Law in the United States of America Series - Part 2 - Declaring Independence and the Constitution
How does the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution fit in Law?
How does the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution fit in Law?
constitution:
4. The established form of government in a state, kingdom or country; a system of fundamental rules, principles and ordinances for the government of a state or nation. In free states, the constitution is paramount to the statutes or laws enacted by the legislature, limiting and controlling its power; and in the United States, the legislature is created, and its powers designated, by the constitution
Websters 1828 dictionary
https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/constitution
The Constitution of the United States of America was created an original document built upon thousands of years of humanity’s evolution and balancing the standards of the time it was written with the potential needs of the future. It is a highly imperfect document, but at the time of its creation was one of the most forward-thinking organizational documents.
The key characteristics of the USA Constitution are its distinct and voluminous limitations on the authority of government, its enumeration (affirmation) of a number of organic (natural) Rights, and its unifying theme of service to the individual. In this article, we are going to discuss the origins of the constitution, its beneficial and detractive qualities, the way in which government has operated within and without constitutional authority, the issues we are facing today, and what the future holds. Hang on to your seats!
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it comes to dominate our lives and interests.” Patrick Henry
The organic (original) USA Constitution was the result of the coming together of representatives of the revolutionary sentiment from each of the newfound independent states following the Revolutionary War. These representatives were almost exclusively independently wealthy landowners. They argued and discussed the virtue of various forms of government in the years leading up to 1789, when the constitution was formed. Their conversations involved historical perspective that is often lost today as our current educational system does not often honor the teachings of true classical philosophy, political or otherwise. They discussed the quality of monarchy, democracy, republics, and various other forms. They sought to bring together the American spirit in this document. That meant including private property fundamentally, the importance and value of the individual over the collective, the means by which to seek one’s fortune and joy, and the means to defend one’s life, the lives of others, and what one has earned for himself. Even before the Bill of Rights was adopted to identify certain Rights among the multitude granted humanity by its very existence, the Constitution declared to the world its purpose to be a shield for the sovereign man against the ever-encroaching evil of tyranny, whether the tyranny of a Parliament or of the mob.
“The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be suoerseded by no power on earth.” -George Mason
Much of the thoughts that were merged into this document were already coherent and manifest, shaped by the philosophers and activists of various places and times in history. The most influential, perhaps, of them all, was John Locke, who adamantly held that the ultimate Rights of Man was the rights to Life, Liberty, and Property. Private property was probably the most significant influencer of the American identity than anything else. It was in the colonies that private property first truly poked its head out of the pages of philosophy and stood for itself. The only way to defend private property, life and liberty is to have an independently armed population. This was recognized at least as far back as the 6oo’s AD. Let’s look into this.
On Private Property and the Right and Duty to Bear Arms as Rights and Standards-
The idea of individual ownership of plots of land developed in Europe in the 1500’s, expressed in the way they built their homes. Prior to this time, peasants were generally living in communal single room shelters with little privacy or comfort. As the interest in privacy and comfort grew and became feasible for peasantry, so did the reality of individual private ownership take root.
In the early 17th century, the Puritans that came to North America on the Mayflower that survived the first few years became the first western private property society. This was the original act that spurred the advent of the private property society we experience today. Between 1600 and 1776, many voices were heard evolving the private property rights of man. John Winthrop argued that “private ownership of the earth” was “created by human toil”, and that the God granted natural right to earth was based on use and occupancy. In this argument, private property became known as a God-given right. He also argued that the natural right exercised would become a civil right.
In 1656, James Harrington put forth the idea that the Shape of government was dependent upon the manner in which land was owned. While civil rights, created by law, could be removed by law, natural rights could never be destroyed, only temporarily obscured, or ignored. This became the fundamental driving force for our modern world. Harrington also proposed that the whole people were the greatest martial force in existence, so long as they were unified, secure, and accustomed to their arms. He proposed a government of the People, who would be the militia, to defend the whole body of the People in absentia of a standing army. His ideas greatly influenced the leaders of the revolution, and many others besides, considering there was nearly a 100% literacy rate among colonists by 1776.
