The vast majority of citizens do not recognize the fact that our nation was united by military conquest. The Civil War, according to the words of Lincoln, was not to for the purpose of freeing the slaves, but to preserve the union.
The advocates of the principle of states rights lost the war, the advocates of the power of central government won!
While the war established the legitimate principle of the responsibility of our form of government to be the legal protection of individual rights for all citizens: unfortunately, in the process it also re-established the principle of inherent governmental power, substituting delegated authority, with assumed rights, thus spawning a new breed of politician.
Why have we forgotten the legal looting of the former Confederate states by these political scavengers in the guise of "administrators?" Although this "carpetbagger" period was of relatively short duration, the affects lasted for at least two generations; their study was still part of the curriculum in my schools days.
Today, the name, as well as the deeds, appear to have been wiped from our collective memories, perhaps so overshadowed by the civil rights movement that they simply became inconsequential.
Regardless of the reason, the nation is currently experiencing the greatest ramifications of the outcome of the war in our history, ramifications threatening our very sovereignty.
The Constitution When Restored, Was Not the Constitution Lincoln Suspended!
Suspension of the Constitution, as well as the right of Habeas Corpus, resulted in nation wide rule by martial law. The reality is, it has not been totally lifted too this day. In the early 1940's, the criticism of government policy could get you a prison sentence. Today: indefinite, incommunicado incarceration, based upon nothing more than accusation, with total deprivation of due process.
Think, and ask yourself the question: What condition existed immediately following the War for Independence?
The Answer: Total Right of Individual Sovereignty! Our national government began on a blank sheet of paper.
The purpose for the war was fulfilled; it was then and there a reality; there was no national governmental structure. The only real restraint on the freeman was the inherent moral code, or the lack thereof, within the individual.
For the first time in recent history, a sovereign people, created a sovereign government; a government founded upon a Constitution, which, if interpreted as written, is clearly intended to be applied to the government, not the citizenry!
When thusly applied, as reinforced by its Tenth Amendment, any jurisdiction, or application, not specifically enumerated, is to be off limits to the elected representatives; as acknowledged by oath, prior to their assuming the duties, to which they were elected.
MY HOW THINGS CHANGE.
When the Constitution was restored, the Federal Government, and the officials staffing the offices, assumed the rights of authority, inherent of conquest. Although the words were unchanged, it began to be interpreted in accordance with British maritime/mercantile Law.
Due to this one hundred eighty degree change of application, the citizenry were stripped of sovereignty, and the officers of government acquired it.
Over a period of about a century, courts of equity were interspersed with courts of common, or Constitutional law; eventually replacing them.
Concurrently: Rule by corporate dictate, was interspersed with constitutional governance; corporate currency replaced constitutional money, and the Constitution so interpreted; law and justice became a commodity, available for the right price; the hired lawyer, replaced the hired gun, thus, the soveriegn nation, was stolen by the soveriegn corporation!
Remember the slogan: "The Business of America Is Business:" corporate business specifically. We the people and the product of our labor, became corporate property,
Not just the "Rebs," but the entire nation was ruled by the Federal Government, the Constitution becoming what the controlling politicians of the time declared it to be, to be adhered to, or ignored, as political convenience dictated, a condition existing to this day.
This is the authority behind the Judges, Presidents, and Legislators apparent prerogative, for ignoring the Constitution, without regard for their oaths.
Immediately following the war, the mechanism of government was too weak to enforce much of the acquired power, thus the magnitude of change was not recognized at the time, however, the foundation had been laid.
Several abortive attempts to create a national bank, finally culminating in the Federal Reserve, income tax laws, confiscation of constitutional money, and enforcement of prohibition laws, were among the first examples of the expanding power.
However, federal power was not expanded in earnest until the Civil Rights movement. When President Eisenhower justly employed it, for the purpose of enforcing compliance with civil rights laws, the flood gate was opened.
History has again proven that power begets power, and that if it can be misused, it will be misused.
The Constitution, as well as the Bill of Rights, is either ignored, being decimated by the courts, or, as is the case with Second Amendment, under constant attack.
Our "Damnocratic" government representatives, now unabashedly play the American people like a cheap fiddle, constantly manipulating fact, figures, and information, then "polling" us to determine how much of it we bought.
Remember the statement of the man caught behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz "don't believe what you see, believe what I tell you!" Same statement in the form of a question: How many of us will begin to believe our eyes, and how many will continue swallowing the garbage we are being fed?
Because the truth has a nasty habit of playing hell with the spin doctors version of a good story, news correspondents access to events is now determined by whether or not it will benefit government. "For their protection," at the siege of Waco, none were allowed closer than two miles, while in Iraq they were "embedded" with the troops.
