Since the people of the United States ratified the Constitution.
Point me to the article that says, "Oh, and before the People act, they have to check with Non-Sequitur and his fellow enforcers."
Not on your life, liar.
Bottom line, you see yourself as a member of a faction victorious over the People, and determined to keep your privileges -- privileges of franking or nullifying the People's acts and limiting their choices, as their keepers, taskmasters, and tormentors for your advantage and pleasure. Risky business, Jack.
None of this conceded, of course. The People are sovereign, and I'm confident they'll overcome the various factions that want them for a hobbyhorse and service industry.
You rail against the old slave States constantly, you hate them, and you admit it; but you deal in compulsion, yea slavery, more readily than Bedford Forrest ever did, and you'd do it with free men. That you should want to do so, after having professed other ideals, will be your epitaph. It also explains your contempt and animosity against the legacy of Jefferson, and the people who still uphold it.
Jefferson professed eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the minds of men. He was talking about people like you. I honor his memory, you'd make it your footstool. Live with that; you've earned it.