Freedom-Fighters Forum

The Constitutional Broadside
V1 N10 A PUBLICATION OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY COUNCIL
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

PROBLEMS OF OUR CHANGING POLITICAL LAW

Question: Are we Americans going to live under The Constitutional Law of the Land or will we submit to the unconstitutional tyranny of the inferior rules of men?

It seems to be axiomatic that if we are to make this choice wisely, we must first understand and test the alternatives.

Our objective here is to examine and understand various concepts that create the law of our land. By this study we can better determine whether our future will be one of liberty or enslavement.

This is true because no power on earth can compel a people to endure a government they do not willingly accept. If they choose either by vote or by acquiescence to live under tyrants, it is because they prefer the false promise of the security of slavery. If they refuse to defend their rights, they lose them.

If people will not be personally responsible for themselves, and for their own sins, and for their own destiny, they cannot have liberty.

LAW

Law, Natural and Social: Natural law is the general word we use to refer to the controlling principles behind natural phenomena. When we perceive a natural event that occur repeatedly and always in the same was under certain specific circumstances, we infer that a “law of nature” causes that particular phenomenon. When the apples stem parts or breaks loose from the tree, the apple falls to the ground. Its fall, we say, is the natural and inexorable result of the operation of the law of gravity.

Social or Political law are terms we use to refer to the rules of conduct that govern man’s relationship to man. These laws grow out of the natural laws of life.

THE LAW OF LIFE

Life, the law and nature of life, is beyond the comprehension of man’s mortal mind. We know life exists. We observe its functions. We know it is a fact of nature. When we observe that something grows, we say it is alive. It is the nature of life to develop according to the law of growth of its kind.

The nature of man determines and controls his functions.

The Natural Law of Man. We act the way we act because of our nature. We are subject to the law of our being. We think because we have a brain, and our mind, our inner spiritual perceptivity, allows us to form concepts within us. These concepts, and our reactions to them, direct our thoughts and actions. This is the law of our nature.

Jesus, The Christ, taught “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

We respond only to our inner motivation. As we become aware of our external environment, our physical senses and our inner spiritual perceptivity allow and causes us to form concepts within our mind. These concepts, and our reactions to them, give us the direction and power we need to function meaningfully. This is a law of our nature.

GOD’S NATURAL LAW MAKES US FREE

Every person has the unalienable right to work in harmony with the laws of nature to acquire nutrients essential for his survival. He has the right to breathe air. He cannot survive more than three minutes in safety without oxygen. No person has any right to deny him life, or the means of preserving his life. Only he himself can forfeit his life, by violation of the law of live, whether physical or social law.

Reason decrees and Nature’s God has ordained that every man’s most basic right is the right to use his mind and all of his natural power to preserve himself and his rights to long as he does not trespass on or molest another’s equal rights.

God, Our Heavenly Creator, The Divine Mind, The Controller of Life, has given us both life and our agency.

He has placed us in an environment where nature provides enough for all and more to spare. Our inner ability to control ourselves within our environment and to have dominion over all things upon the earth is our natural heritage. These are among our gifts from God. It is natural and according to reason that we not only have them but that we use our ability to preserve them as the basic means of our survival in liberty.

Our Natural Rights that underlie our survival are known as our unalienable rights. They are given to us by God. Our natural sense, our reason, tells us that they exist and that we have them. They cannot be taken away from us and we cannot give them away. They are inseparable from our nature.

One of these unalienable rights is our agency. By it we direct our own being. If we voluntarily surrender control of ourselves to the mastery of other forces. God cannot keep us free. He has no power to do this. If he were to exercise power over us against our will, that would enslave us. Thus God would cease to be God.

Our failures that are due to conditions over which we have no control are and will be atoned for by intervention of God. By our LORD’s divine atonement the demands of eternal justice will be satisfied by Divine Mercy. Thus, we are free by the will of God to exercise our agency in all things.