In 1732, in his Essai sur la nature du commerce en general, Richard Cantillon explained that mercantilism only enriched the powerful few who managed a country’s financial institutions, while private property economics created dynamic and shifting free market economics that allowed prosperity to exist for the entire population.
Dr. Francois Quesnay, founder of the physiocrats, asserted that feudal restrictions, myriad taxes, and other government interference creates problems for entire nations, and that it would serve better to have one tax on profits of landowners, allow the markets to self-regulate and operate freely, and remove all government involvement in the economy.
Adam Smith, 1763, was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, with which sentiments such as government existed only to serve the people and to safeguard their property and right to personal liberty were fundamental. His book, Wealth of Nations, depicts the free market as an endless balancing act to achieve an impossible equilibrium. He fiercely criticized mercantilism and claimed that the only way to prevent it was for governments to give way to free markets, and to absolutely prevent monopolies.
In “Two Treatises on Government”, John Locke expounded that private property was an inevitable outcome of nature, and that land gave opportunity to express the inherent freedom of mankind. He argued that before government, people were free and lived in vast empty lands and that it was by the creative work of an individual on land that gave him right to ownership of that land. He said, “The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.” Agreements between individuals that reduce their natural liberty to preserve what is already theirs. John Locke’s Treatises describe exclusive ownership as a result of the right to own what one has created. He describes it as a matter of justice that each have the right to own their creations, and also the responsibility to be charitable. Property is guided by moral fairness rather than man-made laws, making it superior to law and government.
“If taxes are laid upon us in any shape, without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves?” - Samuel Adams, 1764
Increasingly, colonial rule was seen as oppressive despite the fact that by 1776 four out of five Americans owned their own land and their taxes were far lower than for those living in Britain. The American Revolution was significant because of the ideals it codified in its manifesto, the Declaration of Independence. The idea of real ownership, private property, and the promise of increasing one’s position and status.
The Right to Bear Arms was codified into the Constitution as a Right unambiguously due to the centuries of examples of the use of power by central authorities to deprive people of their fundamental human Right to defend themselves and their societies. I will be discussing this in great detail in further articles in this Series. For now, we can look to a few examples that led to the contention that it was an absolute necessity to have this Right enumerated, affirmed, and codified in the supreme law of the land.
Leading up to the Revolution, the Parliament of England made aggressive moves to remove arms from the colonies to ensure that the American colonists would be unable to resist the extraction of taxes and the enforcement of the new rules laid down by Parliament. The American colonists considered this to be an act of war and rose up in martial defiance as a direct result. Before this effort by the Crown and Parliament, there was already ingrained in the colonists a Right to bear arms. It was a part of normal life to own and carry firearms. In fact, the Colonial Milita Laws demanded that not only those capable of bearing arms must own arms, but that they had a duty to exercise them and become proficient in their use and to train their offspring in the same. Thus, the attempt to restrict the ownership, exercise, and access to arms of the colonists was met with contempt and anger.
Over 90% of the colonists were Whigs, who believed that the presence of a standing army was contradictory to a free society, and that the whole people make up the militia and must be equipped to defend the smallest to the largest portion of the society against any threats. The governments of 1760 and onward in the colonies were composed almost entirely of Whigs, and the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were the same.
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.” - George Mason.
“MAXIMS OF STATE:
Sophisms of a barbarous and professed tyranny;…
2. To make sure to him and his state his military men by reward, liberty and other means…
3. To unarm his people of weapons, money and all things whereby they may resist his powers…
Sophisms of the Sophistical or Subtle Tyrant, to hold up his State:…
8. To unarm his people, and store up their weapons, under pretense of keeping them safe, and having them ready when service requireth, and then to arm… such as he shall think sure men…
These rules of hypocritical tyrants are to be known, that they may be avoided, and met withal, and not drawn into imitation.”
- The works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, Vol. 8 at 22, 25 (Oxford Univ. 1829)
Thus, the fundamental principles upon which the Colonies separated from Britain and upon which the United States of America was formed, was private property, individual freedom, and the Right to Bear Arms and to maintain the whole people as the militia. These principles were codified in the Constitution of the United States of America.
