Introduction
Footnotes from The Forgotten Realm.
1
More explanation of this term We the People is forthcoming in chapter 1, “The Realm of Civil Government and Dual Citizenship.” For the sake of not opening a grammatical can of worms, I have chosen not to change the form We the People to Us the People when the sentence structure would otherwise require it.
2
In this book, the term local government means city, county-equivalent, and special district governments.
3
Although written in shorthand as Constitution or U.S. Constitution, the document’s full, official name is the Constitution of the United States.
4
This quote is often attributed to Francis Bacon and reads in a parenthetical statement as such: “(for knowledge itself is a power whereby he knoweth).” Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition with a Life of the Author by Basil Montagu, vol. 1, comp. Basil Montagu (Philadelphia, PA: Carey & Hart, 1852), 71.