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Importance of the Suleymaniye mosque and Kulliye is unparalleled to ottomans and Istanbul self. The golden age of the Ottoman architecture . also Enes Kaya explained very well in short “Because it was built by The most powerful Sultan of Ottomans and the ruler of that time the Magnificent Süleyman and the builder is the most famous Mimar Sinan which was a Leanordo da Vinci of Turks..”i am not gonna document whole section but give glimpse of suleymaniye mosque and complex importance. and some technological side.Also many architectural innovations of ottoman empire. we are talking about the monument an advanced and newer way to show the “Hagia sofia” yet very different. also a mosque that is engineering : anti earthquake architecture , self sustained ink production, schools, hospitals, academics, charitable services including the public kitchen and many more. and main goal he sought to achieve is improving the interior space of Suleymaniye mosque. Sinan put the bulk of his knowledge in order to provide all the amenities in the prayer hall, it is pretty spacious and well-lit day and night, cooled in summer and winter, well ventilated and perfumed, decorated with the latest styles of glazed ceramics and calligraphy place[1]so imagine the 60,000 sq/m complex build in 9 years.Built on a 60.000 sq/m, the buildings within the complex were arranged in a U shape, with the mosque in the middle. The complex is a collection of buildings containing a mosque, four madrasahs, a medical school, darülhadis ,a hospital, darülkurra, a primary school, mülazım , rooms, a hospice kitchen, a restaurant, an inn, a bathhouse, rooms, shrines and numerous bazaars with lots of stores.Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi wrote that the whole complex had 1,000 domes and hosted 3,000 people who served there.[2]1- Mausoleum of Suleiman the Magnificent2- Mausoleum of Hurrem sultanred square building area and couple of other graveyards.3- Dârülkurrâ : Quran reading training, and hazier place also tomb-keeper's room.4-DÂRÜLHADİS : school of traditions of the prophet5- Hamam : Suleymaniye bathhouse6- Rabi (4th) Madrassa(school)7- Salis (3rd) Madrassa(school)behind that 4th and 3rd school not on photo is a mulazim Madrassa(newly initiated scholar-bureaucrat)8- Tabhane refers to an institution in Ottoman times, which functioned as a house of rest. Poor, sick, tired, unemployed, hungry. kervansaray.9- imarethane:soup-kitchen place were students and poor gets food.10- Darüşşifa : hospital11- Medical school12- Sani 2nd Madrassa(school)13- Evvel 1st Madrassa (School)14-Sıbyan mektebi elementery school15- çeşme : fontain[10]as red dot Tomb of Sinan: his own design, just to the north of the Süleymaniye Mosque, across a street named Mimar Sinan Caddesi in his honour. He was buried near the tombs of his Sultan Süleyman I and Sultana Haseki Hürrem, Suleiman's wife. He, who could build a magnificent structure. and choose to have a small and almost invisible location means : “Allah , oh mighty , for his Greatness, we are only a size of grain. and a humble servant”factConstruction of the Süleymaniye complex was completed in nine years, other important buildings across Europe were constructed over much longer periods due to lack of funds, epidemics, revolts and wars.- It took 182 years to build Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,- 220 years to build the New Cathedral in Spain's Salamanca- 52 years to build the Segovia Cathedral in Spain.- likewise Jeronimos Monastery in Portugal was built in 106 years,- Batalha Monastery in Portugal in 134 years,- Cologne Cathedral in Germany in 632 years,- Florence Cathedral in 120 years,- the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican in 120 years- St. Mary's Basilica in Poland in 27 years.how important ? Crafting a silhouette in istanbul , needs a grandiose architect .. which this poems says exactlyCome, let's destroy the Suleymaniye,All you only need two shovels , pickaxe and two worker.Come on, let's build it back suleymaniye mosque againyou need a great Sinan and Magnificent Süleyman again.Mehmed akif ersoyBy June 1550, the construction of Süleymaniye complex, including the mosque, began. Mosque completed in 7 yearsfact:The mosque also stands out in terms of the golden ratio. When the width is divided by the height, the golden ratio yields the value of 1.618. The same ratio you get with the Süleymaniye Mosque.The mosque, belongs to the largest complex of the Ottoman era, Main in the north and south direction half domes articulated to the dome in the east and west direction. Small domes arranged as a-b-a-b-a form the plan. It has a transversely developed space setting that is not dividing and making small for pray area. The square arbor in the middle actually forms the core of the structure. Other elements surrounding the structure surround this core. However, it is virtually integrated into the structure, not articulated. Thus, the burden of the dome does not get on the walls. It descends to the arches and from there to the ground with struts. Since the walls are not carriers, both a wide and spacious space is obtained inside and a bright environment is created by placing windows on the walls as much as desired. We see this solution in all works of Mimar Sinan.1- from left hagia sofia 2- beyazid mosque 3-suleymaniye mosque.