An introduction to "Who We Are"

In the blog entry titled "Now there are eleven", I prefaced Michael Boldin's piece with some commentary on the purpose, and place, federal and state government hold relative to the people.  What I like to call who's who in the zoo (If you think back to your last reading of "Animal Farm", you'll know why I like the "who's who in the zoo" thing).

It seems that each time I advance the idea that the people are NOT subordinate to the states, and that the states are NOT subordinate to the federal government, the idea is almost universally rejected.  Really!  Most Americans have subscribed to the "reality" advanced by the media and the public schools - a reality where the federal government is supreme, the states subordinate subdivisions of this supremacy, and the American people are each individually known to, and answerable to, the aforementioned supremacy.  That is, of course, complete nonsense.