Sovereigns IV

 

You’ll Be Back

You'll be back like before
I will fight the fight and win the war
For your love, for your praise
And I'll love you till my dying days
When you're gone, I'll go mad
So don't throw away this thing we had
'Cause when push comes to shove
I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love

We WON'T be back.

When King George III sings the above in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, he is speaking as the sovereign of the colonies in America, whose people were revolting to eventually become their own sovereign as enshrined in the US Constitution. The role of a sovereign is to serve their subjects, NOT to rule their subjects.

Sovereigns are often chosen by dominance, which is why we have coups, revolutions, wars, etc. When sovereigns are chosen by succession, they are heirs of the previous sovereign. If that sovereign has no heir, then war can result when the sovereign dies, e.g., the War of Spanish Succession; the War of Austrian Succession; the Carlist Wars, etc. It is also why when there is a coup or revolution it often involves the death of the old sovereign and their heirs, e.g., the deaths of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution, the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution, to ensure that old sovereign can not return.

To promote peace and to ensure that the sovereign is a servant, not a ruler, of their subjects, the US Constitution took great pains to make it clear that the sovereign IS the People. Constitutional officers serve their subjects, they do NOT rule their subjects. Persons who confuse the fact that the People are the sovereign and Constitutional officers are merely servants of the sovereign, and are not the sovereign, are wrong and are to be pitied. The United States has chosen the path of peace. We WON'T be back.