Armed militias roam the countryside, threatening to shoot government agents.
Citizens gather to demand the overthrow of the present governmental structure.
The highest officials in the land earnestly debate the nature and locus of government authority. It may as well be July 4, 1775. The militia, to whom the Republican Party has been remarkably solicitous even after the Oklahoma City slaughter, recognizes no government authority above the local sheriff. The Articles of Confederation was the Constitution of the Revolution. It loosely bound together the thirteen colonies as a confederation of sovereign states.