Supercitizens will control and keep decentralized power in two ways.
The first, negative way is that each adult supercitizen, an armed, prosperous, virtuous, independent-thinking, politically astute, profit-making, individual-living, individuating anarchist and heavily involved in the political process of running his village, canton, state and federal government, is able to wield significant but limited personal and political power as an engaged, formidable activist in the American constitutional republic in which he lives and rules, whereby he and the other citizens, reach a private, online agreement on how the government should proceed, and then each lobbies his President and legislators, state and federal, ordering them how to vote, not vote, what and how to legislate, and when to refrain from legislating.
When society is ruled by such robust but cooperating citizens, political, economic, civil and communal power are decentralized and shared with a rough, approximate and governmentally unregulated balance of power about equally distributed amongst the voters. Where power is not concentrated, it cannot easily turn corrupt or corrupt its wielder, and thus because all these supercitizens wield real power, they cancel each other out, and keep power distributed through out the community, and thus harmless in effect.
The second and positive way that each adult supercitizen wields power is that God gave each of us a natural and unalienable right to wield our share of power as individuators as we become all that we can be while chasing after life, liberty, property and personal happiness.
Each supercitizens will require the constitutional republic and its federal structure to guarantee his liberties while restraining federal power-wielders from so growing government and amassing sickening power to themselves so that they can establish tyranny over the people, stealing from them their share of power that is theirs as citizens to enjoy, exercise and administer in their private sphere as they deem wise and prudent to undertake.
These supercitizens will agree that, as part of their social contract, to obey the golden rule to treat other supercitizens as they wish to be treated. As ethical egoists, each will do his own thing and wield his power while accepting and recognizing that the inevitable disputes and collisions arising from neighboring supercitizens bumping up against each other--that such disputes will be resolved peaceably through negotiation and compromise worked out between the combatants.
When a supercitizen loves himself, he accepts that love of neighbor is a secondary moral motive for him, but it is one that must be obeyed for his sake, for the neighbor's sake and for the preservation of the common good. All supercitizens agree to resolve disputes in such a way as to allow common sense, good faith bargaining, fair play, honesty, reasonableness, graciousness to satisfy both parties, with their solemn pledge to honor solutions reached.
In this way the spontaneous order that keeps the economy ticking and expanding, that allows all to enjoy their power, resources and property without depriving a neighbor of her justly deserved power and rights as a part of a community and country grounded in ordered liberty are preserved and power relationships remain healthy, uncorrupted and dispersed through out a free society of happy well-off people.
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