"We reserve the right" – what wonderful words.  They are on a par with "don't tread on me."

The people of Britain rejected rule by plutocracy, at least in part, with the Brexit vote.  To help prove their rejection had basis, the plutocracy immediately spoke of high voter turnout by the lesser educated.  The self-anointed have spoken.

The European Economic Union was a replay of history.  Intended to be an "economic union," the concept once enacted drew the "bees to the honey," and the money pot was swarmed.  Brussels, the headquarters of the EU, became a bloated bureaucracy, and its powers ever expanded.  Power followed the money, and the scope dovetailed beyond the original limits.  (Is this beginning to remind you of something else?)  The powers were to be few and enumerated, well defined and limited.

The economic union became a political union, one in which borders were melted, and unelected judges outside one's own country made decisions that altered your life.

The globalists extrapolated an economic agreement into a "we are the world" soda-pop commercial, with celebrities singing and swaying back and forth.  Borders?  How 20th-century of you!

Cautiousness when entering arrangements such as these requires escape clauses.  Rule 50 of the European Economic Union states:

Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.

There have been similar safeguards put in place in the past.  Entities of people who entered into agreements to form a new union, a union that was empowered by the delegation of the previously held powers of those entering, reserved the right to exit if the member felt harmed by the arrangement.

DO in the name and in behalf of the people of ______, declare and make known that the powers granted under the _______, being derived from the people of the ________ may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will[.]

The above paragraph is taken from the Virginia ratification of the Constitution.  (The blanks were provided for reader suspense.)  What a great paragraph.

That was the "Rule 50" of 1788 and invoked in 1861.  Virginia was asked to provide three regiments to coerce the Deep South back into the Union.  Virginia used its prerogative and attempted a departure.  In their view, the federal experiment had overstepped its bounds.  Powers were assumed where none were given.

It seems that today, as in centuries prior, the natural progression, in which power is partnered with wealth, overstepping is blended with self-assumed power expansion.

From the European Economic Union to the central bankers of the world, assumption of powers not given must be met with defiance.  The Federal Reserve rewrites its mandate with its own hand, and the president twists constitutional interpretation to expand his power.  Congress passes laws to which they are immune.

The plutocracy, central bankers, and other faux intellects label those who notice their antics with deprecating terms.  The British elites branded them "lesser educated."  This is a defensive measure, near the end of the game.