“In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim—that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.” – George Mason, 1775
The documents constructed by the founders of the new nation, called the United States of America, from the Declaration of Independence to the Articles of Confederation, to the Constitution of the United States of America, to the Bill of Rights all aimed to confirm and affirm the Rights of the Sovereign People as predominant to the privileges and powers of government. These were the most advanced and empowering structures to be created by any society in written history, outside of some tribal arrangements potentially. I say potentially, because despite much of the common thoughts around tribal ways that are shared today, much of the individual liberties that we see identified and affirmed in our founding documents were either unidentified or unknown to those peoples. In many ways, we amalgamated native American practices and European philosophies to produce a nation of free men.
When we look to the intentions and motives of the founding fathers of the United States of America, we see a greater degree of interest in producing a truly free society than anywhere else at any time in known history. They intended the government to be a shield against the abuse of the people. It is only too unfortunate that We the People have allowed the most tyrannical and psychopathic of our species to acquire power and manipulate this system to turn its intent on its head and to make government the ultimate authority and the people the chattel.
“to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them”- Richard Henry Lee, Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican, at 21,22,124
“It is true, the yeomanry of the country possess the lands, the weight of property, possess arms, and are too strong a body of men to be openly offended and, therefore, it is urged, they will take care of themselves, that men who shall govern will not dare pay any disrespect to their opinions. It is easily perceived, that if they have not their proper negative upon passing laws in congress, or on the passage of laws relative to taxes and armies, they may in twenty or thirty years be by means imperceptible to them, totally deprived of that boasted weight and strength: This may be done in a great measure by congress, if disposed to do it, by modelling the militia. Should one fifth, or one eighth part of the men capable of bearing arms, be made a select militia, as has been proposed, and those the young and ardent part of the community, possessed of but little or no property, and all the others put upon a plan that will render them of no importance, the former will answer all the purposes of an army, while the latter will be defenceless.” -Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer III, October 10, 1787
One of the greatest proponents for a truly free society was Richard Henry Lee, who introduced the Lee Resolution, saying the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." The Resolution was entered into the Second Continental Congress on June 7th, 1776. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman drafted the Declaration of Independence. On July 2nd, after some debate in Congress, the Lee Resolution was adopted, and on July 4th was formally approved by Congress and the American Colonists were no longer under the yoke of Crown rule from the British Isle.
The Second Continental Congress on June 11th, 1776 appointed a committee to determine the form of the colonial confederation. On 15 November, 1777, the Articles of Confederation was adopted, which was in force from March 1, 1781 to 1789. This document was the first constitution of the United States. It established a "league of friendship" for the 13 sovereign and independent states, in which each state retained "every Power...which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States.” Moreso, every man was a sovereign, indicated in the Articles as “free citizens”. Each state had one vote to Congress and was recognized as the ultimate authority within its own boundaries, with the exclusion of the directly expressed permissions and duties given the federal government.
During this period of Confederation, there were several issues that were being discussed and debated, generally between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. These were the explosion of paper money causing inflation, the inability to conduct an organized war effort, territory disputes, war pensions and bonds, and taxation to name a few. The Anti-Federalists, like George Clinton believed it was better to be patient and revise the Articles of Confederation to enhance it to fit the needs of the independent states and the Confederation as they became apparent. The Federalists like James Madison believed that the Federal Government needed to have greater authority than the states, and some like Alexander Hamilton even desired to produce a life term presidency resembling a monarchy, except that new presidents would be elected. The difference between these two are not as black and white as many people represent them to be, and much of the ideas of the Federalists were intended to produce the same result as the Anti-Federalists, which was more freedom for the individual man. This method of arrival to that ideal was very different. In the end, there appeared a sort of middle ground, though not based on negotiation but rather a bit of slight of hand.
