Empire in the Blood

If America was an empire in 1787, how much larger an empire is it today?

But calling America an empire and knowing that America is an empire, which indeed it is, does not resolve important questions that affect the lives of those who are ruled. An empire is ruled by a "powerful sovereign or government." How powerful? How far does its rule extend over the lives and activities of its subjects? The rule of American government keeps expanding, over many who dissent from it.

Do these subjects of empire consent to be ruled? Do we Americans consent? By what means?

If the government is powerful, what restrains it? What is to stop a government from gaining inordinate power?

America is still behaving as if it is the empire of yore but the empire is crumbling and we will soon have to adjust to a diminished role in the affairs of others. Michael Rozeff explains.