[3]Careful study of the size and design of Suleymaniye mosque stating that there is a set of prime goals determined in the architectural program.The most important of these goals is to create an expressive dome of high-quality design,very high and very spacious,and providing a much extended prayer hall to accommodate large numbers of worshipers.But with one condition,maintaining the unity and the openness horizontal extension of the interior space with as little as possible number of structural barriers on the ground level. [4]The four minarets(Minare) of the Süleymaniye Mosque represent the 4th sultans who took the throne after the conquest of Constantinople 1453 AD. While the Ten balconies (ŞEREFE) on the minarets(2 for 2 = 3 for 2) refer to Suleiman’s being the 10th Ottoman sultan.main dome does have 200+ specially embedded clay jugs hidden to make Acoustic with pickle jarsFor Mimar Sinan, the acoustic of the mosque was of great importance and proved this claim in the Süleymaniye Mosque. The building is a true acoustic masterpiece. He came up with a genius idea to have the sermon given at a point to reach and spread to the most extreme points of the mosque very easily. He used the earthenware jars that are used to make pickles in Anatolia. In the large dome in the middle placed 64 cubes of 5 meters wide and 50 meters deep, with their mouths facing the interior of the mosque and sealed egg-whites between the jars. He also made all the domes in the shape of a double dome to facilitate the propagation of the sound, leaving space in the floor bricks.image shown positions of the clay jugs gives a very unique sound system at the time.[5]Figure 16. Above: partial plans of Süleymaniye Mosque (above) and Hagia Sophia (below); below: conceptual section view of sound energy flows of Süleymaniye Mosque (on the left) and Hagia Sophia (on the right). [11]main dome inscription on green color from Quran[6]Indeed, Allah holds the heavens and the earth, lest they cease. And if they should cease, no one could hold them [in place] after Him. Indeed, He is Forbearing and Forgiving.Surah Fatir [35:41]this is called Turkish triangle : new pendentive known as Turkish triangle (a transformation of the curved space of the traditional pendentive into a fang like set of long and narrow triangles built at an angle from each other) [7]Daylight has other benefits as well;the sunrays warm up the interior space, especially in the cold winter of Istanbul, but in the warm summer solar heat may be redundant for the interiorplace,so it was necessary to control the amount of solar heating.Sinan invented a solar screen system that covers all the upper windows of Sulymaniye mosque except Qibla wall, which marked by stained glass windows.The solar screens are cut of a stone or marble,perforated with geometric pattern of regular size circles.Solar screens are controlling the amount of light that penetrate the windows during the movement of the sun, either over a day or over the annual four seasons.When the sunlight slanting morning or evening, or in the winter[8]one of the channel entrance. inside of the mosqueVahit Okumuş researcher of suleymaniye mosque.. one of the channelSinan adopted innovative technique to heat the prayer hall, he used the under floor heating system by digging water channels under the mosque to allow the flowing of the warm water coming from the public bath (Hammam) annexed to the complex, the warm water works on heating the air stream running through the water channels. Then the warm air stream comes out through specific outlets in the floor of the mosque providing the prayer hall with required warmth , its also possible for these ground channels to drag the cold water during the hot summer days, cooling the air stream running with the water for cooling and refreshing the interior space [9]Vahit Okumuş researcher of suleymaniye mosque.. inside of the heating cooling channels.[1,]International Journal of Education and ResearchVol. 3 No. 6 June2015345SULEYMANIYE MOSQUE:SPACE CONSTRUCTIONAND TECHNICALCHALLENGES p12[2]- Evliya Çelebi, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnamesi, vol. 1, (ed. Robert Dankoff, Yücel Daglı, Seyit Ali Kahraman), p.95.-Ömer Lutfi Barkan, Süleymaniye Camii ve İmareti İnşaatı (1550-1557), Ankara 1972-79, I-II.-İhsan Bingüler, Mimar Sinan ve Süleymaniye, İstanbul 1975.