The Restored Reality: Individual Sovereignty and Responsibility

By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Author of "The Rise of Tyranny" and, "Global Censorship of Health Information"
November 22, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

The overaching objective of the American Revolution was to throw off the shackles of a government that viewed itself, rather than the people, as sovereign and to erect in its place a government of limited powers where ultimate sovereignty lay with the people. Reflecting on this concept in January of 1800 in his Report on the Virginia Resolutions James Madison observed that “the People, not the Government, possess the absolute sovereignty. The Legislature, no less than the Executive, is under limitations of power.â€