What if the government rejects the Constitution<\/a>?\u201d You have ceased to live in a free or democratic country. Your rights are now conceived of by our Ruling Classes as generously granted by them, and most emphatically not originating from the hand of God.<\/p>\nThe question is: Will we stand for it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the President has granted himself the power to indefinitely detain and murder citizens on the basis of his omnipotent and godlike will alone, we have long passed the time for asking \u201cWhat if the government rejects the Constitution?\u201d You have ceased to live in a free or democratic country. Your rights are now conceived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-34731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics-and-other-social-diseases"],"yoast_head":"\n
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