Freedom-Fighters Forum

The Constitutional Broadside

V1 N6 A PUBLICATION OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY COUNCIL
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

TAKE A DEEPER LOOK

CONGRESS ADJOURNED. It spent billions more than we have. Watch for serious repercussions.

IT MORTGAGES THE FUTURE of unborn generations of children’s children – until they rebel

TAXES WILL RISE. Listen for the drum-beat to call for added value tax after election

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS because of foreign trade will sky- rocket

SOME 70 BILLIONS + of unpayable American Dollars are floating around in foreign Central Banks looking for a roost with none available

DOLLARS TO LOAN, Not to Own: The Central Banks resist and resent our bucks. After we bought the goods, we stopped payment on our checks. They don’t like it!

INFLATION WILL INCREASE! Plumber Nixon claims he has sealed up the boiler. True, less visible steam is popping out right now. But pressure on price controls will build up in the coming year and the boiler will explode in spite of controls – and promises.

DOW JONES AVERAGE is a “lie” unless you take in to account the smaller dollars that are its true measuring rod…35% inflation since 1965. Dow J. is hovering around 980. Take away 350, the percentage of inflation of the $-that puts the true D J below 630. Present explosive market warns of danger.

SMALLER DOLLARS will pour out of Federal Reserve at wholesale.

WHAT DO WE MEAN? It’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

With congress out of session, the Representatives are all home to get re-elected. The Senators are either traveling on foreign junkets or back in the sticks mending their fences.

While they are out for a breather, let’s look at the issues.

We agree with a couple of our good subscribers that we do not always treat some of the more important matters facing our Nation. It is not possible to cover them all-or at once. Sometimes we must talk about timely froufrou. But not this time.

In this issue of THE BROADSIDE let’s stop and look at the foundation of our government instead of just the decorations.

We have been asked, “What’s this constitutional Question all about? If we do, what is the real constitution of our country? Do we have more than one.”

Yes, in one sense, we have two. We have both a written constitution and we have an un-written constitution.

If this is true, if we do have two constitutions, or said differently, if we have two aspects of one constitution, what is the real nature of the one Constitution of our country?

Many wonder and ask if we are, or should be, dependent entirely and only on what were written in fancy words on a piece of parchment by some old fashioned characters in 2787 for a by-gone age that no longer exists. Let’s try to think clearly about this.

WHAT IS THE REAL CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?

That is a big question. Long before our written constitution was adopted In 1789 we were in true essence a nation that was fastened and tied together by an earlier and then standard type of constitution. That older and un-written constitution went through many stages of growth and development and is clearly discernable in history. It had structure and form and was fired by a powerful spirit.

In order to better understand the problem we are considering let’s stop and clear the air with a definition or two. Let’s see what the words mean when either we or others use them.

A good modern dictionary says of the word, Constitution.

Constitution: The way in which a person or thing is organized. Nature, make-up: “A person with a good constitution is strong and healthy. We may know the chemicals that constitute the human mind but we do not know the constitution of life.” 2. A system of fundamental rules according to which a Nation, or State, or group is governed. “The United States has a written constitution.”

The first American Dictionary, published by Noah Webster in 1828, gives this as one meaning for the word 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 legislature, limiting and controlling its power. In the United States, the legislature is created, and its powers designated by its written Constitution.

THERE YOU HAVE IT:

Both modern and older scholars agree: The thing that makes a thing what it is, its underlying essence, is the constitution of that thing.

THE NATURAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN

The inner nature of the people that make up a nation is the real constitution of that nation.

The purposes, the hopes, the ideals, the faith, the principals that guide and motivate the conduct of the people are the essence of the nation.

THE FOUNDATION OF GOVERNMENT

The inner essence of government, of anything, is definable in three aspects of itself; its basic components, or elements, the structure of those elements, and the functions of its components.

STRUCTURE

A building is a structure. It has a foundation, walls, and a roof. A noun, the thing that you are are talking about, goes no place and accomplishes nothing without a verb that expresses function.

A person is a structure. If he is well structured, or organized, he has purpose, a plan of action for attaining his goal and the motive power to function constructively and harmoniously.

A nation is a structure. It is an organization composed of people who have commonality within a geographical area. They are cohesive in that they have mutual interests that draw them together in ways that reward or satisfy them, or give them hope.

FUNCTION

Function is movement or action. Whether it be a person or a nation, its actions and the inner activity of its parts, or members, must be in harmony with reality or disaster overtakes it.

Function is the fifth dimension of reality. The first three dimensions, length, width and depth, are non-existent in reality without the fourth dimension, time.

