Re:EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border
by baddox on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:39PM
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But the government grants itself its power from a de jure perspective as well. How did the government come into power in the first place? By consent of the governed, right? Remember public high school civics class? But wait, who decided what “consent of the governed” means, and exactly what level of consent was required to claim legitimacy? Yep, that was the government itself.
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Re:EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border
by tonyztan on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:52PM
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Well the State governments at the time ratified the Constitution, so the Federal Government didn't grant itself power; the State governments did.
State governments can still take power away by convening a Convention to Amend the Constitution and then ratifying a Constitutional Amendment.