Posted on 07/18/2009 11:30:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 07/18/2009 11:48:33 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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(continuing my remarks from prior thread)
Here is our recourse as declared by our Founding Fathers:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
It cannot be denied that the central government has become destructive of our unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and our rights to live free. The government is no longer responsive to we the People. They have stretched and shredded the constitution to the point that they have illegally seized for themselves virtually unlimited powers over the citizens and act as if we have no rights and no powers of our own. They are acting without our consent.
Our Founders established that when our government becomes destructive of our rights then it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
We have reached the point where the government's long train of abuses and usurpations has achieved absolute Despotism, therefore it is our right, it is our duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for our future security.
Therefore, We the People of America choose to exercise our right to throw off and alter the abusive government by peacefully recalling and removing from office the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States and all U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives effective immediately.
An interim provisional Chief Executive and congressional representatives will be established as follows:
The Secretary of State shall immediately assume the office of interim Chief Executive. The Chief Executive shall appoint and the interim Senate shall confirm an interim Vice President.
An immediate election shall be held within each state legislature to appoint two interim senators to represent each sovereign state.
A special election shall be held by all states within 30 days to elect interim members of the House of Representatives.
Elections for regular government offices shall be conducted in November, 2010 as previously scheduled, except that elections will be held for all elective offices, including President, Vice President and all U.S. Representatives. U.S. Senators will be elected per class schedule by the various state legislatures.
We alter the government to provide new Guards for our future security as follows:
The Constitution of the United States must be kept intact and must be adhered to and strictly followed by all government entities as originally intended. The government has stretched the constitutional limits well beyond those intended by our founders. We must take steps to ensure that this is corrected and that the out of control government is reined in and that sufficient measures are introduced to maintain the limits, checks and balances on government and that government powers are strictly limited to those enumerated in the constitution and that our rights are reestablished, reaffirmed, re-secured and safeguarded. We must restore and reestablish the sovereignty of the people and the states and restore the constitutional balances between the central government, the various states and we the people. The constitution severely restricts government powers and guarantees unalienable freedom and Liberty to the people.
As we restore constitutionally limited government several wrongs must be righted:
The central government has illegally expanded its powers. They've done this by ignoring or stretching their constitutional limits. They have usurped powers limited to the states and the people. We must reestablish and reaffirm the enumerated powers and limit the central government strictly to just those powers. They've built huge power bases by allowing senators and representatives to be full time professional career positions. We eliminate this by establishing strict qualifications for office and term limits.
We must reestablish and reaffirm the powers to the states and the people as defined by the 9th and 10th amendments.
The central government has denied the states their constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government by introducing the 17th amendment which alters the way the senators which were to represent the sovereign interests of the various states to the central government. We must reestablish that representation by repealing the 17th amendment and allowing the state legislatures of the various states to elect their own senators as intended by our founders. This was never intended to be a function of the people. We the People are represented to the central government by our elected representatives in the House of Representatives. The sovereign states were to be represented by the state's senators to keep central powers and encroachment in check. Power is from the people to the states, and from the states to the central government. They've turned this upside down and inside out. We must correct it.
We hereby repeal the 17th amendment.
The central government has expanded well beyond the limits established for it by the founders and pay for that expansion by directly taxing the people and severely restricting our rights through an enslaving income tax.
We hereby repeal the 16th amendment.
The IRS and all sub departments and agencies are hereby dissolved, disbanded and closed.
The newly elected congress will establish rules and schedules for assessing and collecting fees, tariffs and excise taxes to support the armed forces and all constitutionally authorized departments of The United States Government per the Constitution of the United States (see schedule).
The central government is hereby stripped of all illegal powers and all departments and agencies not authorized by the constitution are hereby dissolved and disbanded. Their current budgets are hereby withdrawn. All disbanded department funds and liquid assets are to be immediately returned to the US Treasury. A list and methods for achieving this is provided in schedule xxx.
Ownership and responsibility for all federally held buildings, lands, parks, waterways, oceans, seas, etc, other than those in Washington, D.C. or military bases, forts, reservations, or local federal buildings owned by valid constitutional federal departments (see schedule) are hereby transferred to the sovereign state governments within which they reside or are located.
