The desire to rule the world has been a part of the human experience throughout recorded history. Alexander the Great led Greece to dominance of the known world, only to become the victim of Rome's quest for world dominance. The Roman Empire, built on bloody battlefields across the land, was swallowed up by the Holy Roman Empire, built on the fear and hopes of helpless people.
History is a record of the competition for global dominance.
In every age, there has always been a force somewhere, conniving to conquer the world with ideas clothed in promises imposed by military might. The competition is still underway. The key players change from time to time, as do the words that describe the various battlefields, but the competing ideas remain the same. One of the competitors is the idea that people are born free, totally free and sovereign, and choose to surrender specified freedoms to a limited government to achieve mutual benefits. The other competitor is the idea that government must be sovereign in order to distribute benefits equitably and to manage the activities of people to protect them from one another.