THE STRUCTURE OF POWER IN THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC A Statement of First Principles Organized so that no clause depends on interpretation, and no term is left undefined. --- PREAMBLE This document states the structure of power in the United States of America. It does not argue. It does not persuade. It describes — in plain language, in the only order the facts allow — where power comes from, who holds it, how it moves, what limits it, what cannot be transferred, and where it returns. Every statement below follows from one fact, stated here at the outset and never departed from again: The people are sovereign. Every government in this nation is their creation. Nothing in this document, or in the nation it describes, exists apart from that fact. --- ARTICLE I — THE SOURCE Where All Power Originates 1. All power in this nation originates with the people. Not with the government. Not with any office. Not with any institution. Not with any document. The people. This is ...