Our politicians, in the name of the federal government--just as the British, in the name of the Monarch--now govern under the cloak of sovereign immunity, sovereignty stolen from We The People. Under the guise of constant re-interpretation, a facade has been created to disguise and justify this authoritarian government, and sell it to the citizens as Constitutional.
By constant repetition of policy over a period of about fifty years, our "leaders" have replaced a stable Constitutional Republic, with a very unstable, Socialist Damn-ocracy, oblivious to the warning of James Madison that: "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
Are these words--a haunting from the grave--a warning which we have chosen to ignore, or do they merely highlight circumstances over which we have had no control, short of another Civil War?
Is it the chosen time for our current cross breed government to face the ultimate judge, the Declaration of Independence?
MY PERSONAL OPINION?
A person must possess their sovereignty before they can voluntarily subjugate a portion of it to a just government. It has taken us over one hundred years, and the most brutal war in our history to achieve the necessary conditions for each and every person, regardless of race, creed, color, and gender, to at least get a fair shot at the brass ring.
The caterpillar is indeed in the process of expiring of old age, that the butterfly may emerge in the form of the true Republic.
Envisioned within the Declaration of Independence, the emergence of the government ordained and managed into existence by the creator of all things; the government impossible to build until now Is Imminent.
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." With these beliefs and statements, our forefathers justified the killing of "His Majesties" troops, and the overthrow of a government.
If this statement, an affirmation of the dignity and sovereignty of each individual, was an untruth, then our forefathers were murderers, and our nation was founded illegitimately. (The view of British Royalty for over two centuries.)
If however, the Declaration of Independence is a statement of eternal truth, should every copy be destroyed, the innate principles contained within, it, will continue to drive future generations, just as they had driven the many previous generations, prior to Jefferson having committed them to paper.
The document neither builds a government, nor does it mandate a form of government, it merely states the goals of any government to be the securing of individual sovereignty.
"To secure these rights, governments are created among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.."
This uncompromising judge will continue to destroy governments and civilizations until mankind finally perceives and acts upon this truth: The essence of the term "the governed" is embodied, in its totality, in each sovereign human being!
In a proclamation consisting of only fifty-six words, Jefferson recognized the intended value of every individual soul, their relationship to each other, and their collective relationship to their creator; the principles comprising the heart and soul of civilization itself.
While the ingenious manner in which the power of government is curtailed and limited by checks and balances, has been hailed as the master piece of representative government, correctly recognizing the source of lawful government to be each individual citizen, was of far greater importance!
Our forefathers, by hypocritically protecting the "right" of slavery, and the denial of universal sovereignty, doomed their government to failure, before it was implemented. Thus the Civil War!
A Constitutional Crisis? What Do You Think?
The selling of indulgences shattered Catholicism, destroying forever the unity of Christianity; that same process, now serving as our "justice system" is producing identical results. When either absolution or justice, becomes a commodity to be bought and sold, you have neither.
Judicially we are rapidly approaching the time that juries will be incapable of rendering important decisions, state governments enact legislation, or the results of elections certified, without the threat of being overturned at some level of the judiciary.
Financially we are tolerating a tax & currency system, even its administrators don't understand.
Politically we have devised no better methods than auction and bribery to choose our leaders; conflict of interest has been expunged from our vocabulary.
Individually we must secure the services of an attorney to either explain the common law of the land, or, have it reinterpreted to our benefit in a court of law.
Morally we are allowing our government representatives to sell our following generations into indentured servitude, to provide present government "services" and future "benefits" that we ourselves are unwilling to pay for.
There is an alternative! The civilization built on the model of the Declaration of Independence, is still in our future!
Self Government is the only viable form of government, all others require libraries of capricious, contradictory law, and an army of (priest) lawyers to interpret and guide the individual through this artificial mine field.
Collective self government must begin with individual self government--but not to worry. If we are indeed beings created in the image and after the likeness of our Creator, along with the inherited sovereignty, derived through education, and the consequences of experience, comes the inherent ability to achieve and maintain that sovereignty. We have no choice! If the ability exist, so also does the responsibility.
Our Constitution, when applied as the Bill of Rights proves that it was intended, and interpreted according to the Declaration of Independence, is still a very viable contract of government.
The founders of our nation conceived a plan, and laid the cornerstone in the form of our Constitution, for a free citizenry.
Damn-ocracy, (authoritarian government) through debt, has mortgaged our immediate future, as well as that of our following generations, to the International Banking Cartel.
We now find ourselves faced with the task of either capitulating to permanent authoritarian slavery, or dismantling this suffocating financial system with which we have been burdened, and building the envisioned, Free American Republic.
We not only can, but must reinstitute government by electing representatives who value the principles espoused within the Declaration of Independence!
A Very Exciting Time And Place To Be Alive!
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