become an accomplice of that injustice. How can an entire nation vote to protect the system of a regime that has for 43 years persecuted, enslaved, tormented, and destroyed the citizens of that nation? Do you believe that this is what took place in Cuba? Do you believe that the Castro regime, which has murdered and tortured thousands, divided thousands of families, denied rights to the entire population, enslaved millions of workers, and prohibited every norm of democratic society, that this regime also received the unanimous support of the entire nation, that the nation has as one declared, "Yes, socialism is untouchable and irrevocable. Socialism, the sacred system of our master, Fidel Castro, by which he has oppressed us for 43 years, must remain forever in effect in Cuba"? And do you believe that, as Castro claims, he was able to collect 8,188, 000 signatures in support of this self-betrayal in three days? Neither did this take place, nor do the Cuban people, as a nation, have the right to sell the freedom of their countrymen. We do not possess the right to consent to the unjust treatment of anyone. Jefferson also wrote that, when "the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." He said this of a government elected by democratic election. How much more is this true of the government of a murderous tyrant? If a public or private individual or entity acts in such a way as to support and perpetuate the existence of such an illegitimate government as that of Fidel Castro, which has caused such suffering and destruction among the citizens of Cuba as no government ever had the right to cause, who can keep silent? Any and every supporter of the Castro regime becomes an enemy of the Cuban people, as well as an enemy of the people of the world, as the entire world has suffered because of the Castro regime. Could you keep silent while Hitler burned and gassed Jews and Slavs? Then keep silent while Castro rules Cuba. But while you are silent, remember that the sovereignty that Castro possesses over Cuba is the same sovereignty that Satan possesses over the world. ================================================================================================================ ****************************************************************************************************************

What is this thing called sovereignty? It is the supreme power of a state by which it rules over its land and its citizenry.

Excuse me, I get slightly burnt when somebody expresses this knothead notion of sovereignty.

While sovereignty is the "supreme power of a state", it is only lent to the state by the individuals using that state to administrate their business.

This thing called sovereignty is simply the right, awarded by the ability, to make the final choice. The ability to choose, without which the concept of sovereignty would not exist, is yours as an individual and yours alone. It has to be curtailed consciously and willingly by yourself. It is the expression of freewill, a gift of the spirit given to every human being born into the earth.

An indication of the devine source of freewill is that you can't not exercise it. If you are faced with, say, several major choices, and you cross your arms, sit tight and refuse to choose, you have made a choice. Crossing your arms, sitting tight and refusing to choose is, of course, one of your choices.

The source of sovereignty, being each individual, transfers it to the state on a case by case basis subject to good behavior on the part of the functionaries that use it and withdrawal from those functionaries at a moments notice.

The transfer mechanism is a law. Laws have no effect on the fact, only before and after. A law against spitting on the sidewalk doesn't dry your mouth up. You must continually, when in the presence of a sidewalk, make choices other than spitting.

Each time you do not spit on the sidewalk you are refreshing the flow of that portion of your sovereignty to the agency that made that law. If, once, you should spit on the sidewalk you have withdrawn that sovereignty. If the next time you choose not to spit you have given it back. You do not give up sovereignty to a anyone once and it's gone; sovereignty is hard to get rid of, you have to keep working at it.

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