[3]STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ISTANBUL BEYAZIT II MOSQUERETROFITTED BY MIMAR SINAN - Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-plans-and-arch-positions-of-a-Hagia-Sophia-b-Beyazit-Mosque-and-c-Suleymaniye_fig4_233961328 (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-plans-and-arch-positions-of-a-Hagia-Sophia-b-Beyazit-Mosque-and-c-Suleymaniye_fig4_233961328) (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-plans-and-arch-positions-of-a-Hagia-Sophia-b-Beyazit-Mosque-and-c-Suleymaniye_fig4_233961328 (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Layout-plans-and-arch-positions-of-a-Hagia-Sophia-b-Beyazit-Mosque-and-c-Suleymaniye_fig4_233961328)) [accessed 5 Jun, 2020][4]neşet Akmandor, “Koca Sinan’ın Plancılığı, Eserleri ve Mühendisliği”, Koca Sinan (der. Cengiz Bektaş), İstanbul 1968, s. 49-62.Ömer Lutfi Barkan, Süleymaniye Camii ve İmareti İnşaatı (1550-1557), Ankara 1972-79, I-II.[5]Kayili, Mutbul (2005). Acoustic Solutions In Classic Ottoman Architecture. FSTC Limited , United Kingdom (UK).[6]Cevdet Çulpan, “İstanbul Süleymaniye Camii Kitabesi”, Kanunî Armağanı, Ankara 1970, s. 291-299.[7] islamic arts - Architecture in Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia[8,9]Suntur, Ahmet Rasim (2005). Muhteşem Süleymaniye (Camii Şerifi ve Külliyesi) İstanbul[10]Tanju Cantay, XVI.-XVII. Yüzyıllarda Süleymaniye Camii ve Bağlı Yapılar, İstanbul 1989.-Süleyman Mollaibrahimoğlu, Muhteşem Süleymaniye, İstanbul 1991.[11]Acoustical Impact of Architectonics and Material Features in the Lifespan of Two Monumental Sacred Structures

One could spend a lifetime attempting to document the oldest houses in the world and only scratch the surface. Even just focusing upon the oldest houses in Europe, the Americas or the Middle East would be beyond the scope of the question. So what follows is a brief discussion of some of the better known and excavated houses in Europe and the Near East. It does not include caves, churches, tombs, temple complexes, burial mounds, fortresses, palaces etc. During antiquity, many structures were multi-purposed and multi generational, structures of habitation, trade, manufacture, people and animals living under a single roof. Priests, Priestesses, Kings & Queens, scribes and slaves lived, worked, died and were buried within their homes. I have saved discussions of the origins and development of houses and communities during the Paleolithic through Neolithic periods for another Quora question. Also, it can be assumed that at the base of the oldest continuously occupied cities (Damascus, Aleppo, Jericho etc), the oldest houses are just waiting to be excavated.For much of early human history, people were nomadic hunter-gatherers who moved often in search of food. Groups of people often traveled together and established semi-permanent settlements as they moved around. While there are many artifacts from this time period, evidence of more permanent settlements date back to at least 10,000 years ago. Recent archaeological evidence indicates that sophisticated communities may have formed much earlier (How early villages were made, The Seeds of Civilization).(Polish archaeologists have discovered the oldest houses in Africa)During ongoing excavations in northern Sudan, Polish archaeologists have found the remains of human settlements, whose age is estimated at about 70 thousand years, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology in Poznań informed PAP. This finding, according to the researchers, refutes the previous assumption that the construction of permanent houses was associated with the so-called great exodus from Africa and settling in the colder parts of Europe and Asia (Polish archaeologists have discovered the oldest houses in Africa).Affad 23 site explored by Polish archaeologists, is the only so far in the Nile Valley showing that early Homo sapiens was not a weak part of a great ecosystem, living from day to day. He built sizable houses, planned distribution of a camp party with different functions, adapted well to the wetland environment. This points to a much more advanced level of human development in Africa in the Middle Paleolithic than scientists previously assumed."Discoveries in Affad are absolutely unique for the Middle Palaeolithic. Last season, we came across a few traces of light wood structures. However, only during the current studies we were able to precisely locate the village and identify additional utility areas: a large flint workshop, and a space for cutting hunted animal carcasses, located at a distance" - explained Dr. Marta Osypińska from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS in Poznań, head of the project (Polish archaeologists have discovered the oldest houses in Africa).Matera (Matera: The Most Spectacular City in Italy)Matera, an Italian town built into the rocks in the remote southern region of Basilicata, is said to the only place in the world where people can boast