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[tastyfreeze]

In most countries people are subjects of the government. In the US the people are sovereign. The government doesn't tell us what our rights are.

[robertlagrant → tastyfreeze]

Sure, no. The cop with a gun pointed at you shouts your rights at you; rights which the government wrote down.

In all seriousness though, I've no idea what this means in any practical sense. I don't know what being a subject of a government is, not how it compares to being a sovereign.