Really? Which country would that be, and who's got the deed? To, say, Texas, which has been the "property" of quite a few countries in its time. There's an amusement park I remember called "Six Flags Over Texas." That actually means something. And then there are a few tribes that have their own ideas on these things.

You can't conceive of a society that isn't centrally controlled by a powerful government.

Others can. You start with the people, and work your way up from there, going only as far as necessary.

It's high time this nation was taught who in this system works for who. The government is the goddam guest, not the host.

Everybody's heard the first few sentences of the Declaration of Independence. There's a bit more than that.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.