Responsibility for all natural resources found within any of the various states or within lands, oceans, lakes, rivers, waterways, seas out through our international boundary limits are hereby returned to the various states. All laws for mining, drilling, logging, or otherwise capitalizing on any minerals or natural resources are to be determined by the various states within which said resources are found.
The social security system is hereby dissolved, disbanded and closed. All social security funds being held by the federal government are to be returned to the private retirement accounts of the individuals owning them. A special fund will be establish for all current recipients and new recipients according to schedule xxy and the social security system shall be phased out accordingly. The funds to support current social security benefits shall become the responsibility of the states within which the recipients reside.
No revenues accruing to the federal government shall be disbursed to any state, city or local government for any reason whatsoever. Or used to subsidize or benefit any government or private entity, organization or person, other than those explicitly authorized and enumerated in the constitution.
All states are hereby solely responsible for any and all revenues or funds required to operate their sovereign states. The central government is not obligated to and shall not interfere in state government or local affairs.
The interstate commerce clause shall be applied strictly to regulating interstate commerce as originally established and intended by our founders. No stretches or reinterpretations of any kind shall be allowed.
Our first unalienable right is the right to life. Protecting Life and Liberty shall be of paramount importance to our central government. Roe v Wade and all congressional acts, regulations, court opinions allowing legalized abortion or the taking of innocent human life are hereby rescinded, overruled, repealed, nullified and voided. Life is fully protected by the U.S. Government.
The Federal Reserve.
Border security.
Medicare.
FAA, FDA, FCC, various federal ABC departments agencies and agencies. Which to close, which to remake with constitutional limits and authority, etc.
Federal Pensions.
Etc, etc, etc.
Need lots of help with this document, folks. Please chime in. Would love to see a committee formed of members of every state to complete and finalize it. Then we should form and send delegates to a special national congress to work out the kinks and plan its presentation and execution.
This concept is an entirely peaceful altering of our despotic government per our unalienable right and duty. No where do I call for violence. The only force I call for is the force of numbers. We need millions of our citizens to sign on to this petition and execute its provisions. Will require millions to march on D.C. to block the government's ability to do business as usual. This is our right and duty as Americans.
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“I would suggest that, in accordance with our second amendment rights, we all bring our “sporting equipment” with us.”
I think we would be foolish not to. Imagine the FedGov’s delight of having 1000000 unarmed, crazy, rightwing, patriots there for the pickin.
No. Constitutionally authorized departments including military bases, forts, reservations, etc, remain in federal hands. The federal government is constitutionally authorized to maintain armed forces. National defense is one of its primary duties, right after defending our unalienable rights and our individual and state sovereignty.
surround it..don’t no politican leave until we get our country back!!!
Education and unions are states issues.
We are on dangerous grounds. Our government has run amuck, our taxes are spent by politicians to buy off the mobs, our children and future generations are saddled with crushing debt, our country is in danger.
The question, then, is are we ready and able to confront the government and the vast bureaucracy that supports it?
In the past I have written about this problem. I have asked people in our armed forces what would happen. I have asked people in law enforcement which side they would choose. The answers are guarded. The sentiment is that they would ultimately come to our side, but certainly they are worried about the outcome.
All of us should be concerned about the unknown effects of a peaceful event such as you have suggested. At what point will the government preemptively try to take out the leadership of such a movement? What will we do about it when the vast mechanisms of the government are used against us? At some point someone will resist and violence will occur. What then will happen? If and when we march and occupy Washington DC with millions of people, how will they be fed? Where are the porta-potties coming from? What if while there, the city is cordoned off and people are trapped? What if some come armed?
One could go on but the point is this is a very serious and dangerous proposition. We must prepare more than a document. We must prepare people. We must, as in 1775 start with the pen and prepare a vast number of people for the eventualities articulated above.
This is not to say that it cannot or should not be done. Rather it is to say that the vast mass of government will, if not prepared, will be arrayed against us. There will be failures of courage amongst us. There will be incidents that are intended to break our will. The still powerful “mainstream” media will do everything to break us. We have the internet, but for how long?