to be still living in the same houses of their ancestors of 9,000 years ago (The 9,000-year-old Italian caves that STILL have people living in them). The Sassi originate from a prehistoric troglodyte settlement and are suspected to be among the first human settlements in Italy.Prehietoric inhabitants took advantage of every bit of rock they could and many of the layered homes feature labyrinthine alleys and stairways. The Sassi are houses dug into the calcarenitic rock itself, locally called "tufo" although it is not volcanic tuff or tufa. The streets in some parts of the Sassi often run on top of other houses (Sassi di Matera - Wikipedia. The ancient town grew up on one slope of the ravine created by a river that is now a small stream. The ravine is known locally as "la Gravina".Over the years new holes were continuously carved out to make room for the ever-increasing population but inhabitants desperately needed basic supplies as there were no shops within easy access. Families would live among their animals, diets were simple and disease was rife, with malaria a prominent threat.Eshtaol Credit: Dr. Ya‘akov Vardi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.Excavations at Eshtaol recently uncovered the remains of a 10,000-year-old house in the Judean Shephelah, the lowland west of Jerusalem, as well as a later cult site, stone axes and other Neolithic remains. The excavations, revealed several stages of the millennia-long narrative of early cultural development at Eshtaol, a site associated with the birth and burial of Samson in the Biblical period (Judges 13:25; 16:31).In an IAA press statement, archaeologists Amir Golani, Ya‘akov Vardi, Benyamin Storchan and Ron Be’eri describe the significance of the 10,000-year-old domestic building (pictured to the right), which dates to the transitional Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. “It should be emphasized that whoever built the house did something that was totally innovative because up until this period man migrated from place to place in search of food. Here we have evidence of man’s transition to permanent dwellings and that in fact is the beginning of the domestication of animals and plants; instead of searching out wild sheep, ancient man started raising them near the house.” (Eshtaol Excavations Reveal the Oldest House in the Shephelah - Biblical Archaeology Society).Star Carr photo source: The York PressThe house found at the Star Carr archaeological site in 2010 is not only the oldest known dwelling in the United Kingdom, but it is most likely the oldest house in the world that has been discovered so far. A team of archaeologists from the universities of Manchester and York also uncovered a wooden platform, which they believe is the oldest example of carpentry in Europe. According to archaeological research, the remains of the house have been carbon dated to about 8500 BCE. The people who lived here were hunter-gatherers who came to the what are now the British Isles while they were still connected to continental Europe.Highlights among the finds include Britain’s oldest structure, 21 red deer stag skull-caps that may have been head-dresses and nearly 200 projectile, or harpoon, points made of red deer antler (Star Carr - Wikipedia). The organic materials were preserved due to having been buried in waterlogged peat. Normally all that remains on Mesolithic sites are lithics.Grahame Clark, the original excavator, believed the Mesolithic people would have lived on a brushwood platform on the edge of the former Lake Flixton (Clark, Grahame (1954). Excavations at Star Carr: An Early Mesolithic Site at Seamer Near Scarborough, Yorkshire. CUP Archive. pp. xvii–xviii.) Recent excavations have revealed that people lived on the dry land upslope of the lake and various activities were carried out at the lake edge. There is much debate about the time of year the site was occupied. Mesolithic people hunted a number of animals including red and roe deer, elk, aurochs and wild boar but there are various seasonal assessments and as the site was occupied over several hundred years it is likely that seasonal practices varied over time (Scarre, Chris, ed. (2005). The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies. London: Thames & Hudson).Howick House photo source: Archaeological Research ServicesUntil the recent discovery of the house at the Star Carr archaeological site, the Howick House was believed to be the oldest Mesolithic house in the United Kingdom. The site is the oldest settlement in the Northumberland area. In addition to the hut, there is a cemetery consisting of five Bronze Age graves at the site.Investigations found a circle of substantial post holes with charcoal stains in their bases, a number of smaller stake holes, some angled in from outside a hollow, and inside the house a number of shallow hearths filled with charcoal, burnt nutshells and some