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Supremacy of the Sovereignty of the Individual; The Framer’s Wisdom
The formal surrender of the British at Yorktown was on 19 October 1781 was preceded by the adoption of the Articles of Confederation (AoC) March 31st of that same year, creating a rough outline for a federal, centralized government of the new Nation. During the post-war years, there were several “housekeeping” items to attend to which included settling border disputes, reconstruction, economic restructuring and generally growing into Nationhood. The AoC stood as the law of the land and a rough guidance of governance during those 6 years:
American Experiment in the Restoration of Individual Sovereignty:
The Constitutional Convention convened on May 25 and concluded on September 17, 1787 with a first draft. For the next two years, disagreements were worked out over issues including Slavery, Districting, Taxation, Separation of Power and the Question of Rights. This last item, most agreed with although the full extent of language used to identify, establish and then to protect those Rights were not agreed upon until after Ratification in 1789.
The concept of Individual Rights was undergirded by established philosophical concepts including the most fundamental of which was the Sovereignty of the Individual without which there cannot be any legitimate government; that all government grows out of and is populated by the citizenry of Free Men who choose from among their number those who will serve the purpose of the Sovereign.
That purpose, in the USA is first to Support and Defend the Constitution within which is confirmation of the philosophically settled concept of the Sovereign Individual. If then, the concept of the Sovereign Individual is established (which it is), then it surely follows that the Individual’s Rights in this regard are as absolute temporally as God’s are, supernaturally and temporally; unquestioning, uninfringeable.
The Founders were quite clear in their rendering in the Constitution that they were speaking of their audience and those covered in the several Articles of the Constitution in very specific terms:
1) The People were and remain, a collection of Sovereign Individuals as a subset of humanity, i.e., American Citizens. This is clearly explained in the Preamble although it is also common sense. (see: https://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2025/11/we-people-preamble-we-people-of-united.html)
2) That the Rights spelled out in the Bill of Rights are specifically of the People who are Sovereign Individuals and Citizens of the United States of America even while the concept is considered universal. These Rights are as much an intrinsic element of the Individual Sovereign’s being as are his Arms, Legs, Ears, Heart, Brain, Fingers, Toes and as much as the air he breathes and the Lungs, he has that move the air within his body.
3) That the Rights codified by the Bill of Rights, are pre-existent and in common for any Sovereign anywhere on earth, which cannot be ethically, morally or legally interfered with (shall not be infringed) by fellow Sovereigns and certainly not by those servants the Sovereign has elected from the citizenry to carry out his directives.
The importance of the influence of Biblical teachings on the Founders cannot be overstated. The one side of the debate needs to expunge this element from the history of the USA and body politic; removing it as a mighty legal tool to delegitimize the rendering of the Constitution and specifically the Bill of Rights to allow them to dilute the Nation into something the Founders would not recognize. Until they win this fight and events in NYC as of November 4, 2025, should give us pause in this regard, history remains intact.
The Founders were not just Philosophes, they were Christians, Deists, Statesmen, Businessmen, Intellectuals, Historians and generally well read. Their dedication to the concept of Individual Sovereignty didn’t just come from the great Philosophers of their time and in antiquity, those conclusions were bolstered by Biblical Teachings, i.e., 1 Samuel 8, Gen 5:1,2, Gen 9:1 – 6 and at least 30 more verses in the Old and New Testaments which describe God as Sovereign over the entire Universe, over Time, Eternity, Creatures, Mankind, Land, Sea, Air, Space and beyond and his creating us in his image and giving us dominion over the earth.
Adam given all authority:
As we are made in his Image, and based on decrees in these verses, he has made us also Sovereigns over the Earth and surely over ourselves having created us with Free Will, Intellect and a mandate to subdue the earth. Logically, only a Sovereign could wield that kind of power. This begins with God’s command to Adam, Gen 1:26 – 28. While Adam’s sin lost him the luxury of Eden, his responsibilities to the earth and creatures, remained along with a newly “inherited” list of toil. Those responsibilities were passed down through his lineage until this very day and are laid upon all of us.
By whatever means a government assumes power, we are also bound
to obey that government per Romans 13. However, the catch for us in the United
States, is that the Constitution identifies us as the Sovereign having
delegated certain authority to the several individuals, we vote for to carry
out our desires. As such we have the responsibility of Supervision and
Stewardship. That generally comes to us in the form of the Vote. Leaning on the
submissive parts of Romans 13 exclusively will not save us from divine
chastisement when this government eventually seeks to overstep its authority
and to enslave us. We will be held accountable as the Sovereign as well.
Whether someone thinks this is right or wrong is not an issue
when you understand that as American Citizens, we have inherited not only the milk
and honey but the responsibilities of husbandry as well. The only legitimate
way to get released from it is to renounce our citizenship and to seek domicile
in a nation more suited to our personal vision of the government/subject contract
as did the Israelites when they demanded a King.
Israelites demand a King:
The Bible provides us with many things not the least of which are examples of how to fail. The Old Testament/Tanakh is replete with examples of failure and the cost of failure and none more striking than the story in 1 Samuel 8 where the Israelites demand of Samuel in his old age to choose someone to be their King and to lord over them. Until that moment they had enjoyed autonomy and a direct relationship with God. But now, fear, slothfulness, lack of industriousness, lack of faith set them on a path for the first time, to be subjects of a King who would stand between them and God and at whose feet they would lay their autonomy, tribute, freedom and Individual Sovereignty.
