Losing Liberty

Stopping Socialism is the most important issue before the American people this election

Please let us reason together for a few moments without respect to anything we may or may not be a member of, but just Americans who love to be free. I am very concerned that the Socialistic Liberals within our Federal Government are leading us down the path to the complete loss of all Individual Liberty in the United States of America. I literally cry real tears in my observance of the death of our Constitution and the Liberty it provides.

I sit alone in the quiet of my study at times, as I am now, and do my utmost to honestly understand why, why have the American people seemingly become so willing to just watch, and in many cases, actually embrace the death of their own Individual Liberty, their God given right to make their own decisions and be responsible for themselves.

Bemoaning what is achieves little. If is far better to plan ahead: if congress is dominated by conservatives, and there is a conservative POTUS, what needs to be done to dismantle a hundred years of “progressivism/socialism/national socialism/and worse”?

It is essential to have a plan ahead of time.

1) The office of the POTUS needs reform, to reduce its power to constitutional limits. Likewise, treaties and foreign agreements not confirmed by the senate are invalidated.

2) The judiciary needs major reorganization, as well as to retire a lot of radical judges who legislate from the bench, and to reform civil and criminal law.

3) Perhaps a third or more of the federal government needs to be eliminated outright, and the other two thirds downgraded to reasonable levels. All payments to the states should be by block grants, with federal suggestions, not mandates, as to how they should be used.

4) Vast amounts of federal land takings from the states need to be returned. A huge reduction in federal regulations needs to happen.

5) Multinational and foreign corporations can either be patriotic to America, hiring Americans, and paying American wages and taxes, or they do not deserve access to the American markets. Trade agreements that forbid this need to be abrogated.

6) Mining, energy development, copyright and patent law need to be reformed based on the General Mining Act of 1872, which allowed anyone to stake a claim about anywhere, but they most improve that claim to a minimum of $500 (maybe more) per year, or they lose their claim, copyright or patent. This means either sell that amount or more on the open market, a non-restricted sale, or spend at least that amount developing it as a product each and every year.

This list is far from inclusive, but gets the ball rolling to restoring America to greatness. It is far better to ponder this than to deplore what has brought down our nation.

While this is a laudable idea, 2/3rds of the senators would never agree to it, as they would no longer be “free agents”, but have to bow to the will of their states.

I figured the way around this problem is indirect, to recreate the senate as a different body, a Second Court of the United States. Not a federal court, but composed of 100 judges, specifically appointed by state legislatures on terms concurrent with their senators.

The 2nd Court would not determine constitutionality, but jurisdiction. After federal court decisions have worked their way through the federal appeals courts, about 8000 a year goes to the Supreme Court, which can only hear a few dozen. A terrible bottleneck.

The 2nd court would examine the lower courts constitutional arguments, then they would determine if the cases indeed were federal arguments, or if they should be taken from the federal courts and returned to the individual states.

This would end a lot of judicial activism, “legislating from the bench”, and would strip a lot of power from the federal government.

The other purpose of the 2nd court would be so that the states would have original jurisdiction in lawsuits between the states and the federal government. Instead of the ponderous route up the federal courts, such cases would be heard promptly.

Importantly, if the 2nd court had a simple majority, the case could still be appealed to the SCOTUS. But if the vote was a 2/3rds majority, it could not be appealed. And if they had a 3/4ths majority, it would represent “stare decisis” (precedent) to the SCOTUS, so they would have to treat the decision *almost* like it was a constitutional amendment, in their future decisions.

In practical terms, states could sue the federal government to force it to trim its size and power. A pruning mechanism that the founding fathers never considered but which is sorely needed.

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