Are You Bound To The State?

Here is a question that I'm sure will spark some controversy? Are you bound to the state or is the state bound to you? For whom was the state created? For the benefit of the state or for the people?

To answer this question I'd like to appeal to the US Constitution. The following is an excerpt from William Duff:

What did the individual people retain for themselves when entering into this society?

"....We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed..." Declaration of Independence [Adopted in
Congress 4 July 1776]

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America." Preamble to The Constitution of the United States of
America

If one recognizes that "the pursuit of happiness" as written in the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson is a reference to property, the right to own property, it must become clear to the least among us that the individual upon entering this society, by declaration through his agents, has retained his life, his liberty, and his property over which only he will have sole dominion for he has not ceded those things to either the Collective, the Fed or the State. He has but given them the duty to secure those things.

NOW THAT WAS SIMPLE. WASN'T IT?

The Constitution is not the creation of rights, but simply a recognition of the inalienable rights men and women are born with. Rights that are given to them by God Himself.

I believe the question is not complete, because the state should exist for the glory of God. The state is bound to the people, and the people should be bound to God. The state exists to secure the rights of the people under God. Everything that exists should exist to and for the glory of God. The state exists for God for the people. The people exist solely for God. They are not bound to serve the state. They are bound to serve God.

The only thing a citizen owes to his country or state is obedience to its laws. However, that obedience is limited by the Word of God and the various state constitutions. No citizen owes the state unlimited obedience. Unlimited obedience is reserved for God and God alone. The citizen is bound to God, not the state.