Posts tagged “sovereignty”

Culture Part 2

Armies take territory. Culture takes people, and it keeps them long after armies go home. […]

Culture Part 1

Culture is what people do when no one is telling them what to do. Law can be written in an afternoon and repealed in another. Culture takes generations to grow and generations to lose, and it decides, long before any […]

Personal Sovereignty

[Splitting the Atom of Sovereignty](/posts/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](/posts/we-the-people) then asked what that root actually is — who counts as "We," and […]