Freedom-Fighters Forum

The Constitutional Broadside
V2 N4 A PUBLICATION OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY COUNCIL
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

WHAT IS YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL I. Q.?

It seems incredible, but most Americans have only a vague and misty notion of the nature and functions of The Constitution of The United States. Generally, they think that it is a great document, but they don’t really know what it is or what makes it work.

What is even more amazing is the fact that a great many people seem to believe that if they bury their heads long enough in their own personal problems, the Constitution will survive and defend itself.

Even many who consider themselves to be in harmony with Divine Purpose refuse to believe that the Constitution of The United States is in danger. They have heard that ‘The time would come when it would hang as by a thread.” But they seem unable to comprehend and respond to the fact that it is hanging today, right now, not by just a thread but by a thin gossamer strand, badly frayed.

There seems to be a widespread notion abroad among such people to believe that when the Constitution needs saving, if it ever does, the Lord will send a special revelation, backed up by legions of angels from on high to do the job. A few noblest of these even go so far as to admit that at such a time they would be willing to help in the cause of liberty.

Another strange thing in modern America is that almost everybody, including politicians, socialist and communists, claim to believe in the Constitution. Those who are attempting to use its provisions to subject our nation to an international oligarchy claim to be “constitutionalists” right up to the minute they have destroyed its safeguarding provisions.

The following questionnaire is designed to help you test your understanding of some of the most basic questions of constitutional law. At the same time, answering these questions thoughtfully will help any American to better appreciate some of the most challenging problems facing the American Citizenry today.

QUESTIONNAIRE

2. Do you believe that the final powers of government are vested in the people naturally, and that government properly has no power or authority to serve the people that is not delegated by the people through Constitutional Law?

3. Do you believe in limited government with certain powers proscribed and others limited by the restrictions upon government as provided in Constitutional Law?

4. Do you believe that the Federal Government should have supreme and final power of control over State governments not granted to it constitutionally?

5. Do you believe that the citizens of the States should retain control over their State Governments and State Laws without federal interference?

6. Do you believe it is proper for Congress to adopt statutes, or for the Administration or Courts to issue orders either to by-pass State Governments or to intimidate them into submission by federal command?

7. Do you believe that State Governments are “outmoded” and should therefore be abandoned or by-passed for the sake of “efficiency” in government?

8. Do you believe in the separation of powers concept of government with the powers disseminated by the people to Federal and State Governments and to Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments?

9. Does the President have the authority to change by Executive Order the nature of our government or to alter governmental process from those provided for in The Constitution of The United States?

10. Does the Congress or the President have constitutional authority to empower administrative officials of the Executive Department to issue and interpret regulations that have the force of law when they are filed and published in the Federal Register and thus to allow both legislative and judicial powers to be exercised by Executive Authority?

11. Can the President legally and properly do anything that he is not authorized by the Constitution or by Constitutional Statute to do?

12. If the Courts are so overloaded or inefficient that they cannot handle the duties assigned to them constitutionally, should the Congress increase the number of courts and improve their functions rather than assign judicial functions to the Executive Department in contravention of constitutional law?

13. Is ir proper for the Judiciary to exercise legislative power?

14. Does the Supreme Court have the final authority to alter the Constitution or to change ist basic nature by judicial decision?

15. Is the Constitution only what the Supreme Court says it is?

16. Should the final power to amend or change the Constitution remain a State Legislative process as provided for in the Constitution?

17. Is a citizen under obligation to submit to and obey without protest or without court challenge a statute or regulation which he believes in good faith to be unconstitutional?

18. Do you believe that the same laws of ethics and conduct that properly control individuals in their human relationships should also control governments and government agents in their dealings with citizens?

19. If it is not right for an individual to use aggressive force against another, is it not also wrong for a government agent to use aggressive force against a citizen without first obtaining by due process of law authority to do so?

20. Is it constitutionally proper for Congress to allow Administrative Agents of the Executive Department to by-pass the Judiciary and rely on Executive Orders and administrative regulations to allow the government to obtain access to the private property of individuals or of corporations?

21. Should search warrants or orders permitting search and seizure be issued by anyone other than a court of the Judicail Department by due process of law?

