One of the valuable things I've learned from studying presuppositional apologetics is how to tell when someone's bad argument is really bad. It seems like many bad arguments boil down to only a few fallacies. Circular reasoning is one of the most common fallacies, and our whole system of government is based on that fallacy. It is easy to expose.
Imagine for a moment you were caught speeding through Kansas, and your trial has commenced. The Kansas Highway Patrolman who wrote the ticket is on the stand as your accuser, and you ask him a very important question, "How do you know the law I'm accused of breaking applies to me?" That is a question about jurisdiction, which is a necessary element to be proven in any crime.
Happy to have received such an easy question, the patrolman says, "The law applies, because you're within the territory of Kansas, and Kansas law applies to everyone within the borders of Kansas." And with that, the judge winks at him.
You respond, "How do you know the law applies to me, just because I'm in Kansas?"
With a little more serious look on his face, the officer says, "The law says it applies."
Now, you've got him where you want him. You say, "The law applies, because the law says it applies? I move that the case be dismissed as the only possible answer the the question is viciously circular! There are no grounds to prove jurisdiction."
This might seem silly, but it really has gotten people out of minor criminal offenses and traffic tickets. And that really is their only possible answer to the question of jurisdiction: the law applies because the law says it applies. But the fallacious nature of this is every bit as real for serious crimes like murder, rape and kidnapping. There is no real basis to show jurisdiction that any attorney can prove for any crime in any U.S. jurisdiction. The whole thing is based on blind faith (a national religion), and the threat of violence.
To drive the point home, imagine a lovely, gold-embossed, leather-bound, thick volume titled, "Bubba's Law for the state of Kansas". You flip open to the first page, and the first law says, "Bubba's Law applies to everyone within the boundaries of Kansas." Bubba's Law applies, because Bubba's Law says so. It is every bit as valid as the Kansas Statutes (i.e. completely invalid).
Of course, there is one valid basis for government, and only one. Unfortunately, it isn't applicable to our government, and it has even been ruled unconstitutional. That is the fact that Jesus Christ is Lord, and His law is just and right. He has given government one job--to punish evildoers (Romans 13:3-4).
Christ has determined what good and evil are in His law, and it is the job of government to acknowledge Christ as Lord, and carry out His commands for them. American government is based on a religion, a blind, irrational faith. It is inescapable that every government is based on religion. The only question is which religion.
Jesus said that if you're not for Him, you're against Him. Where are the judges? Where are the cops? Where are the attorneys? Where are the great politicians of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus Christ. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry. Jesus is Lord. Resistance is futile.