SURPRISE! AMERICA DOES HAVE A KING (Who is the king in America?)

Who is the king in America?

Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defined “king” as: “King, n. 1. the chief or sovereign of a nation; a man invested with supreme authority over a nation, tribe or country; a monarch. kings are absolute.”

Romans 13:1 “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.”

Signer of the Constitution Gouverneur Morris stated: “This magistrate is not the king. the people are the king.”

John Jay, the First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote in Chisholm v. Georgia, 1793: “The people are the sovereign of this country.”

Signer of Constitution James Wilson stated at the Pennsylvania Convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution: “Sovereignty resides in the people; they have not parted with it.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Johnson, 1823: “But the Chief Justice says, ‘there must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.’ True, there must. … The ultimate arbiter is the people.”

James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 46, 1788: “The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone.”

Abraham Lincoln stated in a debate with Stephen Douglas: “The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts.”

President Andrew Jackson wrote to William B. Lewis, Aug. 19, 1841: “The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.”

President James K. Polk stated Dec. 7, 1847: “The people are the only sovereigns recognized by our Constitution. … The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a ‘favored few’ are born to rule and that the mass of mankind must be governed by force.”

President Grover Cleveland stated of the United States, July 13, 1887: “The sovereignty of sixty millions of free people, is … the working out … of the divine right of man to govern himself and a manifestation of God’s plan concerning the human race.”

General Omar Bradley stated in 1948: “In the United States it is the people who are sovereign. … The government is theirs to speak their voice and to voice their will.”

President Gerald Ford stated at Southern Methodist University, Sept. 13, 1975: “Never forget that in America our sovereign is the citizen. … The state is a servant of the individual. It must never become an anonymous monstrosity that masters everyone.”

Ronald Reagan opened the John Ashbrook Center in 1983, stating of America’s founders: “The Founding Fathers understood that only by making government the servant, not the master, only by positing sovereignty in the people and not the state can we hope to protect freedom.”

The Pledge of Allegiance is to the flag of the United States of America and “To the republic for which it stand.” A republic is where the people rule rule through individuals they chose to represent them. When someone steps on the flag, what they are saying is that they no longer want to be the king. they no longer want to rule. They no longer want to determine the fate of their lives. They want someone else rule over them.

If the people are the king in America, who are the counselors to the king? In 374 A.D., the Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I went to church in Milan, Italy, where the pastor was the Bishop St. Ambrose. Imagine what it must have been like to be Bishop St. Ambrose with the Emperor sitting in your church pew. Yet that is exactly what is the case in America.