Posts tagged “tocqueville”

We The People

Three words carry the entire weight of the American constitutional order, and none of the three does any defining. "We the People" names a sovereign without ever saying who belongs to it — not a list, not a franchise requirement, […]

Personal Sovereignty

Splitting the Atom of Sovereignty described the American design as three layers of political authority, all tracing back to one root: the people themselves. We the People then asked what that root actually is — who counts as "We," and […]