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, […]
[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 […]