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Parliamentary law is much abused in today’s political environment. The Establishment Republicans abuse parliamentary law at the precinct, county, state, and national level conventions just as the Democrats do even more so at their conventons. These entrenched and challenger political parties get away with such abuses because the grassroots voters are too few and ill prepared to challenge and defeat such abuses. The American educational system has done too good of a job of keeping young and old citizens ignorant about their individual and group powers to wield parliamentary law.

The solution is for enough people to get determined enough to educate themselves and each other about their powers under parliamentary law and organize to meet on a frequent basis around a very few and fundamental constitutional issues which the vast majority can reach consensus upon. They have to keep the group’s political palnks in their political platform few enough to maintain a strong group consensus, and agree to disagree on all other political issues which can break up the group.

Having organized around the key and perpetual constitutional issues, the group/s can exercise their rights at the local government meetings and begin to put their own members into the local political offices and challenge the top down candidates appointed by the major parties’ state committees. At that point things get real interesting as the establkishment elites of the major parties discover they are losing control of their voting precincts, local conventions, and local governments.

As your group secures control of the political meetings and enough government offices, it then becomes possible to introduce and sometimes pass legislation returning certain fundamental rights to the control of local governments now controlled by the representatives of your own local political organizations. The right to form grand juries who may then indict government officials for corruption and unconstitutional acts is one of the foremost rights to regain. Making U.S. Senators accountable to the State governments and the citizens is another key objective. Holding the judicial branch accountable for unconstitutional acts with impeachments is another avenue of reform. But securing control of local government and respect for parliamentary law is mandatory in order to pursue the larger issues.