However, the founding fathers did not thing this way, in fact they encouraged it! Just read a portion of the Declaration of Independence:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it . . .it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government."
When you listen to talk radio or even the news, and you hear the "abolishment" clause used, people will back up and state, "Well I am not advocating that," then why even mention it? As I have said, its like a sin to talk about it--that is for those who are weak in their patriotism!
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. As Benjamin Franklin wrote,
"In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns."
The ultimate powers in a society, therefore, rest in the people themselves, and they sould exercise those powers and not to shun away from them, either directly or through representatives, in every way they are competent and that is practicable.
Now just read a few quotes of what the writer of the Declaration of Independence had to say about the right of the people:
"Whenever our affairs go obviously wrong, the good sense of the people will interpose and set them to rights."--Thomas Jefferson
"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitation are removed."--Thomas Jefferson
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion . . . We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?"--Thomas Jefferson
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."--Thomas Jefferson
