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  Eclipse of “We the People” by Artificial General Idolatry: Foreign Entanglement, State-Capital AI, Executive Overreach, and the Church’s Status Confessionis Accompanying Vitiated Federal Legitimacy Douglas Blake Olds June 9, 2026   [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]   Abstract This essay argues that the constitutional role of “We the People” has entered eclipse as federal authority is routed through foreign entanglement, defense-industrial synchronization, state-capital AI dependency, corporate backstop logic, executive emergency, judicial deference, and Vatican-blessed tech...