“The largest measure available…
“The largest measure available to us is how many people left after the constitution was adopted. Tell me, John how many of them left after the constitution was adopted? I’m willing to bet that the number was small enough that you can’t tell us. You would think that if so many disagreed with the concepts embodied in the constitution that they would have voted with their feet.”
O.K., great. Here’s a new constitution. It says, “We the people of North America, do hereby proclaim Rad Geek as the sole Emperor of all North America. He has the power of life and death over everyone in North America and you have to do everything he says.” I’m going to put this constitution up to a vote. Who gets to vote on it? I do. I hereby vote in favor of this constitution. Voila, I am now Emperor of North America by unanimous consent.
Now let’s see how many people leave North America. Hell, I’ll give them a month before my coronation to get packing. If they don’t, then that entails that they are tacitly accepting Our Imperial reign over them, right?