Unlike 1776, we are a vast nation, both in scope and in numbers. How will we communicate? Will we have the ability to control events? Or will we find ourselves controlled by them?
Clearly, this effort will take enormous effort and commitment. Clearly, there will be those who fall by the wayside, both literally and figuratively.
Has the time come? I think yes, but be prepared to ride not a whirlwind, but a tornado of unimaginable force.
I have appended an essay I wrote a while back. It discusses us as we are.
Seven Deadly Sins for a New Millennium © 2008 Oneolcop Traditional tells us the Seven Deadly Sins are Pride Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth. Today, there are these and a few more we must contend with: Hypocrisy, Hyperbole, Moral Relativism, Willful ignorance, Disdain, Malevolent Bureaucracy, and Venality. In the context of our daily lives, it’s surprising how they have diminished the quality of our lives. I wrote this (hopefully) to get people thinking about the state of society and the reasons for the sad state of affairs. Every day in America someone in a position of power exhibits hypocrisy. Whether priests who preach profess holiness and molest children or politicians who advocate gun control but possess concealed firearms licenses, or the political wonks who profess to be wise and purport to know everything but really only want to steer opinion in a given direction for their own benefit, Hypocrisy runs rampant in American society.
Hyperbole: Hyperbole seems to be having a good run. Much of what is said is so radically exaggerated that it can only be taken as hyperbole. The problem is that the people who hyperbolize will never admit to this fact because basically, they’re liars.
Willful Ignorance is a sad reality in life today. The “Talking Heads” who, when challenged, profess to not know anything about the subject at hand but seem to know everything about everything else. The media play a huge role in this problem. It’s common for the media to suspend their rational skepticism when the “willfully ignorant agrees with the reporter or editor’s personal prejudice. Willful ignorance is destructive to the fabric of our society. In recent years, we’ve been exposed to actors who have strong opinions about politics yet are under-educated, emotion-driven, egotistical and unable to contemplate the thought that other people with differing opinions just may have more education, knowledge, experience judgment and ability to be logical. How often has the mainstream media demanded an actor’s qualifications and expertise and challenged them with an alternative argument?
Many “reporters” “anchors” and television news personalities are frustrated actors. Or, they are people who got into the business of “news” because they perceive themselves as crusaders for justice and want to “make the world a better place”. The problem is that they’ve never really done anything remotely like manual labor, never been in the armed services and therefore have little or no perspective on reality. They merely selectively report on what others have actually done. Watching something happen is not the same as doing it. Willful ignorance is destructive and disingenuous. It is closely related to Moral Relativism.
Moral Relativism: “Well, she did it, so what’s the big deal if he did it too?” JFK had at least one affair in the Whitehouse, so what’s the big deal if Bill Clinton did too? Hell, everybody does it. So who are we to judge? It’s not about judgment; it’s about expecting our fellow citizens to have at least a modicum of self-control.
Liars believe that everyone is just like them—liars. Since liars believe that everyone habitually lies, they see truth as somehow, though indefinably, suspect and not to be trusted. Politicians who are true liars can’t and don’t understand that many people don’t routinely lie. This causes them to conclude that since “everybody” lies; it’s just part of the political process. This causes enormous and devastating damage to legitimate and necessary political processes.
Disdain: When people disparage others to make themselves feel superior, when we feel that others are lesser beings, in reality, they demean themselves. When the bureaucrat, the policeman, the IRS investigator acts with contempt for the people he is supposed to serve, when the government shows condescension in dealing with the citizen, when the public shows disdain for its dedicated servants, the whole fabric of the social order unravels. Disdain just breeds more contempt and distrust.
Malevolent Bureaucracy is probably the greatest threat government poses. The first rule of bureaucracy is to survive whatever the cost.
