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"We the people" are only the ones who matter. Constitutional law makes it so. American governance is autonomous, detached, in a realm of its own, and beholden solely to privilege.
Regardless of constitutional or statute laws, US governments are largely freelancing. Checks and balances are absent. Officials do what they please. Constraints don't obligate or bind them. Two-party rule conceals institutionalized money power dominance.
Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, promoting the general welfare, equity and justice are illusory now and from inception. Rhetoric conceals reality. It's always been that way.
Today it's worse than ever. Tyranny threatens. Anyone challenging institutionalized power is vulnerable. Presidents always flirted with dictatorial powers.
Since George Bush, flirtation ended. Obama exceeded his worst extremism. He heads America's version of murder incorporated. He placed himself atop a system deciding who lives or dies.
Earlier he institutionalized tyranny. He empowered himself to choose who's free or imprisoned. He appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner. Despotism is official US policy.
Diktat authority runs things. Moral or legal considerations don't matter. What he, and those behind the scenes pulling the strings, say goes. It's always been that way, but today more than ever.
The Constitutional law affirms it. Article II, Section 1 says:
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