Several thousand people had assembled in the park for the annual Fourth of July celebration. The state’s senior U. S. senator opened the ceremonies. He said, “I am proud and pleased to be a citizen of the United States of America and of this great state. But, before I am a citizen of either state or country, I, like all of you, am a human being. Our humanity precedes our citizenship. Government exists only by the will and consent of the people. The people control the government. Any control by the government of the people occurs because the people have granted permission for that control.” Does the senator’s analysis conform to the governmental structure created by the framers of the Constitution?