Sovereign

I just watched a Newt Gingrich clip of American Exceptionalism. He opines that America is exceptional, not because we are bigger, stronger or richer than anyone else. We are exceptional because we regard our citizens as equal, as endowed with natural rights that make them, not the government sovereign. The people loan power to the government, not the other way around.

When government gets too big, loses it way, or turns despotic, these people have a right, nay a duty, to rise up, overthrown their tyrannical masters, and take the country back.

The people are sovereign.