An elected official is a public figure who can be voted out of office should the need arise. The bureaucracy is a mostly anonymous entity that works in the background, promulgating rules, regulations and procedures that become, over time a greater and greater burden on the people the bureaucracy is intended to serve. The greatest power of a bureaucrat is to say “No” when a routine request or question is at issue. When you call a public agency and the answerer is condescending…when you try to get some information from a public agency and the person responsible doesn’t return your voicemail messages…when public agencies—the police—the bureaucrat at city hall—the IRS hide behind their walls of anonymity and won’t be held accountable, you are experiencing bureaucracy at its most onerous. And you’re being taxed to support this bureaucracy with its administrative “rules” and the burdens it imposes.
It is evidenced in people who merely perform the minimum required by some internal regulation instead of “owning” an issue or problem until it is resolved or taken to its logical conclusion. When your application for a building permit, your letter of inquiry, your complaint goes into the “black hole” of a bureaucracy never to be seen again, you are experiencing banality. Banality goes “hand-in-glove” with bureaucracy.
Venality: Venality is part of each of us. It is the practice in our daily lives of taking cheap shots. We take them for our own gratification or to “count coup” against others. Tribes of American Indians had a practice of humiliating their enemies rather than killing them. The humiliation of having an enemy disgrace one is, for most, a fate worse than death. In our culture, this practice, likely developed as a “survival tool” in high school, has spread into the popular culture and even into our family life. “Needless needling” creeps into otherwise loving relationships to poison and ultimately kill... The practice has become so widespread as to be nearly universal. Cumulatively, the effect of this practice is to create an atmosphere wherein people mistrust others and exist in a permanent state of defensiveness. This state of permanent mistrust contaminates our social environment and empowers the people who want to bring the nation down.
teapartynation.com seems to be a good meeting place also. We need UNITY. We’re spread out all over.
I got the change (emp. to unemp.) so I have the time. But I don’t have the resources to drive up from SO FL. Any South Floridians going up in their car? I’ll drive for you.....
A TIME TO STAND, I truly don’t know if a million man march on Wash. would do any good. Those who think they are in charge would not give a care. However, If a million man march came prepared to force change...then something would be done. Every one I’ve talked to is totally fed up and don’t want to take it anymore. So It’s up to the American Patriots, Shit or get off the pot as complaints will not be answered unless you stand your ground and refuse to back down. What is freedom worth?
They’ve been printing fiat money for months now. Why wouldn’t they just continue?
This goes back to my eariler post about how much *real* money actually exist in DC.
It's a metaphor. Whatever day you pay, don't. In whatever manner you can possibly stop enabling the tyrant class, at whatever time, just stop enabling them.
For some this would be greater hardship, but if America needed you to save it, wouldn't you quit your job and go forth to save your country? Well, it DOES need to be saved.
Whatever needs to be done.
I would gladly, and literally if need be, march to D.C.
Not a threat just a fact.
Problem with that is, we are out of time.
Good post, though.
Life and Liberty are God-given unalienable rights of we the people. No government, federal, state or local can deprive innocent persons of their rights to life and liberty.
“Well, we’re not going to pussyfoot around with these people.”
Believe me, I’m weary of the hog trough sloppin’ lot of them.
I posted in response to your post. The whole “what would we do” thing.
If it happened right now, the first thing that would happen is...it would be ignored. It would be mocked. I don’t know if a million would show up.
It’s kind of the trouble with the tea parties. Don’t get me wrong, I went to my local tea party with my entire family and my 101-year-old grandma who has never protested in her long life.
(The idea that the government might decide she needs to talk about her death with a special counselor every five years turns my stomach, she retired at 93 and pays for private insurance. She’s lost her husband, 7 of her 8 siblings and two of her three sons. And someone thinks she needs to talk about death? She needs to learn to use some cuss words for that meeting.)
Anyway, the tea parties were great because of the disorganization. The fact that you googled and showed up with your signs. The signs said a lot of different things.
It was about much more than taxes in the end.
So, what I’m saying is, I agree with your plan to work on a document. There’s a lot of chaos right now. And some are completely ignorant of what’s going on.
You know, let’s look at the health care. Let’s look at the idea that the government is planning long term to somehow STOP tobacco usage in the military because insurance costs are high. Now, imagine you live in the ‘hood and you have the government insurance...you really think they’re not going to be coming for your cigarettes, too? What do you think about that? How are you going to like it when the government decides which foods you get to consume? It won’t be long until they are controlling your alcohol, too.
