Margo, the hub of the matter is that we ARE all Sovereign, always have been always will be from the day we are born. By studying Common Law and the UCC ( Universal Commercial Code ) you will find that we have been slaves to governments from the day they substitued our true name Joe Free Man with our Trade name JOE FREE MAN. Joe Free Man is a flesh and blood human being, while J F MAN, Joe F Man, JOE F MAN, Joe Free MAN and all derivations of the same are trade names and are the only entities the government can do business with. And through dishonest means the governments have tricked us into entering into contracts with these government standover men under threat of fines, jail and many times death. The book/manual that blows it wide open is called "Cracking the Code: Third Edition". It goes through all the steps required to reclaim your name and then protect yourself from those thieves.

The following is purported to be quote from "Colonel" Edward Mandell House in a private meeting with then President Woodrow Wilson:

[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will effect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer being unable to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions.

Americans forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two should figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud

So Margo, what you see as the problems that need to be dealt with, I see as but symptoms. Regaining our Sovereignty is the key. Once we all achieve this, then we can look at what sort of government if any, we require. Remembering that governments are only formed so as to serve the people, not the other way around as it has so apparently become.