Quote Originally Posted by Ed Ward MD
"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation." James Madison (1751-1836)

The Historical Background Constitution answers all.

T.R. E!War!
I agree. It ought not b questioned. But it has been questioned. That government ceased to exist in 1861. It now exists only in theory.
The United states is run by as RaLPH nADER SAYS, 'a single political party with 2 wings' That so called republican government is no different the the Chinese communist party. It would be like if the chinese decide to make the a party and the b party, but they have to vote for people with communist party membership. What a democracy.