There is no monopoly on knowledge. Yet defenders of the status quo suppress change as if one existed, and they alone possessed it. Here is what we know. The state is not the nation. The people are the nation.
Sovereignty belongs to the people.
The state is a tool for the people which they instruct through free elections. These truths are held to be self-evident. They do not have to be authorized, approved, regulated or decreed by the state. They are true even if there is no state. The state must be less concerned about controlling the people, and more concerned about, defending the inherent rights of the people to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.