What America did is it inverted the concept of sovereignty. It said, you know what? Sovereignty does not emanate from the top. It emanates from the bottom. It emanates from the people. We the people. The Constitution begins with we the people. 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. (20:24–20:39)
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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution establishes that sovereignty belongs to the people, who temporarily delegate authority to elected officials.
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