Our people have been fighting (not always successfully, but fighting nonetheless) and dying to make this idea a reality for hundreds of years - even before the Founders took this principle and used it as a foundation to build the United States of America upon.

The following words were spoken by John Wildman in 1647 (when the leaders of the successful English Civil War started going full Mike Pence and selling out the soldiers who had fought it) and seem just as relevant today:

*“Our case is to be considered thus: that we have been under slavery; that's acknowledged by all; our very laws were made by our conquerors. And whereas it's spoken much of chronicles, I conceive there is no credit to be given to any of them: and the reason is because those that were our lords and made us their vassals would suffer nothing else to be chronicled.

We are now engaged for our freedom. That's the end of parliaments: not to constitute what is already established but to act according to the just rules of government. Every person in England has as clear a right to elect his representative as the greatest person in England. I conceive that's the undeniable maxim of government: that all government is in the free consent of the people. If so, then upon that account there is no person that is under a just government — or has justly his own — unless he by his own free consent be put under that government. This he cannot be unless he be consenting to it; and therefore, according to this maxim, there is never a person in England but ought to have a voice in elections. If such as that gentleman says be true, there are no laws that in this strictness and rigour of justice any man is bound to that are not made by those whom he does consent to. And therefore I should humbly move that if the question be stated in a way which would soonest bring things to an issue, it might rather be thus: whether any person can justly be bound by law, who does not give his consent that such persons shall make laws for him?”*

We must NEVER give up on this principle that the law only binds us so long as it is being created and enforced by those whom we have consented to. There is no virtue in being a ‘law-abiding citizen’ once you know you are being governed by unelected tyrants. They relieved you of any moral obligation to blindly follow the law as soon as they decided to disenfranchise you (and in fact they disenfranchised every American, regardless of who they voted for) in order to steal power. The real virtue is in doing whatever is necessary to reinstate government by consent.