The Constitution Would Never Had Been Ratified By States if the states knew that they would lose their sovereignty become subject to the government that they had just created. In the Tenth Amendment the Constitution clearly states that any power and authority that is not specifically delegated to the United States nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states and to the people. In other words, the newly created central government was to the servant to the states and the people and that the people and the states masters. The authors of the Constitution wrote the Constitution to restrain the government and prevent the abuse of power by the government that was created to protect the God given rights of the people. They Framers of the Constitution understood that "Power tends to corrupt and that absolute power corrupts absolutely" They knew that an unrestrained government would inevitably tyrannical. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson asserted that it was the right and the duty of the people to alter or abolish their government when it began to abuse their unalienable rights. Do to our collective apathy we have allowed the servant to become the master. The people have become subjects and their government has become a crime syndicate that abuses the rights of the people while masquerading as a legitimate and lawful government. The Founders warned us that in order to remain free we would need to be virtuous and ever vigilant. They knew that the government that they had created to protect our rights would one day enslave us. They did everything in their power to prevent our current government from taking over. They knew that there would be men in high places that would seek to create an American Empire and that in order to do so they would need to re-write the Constitution. This has been done by a Supreme Court that has enabled the sovereignty of the people to become a distant memory.