Cal Thomas: Power back to the people
by Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency
Apr 27, 2021
2 minutes
“Power to the People” was a chant used by anti-war and civil rights protesters in the ’60s. John Lennon wrote a song with that title in 1971. The idea flowed from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution which begins, “We the people.”
The concept behind that phrase was that the people, not the government, are sovereign and the government’s power is
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