Are those the rights you wanted when you voted for them? The prohibition on doing certain things because it costs THEM too much?
Our government is becoming larger than our individual rights.
Is that the America we want? Maybe if you’re on Social Security, you should be forced to buy your new car from government motors? It could sound reasonable. But it’s definitely the path to totalitarianism.
I’ll be really curious to see the “manifesto”. There’s just so much to be concerned about right now, that I think people feel splintered on certain things. Having it concisely and with bullet points and major contentions, I think at least, would be helpful.
Then if you are asked, “What’s this about?” You are ready.
In the dark?
Someone merely needs to point out that the emperor is naked, and then the emperor knows that we all know it, and then the jig is up. The money is suddenly just paper after all, and the printing presses stop, and the lights go out.
Once the illegals leave there will be more jobs than you can shake a stick at, and it would do a government drone good to spend a few months picking strawberries...
Sounds fine to me.
Yes it is! This is a plan for the United States of America as laid down by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution.
Every patriot needs to do everything they can to be in Washington, DC on 9/12 to serve notice on all members of Congress and the Government and reinstate our Constitution.
Book your room and purchase your Freeper Convention ticket and join us in Washington, DC on 9/12!
Here is a list of random thoughts I have kept over the years as various news stories came up. This list is in no way a final list of thoughts, and it maybe not even be well thought out and it has some emotional responses in it to those news sotries. I don’t back everything in it as even I change my mind once I cool down, but I do think it makes a good starting point with various issues we have seen over the past number of years and I offer it as a point of conversation.
Assumptions
1. There will never be the ability to prevent special interests within government legislatures. All laws must allow the people the right to negate such affects of special interests and help prevent tyranny.
2. All governments revert to force against the people when enough power and money are applied and desired by those that control the government.
3. All government programs get bigger, never smaller.
4. People are fallible, but also lie, cheat, and steal purposefully.
5. Power comes from grouping or organization of like minded people. Such power should never be held by anyone within or influencing government. This is a country of individuals represented, not mob rule.
6. Individuals perform best and create a better country when left to make their own decisions without influence of government.
7. None of us is as dumb individually as all of us collectively.
8. The people give the government its power and shall enjoy all powers they give.
9. Money is a holding of a person’s labor. A person’s labor is their life. Taking their money is taking part of their life. Money is not something to be taken lightly.
10. The Interstate Commerce clause is void. The federal government has proven abuse of the privilege.
Rights & Privacy
1. No person, not imprisoned, shall be denied any right enjoyed by the people, to include the right to vote, possess weapons, or travel freely.
2. The people have the right to protect property from theft or destruction by lethal force to include property not their own, petty theft not withstanding.
3. No person shall be required to retreat from aggression.
4. No laws shall be made to regulate or tax the manufacture, sale, transfer, or ownership of any weapon, except to ensure weapons of mass destruction are safely stored and handled. Weapons of mass destruction shall include only those weapons whose use may injure or kill multiple people at once and shall not include individual firearms or small explosives.
5. The people shall have the right to concealed possession of weapons except in courts of law, Capital buildings, State Legislatures, and government offices where armed security has been established to provide for the security of its occupants and technological devices are utilized that prevents the carry of weapons.
6. The government shall have the right to make law regarding the safe storage and use of weapons of war that are chemical, biological, or nuclear devices, or any such type of weapon as may be invented that is capable of causing mass destruction. Such law shall be restricted to ensuring public safety and may not prohibit the possession, ownership, or proper use of such weapons.
7. No property shall have as a condition of purchase or possession any requirement of association or commerce with any person, organization, or other properties. All such existing deeds restrictions are void.
8. No person shall be required to vacate their property under any circumstance, including declared emergencies or natural disasters, except under warrant for arrest for crimes, nor shall the government be responsible for the safety for those who choose not to vacate under government recommendation.
9. All persons have the right to defend themselves and their properties from acts of war or by an invading people of foreign nations.
