The original idea was the citizens would always remain in control and the Constitution just gave them the legal legitimacy to keep the argument such that when anybody tried to take control they could look at that and provide the legal justification for citizens remaining in control. Of course now we've got the federal government itself we're only going whether or not it can be in control since most of the courts and things that are ruling on this are deeply embedded in the whole federal system including all the financial perks and retirement benefits and the election gerrymandering and outright cheating now. So judges are part of the system that is being used to rule whether or not that system should be in control