things tend to go back to the people only in revolution or collapse(by default).
“I will disagree with you a little, it is not “or”. They usually come together. I will cite the demise of the USSR as an example. Many satellite countries were ignoring the demands of the centralized USSR before the collapse came.”
I don’t dispute that it could be an and/or situation. The point is reclamation of rights tends not to happen within a political system.
My suggestion in strategy was in fact anther permutation where people ignore & resist the illegitimate acts of the central authority while fighting politically to get that authority to recognize what is already largely the case.
There are many successful examples of this kind of reclamation in American history ranging from the obbtition to the national bank in the early 1800’s to the on going “medical pot” fight. The tools of this process is called nullification and rarely(when circumstances demand and permit) interposition.
This is a brilliant strategy invented by our founding fathers in response to the then supposed(and shortly thereafter realized) senereo of the Federal Reverent(and its hand picked employees in black robes) usurping powers from the people and their states.
But this strategy takes time and precistants to implement.