10. No person shall be detained for any reason without a crime having been committed and without probable cause that the detainee is the perpetrator of the crime.
11. Information gathered of a person may not be used without the explicit permission of the person and no services or rights may be withheld for refusal to grant permission for the use of the information.
Government Accountability
12. No law shall be made requiring persons or governments to ignore other laws.
13. No act of the government, except for plans of war or investigations of crime, shall be performed in secret, and criminal investigations shall be made public once any trial has concluded or the investigation has concluded innocence.
14. Any elected or appointed government official who intentionally violates the rights of any person shall be punished at maximum by death and at minimum removal from office and barred form holding office or government employment. Any person may bring a complaint of such violations to court and shall be heard.
15. No special privilege or protection may be given to any government not enjoyed by the individual people, except privileges of identification of government agencies.
16. The government shall not own, participate, or maintain controlling interest in any industry or operation of commerce except those enumerated powers.
17. No payments or grants shall be made to persons not having performed direct services to the government for the benefit of the people directly, to include no payments of welfare, tax credits, or incentives.
18. No law shall be made whose purpose is that of controlling or influencing social behaviors.
19. No law shall be made banning substances that are not a danger to others when used by an individual.
20. The people shall maintain the right to enforce their rights by any force necessary to do so.
21. No law shall be made that takes affect in the future past 180 days.
22. No law shall be made that grants regulatory authority to government agencies that may alter the affects of the law.
23. Each bill shall stipulate its authority within the Constitution and no bill shall be put forth that is not strictly allowed for within the Constitution.
24. No action or use of force shall be used by the government except in direct response to a known and direct action and no action or use of force shall ever be taken merely against a possible threat or fear of a threat.
25. Any person elected to office who shall have been shown to have violated any elections law shall be immediately removed from office with any such complaint of violation being sworn by any person to be heard by any federal court of law consisting of three judges.
Religion
26. Marriage shall be defined as between one man and one woman, neither of blood relations.
27. No religion or system of beliefs may be used as an offense or defense in a court of law.
28. No tax shall be placed on marriage or religion or any practice of either.
29. The government may not require a person to hold religious beliefs of any kind nor may inquire about a person’s religious beliefs. No person holding public office or employment shall be required to deny their beliefs nor prohibited from practicing their beliefs.
30. No jury shall be prohibited from expressing their beliefs in deliberation.
Taxation
31. There shall be no tax on incomes or possession of property.
32. Taxes may be levied on the use of property only when the use of property causes government or public resources to be consumed.
33. There shall be no requirement to report income, wealth, or property possession or use except when necessary for calculation of tax or regulatory compliance and the information collected shall be strictly limited to information necessary for the collection of the tax.
34. No tax shall be collected to be paid to foreign interests except from debt paid from war.
35. No monies shall be paid as part of membership or under treaty to any foreign organization.
36. The federal government may not collect any tax from the people. All federal taxes collected must be collected by and paid by the States.
37. No tax shall be made whereby some people do not pay.
Courts and Justice
38. No government or government employee shall be indemnified from prosecution.
39. No person shall be required to provide any information that may later be used for prosecution.
40. Any law enforcement or government official with responsibility to take or respond to the report of a crime, and refuses to do so, shall be guilty of being an accessory to the crime being reported and punished to the maximum extent allowed for the reported crime.
41. Any person who commits perjury or swears a false complaint in a criminal matter shall be sentenced to the maximum possible punishment facing the accused, to include death, or 10 years imprisonment at hard labor, which ever is greater.
42. Any person who commits perjury or swears a false complaint in a civil matter shall be punished by not less than three times the matter or one half of their assets, which ever is the greater, and 10 years imprisonment at hard labor.
43. No membership in any labor union, trade or professional organization shall be required to be a judge in a court of law or represent any case before a court of law.
44. Any law that shall reasonably be determined to require counsel of any kind to understand, obey, prosecute, or defend against, is void. Such a determination may be used as an affirmative defense at trial.
45. A judge or jury must first determine before verdict if the law as presented to the court is just, comprehensible, and applicable to the case before them.
