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Actually, IMHO, it is simple. We the people are the final check to government. Regardless what congress does, regardless of what the executive branch does, regardless of the supreme court, we the people are the final authorities.
It could be possible that tomorrow the Reichstag can be burnt down and that the party in power can assume control of the country. (not likely though). The power to resist and maintain control rest in the hands of the people. The trust in freedom is NOT the government, it is the people.
Out preamble affirms this:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Notice it is not the government of the US............. It is the people.
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