Delta4Embassy
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Until a government is founded, laws made and enforced etc. you have a group of people working together for the common good. But for all intents and purposes (and the sake of illustraiton) no meaningful laws of rules. People do whatever doesn't get themselves killed by the others. So there's some basic morals and commonsense things, but nothing written in stone as it were.
So who gives those who come together to form a new government the authority to do that? Did our Founders have formal or proper authority to tell the King to take a flying leap? No. So if they had no authority how can they demand those who come under their new government respect and obey the new government?
We have laws and a US government now. But if it was founded criminally, isn't it consistent that laws are optional? What if you wanted to follow Britain's laws instead? What if you wanted no laws? Practical problems of anarchy aside, in principal only, isn't the US government invalid as its' founding was unauthorized to begin with?
So who gives those who come together to form a new government the authority to do that? Did our Founders have formal or proper authority to tell the King to take a flying leap? No. So if they had no authority how can they demand those who come under their new government respect and obey the new government?
We have laws and a US government now. But if it was founded criminally, isn't it consistent that laws are optional? What if you wanted to follow Britain's laws instead? What if you wanted no laws? Practical problems of anarchy aside, in principal only, isn't the US government invalid as its' founding was unauthorized to begin with?