Communities rise from humble beginnings and expand into formal governments that seek to become nation-states, often absorbing the communities around them. When they emerge as a nation, they will typically seek to expand further into empires. To maintain that lofty position, they will inevitably become authoritarian when they feel that power slipping away.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), whom the British hated because he wrote Common Sense, finally influenced the American colonists to rise up against the abuse of the king and centralized government in England, which they called – no taxation without representation. Thomas explained that those in control bathe themselves in glory and power and quickly forget that they are not the sovereign of the state – that is, the people. Pasine explanned:

"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions."

The very problem is emerging within states where centralized governments are seeking to strip local citizens of the right to vote in their local communities and to impose taxation without representation all over again. This is always the problem within all governments – the endless thirst for endless power, like the Neocons and their endless wars of conquest.

Home Rule in the United States is becoming a major issue as a consequence of severe abuse of authority by tyrannical state governments seeking to grab power from municipal governments, often being "bribed" by real estate developers who don't want to have to comply with local zoning regulations and approvals from municipalities. This is the very same tyranny that led to the American Revolution – no taxation without representation.

These state politicians are seeking to usurp all the rights of local residents because some real estate developer has "donated" to someone's campaign to overrule a local community by overriding local zoning regulations put in place by local residents. Any politician who makes such a motion in a state legislature should be compelled to disclose ALL donations and promises of future contributions or job offers. To submit such a motion with a conflict of interest should result in disbarment from ever holding public office and 20 years in prison.