Are individuals empowered and do they understand their human rights

Answer:

Well under the Articles of Confederation, the People of each state had the right to hold a vote in state convention, secede from the Union entirely, and possibly join with other states to form a whole new Union.

However for some reason under the Constitution, doing this very same thing again is supposedly “rebellion,” and is grounds for the state to be militarily invaded by the federal armed forces, and militia/personnel from all the other states.

So apparently, the federal government has to feel like amending the Constitution— or a supermajority of the state legislatures that were elected by the same people; and this is all no matter what the People of any individual state think; they can pretty much go screw themselves under this “official” version of history.

But still, we’re to believe they all ratified the Constitution with this intent, walking into it with eyes wide shut.

Of course the reality is that they never did: i.e. each state remained a sovereign nation as before ,supremely ruled by its respective People; the Constitution simply formed another federal republic among their sovereign nations, and delegated powers to it as before- they were just a little different, but each state was still a sovereign nation under its respective People.

But the Lincoln government re-wrote history to suppress this fact by imperial coup of force and censorship, claiming that the Founding Fathers had created a single sovereign nation, not 13— but that the 13 states were always simply mere parts of this nation called “the Union,” and so therefore he (Lincoln) had the national authority to make Total War on any state that tried to secede (which, again, he claimed had never happened before, but that the Constitution simply “matured” the “Union”).

And when this error was finally admitted by historians- i.e. that the states truly were sovereign nations under the Articles of Confederation— they simply changed their story, and said that the Constitution made them parts of a single nation… and that the Peoples of the nationally sovereign states, supposedly walked into that deal with eyes wide shut.

And that, my friends, is what we are seriously being told is the way it really happened.

So my answer to this question: i.e. “Are individuals empowered and do they understand when their rights are being violated?”

My answer would be a pretty obvious “NO.”