All people (and social creatures) are attracted to power and control and naturally congregate around those who best utilize them, or at least put a pretty bow on them, which thus makes them good game for narcissists and sociopaths and other emotionally compromised and abherrent sorts.
The Constitution, which nearly met its end earlier this year, is what has kept these types from hijacking the USA, though it came a hair close to not being able to do that on Jan 6, 2021.
The Constituton, however, merely provides the framework to do so, it is those that we have chosen to carry out its functions and be its custodians as well as the public at large that keep its blood coursing through our viens.
Freedom is the natural state of all in existence, despite mankind's efforts to put a yoke on it. Chaos coalesces into a semblence of order, and ironically we pretend to use that order to ordain us with the illusion of being granted that freedom while we wait for our masters' orders on how to simply breath.
Freedom is freedom, and freedom is free. Anyone needing permission for it will never know they are free.