THE PEOPLE ARE PRIMAL AND PRIMARY

In the past, certain states have bitterly lamented and bewailed their loss of "states' rights," to the federal government, while failing to acknowledge their citizens' loss of their "individual rights" to both forms of government. How curious! Ceded individual rights are the building blocks of both forms of government and of each government's raison d'etre, and revenue base. The people are always primal and primary; a fact often lost on politicians.