fragments of bone. Radiocarbon dating of the charred hazelnut shells established that the building was constructed about 7600 BC and occupied for about 100 years, which led to the find being called "Britain's oldest house” (Britain's Oldest House?).Reconstructed Mesolithic round-house Replica of a 10,000 year old round-house which was excavated from a nearby cliff-top site which had been discovered by the identification of flint artifacts in the eroding cliffs by amateur archaeologists (Howick house - Wikipedia).According to archaeologists, the resources in the the area surround to allowed its own (stone age he) to listen there year-round. In 2005, a team of archaeologists decided to reconstruct the hut – in a nearby area close to the original site – for the BBC documentary series “Coast.” (A Mesolithic Hut and Bronze Age Cist Cemetery on the Northumberland Coast).Khirokitia photo source: Wikimedia CommonsKhirokitia is a Neolithic era settlement located on the island of Cyprus, near Greece. The ruins are a series of circular houses that were first occupied sometime around 7000 BCE. These early houses were built from mud-brick and stone and featured flat roofs. Archaeologists have uncovered about 20 houses at the site, which were constructed directly on the ground (8 Oldest Houses in the World | Oldest.org).Much of its importance lies in the evidence of an organised functional society in the form of a collective settlement, with surrounding fortifications for communal protection. Remains of hearths, cereal querns, other domestic and agricultural equipment, as well as human remains have been found in and near the houses (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/lev.1977.9.1.66&ved=2ahUKEwiVt6i055zeAhWF8oMKHb7oA8wQFjA2egQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw08OMOfcfKCpc2YmyrkLWi7&cshid=1540306143879).Subsintence methods practiced by its Neolithic inhabitants included for crops, herding sheep and goats, and raising pigs. It is a closed village, cut off from the outside world, apart from by the river, by a strong wall of stones 2.5 m thick and 3 m at its highest preserved level. Access into the village was probably via several entry points through the wall. The buildings within this wall consist of round structures huddled close together. The lower parts of these buildings are often of stone and attain massive proportions by constant additions of further skins of stones. Their external diameter varies between 2.3 m and 9.20 m while the internal diameter is only between 1.4 m and 4.80 m. A collapsed flat roof of one building found recently indicates that not all roofs were dome shaped as was originally believed (Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Choirokoitia". UNESCO World Heritage Centre).The internal divisions of each hut were according to the purpose of its usage. Low walls, platforms designated work, rest or storage areas. They had hearths presumably used for cooking and heating, benches and windows and in many cases there is evidence of piers to support an upper floor. It is believed that the huts were like rooms several of which were grouped around an open courtyard and together formed the home. The population of the village at any one time is thought not to have exceeded 300 to 600 inhabitants (Khirokitia - Wikipedia).The village was suddenly abandoned for reasons unknown at around 6000 BC and it seems that the island remained uninhabited for about 1500 years. More recent discoveries (Neolithic Settlement Khirokitias), however, including several sites in the vicinity of the ancient acropolis of Amathus on the eastern edge of modern Limassol, have filled this chronological gap considerably, revealing that the island was probably occupied continuously at least from the ninth millennium BC. (HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE). Early communities were small and widely dispersed, so not every region would have been as heavily exploited as later in prehistory.While there are no plans to reconstruct the original site, archaeologists have replicated for houses as well as a section of the settlement's defense wall in an effort to help visitors understand more about the ruins (https://Template:UNESCO_World_Heritage_Centre_entry_http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/848&action=edit&redlink).Skara Brae photo source: Wikimedia CommonsSkara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.The sites consists of ten Neolithic era stone structures that are well-preserved. The village was buried by a giant mound, which unintentionally kept the site in excellent condition. The village was occupied for about 600 years and always consisted of about ten houses. Radiocarbon dating in the early 1970s confirmed that the settlement dated from the late Neolithic — inhabited for around 600 years, between 3200BC and 2200BC (Skara Brae - Wikipedia).Because of the protection offered by the sand that covered the settlement for 4,000 years, the buildings, and their contents, are incredibly well-preserved. Each house shares the same basic design - a large square room, with a central fireplace, a bed on either side and a shelved dresser on the wall opposite the doorway. (The Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement). Some of the furniture includes dressers, cupboards, chairs, and beds. In addition to stone furniture, the people who lived at Skara Brae made tools, jewelry, gaming dice, grooved ware (a unique type of pottery), and other ornaments from bone, stones, and precious rocks.