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To: lyby
Let’s say for the sake of argument that it can be proven that the current federal government, and the incoming federal government, are both invalid by way of fraud. Does that vitiate the contract that is the Constitution to the point where it can be set aside to right the wrong? What is our fallback? The Articles of Confederation?

I realize that I’m starting to sound like Q because I’m making an argument with a bunch of questions. But if the federal government can be proven invalid, that would mean that all sovereignty would revert to the several states, with the military holding things together on a temporary basis. That is precisely what the lawyers at the NSC told Kennedy in 1961 when he asked what would happen if the Soviets successfully decapitated the federal government with a surprise nuclear attack. In this case it would be fraud that causes the decapitation.

The anniversary of the Articles of Confederation strikes me as not being a total coincidence.

1,588 posted on 11/15/2022 3:38:17 PM PST by Publius
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To: Publius

“Let’s say for the sake of argument that it can be proven that the current federal government, and the incoming federal government, are both invalid by way of fraud.”

Of course the federal government (current and/or incoming) will be happy to accept this line of argument as valid.

lol.

Sorta related—there are some modern evolutionary biologists who argue that homo sapiens is wired to ignore truth.

Some of them are crazy leftists trying to make political points, but if you drill past that garbage the argument is that we are wired to survive and procreate by filtering out “inconvenient truths” that get in the way.

Power is what matters to humans—truth takes a distant second place.

The best conservative writer on this topic was James Burnham.


1,615 posted on 11/15/2022 4:24:16 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Publius

Interesting points. ThanQ.


1,686 posted on 11/15/2022 5:49:04 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Publius

Interesting points. ThanQ.


1,687 posted on 11/15/2022 5:49:12 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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