46. No criminal complaint shall be dismissed except by the person, who shall have sworn the complaint, or by a judge, or by a jury of at least 6 peers.
47. Every person shall enjoy the right before the courts to file and prosecute criminal complaints, not withstanding the right of the State or local governments to provide prosecutors.
48. The Supreme Court shall consist of 9 judges, and all decisions shall be made only by quorum of 7 judges.
49. Supreme Court judge tenure is for no longer than 7 years and may leave the bench at any time.
50. The Senate may override a Supreme Court decision by a two-thirds majority and a call for vote by the Senate in such matters must be given 30 days public notice unless two-thirds are present, and the vote be held in public view. An interim stay of the court decision may be given by the President of the Senate.
51. No property may be confiscated without a conviction in court and the property having been obtained in violation of law, eminent domain not withstanding.
52. All protections or privileges of law shall apply equally to all persons and no special protections or privileges may be applied to any specific person, persons, or group.
53. The people shall not be held to any alternate court or governing body outside of this constitution and resulting government and no other alternative form of governing body shall exist. Any person found violating this section is guilty of sedition and shall be put to death.
54. No person shall pay any court fees for charges file against them by the government and having been found not guilty.
Representation
55. The States shall elect the Senators by their legislatures of two-third majority.
56. The people of the respective States may issue a recall election of a Senator by vote of one-forth of representatives of their respective legislature, with a Senator recalled by a simply majority vote of the general population. Having recalled a Senator, a new Senator is to be elected within 90 days by simple popular vote for the remaining term the recalled Senator held. Should a Senator fail to be elected within 90 days, the governor of the State may seat a Senator.
57. A census to determine a count of citizens is to be held every 10 years on years ending in zero. Only citizens shall be counted and only their names and addresses may be collected.
58. No person whose grandparents not having been born citizens, or who has obtained voluntarily a citizenship or residency in a foreign country after becoming a United States citizen, may be a member of the Congress, a governor of a State, or a member of any State legislature, or hold a law enforcement position. Any person who holds a foreign citizenship without their consent must publicly denounce the foreign citizenship in writing.
59. Any elected or appointed official who attempts to represent a foreign interest over the interests of these United States shall be punished for treason.
60. A quorum of the House or the Senate shall consist of those present. No vote shall be held without notification to all members with at least 10 days notice and any vote may be held at any time if all members are present and agree.
61. All votes of Congress shall be recorded as to members present and their vote cast and made available to the public. No vote may be made in secret or without recording.
62. All bills before Congress shall be specific to a single subject.
63. All bills brought before Congress by any representative and having support of at least two additional representatives, each from different States, shall enjoy a vote of Congress on a normal schedule.
64. No bill may be filibustered, denying a representative the right to present a bill before the Congress. No parliamentary rule or law that allows for or indirectly causes a filibuster may stand.
65. Any monies given for political campaigns must be recorded and available for public scrutiny before such monies may be placed in use.
66. Only persons directly represented may give may give monies for political campaigns.
67. Any candidate accepting foreign monies for a campaign shall be denied office, removed from any office held, and prosecuted for sedition. Foreign persons giving monies for political campaigns shall be deported and forfeit their monies, not withstanding any laws that shall provide for additional prosecution for such offenses.
68. No law shall be made restricting the amount of monies spent on political campaigns.
69. Any person who shall have attempted to deny a person a vote or attempted to coerce a vote through force shall be put to death.
70. Any person who shall have attempted to interfere with a ballot box, a polling place, election officials, or voters shall be put to death.
71. Any person who shall have directly influenced a person to commit any of the previous acts shall be put to death.
72. Lethal may be used against anyone attempting to use force or threat of force to deny the right to vote at a polling place.
73. Each bill shall be read aloud before each house of Congress and the gallery.
Sovereignty
74. No person may be stripped of their citizenship except persons who falsely obtained their citizenship.
75. Only citizens may own real property or own any interest in real property.
76. No person who is not a citizen, a lawful immigrant or visitor may possess notes, bills, or any financial instrument of the federal or State governments and any such possessions shall be confiscated.
