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# Sovereignty is being destroyed
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/sovereignty-is-being-destroyed-editor/
- Published: 2008-03-31T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T19:05:24.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Richard and Gloria Hampton Sylmar*

The United States was created by the 13 individual states that existed in 1789\. They established a federal government with limited powers and very few duties. Each state was to remain independent in most areas.

The people could control federal spending because they elected the members of the U.S. House of Representatives where all money bills must originate. The state legislatures could control federal interference because they elected the members of the U.S. Senate. In 1913, 36 states passed the 17th Amendment to allow voters to directly elect their U.S. Senators.

Since then, the federal government has usurped many powers of the states. We are rapidly becoming a police state. The President is now allowing warrantless seizes and searches, torture, and many other unconstitutional activities. He also is suspending habeas corpus, our right to face criminal accusations in a court of law.

The feds also plan to merge the United States with Mexico and Canada into a sovereignty-destroying regional government with open borders called the North American Union (NAU) by 2010\. Go to www.the-newamerican.com for NAU details. Americans need to demand that the feds obey our Constitution now, or we soon will be governed by officials we did not elect, just like the European Union is today.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 31, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/033108.pdf?ref=smdp.com)