Supreme power can dissolve itself.

Explanation

(English-origin maxim.) The supreme sovereign power has the inherent ability to dissolve itself — this principle underlies the People's right to alter or abolish their form of government when it no longer serves them.

Where this applies

• The people of a state vote to dissolve their state government and reconstitute it under a new constitution, exercising their inherent sovereign right to alter or abolish their form of government.
• A constitutional convention is called by the people to rewrite the fundamental law, and the existing government cannot prevent it because the supreme sovereign power — the people — has the inherent ability to dissolve the current system.
• Citizens invoke the Declaration of Independence's principle that the people may alter or abolish destructive government, exercising the supreme power's right to dissolve itself and start fresh.