There is no legal theory that establishes the US Constitution as the actual law of the land

This is never discussed because it cannot be established

How does a document I have never agreed to bind me or anyone else for that matter?

I’ll wait while you explain it to me

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It doesn’t bind you. It binds the US federal government. The constitution is a contract that defines government and allows for limited authority to attempt to safeguard the life liberty and property of the people who allow its existence and voluntarily pay tax or vote.

It is the Right of the people to abolish it at any time.

Correct.

Exactly. A bunch of rich old men signed a piece of paper 250 years before you were born, so you have to abide by it. But if you were born a few miles away (*i.e. "another country"), you may be subject to an entirely diffferent set of laws which were also created by a bunch of old men centuries before you were born.

There is only one law. Natural law. The Declaration of Independence was premised on this fact. Then that document was completely ignored just seven years after it's creation, and some of those who ignored it were the signers of the DoI itself.

"Government by the consent of the governed" indeed.

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People need to Read Spooner

That’s because the US constitution was intended to define/restrict the activity of the Federal government and enumerate the limits of its authority. All other rights are reserved for the states/people.

We were born into a culture that had already surrendered. It was the responsibility of citizens to hold government accountable and earlier generations didn’t.

Fed government and the State now enumerate and specify the limits/conditions of our privileges.

“Progressives” always push for more government control and “Conservatives” just offer compromise to the expansion as cover for special interest.

Individually everyone is so busy trying to stay alive in the inflationary death trap. No one has time/resources to coordinate the effort to hold tyranny at bay.

#Bitcoin might fix the coordination problem by helping to align incentives. Self-preservation is a virtue on a Bitcoin standard.

Veja pelo lado bom amigo, você poderia estar sob a constituição do Brasil.

The constitution of no authority