If we willfully break or disobey God’s Natural Law our progress will be slowed, or damned, or we will be destroyed by our chosen conduct. Thus, it is only we ourselves who can subject ourselves to the penalties of breaking God’s natural law. If we are destroyed or enslaved by our errors or by our careless disobedience, we are the ones who by our choice and acceptance put into effect the means of our own destruction.

THE LAWS OF GOD AND THE LAW OF THE LAND

“He that obeys the Laws of god hath no need to disobey the laws of the land.”

God’s laws are adapted to the nature and structure of man. We can obey them if we will. For instance, Jesus, said, “This is the first and great commandment: Thou shalt love the LORD, thy GOD, with all they heart, with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two hang all the law and the prophets.”

From the Ten Commandments, we read, “Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt not” …adulterate in any way, either sexually, or physically, or functionally. In short, the Lord said that we should use our powers of body, mind and spirit in the way He directs, according to the laws of our nature.

We behave like human beings because we are human beings. We function within the sphere of life God set and established for us. If we follow and obey those laws, we fulfill our earthly purpose.

His Law even includes a set of rules, which if by our agency we obey them, our obedience will raise us from the level of our human animalistic nature to the level of eternal exaltation with divinity.

OBEDIENCE IS THE FIRST LAW OF HEAVEN

The Lord teaches, “If a man will obtain any blessing, it must be (obtained) by obedience to the law upon which that blessing is predicated.”

Translating this truth into the language of “The Law of the Land”, take, for instance, the traffic rules of the highway.

The essence of all traffic safety is the Law of God. The “speed limit” is based on the facts of physics such as the law of inertia and of the reaction time of human beings. Related to this, and underlying man’s effort to build a constructive human society, you will find Natural Law.

Courtesy, consideration, thoughtfulness, self-restraint, self-discipline and intelligent self-mastery are some of the principles that support t the law of man that says, “You shall not speed on the highway.”

The Laws of God were there before man ever got into the law-making business. All human, political law that is sound and properly enforceable is based on and grows out of The Law of God.

William Blackstone, the great English authority on law said 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 law should be suffered to contradict these..And herein it is that all human laws have their greatest force and efficacy: for with regards to such points as are not indifferent, human laws are only declaratory of, and act in subordination to the forms.” He gives an example in the matter of murder. “Nay, if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit it, we are bound to transgress that human law, or else we offend both the natural and the divine.”

THE CREATION OF HUMAN LAW

My awareness of law begins inside of me. Each person is a self-contained thinking creature. He, and he alone, can direct, motivate, or restrain himself. He is conscious of his own thoughts and feelings and responds only to them. He is not a “mind reader” so he can never fully know or control the thoughts or feelings of someone else. It is true that by his own thinking he can infer what another might be thinking or feeling. But his thoughts about what another is thinking will be his own. Although two might have an identical thought simultaneously, each thinks only for himself and never for another.

MY LAW BEGINS WITH ME

I decide for myself what I will do. You decide for you. If you and your neighbors get together and decide among you what you think I should do and then you tell me, it is I and I alone who can decide whether to accept your recommendations. My own law governs me. I can acquiesce to rules of others or I can resist them.

Suppose that a significant majority of my neighbors own automobiles and they decide by whatever method that they will all drive on the right side of all roads. I will decide for myself what I will do about their conduct. If I want to get along with my neighbors, I will decide to drive on the same side of the road they elect. If I hold a differing view, I am still free to express my thoughts and to teach what I consider a better rule.

I will harmonize me with them or they will treat me as an outlaw, a violator of their “law”

RESPONSIBILITY BEGINS WITH ME

Because I am a self-directed person, it is I alone who has the first, the primary or basic responsibility for controlling, directing, and restraining myself. It is I who must feed me. I must keep me warm and dry in the cold of winter. The Law of God decreed at man’s first beginning that each person must produce and eat his bread by the sweat of his own face.

If I don’t restrain me, you are not free. I must direct me but I have no right or responsibility for controlling you. I am my own agent; you are yours. You are safe from me only when I keep myself under proper control.

FREEDOM BEGINS WITH ME

I am subjective, acquisitive and aggressive by nature. I want what I want because getting and possessing may add to and satisfy me.