The Israelites never recovered from that decision. They suffered at the hands of ruthless leaders, godless men, incursions, slavery, punishment, hardship, the loss of two Temples, enslavement to the Pharisees, Sanhedrin, Romans, Byzantines. From the 7th century to the 11th, the Moslem horde had control with a bit of a respite because of the efforts of the first Crusade, from 1099 – 1187 after which Saladin mounted an assault and reclaimed the land for Islam. It remained in Moslem control until WW I with the defeat of the Ottomans (Turkish Muslim Empire) and control was handed to Britain which they maintained until 14 May 1948 when the UN agreed to establish a sovereign Jewish state of Israel. Since that time they have been under siege both diplomatically and kinetically and I suspect will remain so.
None of this was lost on the well educated Founders who along with the aforementioned Philosophers hypothesized a correct return to the divinely decreed, natural order of authority and the responsibility it demands, ie, God, Family, Society, Self – in that order but with one acknowledgment of something that had been abandoned all of those millennia before, that God gave dominion to and sovereignty over to Man, the Earth and all that man would grow, cultivate, build, rear, create, including family. Government was an inevitability at this point but not in the vision of kingdoms and religious centric principalities. Government is made possible even essential by the Will of those Sovereign Individuals to do that which they demand and with the limited authority delegated to it, by them.
Delegation versus Surrender:
When you couple that with the conclusions of the great Philosopher’s, it is clear why the Founders drew up the Bill of Rights with no ambiguity and with such forceful language. It’s because they were convinced and duty bound to ensure their future generations could not have their Freedom and their Sovereignty taken away. The only way their autonomy and inherent Sovereign characteristics could be curtailed or expunged is by willful surrender or failure to remain vigilant or to engage proper custodial stewardship. The entire Constitution delineates the Power of the Sovereign Citizen, the duties and responsibilities of chosen/elected Representatives of and by the Sovereign in this regard and especially their limitations.
The intent of the Constitution is to describe the enactment of efficacious Legislation, to protect the Nation and the Sovereign Citizen from external and internal threats all while defending, upholding and keeping within the parameters of the Constitution which includes, firstly, the Bill of Rights/the Sovereign’s philosophical limbs because it is ludicrous to envision any Sovereign as being denied those appendages which make him whole and allow him at the very least to engage his Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (see: https://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-immutable-right-left-has-challenged.html)
Another Right that convinced the Founders to separate over was the concept of private property ownership. Up until that point, every bit of land was property of the Crown and no one was secure in their homes as the Crown could take their homes at will. Since that time we have crept rapidly back to that time before with the adoption of Eminent Domain, Property Taxes, Inheritance Taxes, an endless list of regulations, permitting, inspections, ad nauseum all for the benefit of the “collective” which are ways of saying; “You don’t own that – we do.”.
How this happened is exactly how the Israelites lost their autonomy, freedom and Individual Sovereignty, succumbing to base urges; fear, slothfulness, greed, jealousy, covetousness, lack of industriousness. They see others having something they want and spend their valuable, fleeting time trying to steal it under the guise of human rights or equitable redistribution.
Mamdani, Omar, AOC, Sanders, Pressly, Tlaib, Omar Fateh, Katie Wilson are not harbingers, they are inevitabilities in a United States Society which eagerly sold its collective soul in the name of inclusiveness and fairness; fast food, MacDonalds style indoctrination disguised as universally necessary education complete with it’s participation trophy, Parchment. These Marxists weren’t miracled into office, they were eagerly sought after by three generations of people eager to make the Israelite’s deal with the Devil; swapping Sovereignty for the promise of a government hovel and three bowls of gruel. Mamdani was caught musing the elimination of private property ownership which Katie Wilson in Seattle also champions.
Mamdani, the Shiite, Twelver (in the image of the Iranian Mullahs), Marxist whose chosen religious sect and political ideology are in direct conflict with Constitutional philosophy was voted in by three Leftist, spoiled, self-interested, jealous, hate-filled generations; trained in Marxist infiltrated schools where equitable redistribution/theft is taught instead of mathematics and reading, divisive parsing of society into subsets rather than history, slothful entitlement rather than helping them discover their unique personal strengths, gifting and talents and how to nurture and exploit them for personal gain and societal benefit not to mention personal satisfaction, sense of accomplishment and completion.
Sovereign Responsibility:
One of the very few truisms in the Marvel series comes from the Spiderman movies; “with great power comes great responsibility”. We simply cannot separate our Divinely bestowed gift of Sovereignty from the responsibility of Delegation, Supervision, Stewardship, Training our children in the same, Willingness to defend it, Seeking our natural talents and those of our children and guiding them in that specific direction rather than abdicating in favor of those whose intent is indoctrination rather than education; to simply dictate to them what they should believe as opposed to fostering critical thinking, questioning, and independent decision-making skills.
The road back to our Founding vision is uncertain. At the very least it will be painful and may well see a prelude of our own wilderness experience, filled with deprivation, hunger, sickness, heavy handed government and a bloody fight to regain what these generations and three generations of slothful parenting, Marxist insinuation in schools and a stewardship failure of the Sovereign’s have wrought.
Semper Fidelis;
John Bernard
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