Function, the fifth dimension makes it possible for there to be a sixth dimension, purpose, or destination, or goal.

PURPOSE

Purpose requires that there exist a dimension we might call mind, or will.

It is within the mind that decision can be made. Decision is impossible without the mind that decision can be made. Decision is impossible without the perception of alternatives. The concept of right versus wrong, harmony as compared with conflict, is in the area or province of mind alone.

Chaos is intolerable. The futility of chaos which is another name for anarchy, proves the need for purpose, order and harmony in the affairs of man.

HARMONY

Harmony prevails in the area of the law of nature. The elements, or parts, of nature work together harmoniously in response to the laws of nature. Cause and effect exist because the Creator established order and harmony in the system that comprises the whole natural arena of life and physical reality. The structure of nature is orderly. Natural Law is the Law of God.

NATURAL LAW

Natural Law controls all aspects of nature, including all of man’s being. It structures every phase of his nature.

Cause and effect, pain and relief, desire and satisfaction, are all basic to accomplishment.

Man is naturally acquisitive. The law of survival demands it. The inborn pain of hunger and want are natural motivators of man. They are the best of all guarantees against poverty.

Man is responsive only to his own pain and joy. It is impossible for a person to feel anything except his own inner reaction. His internal sensory perceptions comprise his entire world of feeling. His consciousness of life is within himself. He has little awareness of feelings outside of himself. At best he can only infer they exist within anyone else.

It is true that the great intelligence of man permits him to have feelings of empathy. He can have in his mind concept of another’s pain but he never feels anything within himself except his own joy or pain. The pain that he may have through empathy is still an internal reaction of his mind.

PERCEPTIVITY

Man has five, possibly six, perceptive senses. He sees, feels, hears, smells, tastes, and thinks.

These are sensory avenues of external reality into his mind. Outside impressions alter his inner thought process or feelings. He is in this way, to a degree, structured and restructured by his external environment.

The percepts of a man’s mind are the raw material of his thoughts, the basis of his concepts.

CONCEPTIVITY

As a woman conceives a baby in her womb, so people conceive or create concepts in their mind. The “perceptions” of mind that come from outside the man enter into his mind through these “doorways”, his perceptive sensory nerves. They may come in either “willy-nillly” or by planned intake, depending on the control he exercises over his perceptive sensors and thought processes. They are the “raw-material” out of which he formulates his basic concepts.

By imagination the mind can take parts of one percept and combine them with parts of other percepts to make up new mental pictures or images that are mental composites. These imaginatively created images can be called “concepts”. The human mind can also cut up its concepts and combine them into still other and distinctively new and original concepts. Thus man can create.

CREATIVITY

Man is a creator. He has within himself naturally his god-given free agency. He is free to think his own thoughts as he himself desires. He can ingest, or take into his mind, whatever he chooses of what he perceives. He can retain what he wants to retain and recall what he selects for his own personal use.

Out of the raw material of his own thoughts, his percepts and his concepts, as he is moved by his own feelings, man can create or design any concept that his heart or intelligence moves him to create.

Man is a creator because he has within himself naturally the ability to ingest nutrients that contain the elements of power. He can transform these elements into usable energy by means of his own thinking, breathing and digestion. He can absorb and transform within himself power as he needs for his own locomotion. He takes into his body the natural rays of energy from God’s unlimited storehouse. He pulls power from God’s divine sources and transmutes these all into the elements of his own body and the power of thought. Since god is his source of supply, there are no practical limits to the power of his thoughts and actions. Man is and becomes what he thinks.

Man can be and is creative because he is subjective. He is aware of himself and is responsive to his own needs. His own pain and joy are the natural limits that he sets upon his choices.

MAN’S INNER STRUCTURE CONTROLS HIM

The inner nature of the people that make up a nation is the real, inner, basic constitution of the nation that is comprised of or made by those people.

You might combine into one written document the best of all possible written constitutions the whole world could produce. If the people who make up the nation that would rely upon such a written constitution were themselves personally evil- that is, if the people themselves are out of harmony with eternal principles of conduct that are natural to the structure and being of man-such a nation would be a badly functioning nation. It would be controlled by a bad constitution.

No written code or law of statutes can keep an evil people from destroying themselves by their personal conduct. Not even God can, or will, preserve such a people.

THE NEED FOR GOVERNMENT

Man’s intelligence, his subjectiveness, his acquisitiveness, his perceptivity, his conceptive ability, his awareness of his own joy and pain, and his total inability to feel his neighbor’s feelings are elements of his nature that require that he have an instrument of agreement with others around him to bring about harmony in his associations.

