We the People of the United States!
That is not what I said. The people created their states which in turn created the Confederation, and then later created the federation. Prior to Lincoln’s War people regarded themselves as citizens of their state first and foremost. After that war, and the shear brutality of force used against the secessionist states, the nature of the relationship between the federal government and the people was changed. With the sovereignty of the states damaged, the federal leviathan became over the decades more the authority over the states and the people. What we have today in the form of an oppressive national government is a direct result of Lincoln’s destruction of the original federation. It may have taken 150 years and hundreds or so other corrupt leaders to get here, but Obama, the Punk-Ass, is a product of Lincoln’s war upon the Southern states.