77. Members of the military or militia may not be placed under foreign control during times of peace or war.
78. No government shall send or allow to be sent by government or private enterprise information about individual persons to any foreign national, government, or organization.
79. No laws, regulation, or rules of a foreign entity, including entered into by treaty or trade, shall be enforceable as law.
80. Treaties shall only be enforceable upon the federal government.
81. The language of the United States is English as defined by the dictionary chosen by the Senate.
82. No employment shall require the use of any other language except English, except by businesses whose primary business is foreign languages, trade or points of entry within the United States.
83. No government may produce or cause to be produced any government publication in any language except English, except for foreign trade or points of entry within the United States.
84. No government may contract for services or products with any foreign national, government, or organization, except for services or products to be obtained and used on foreign soil.
85. Sedition against the United States shall include acts of collusion with foreign nationals or governments to take possession of territories of these United States, to invade with or without the use of force any territory of the United States, to influence any election, to cause harm to any citizen of any State, or to cause or influence acts of war against these United States, and is punishable by death.
86. The federal government has the responsibility to protect the land borders and seas from invasion while each State maintains the right to also protect their borders and seas.
87. Unlawful entry into any State by a foreigner is an invasion of that State and these united States and the people shall retain the right to protect their property from such invasions by whatever means they believe necessary.
88. No person unlawfully in the United States shall enjoy any rights except the right to be prosecuted by trial for criminal offenses, punishment of those offenses, and deportation, and such persons may be treated as hostile foreign invaders by any person.
89. Any person who enters or remains in the United States unlawfully shall be deported and forever denied entry to the United States.
90. The federal government may not own, operate, or control lands outside of the District of Columbia, except for individual buildings used for conducting the business of the United States, military reservations and ports of entry as allowed by the State legislatures, and border areas not to exceed 1 mile inland.
91. No ruling of a foreign government shall have any affect upon the United States or her people nor may it have any consideration in court.
92. No US Citizen may be extradited to a foreign government except upon Grand Jury hearing and only for the crimes of murder, assault, and grand larceny and only to governments whereby punishments fit the crime according to United States law and customs as shall be determined by the Senate and approved by the Grand Jury.
93. All States shall enforce the laws of the land upon which they are subordinate.
Military
94. No conscripture may be imposed for any cause including war.
95. No person who is not a citizen may be a member of the armies but may be a member of the militia as the militia may allow.
96. Upon declaration of war by the Congress, the President shall nominate a general officer from the armed forces who shall be affirmed by simple majority of the Senate present and have authority to wage war without question by civil authority except by Congress who shall maintain authority for funding the war and may revoke the declaration of war at any time.
97. No martial law shall be imposed without a declaration of war and with that war being fought on United States soil.
Finance
98. No law or regulation shall be made prohibiting ownership of gold or silver, nor shall any tax be applied to the trade or ownership of gold or silver.
99. All currency shall be backed by physical holdings of gold and silver with the dollar representing one ounce of silver.
100. Congress shall have the only authority to cause payments.
101. Congress shall authorize any expenditure not funded.
102. Congress shall not borrow any money except under declaration of war and only monies directly related to execution of war may be obtained in credit.
Sedition & Treason
103. Any person elected to any office paid for any reason by a foreign interest shall be prosecuted for sedition with the maximum penalty of death and the minimum penalty of removal from office, fined ten times the amount in question, and barred from government office or employment.
104. The government shall not support nor condemn any political candidate and any person who does so as a member of government shall be guilty of sedition with the maximum penalty of death and the minimum penalty of removal from office and barred from government office or employment and fined ten times their annual salary.
105. No person may receive money to pay any fine brought from acts of sedition.
States & Interstate Commerce
106. No State may tax products purchased in another State. No State may tax products brought into the State.
107. No State may tax products brought into the State for sale in the State any more or less than products produced in the State.
108. No State may claim residency of a person or their property for purposes of taxation unless that person resides within the State at least 90 days per year. Proof of residency is the burden of the State.
109. The federal government shall have interstate commerce regulation restricted to issues of taxation and possession.
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