Without social order and restraint of the drive and wants of the individual, death in combat is the inexorable alternative.

THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT

Not persons as such but citizens are the basic and fundamental units of government. A person can reside within the geographical area of a nation and not be a part of that governmental structure.

“Citizenship” is a special kind of “hat” that a person must wear in his relationship to a government of which he is a structural part.

The Officials who occupy positions in the structure of a government are citizens who wear also a second “cap” Officials play in both roles.

Rules, or ordinances, or laws that govern the conduct of citizens and officials are the third component in the governmental structure.

A person who fails or refuses to function in his role as either citizen or official is not a part of the government and has no claim upon it.

RULER OR SUBJECT

Every person is endowed by his creator with certain unalienable rights. Next in importance after life it is his divine gift from God of his own agency. He has within himself naturally the power to make choices freely between alternatives.

Citizens are either sovereign citizens or they are subject citizens. The subject citizen submits himself to the dictates of some other power. He surrenders his freedom and accepts direction, control and domination from outside himself.

The sovereign citizen, the free man, refuses to be dominated. He asserts his agency and takes control of his own life. He uses his strength to regulate his own environment to his taste and liking. He directs and controls government rather than to permit government to control him.

THE BIRTH-PANGS OF THE UNITED STATES

On July 4, 1776 our forefathers declared themselves free and independent persons having no ties or allegiance to anyone but to themselves and to the powers of divine providence.

Their fathers had been muzzled and bled by tyrants for almost two centuries on this continent.

In 1789, on this great American Mainland, our ancestors brought forth for us a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created with certain equal and unalienable rights.

We are still engaged in a great battlefield on this continent and around the world to see whether that nation, or any other nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

The great men who gave birth to this nation gave us a new insight into ourselves and a new destiny for the world.

Not only did they scan the heavens for light on their endeavor, they distilled, with God’s help, from all human history the greatest set of ideas on government, the structure of government, and the limitations of government that were ever collected and set down by the mind and pen of man.

They knew that nature of man. They knew the history of government. They were familiar with tyranny and with the foibles of power-seeking, self-serving people.

This new continent was their incubator. From it, through them, the God of Heaven who is the true God of all Nature brought forth a glorious written instrument designed to help men remain free.

THE WRITTEN CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.

The founding fathers learned, clarified in their minds and set down in basic law the elementary principles of human liberty and security.

No major country in the world in their time had a written constitution. A long tradition had existed, primarily in England, that people could be best governed by law rather than by the whim of man.

It was in 1215 that the signing of the agreement known as Magna Carta first established that the ruler, the government, must submit to laws that were written and enforced by someone other than by the king.

Out of the so-called common law concept of the nature of the supreme law of the land of old England the idea had evolved that there were natural rights of man that were inherent within each person; that a person was and should be his own ruler.

The Civil Law concept of law from Rome and other ancient nations said that only the ruler, the King, had rights within himself naturally; that all others in the realm were his subjects having only privileges that were granted by him at his pleasure. That law, the Civil Law, has proven itself to be the mother of tyrants and tyranny.

Slaves had dreamed for millenniums about a time when there would be limitations and controls put upon the powers of government. In England the contest between the King and Parliament had raged since Magna Carta. The hand-writing was on the King’s wall but he wouldn’t read it. He lost the contest and the whim of Parliament replaced the whim of tyrant kinds in England.

THE HIGHER LAW, “The Law of the Land”

The concept of a “Higher Law” above and beyond the reach and control of either King or Parliament, or of the people, had long since found lodgment in the minds of patriots who were amenable to God.

The great jurist Blackstone said in England in 1765, “Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these..and herein it is that human laws have their greatest force and efficacy; for, with regard to such points as are not indifferent, human laws are only declaratory of, and act in subordination to the former.”

He gives an example in the matter of murder; “Nay if any human law should allow or enjoin it we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we must offend both the natural and divine.”

THE TRUE AND NATURAL CONSTITUTION

There you have it. Our founding fathers knew that there stood underneath and behind all they could say in our written constitution a natural and divine law that their writing was only attempting to implement.

The lesson of the twentieth century stands out like a beacon light with a message for all to hear:

We offend the natural law of God only at our peril, both individually and collectively.

OUR WRITTEN CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES IS A PRONOUNCEMENT OF GOD, OF HIS DIVINE LAW.

The purpose and objective of THE 21^ST CENTURY COUNCIL is to enthrone, support and abide by Law of the Land which is the Constitutional Law of the Land and to oppose all satanic forces that would lessen, change, or ignore that law.

We call upon every citizen of the land to join us in our battle for liberty.