A meditation on the undoing of America’s sovereign power

If the form of government

in the United States were an hereditary monarchy, people would more readily understand the nature of the current threat it faces.
Though the word monarchy refers to rule by one individual, every king or queen actually relies upon others to carry out their will. These ministers are like the organs and limbs of the monarch’s political body.  Obviously choosing the right ministers is the practical prerequisite for the survival of the sovereign’s rule. Many an incompetent king has found his rule undone due to his poor choice of counselors or generals. In such an instance, there may come a point when some of them form a cabal to overthrow his rule.  Though every day they still bow and show outward deference to his will, they have already made sure that all the key instruments of executive power are staffed by people they can count on, people who see their future power, status or benefits flowing from the treasonous ministers, and not the king. Though all have gone through the motions and spoken the words that signify their allegiance to him, their purely selfish interest has replaced the root of honor  or piety that should hold them in good faith.
In outward form, the United States of America remains a democratic republic. Sovereign authority reposes in the body of the people of the United States, acting in and through the Constitution that ordained and established its government.  The sovereign is “the people -in-Constitution".
Through periodic elections, this Constitutional sovereign selects the counselors and ministers who are supposed to represent and carry out its will. 
“They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying Peace, peace when there is no peace.”(Jeremiah 6:14)
Thus the prophet anticipated the tragic irony of the supposedly soft and benevolent despotism that is the ultimate aim of those now working to overthrow the Constitutional sovereignty of the American people.