I want my freedom. But I do not want loneliness. I like people, particularly my mate and my children. The reason I want them is that they are so much like me they give me pleasure. They are like me at least in all of the essential ways. Or if they are different, it is their differences that make them attractive and profitable to me.

It is here that I make choices. I want my freedom; so do they. We can’t both eat the same bread. I must restrain myself from trespass. I must make myself by-pass my neighbor when our courses would put us in collision. I must keep myself from molesting others.

Courtesy is the foundation of social liberty.

SOCIETY BEGINS WITH ME

I like my neighbors. Every one of them is smarter than I in a great many ways. They have talents and abilities and possessions far beyond my own. Their ability to serve me adds to my liberty. For my sake as well as for theirs, I must not just allow them to grow; I must help them to live richly as well.

If I want anything from others, I must give to them in exchange something that is worth more to them than what they give to me is worth to them. If what they give to me is worth more to me than what I give to them is worth to me, we have both profited from the exchange.

If I make this my rule and compel myself to abide by it without fail. I can have a wonderful experience with my neighbors. If I don’t they withdraw themselves and leave me alone.

EQUITY IN LAW

Neighbors need each other. Togetherness can increase their freedom. Their mutual exchange of services can reward them more than their separate hermitages alone could ever do.

My neighbor and I are both creators by nature. We are subjective, acquisitive conceptualizers. If we are free to use our own intelligence and power as we see fit, we unleash a vastly superior flood of creative thought and energy. The total set of ideas and industry we engender in freedom exceeds by far any production of a similar number of people who are restricted by the arbitrary rules of tyranny.

So long as we can profit equitably from our effort, we have incentive to produce. If we are free to cooperate and exchange for value, we are rewarded more than if we are not free to trade.

Each party to an exchange must be rewarded equitably if the principle of exchange is to endure as a meaningful human function. Thus, in man’s innate wisdom, he has built into his social law the concept and principle of equity. This simply means that each party to a transaction must be rewarded satisfactorily by mutual agreement. If equity does not exist in an agreement, the contract is not valid.

WRITTEN LAW

Man is a symbolizer. He has learned to write; to allow symbols to hold and express meanings.

Our long history, containing records of our experience, knowledge and wisdom is written down in the little black marks that trail across the white pages of books.

In our wisdom, we have classified and organized everything we have ever learned anytime, anyplace. This written record is the library of man.

One section of our library contains our laws and customs. In one sense, this section of our library is our law.

Said Chief Justice Greene, (R.I. 356):

“The law is progressive and expansive, adapting itself to the new relations and interests which are constantly springing up in the progress of society. But this progress must be by analogy to what is already settled.”

The past is prologue: It helps to create, foretell and affect the future.

Wisdom suggests that changes be based on tested experience. In the long history of our past, our ancestors learned by sweat, tears and study many safeguards that protect even unborn generations from repeating stupid and careless errors. These successful lessons have been built into our judicial processes. They are the main bulwards that protect and ensure our freedom.

CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND COMMON LAW

Man’s efforts in antiquity to formulate effective rule of conduct to govern his political affairs resulted in development of two opposite codes of law, the civil and common law.

These two codes are deadly enemies. They are in mortal combat because they cannot co-exist on the earth simultaneously. Both of them have some faulty concepts.

THE ROMAN LAW

Roman Law, now generally known as The Civil Law grew out of the ancient Kingdoms around the world.

About 540 A.D., Emperor Justin of Rome convened a organize the laws that had governed Rome as it grew into an empire. These laws and regulations were generally the outgrowth of the decisions made by emperors and their bureaucrats. Since Rome was an international government of very ancient origin, it had drawn upon a history of its ideas. Its culture had deep and widespread roots.

The collection of laws gathered by Justin’s students came to be known as The Justinian code. From that time it spread over the countries of Europe and influenced the laws of most nations of the world.

The central thought underlying the roman Law which is now known as The Civil Law, is the exact opposite of the central thesis of English Common Law.

