Everyone at some time or other looks for buried treasure without much luck. In this blog, we’re going to look for buried treasure in our American political system. The motivation that will set us digging are the flashes of light that do arise from it sometimes even though it is mostly used by selfish people to grab power for themselves. One fact should set us digging: none of us, not one American, will ever live in a fully sovereign state. This sets us radically apart from all the other political treasure-seekers in the world. They all have somewhere in some form a fully sovereign government that can order them to do whatever it wants them to do. We don’t.