Sovereignty granted by the people that can be revoked.
The FAA are Traffic Cops or Game Wardens.
Don’t let this pompous asshole tell you his employer owns the skies. The FAA doesn’t own the skies and Cops with his same attitude don’t own the streets.
This person should be censured for spreading disinformation that benefits him/her when it is a lie and the audience is sophisticated enough to not need to eve use colloquial English.
Yes I’m still mad at the phrase because it’s WRONG.