And the idea was the people have sovereignty and they give the authority to govern to elected officials for a temporary period. Nobody has an entitlement to this and that temporary period. The sovereignty comes from below. Supreme Court has described what the Constitution did as splitting the atom of sovereignty, taking what used to be uniform government control, and number one, splitting it horizontally, splitting it between the executive branch, the legislative branch of the judicial branch, separation of powers between three branches, and number two, splitting it vertically between the federal government, the states and the local government. And all of that was designed, as Jefferson also put it, the Constitution was chains to bind the mischief of government. That was radical. The idea that sovereignty rested with we the people. (20:47–21:16)
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