On May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention opened with a quorum of seven states in Philadelphia to discuss revising the Articles of Confederation. Instead of revision, on Sept. 17, 1787, 39 delegates signed an entirely new Constitution. Every State but New York and Virginia ratified the new Constitution. These two States refused to ratify until a Bill of Rights was included as per the demands of the Anti-Federalists who were seemingly ignored in the creation of the new Constitution. Without New York and Virginia, the new nation did not stand on very solid ground, and thus, the new government knew it must accede and include a Bill of Rights. On June 8, 1789, James Madison introduced his proposed Bill of Rights in the House of Representatives. On Dec. 15, 1791 Virginia became the last state needed to ratify the Bill of Rights, and 10 of the 12 proposed amendments became part of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Declaration of Independence
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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 has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable that to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably that 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. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies.; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.”
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution of the United States of America
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
The Bill of Rights
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Third Amendment
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Fifth Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Sixth Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Seventh Amendment
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Eighth Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
How has the government acted within the constitutional limits and without them.
There are many ways in which the government has violated the Constitution. Each of the ways mentioned here deserves several books worth of analysis, but we will likely get into them in future articles to get at the fundamentals and solutions. The government (Federal, State, County, Municipal, etc.) have violated the First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech and of the Press through censorship as a primary example. The collusion of political figures and parties and the media has completely eviscerated the ability of the people to form opinions without manipulation. The forums for communication have been converted into platforms for propaganda and agendas by globalists. In 2013, it was made legal for the government to propagandize its own citizens. Not Lawful, but legal.
The width and breadth of the Federal and State governments were intended to remain small, bureaucratically thin, and be armor against tyranny for the people. The horrors envisioned by many of the founders of the USA revolved around a future in which the lessons learned would be forgotten by a population manipulated by the wealthy and powerful classes of society. Small government and individual sovereignty and responsibility were the truest armor against tyranny, and the government in the end was to be the shield, wielded by the people vigorously and consciously.
“Compulsive or treacherous measures to establish any government whatever, will always excite jealousy among a free people: better remain single and alone, than blindly adopt whatever a few individuals shall demand, be they ever so wise. I had rather be a free citizen of the small republic of Massachusetts, than an oppressed subject of the great American empire.”
- George Clinton
Rights exist without governments and anything that exists as a right cannot be converted into a privilege. In spite of this, government has licensed travel, hunting and fishing, business, protests, gun ownership, and innumerable other rights. Debtors’ prisons are unconstitutional, yet the government has made prisons a business, exploiting the people to make cheap labor possible for the plutocracy. Standing armies are abhorrent to the constitution, and yet again, the government has created a constant army presence, not just in the states, but around the world. The powers of each branch of government are meant to balance the others, but instead, the branches have become entwined and unrepresentative of the people by any stretch of the imagination.
The Judicial Branch is meant to ensure the constitution is abided by to the letter, not interpret for the agendas of globalists and political influencers. In all the checks and balances designed to reduce the threat of tyranny, the judicial was the weakest. This is because it relies on the whole people to be vigilant. It is in the jury box that the people make a stand against the abuse of the Law. That is where the people determine both the validity of legislative laws under natural and constitutional Law, and where they review and contemplate the facts of each unique cause and make a decision of guilty or not guilty. It is up to the people to determine these things, but that has been eroded by the negligence, ignorance, and stupidity of the people, and is now fully in the hands of judicial officers and corrupt and inane legislatures.
“We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.”
- Patrick Henry
The refusal of a true Trial by Jury as outlined in the 7th Amendment is unconstitutional, and yet the courts have become akin to ATM’s for the Federal Reserve and the Governments, withdrawing money from the people who are not aware of their Right to Trial by Jury and the necessity of the practice of the instrument. For those who have ever been to traffic court, the people are called up one by one, and over 95% of those take a plea deal, admitting for the record that they committed a crime in the eyes of the legislative court. Not a single man alive in the United States of America is guilty of a traffic infraction, because such a thing does not exist in the eyes of the Law, the Constitution. Demanding a Trial by Jury requires that Due Process, Common Law, and the Constitution be adhered to. The courts despise this, because they never have the authority to provide this, when there is no true crime. When an affidavit from an injured party is not present in a case, there is no case. It is up to the Accused man to declare these facts and refuse to plea or participate in unconstitutional proceedings, and if they are violated and forcefully brought into court, it is up to the representatives of the whole people, the jury to identify this incongruity with the Law and to acquit the accused. Today, the people are ignorant of these facts, and cowardly in the face of the black robed clowns that sit in false authority. They are your servants, your slaves. You command them. We the People are not Chattel, but rather Masters. Masters of our governments and all of the agents of said governments. We have fallen a long way as a people to find ourselves here today, seen as the property of the government.
