I'm drawing inspiration from what happened during the English Civil War. For those who don't know (and apparently this isn't taught much anywhere I know of) in 1642 Oliver Cromwell led a revolution against King Charles I. He argued that the king was no king because a king cannot rule unrighteously, and instead that the people had the right to correct course when such a king assumed the title. Eventually, King Charles was executed for treason against England, and the parliament was put in power. When Oliver Cromwell was dissatisfied with parliament's corruption, he started a dictatorship.

The key elements are that no person has a right to rule over any other, except God gives them such a right. In addition to this, such a person must rule according to the directions God has given us, or he loses his right to rule. The people (as a whole) determine whether they will assent to God's laws and God's rulers, and are responsible for correcting course when things go wrongly.

I argue that the federal government has failed to meet and exceeded the requirements of the Constitution of the United States. As such, the federal government has lost all right to "rule" (which right it never had in the first place!) By violating the constitution by both failing to meet its requirements and exceeding the limits placed thereon, it has nullified itself. We, the people, can now see for ourselves not only how corrupt the federal government is, but how it had no regard, whatsoever, for the constitution or even the opinion of the people or the states on this matter.

Furthermore, the states themselves are called into question, and have jeopardized their "right" to "rule". Each of the states is formed by a constitution and none of them have met the requirements of it, like the federal government, having not met the requirements and exceeded the limits.

The question is no longer whether the government has a "right" to be the government -- it never did and it never will. This is because we, the people, created government and put ourselves as its head. We dictated to the government what role it should play, what it should do and specifically what it should not do. The question isn't even whether the governments are in accordance with the constitutions that created them, because it is obvious they are not and never will be. No amount of petitioning for a redress of grievances will ever cause the governments to right themselves.

What then? With no governments, the power to govern falls back to the shoulders of the people. The people have the right to re-form government according to our desire. See the Declaration of Independence, which explicitly states this. Thus, it is up to the people to choose what form of government we would like, if any, and how that government should be constituted.

This is the key question I am focusing on here: How do we reconstitute the government? I think there are a few ways.

I can only think of one reasonable way to do this.

The first step is to formally disband the government. This means, most importantly, disbanding the means by which government can do its business, its police and military. However, rather than abandon these things, they should be passed on to the militia, which is made up of every able-bodied adult male. Each area of the United States will need to form a militia and appoint officers and such by election. And then these militias will need to assume control over all of the assets of the United States governments, and take on all the responsibilities of it, such as securing the border and maintaining law and order.

I used to think that the military could do this, but it appears that the military is incapable of doing so as it is just as corrupt as the governments.

We already have laws and guidelines written for how the militia should behave, and we have enough people who have served in the military that we should have no problem finding good people to serve as officers and such.

If the governments and militaries resist, there may be the necessity of fighting, but I believe this is not necessary. The militia outnumbers the military by a large factor. There are WAY more able-bodied retired military than there are people in the military, and the people in the military today are not the best, brightest, or most loyal.

I believe that President Trump orchestrated the war in Ukraine SPECIFICALLY to deplete the military of resources such that it would be unthinkable to resist the militias rising up to take control. Furthermore, recruitment is way down, and the few remaining people in the military are not loyal to it or the government, and there would be little reason for them to put their lives on the line against the people.

The necessary element, however, is for able-bodied men across the country to organize themselves, appoint their own officers, and indicate their willingness to shut down the government. This is why we need a Great Awakening, so that when your neighbor comes to your house and asks you to muster, you understand why it needs to be so.

Again, if we can do this quickly and with overwhelming numbers, there will be no need to fight at all. The transition should be quick and peaceful.

Once the transition happens, the next step is to write constitutions and hold legitimate elections. Since each militia is local to its areas, naturally, they have the right to administer any elections, any way they deem fit. The first elections will be to send delegates to a governing body such as a parliament for each state. But it is very clear that we'll need a period of time when the militias run everything similar to a military occupation, and then a time when we have a legitimate elected body that can run things.

With governing bodies established, the next big order of business is to hold constitutional conventions and then hold elections on whether to adopt the constitutions. I imagine that most people would be fine using the original constitutions, maybe with or without amendments, but likely a lot of us are going to ask that things be put in to further limit government. The experiment of the federal government was an experiment of whether we can trust a single body to represent federated states, or whether that would just lead to an empire, and I think it's clear that we went too far and granted too many powers to the federal government.

Only when we have all the states fully constituted, and the constitutions adopted, can we begin thinking about a federal government again.

This is, in short, what needs to happen if we can no longer trust the federal and state governments to be constrained by their constitutions. There is a chance that somehow we hold legitimate elections and the constitutions are enforced without a complete reset, but I doubt that such a thing is possible. If 2024 is half as corrupt as 2020, we are at the end anyway, as no one will ever trust elections ever again until there is a complete reset.