The 1960's catchphrase, "Power to the People", was often used as an excuse to protest the government.
But what does power mean to you?
Do you have the absolute right to think, decide and act, regarding yourself and your property? Or are you restricted, regulated and prohibited from acting, even when there is no injured party, whose person or property was damaged?
According to the Declaration of Independence, government job #1 is to secure rights and government job #2 is to govern those who consent.
In short, if you haven't given consent, all that awesome power of government was narrowly limited to
securing your right to life, liberty and property ownership (aka private property). That did not mean that the government promised to protect you beforehand. But that it would only act to help secure rights, by imposing punishment upon criminals who trespassed upon you or your property - after the fact.
If you did give consent to be governed, you have waived your inalienable rights to life, liberty and property ownership.
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Case in point - conscription (selective service). Most Americans are unaware that the militia are defined as all able bodied male
citizens, between 17 and 45, and they can be ordered to fight, and die, if necessary, on command of the governor or the commander in chief. Conscription of the militia is definitely a violation of one's liberty, property and life.
Since only those who consent, can be governed, the qualifying term is "citizen".
Most Americans have never been informed that citizenship was and is voluntary. American nationality is a characteristic of birth and parentage. But if U.S. citizenship was IMPOSED at birth, the civic duties of said citizenship would amount to INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE.
(Eyeballs rolling back into head)
Believe it or not, from day one, the American governments admitted that (a) the PEOPLE were sovereign, (b) governments are their servants, but (c) citizens are subjects of government.
Over time, the sovereignty of the American people was erased and the submission of citizenship was substituted. This was compounded by the Socialist Revolution of 1935, via FICA / Social Security Act.
If you're curious, you can delve into the wealth of information about "your consent" to be a socialist subject peon.
But if you want POWER over yourself and your property, you might research into the sovereignty that you surrendered to the government.
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