The legislative branch was never meant to be lawmakers, but rather law protectors, protecting the fundamental common law of the people. The executive branch has turned into an enforcement agency, with executive orders being produced so often that it seems to be more a dictation from a tyrant than orders built on necessity to protect the States from existential threats. The States have become enforcers of the motives of globalists and excuse themselves by reiterating their police powers, which they have used to multiply the oppression of the people to stupid levels. Through Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, the blending of private interests and public servants has completely ignored the mandates of the Constitution that these two areas remain separate and free from conflicts of interest. The Constitution was built on the Articles of Confederation which identified States as independent entities uniting under a common banner for the wellbeing and collaborative benefits to each. Each was sovereign. Today, it has become one massive empire.
The Federal Reserve being a private central banking cartel has become the financial body of the nation in complete denial of the Rights of the People to be secure in their private ownership and wellbeing and the pursuit of happiness. Beyond this, direct taxation has always been considered to be theft, plain and simple, by governments of the wealth and wellbeing of the People. The Supreme Court even upheld the unconstitutionality of direct taxation, only to be explicitly ignored.
“It is necessary that the powers vested in government should be precisely defined, that the people may be able to know whether it moves in the circle of the Constitution. Article I, Section 8 is intolerably vague. The Federal government will push its taxing power to the limit. It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have commonly demands for more. Hence it is that all as far as we are acquainted are in debt. I take this to be a settled truth that they will all spend as much as their revenue. That is, will live at least up to their income. Congress will ever exercise their powers to levy as much money as the people can pay. They will not be restrained from direct taxes by the consideration that necessity does not require them.”
- Melancton Smith
Why are we paying taxes to a tyrannical government, through the medium of a corrupt and despicable organization called the IRS? Because people are simply consenting to be robbed. The USA government was never meant to grow into a behemoth as it is today. It comes down to the centralization of power. The very thing the constitution explicitly was built to prevent.
“Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniences and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.”
- George Mason
If we continue down this path we will have no recourse but violent bloody revolution. If that is what you desire, continue paying taxes, paying for permits and licenses, and obeying unjust rules. Technocracy and tyranny is here. You are the hero of this story when you choose to be. Live as a Free man and die as a free man.
Death before Dishonor means I will die before I give one iota of my life in slavery to the slavers.
Good Luck Freedom Fighters.
Blessings!
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Liberty Uncensored is a free, community-driven, freedom-oriented newsprint. In a world where 6 corporations control most of the media, and the algorithms keep people from seeing anything they’re not already looking for, it seems ever more clear that means to get Truth to the un-initiated masses is ever more important. Liberty Uncensored is one of those means, a physical & digital newspaper, with the physical version being delivered door-to-door, for free, to a growing number of communities. Launched just months ago, LUNP is already distributing physical papers to thousands, with more than 30 brick & mortar locations.
The digital (interactive pdf) version is free with each month’s new issue being sent in email blasts & social media posts from dozens of friends, partners, and creators in the community, on top of our own distribution. getting this information out to as many people as possible is key.
Liberty Uncensored is Free to the World!
But it's not free to run.
Donate to our cause, advertise your business starting at only $12, or sponsor an article.
Do you have something to say about our Liberty and Freedoms, contact us to see about doing an interview for our media channels.
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There is a vast amount of information sources in this world, we want to be the one to funnel people to the best of those, not to mention providing the highest quality news and information we can, and we can do that by physical delivery of papers door to door, and at businesses, and churches and anywhere people frequent. We are sliding past the algorithms by bringing our fact-based, wellness and freedom-oriented content directly to the people in the most uncensorable and easily digestible form.
We need your help to bring it to the next level!
Blessings!
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