Power to the People

The Constitution is a document that is built on the notion that government get its power from the people. In other words, you, me, all the citizens of the United States, allow the government to have certain powers. Power inherently rests with the people. That's the whole point of the U.S. system of democracy.

But if the people do not assert their power or do allow themselves to become complacement, there will be those who seek to seize power- and that my friends, is where we find ourselves today.

Think about it like this: it is universally accepted that money = power, yes? If you gave somebody $1,000 to hold on to for safe keeping, would you allow them to do whatever they wanted with it without your input? Of course not. You wouldn't give somebody your money to care of and not pay attention. So if money = power, we can say you wouldn't give somebody your power and not pay attention. At least in theory, because most people don't pay attention to how government is using their power. (By this same principle, over-taxing is not good. However governments exist for a reason, and thus everyone needs to contribute for the greater good of society.)

We now have a virtural one-party government: the Republican Party. The GOP's conservative crew runs the Presidency, Supreme Court, and both chambers of Congress. Thomas Jefferson (yeah he owned slaves too) once said that the price of democracy is eternal vigilance, which basically means that we can live in a free society, but we gotta watch our backs to make sure the government doesn't try to jack more than the limited power it's been granted.