There is another great constitutional authority, the fountain head of American politics --- the Declaration of Independance --- of which the first clause bears directly on this question:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of people to alter, or abolish it.
With great saddness, the Destruction of these United States has arrived. Responsibility lies with those Reps. in Washington DC.