22. Should the right of privacy of the citizenry be scrupulously observed and respected by all government agents?

23. If citizens have exhausted all constitutionally sanctioned efforts at law to obtain redress of their grievances against outlaw government without relief, would it then be proper for them to organize themselves in accordance with their natural inalienable rights and powers and bring outlaw government into line and compel the government agents either to obey the law or to install new officers to do so?

24. Would you vote to impeach a Judge if bonafide evidence existed that would tend to prove impeachable crimes or misdemeanors had been committed by such a magistrate?

25. Do you believe that citizens have an inalienable right to own property and to control the property, real or personal, which they own?

26. Do you believe that ownership rights to property should be total and without qualifications placed upon ownership by government?

27. Should the rights to “urbanize,” or to build on and use private property be divorced or separated from the rights of ownership of the land itself?

28. Do you believe that so-called “property rights” are actually non-existent; that property as such has no rights; and that “property rights” are no more than human, or personal rights that allow people to possess property?

29. Do you believe that the Federal Government should have any right to dictate to States the terms of use of the land and resources of the State or of the privately owned property within the State?

30. Do you believe that the Federal Government should have final power to pre-empt sources of constitutional tax revenues and to collect taxes beyond the constitutional needs of the Federal Government itself?

31. Should the Federal Government become in any way the tax collector for States, Counties and Cities?

32. Do you believe that Federal Revenue Sharing is a constitutional process?

33. Do you believe that all government officials should refuse to participate in any unconstitutional activity of government?

34. Do you believe that government should be in business and own and operate businesses that compete with the private sector of our nation?

35. Do you believe that the money of the United States should be universally acceptable as a medium of exchange and that money should have the ability to carry a constant value forward in time?

36. Do you believe that the constitutional power of Congress to coin money and to regulate the value thereof should be delegated to a privately owned monopoly banking system?

37. There are only three types of bank balances that are possible to have in a bank deposit record. They are zero, positive, and negative. Do you believe that it is honorable for an individual to obtain money by overdrawing his personal bank account and thus forever increase his negative balance?

38. Do you believe that government should continue to write checks against its overdrawn accounts?

39. Should government overdraft checks continue to be honored and paid just as if there was money in the bank or true constitutional income to pay them?

40. Does deficit spending by government inflate the money of the nation and thus reduce the purchasing power of our money in the market place?

41. Does inflation steal money fro accounts of those who have saved up for a rainy day or to accumulate working capital for later use?

42. Do you believe in government deficit financing to “create” prosperity?

43. Do you believe it is wise for the government to continue “printing” money and to circulate it in lieu of bonafide legal tender?

44. Are we not enslaving and defrauding our children and grand-children by printing fiat money and using it to “buy” time and luxuries?

45. Do you believe that government has an obligation to feed and clothe individual citizens and to guarantee that people will not want for things today?

46. Should the person who produces be able to live better than the one who won’t work?

47. Should we surrender now to the attacks being made upon us and on our historic system of freedom through private enterprise and join in a socialistic effort to give everybody an equal amount of food and luxuries they covet?

48. Do you believe that it is a proper function of government to relieve the buyer of responsibility for his own choices in the market place?

49. Is it a proper function of government to guarantee “consumer protection.”

50. Is it a proper function of government to regulate prices and wages?

51. Do you believe the United States should ratify the Genocide Convention?

52. Do you believe the United States should ratify the Connolly Amendment and thus guarantee that treaties cannot override our Constitutional Law?

53. Should the United States ratify the United nations Convention Treaty that would subject our nation to the rule of law under the International Court of Justice that sits at The Hague under control of the United Nations?

54. Should the United States continue to finance and support Communist countries?

55. Should the United States continue to arm other nations who express enmity for our system of government and way of life?

56. Should the United States reduce its relative armed strength to the point where our government would be subject to blackmail and dictation by foreign powers?

57. Should the United States make abortion and euthanasia legally permissible to be used by government agents as a means of population control?

58. Should the Internal Revenue Service be allowed to determine the nature of religion or of religious worship by deciding which churches should be tax exempt?

59. Should the worship of God outside of the schools be demeaned or restricted by educational activity conducted under school direction within the schools?

60. Should our nation by legal compulsion exclude from all public business any reference to God or to the need of our nation for divine guidance?