Wasn't "sold". It was stolen, usurped, captured.

The American Republic was CAPTURED and USURPED by FRAUD, starting with the ACT OF 1871 that captured our Legislative and Executive Branches, imposing a foreign-owned "corporation" posing as government based in the District of Columbia, and then it just got worse from there.

With the unlawful creation of THE FED a privately-owned central bank, and THE IRS - a private trust formed in Puerto Rico, 1913 was the year they captured our Treasury and Financial System.

Then in about 1939 they CAPTURED our Judicial Branch and converted our Constitutional System of Common Law into that of Admiralty Law of the Crown of England, which we still have to throw off TODAY.