The Civil or Roman Law concept holds that government alone is the source, the author, and the possessor of all “rights”. It holds that these “rights” are created by the edict of government; that personal rights are only privileges that are extended by the government to their citizens; that government is the all-powerful responsible master of the citizens; that the citizens owe their total allegiance and obedience to the government. The government is thought to be responsible for the welfare of the citizens.

Under Civil Law, a person accused of crime by the government is held to be guilty until he proves his innocence.

An extension of this doctrine holds that the government’s responsibility goes so far that it must guarantee by its supervision and regulation the quality of all products available to its subjects for their use. It holds that responsibility for the quality for the quality and the choice of food, clothing and shelter of the citizen is finally that of the government. Only such license or choice is allowed to the subject-citizen as well not infringe upon government.

THE ERROR AND TRAP OF ROMAN LAW

Only a mind can think. A concept is a thought. All thought is centered in and a function of mind.

THE STATE is first of all a concept that exists in human minds. A concept does not have separate existence outside of a mind. It is axiomatic that a concept itself cannot exist independently and outside of a mind: Therefore the State is only a mental structure composed of the co-ordinated mental functions of many people. It is therefore true that “the government” is the co-ordinated administrative thought of the people who are organized into a political structure.
People who rise to the Heads of State in civil law governments tend to hold the concept that they and they alone are the ones who exercise “rights” or dispense so-called privileges or licenses.

In this CIVIL LAW POLITICAL ORDER of government citizens must await receiving and then rely upon grants of privilege, or licenses to function, before initiating courses of action. Personal initiative outside of governmentally prescribed areas in restricted, often by severe government force.

Without having been granted privileges, or license to function, the subjects of civil government operate only at their peril.

For these reasons, under all Civil Law Structures of government, the “heads” become the masters, the dispensers of all privilege. They “are the law.” Because their edicts become “the law.” Their bureaucrats are in practical fact the administrators of privilege and the supports of the conspiracy of tyranny.

The final tyranny of the Civil Law is revealed in this type of thinking:

“THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: The State is the whole; therefore, the State is a separate entity and greater than the people. Since I, the administrator, have in my mind the concept of the State, the State is I and I am the State. I, the State, am greater than the sum of all the people.” The people must do my will; those who fail to obey are enemies of the State. It is my duty to the State to destroy all of its enemies.

THE ISLAND OF BATTLE

Old England was the battle ground where the conflicting ideas of Roman and Common Law fought a life and death struggle for centuries.

In fact, the battle still rages there unabated. You see vestiges of it clearly in the struggle of the Fabian Socialists as they try to make the government the supreme masters of the people. They are attempting to control Parliament and Her Majesty’s Government by the outlawed Civil Law.

Lost in antiquity are the names of the original thinkers who went to England from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, and Rome. All we really know about them is what we can infer from the ideas they left on that island when the dust of their battles settled in ages past.

MAGNA CHARTA

We do know that English Barons, backed by the longobows of free English Yeomen of old England, men who wanted their freedom from the oppression of Roman Civil Law Kings of Tyranny, finally put sword to the throat of King John at Runnymeade in the year 1215.

The issue at the point of their sword was simple: Would John consent to be bound by a law created by someone else, or would he continue to write and enforce his own law without regard to the rights or wishes of any one but himself?

John had a choice: Either sign, or they would wiggle the sword in his throat. He decided to keep his head, he signed.

For the first time in English history the principle was established that The law was the written expression of the will of the people; that their will was the supreme force in the political structure known as government.

The people created their own law. Into this new code, they wrote their concepts of freedom. Thus the principle of law written by the people began its long and turbulent evolution in England.

From that point in history, step by bloody step, the Freemen of England made progress in their war with tyranny. Many battles were lost but gradually the center of power was taken from emperors and their “aristocratic” supporters and concentrated in a Parliament that was created and controlled by the citizens through their votes.

In time, Parliament replaced the blooded Aristocracy of Privileged People in England. The idea evolved that the inherent rights of the people could be written into the Law of the Land and protected by a government elected and controlled by the choice of free citizens.

