Is there a single person or document that declares for an absolute certainty the soveriegn right to impose penalties for the laws which govern our Nation? Is It the Constitution, from where does that document deem its authority? Is it the Bill of rights? and where does the ultimate soveriegnty rest.
Answers:
Nope. The laws in our country protect us from absolute authority... there have been a few ammendments added but for the most part, it's all we the people. Not just one person signs a bill around here... The declaration of Independance has multiple signatures on it.
(would someone just tell that to our current President?)
The consititution is the closest thing we have to a "book of rules". Even that was put together and signed by multiple people from 12 different states:
GEO WASHINGTON-- 1st Presidt.
[Signed also by the deputies of twelve States.]
John Langdon
Nicholas Gilman
Geo. Read
Gunning Bedford jun
John Dickinson
Richard Bassett
Jacob Broom
Nathaniel Gorham
Rufus King
James MCHenry
Dan. of St. Thos. Jenifer
Danl. Carroll
Wm. Saml. Johnson
Roger Sherman
Alexander Hamilton
John Blair--
James Madison Jr.
Wil. Livingston
David Brearley.
Wm. Paterson.
Jona. Dayton
Wm. Blount
Richd. Dobbs Spaight.
Hu Williamson
B. Franklin
Thomas Mifflin
Robt. Morris
Geo. Clymer
Thos. FitzSimons
Jared Ingersoll
James Wilson
Gouv Morris
J. Rutledge
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Charles Pinckney
Pierce Butler
William Few
Abr Baldwin
William Jackson, Secretary
The Constitution and the Bill of rights derive their authority from the consent of the governed.
I am freeing men from the burden of freedom which only a few can bear.
-Adolf Hitler
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