(The World’s Oldest Structures)Located on the Scottish island of Papa Westray, Knap of Howar- is home to a Neolithic farmstead dating back to 3500 BC. Built up of two adjacent rounded rectangular thick-walled buildings with very low doorways facing the Sea, the farmstead is believed to be the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe. (Knap of Howar).Archeologists are of the opinion that the material that surrounds the joint buildings has protected them from severe damage (The Knap o' Howar). The interior of these joint buildings is divided into three rooms. The inner rooms work as storage places with cupboards, lintels, pits and slabs, which are all made of stone. The larger structure is older and was the main living space, while the second, smaller structure was likely used as a workshop/storage area. At one point, the passageway between the structures was purposely blocked and the the workshop was abandoned. Archaeologists have found evidence that shows that the main house remained in use after the passage was blocked and was used for over 900 years total (The Knap Of Howar: One Of The Oldest And Well-Preserved Neolithic Complexes Orkney, Scotland | Ancient Pages).

“Can the basis of the Second Amendment, which is the fear of the rise of the government tyranny, be deemed exaggerated in the 21st century given that we have so many checks and balances in the system?”The basis of Amendment II is to tell the government to not infringe on our natural unalienable right to have weapons. Whether Amendment II exists or not, the right remains. For government to violate it is a human rights violation.“the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. “People misconstrue the part about the militia, but look at the Vermont Constitution,“That the people have a right to bear arms, for the defence of themselves and the State:”When the state of Maryland forbid people to carry for self-defense, they directly violated the right to life for the people murdered at the Capital Gazette.As for checks and balances, the progressives have been overthrowing the U.S. Constitution by removing the checks and balances. Amendment XVII, the NPV, the administrative state violating separation of powers, preferential treatment to other progressive in gaining positions of power. Look at the preferential treatment leading to the makeup of the top of the FBI, or Lois Lerner’s IRS. All fellow travelers against liberty.The Democrat Party with their documented history of terrorism, oppression and racism are pushing modern day slavery, socialism. They, in the past made gun control laws to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. Today they want to take them from us all. The parties didn’t switch sides. They still have the same oppressive behaviors[1] .Look at what has been happening in “socialist” Venezuela a recently prosperous country[2] .Weapons are for self-defense and defense of the state. They are for whatever lawful purpose we choose. When a subversive force takes over the country, say Democratic Socialism, it is the duty of the people to defend the state from domestic enemies. Many of us swore an oath to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. The Constitution was built on the principles in the Declaration.“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” The Declaration.Socialism is despotism. There is a whole party that is in support of this unlawful act. People think we are a democracy. We are not. We are a republic.[3]The Declaration identifies the role of government. These are the same people that created the Constitution.“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”How can a government developed to secure the “unalienable” rights of the individual violate those rights because a majority or their faux representatives wants it? They cannot. It is mutually exclusive. What is meant by consent of the governed?[4]The majority of a democracy cannot vote to violate rights, they can only vote for a government to protect rights.Footnotes[1] Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican?[2] Amid Venezuela unrest, experts worry that criminals will acquire military’s weapons[3] The American Form Of Government[4] Constitution Lectures 1: The Non-Consent of the Governed (HD version)