THE COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND

The concept of “The Common Law” evolved and developed in Old England. Its actual origin is lost in antiquity. Its basic concept is the unique and absolute opposite of the concept that underlies the ancient kingdoms and empires of the world.

The central thesis, or idea, that underlies, or is the very heart of The Common Law, is that each human being has by nature within him a center of power by which he directs himself. This power is an inheritance from nature; from Nature’s God. If functions within him independently of all other powers. It teaches him that he is a power in and of himself; that he is both a creator of power within him and a free user of external sources of power that come to him from God.

Unalienable Rights. Reason teaches that man possesses natural rights. They are his because of his nature. He owns them; they are inseparable from his nature and his being. They are supported by natural reason and by the facts of life.

Among these natural, unalienable rights, are the rights to life, liberty, and property, without which man can be neither happy nor free.

Common Law Rights. Man exists in space; he is his own conscious center of all space that surrounds him. To preserve the breath of life within him he needs not only oxygen but all other nutrients that are essential for his survival, his right to acquire, his right of acquisition, is a natural and unalienable right.

Fortunately man can exercise his unalienable rights without molesting others. This is true because there is in the universe enough of everything required by all creatures for their happiness and survival.

Common Law Methods of Acquisition. Four, and only four, natural and unalienable rightful methods of acquisition exist. These are in harmony with and sustained by God’s eternal laws of life.

Gift: God gives. Parents give. Friends give.

The act of giving transfers ownership and the right of control to the beneficiary. This is the natural rule of common law.

Discovery: All that God has provided and stored for man in his vast natural reservoir of earth is available as right and proper for man. Any man may discover and claim things for his own. If no one has previously discovered, and claimed, and hence, obtained ownership of a given natural resource, and person who has the wit and industry to locate and claim it will there upon own what he has discovered. He may then register this title to what he has acquired. It is nature’s law.

Creation: Man, the intelligent conceptualizer, the son of God, has by commandment from God the assignment to replenish and subdue the earth.

His ability as a creator is rooted deeply in his divine nature.

He can take a live see, which is a gift from God, and by feeding it the nutrients needed for growth, he can create a vast productive farm and gathers energy from the sun and manufactures too.

There is no practical limit to the ability of man, the conceptualizer, to create through use of his energy and imaginative ability.

The law of nature provides that what man produces creatively is his own. It is his by natural right and is sustained by Common Law.

Trade: That which I own is mine to keep or to give away. The Common Law rules of exchange by which man trades his own for something more desirable to him are as old and as broad as man’s history on earth. It is a natural law that gives and sustains the rights, the unlimited rights, to use the free-trade practices of law among men.

When a trade of goods or services is made, all title and control of the traded goods passes with the goods to the new owner as an essential part thereof. It is the Common Law of The Land.

Acquisition by Theft or Plunder. God’s law is clear; “Thou shalt not steal!”

Ownership can never be acquired by theft. A Thief may possess and control what he takes by stealth or plunder. He may even obtain in time questionable title to plundered goods.

The true owner may abandon title to his goods and leave them for others to claim. If he does in this way surrender ownership of goods stolen from him, the thief will eventually gain ownership because of the surrender by the owner, but theft is outlawed as immoral and illegal in all but Satan’s codes of law.

Nor can a person give to his agent, or to the government, a right which he does not have. He cannot legally or morally authorize anyone to do anything he has no right or authority to do.

FREE WILL UNDER COMMON LAW

The crux of the Common Law principle is rooted in the principle of free will, or “agency”.

Freedom to move about among men by common consent without restraint or molestation, and without molesting others, is the very essence of liberty under law.

The use of aggressive force is completely outlawed by the Laws of God. We may use force to counter aggression so long as we follow God’s counsel in our methods of self-defense. But my right of agency gives me no license to molest or trespass upon my neighbor. Nor may I use aggression even against him who might call himself my enemy.

The common Law right of Agency authorized by God in the beginning gives to me the right of self-direction, I make my own choices.

But the rights of choice carry with it the obligation of responsibility. If I err and injure another, it is I and I alone who must be held responsible by the law of the land and by myself.

