With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.