Sovereignty
The fourth booklet and the corpus’s most direct treatment of sovereignty as the legal-conceptual mechanism of what Beers calls the unnatural order. Beers cites the textual absence of “sovereign” and “sovereignty” from the Declaration of Independence (factually correct), Sam Adams’s reported remark about God as the only proper sovereign, and Justice Wilson’s Chisholm v. Georgia opinion as evidence that the Founders self-consciously rejected sovereignty as a foreign concept. The reimportation, on Beers’s account, occurs via the Civil War’s establishment of a conqueror relationship.
The concept page on sovereignty as conquest lays out the framework. The companion finding on the sovereign-absent-from-Declaration inference verdicts the textual-observation-vs-inference question (partially-supported textually; foreclosed as the constitutional commitment Beers infers, given the Articles of Confederation’s express use of the term four to five years later). The finding on the post-Civil-War permanent-conqueror reading addresses the reimportation premise.
Per-treatise triage cycle pending — claims pre-extracted in notes/beers-treatise-04-extraction.md.