Freedom from molestation. The Common Law concept of responsibility carries with it also the corollary freedom from accusation.

Neither my neighbor nor the government itself is free to molest me or to accuse me falsely or unjustly. Hence, under the common Law, I am to be held legally innocent of crime until crime has been proven against me. If the State wants to make an accusation, it may bring me to trial. But I am legally innocent until proof by the accuser establishes before an impartial tribunal that I have in fact violated the rights of another.

Caveat Emptor. Let the buyer beware: In the ancient and well established wisdom of the Common Law, personal responsibility is placed upon the individual who would exercise agency. Thus, in the market-place, the buyer under Common Law must assume the final responsibility for his choices. If he is free to buy, he must be free to err. Anything less destroys liberty.

This ancient principle, CAVEAT EMPTOR, “let the buyer beware” seems to many modern liberals to be out of harmony with reality and justice. On the other hand, the virtue of the free and open market is lost or destroyed the very minute responsibility for errors in buying is taken from the customer himself. If he knows in advance that he has the ultimate and the final responsibility, he can protect himself from all those who would defraud him with shoddy merchandise. If he shirks this responsibility and turns it over to “the government,” he has lost his freedom of choice.

DANGERS OF UNRESTRAINED GOVERNMENT

Tyrants who want total government could care less whether they rule by Civil or by Common Law. If it is power without restrictions they want, they will find it under any form of government if they are not restrained.

The battle between Civil and Common Law raged in England for hundreds of years after Magna Charta.

During this time it seems that the Spirit of The Lord must have been involved in some aspects of this battle. In 1492 Columbus was inspired by the Holy Ghost to discover America. (It was so reported by the nephew of Columbus) In any event the passage ways were opened to this continent and many people were stirred up to move from the battles of England to settle on the American Continent.

During this time peoples in both England and America were struggling to get free of unlimited and dictatorial government. King George and his cliques of Parliament who supported him were attempting to rule both England and America by means of Civil Law principles of tyranny.

Great ideas of liberty were expressed on both sides of the Atlantic and they found lodgment in the minds and hearts of great patriots.

THE NEED FOR LIMITATIONS UPON GOVERNMENT

Our Founding Fathers on this Continent knew only too well that unrestrained government was the most dangerous thing on earth.

They knew about the tyranny of Roman Civil Law. They also understood the need for restrictions to be placed upon many aspects of Common Law practices as they were attempted by unlimited government in England and on this continent.

They wanted neither chain spun from Rome nor bonds of unrestrained reason woven by subjective minds of either Judges or Rulers.

Hence, they cast aside both Civil and common Law and moved with the powers of heaven behind them to create an entirely new code of written law. Eventually it came to be known as CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE LAND

In 1776 the God of Heaven moved behind the scenes on the American Continent and helped to set up…”A new nation, so conceived and so dedicated that..liberty..and..freedom..shall not perish from the earth.”

Thereafter, “Good and wise men whom The Lord raised up and counseled in secret from the heavens laid their lives on the line in ways and for purposes that even they, at times, neither understood nor appreciated.”

They gave us through the hallowed CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA a new kind of law; a form of law never before struck from the mind of man or recorded in any literature of any ages past.

With great travail, following revolution, bloodshed and the agonies of a growing nation, they finally wrote into the hearts of their countrymen and their descendants that:

“The Laws of the Land which is constitutional supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges belongs to all mankind and it justifiable before me, “said The LORD God, himself.

PROTECTION FROM GOVERNMENT

Said Thomas Jefferson: “In questions of power, speak to me not of confidence in men, but bind them down from mischief with the chains of The Constitution.”

The principle here is not just that there are not good men and true who might be trusted to handle vast power. Not at all. The danger lies in the fact, two aspects of the same fact, that:

1.Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” and ;

2. We forget that sooner or later, good and trusted men who were not too much spoiled by power pass on from the stage and leave the power they controlled in lesser hands- the hands of true and living tyrants who believe themselves to be the harbingers of all great virtues.

Our written Constitutional Law had and still retains this basic purpose

To give us an absolute and written law to be the fundamental and supreme law of our land.

The Constitution contains that law. It cannot be changed legally by anyone excepting by the method provided within it for our protection; by that body of government that is composed of three fourths of all of our State Legislatures voting together in purpose.

There is no other legal way, anyone who claims the right to change it by some other method is by definition a law-breaker and on outlaw. More than this, he is an enemy of liberty.

TYRANTS IN GOVERNMENT

By all odds, the worst criminals in our nation are people who conspire to change and destroy our hallowed Constitution by the edicts of men.

Title gives no man license or liberty to break the Law of the Land. Be he a President, a Judge, a Legislator, or a Bureaucrat, he is an OUTLAW if he fails to obey his OATH OF OFFICE to uphold and defend the Constitutional Law of our Land.

Citizens themselves are often the worst of all tyrants. They, and they alone are the sovereign rulers. Theirs is the final and fixed responsibility to preserve, defend, and obey the Laws of God and The Constitutional Law of our Land.

CALL TO ACTION

Many years ago the immortal Lincoln, during his battle to preserve our Nation, said something related to this subject. As we recall it, he said, in part:

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

“We are now engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure…”

Continuing, we think it not irreverent to suggest in words that paraphrase our great hero:

We have now come…a new generation of Americans, in a different time but on the same battlefield…”taking new and increased devotion to that cause for which:..our noble forebearers..gave their last full measure of devotion and we here now highly resolve that those noble dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

ONE SOURCE OF TYRANNY

A former Chief Justice of The Supreme Court once said to a dinner companion at a banquet:

“The Constitution, Madam, is what we (The Court) say it is”

Strange as it may seem, this “tongue in cheek irony” gave impetus to the rise of tyranny.

Here is an example of how it was done by illegal DECISION.

Prior to 1934, “The Constitutional Law of the Land clearly recognized the right of citizens to own property, including gold.

In 1934, by illegal Executive Order of The President, all gold was stolen by the government through so-called legal force from all American citizens, allegedly “for their own good”

Shortly after that, a supine Congress by malfeasance “made” that illegal order “legal” by passing a “law” that said it was OK to do it.

Soon after that, an obedient or conspiratorial Supreme Court condoned the illegal action of the President and of Congress.

Finally, the theft was accepted without effective protest or correction by the slumbering citizenry who allowed themselves to be robbed.

THAT WAS TYRANNY IN ACTION

The acceptance by the sovereign citizenry of this tyrannical and high handed edict made in violation of every tradition of the rule of natural right and constitutional law gave impetus to a changed concept of the whole American idea of limited government power

WHAT WERE THE RESULTS?

The foundation was laid for the monetary chaos we have today.

Illegal fiat money was issued and “made” legal tender for all debts public and private.

The Constitutional Law of The Land was ravished and ignored. The notion was established that every edict of government agents made in the name of law “is the law of the land” and that we are obligated to obey such enactments.

American Lawyers generally accepted as a fact the false notion that courts have the final and ultimate power of “legislation by decision”

Hence, the notion is rampant and growing throughout the country that The constitution is an outmoded document that may have had some utility in a by-gone agrarian age but that it is useless or even dangerous today.

By illegal action after illegal action in all segments of government for over forty years, tyrannical been unconstitutional “law” after “law” has pushed off on the American People.

The Administrative Services Act, for instance, claimed to give power and authority to the Executive Branch of government to make rules that are supposed to have the effect of bonafide constitutional law.

In addition, The Executive is “given” the alleged power to enforce its own rules and to sit as the “Judge” of the activities of the citizens. All this is being done without reference to Courts of Law.

“THE COURTS ARE CROWDED”

One prime reason claimed for all this tyrannical hogwash is that “the courts can’t handle the rush of business thrust upon them” That is pure bunk.

The Constitution gives all judicial power to The Courts; none to Congress and none to The Executive.

If we don’t have enough courts, we can hire some more judges just as easily as we can hire a passel of bureaucratic administrative tyrants who are in fact moving to destroy our “Law of the Land which is Constitutional.”