A good plaintiff's attorney will tell you that contracts were made to be broken. The constitution for the united States of America is a contract, which has been broken many times. Understanding that contract and its makers is necessary to appreciate American Citizenship.
FYI: Keep these four definitions of the words united, states and America in mind. They are: 1) the several states -- refers to the original 13 states as well as the fifty states today; 2) the united states of America -- a generic term referring to any grouping of American states; 3) the United States of America -- the proper name of our country i.e.the fifty states of the union, and; . 4) THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- the corporate nam e of our government not of our country. note: the use of all upper case letters is common to the spelling of artificial persons or entities such as corporations.
Contracts create relationships and artificial entities. Our constitution is a contract by which we, the people -- Citizens of the several states -- created a national government, an artificial entitynamed THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (not to be confused with the United States of America). THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a foreign jurisdiction relative to our several states, existing physically and geographically upon a 10 mile by 10 mile parcel of land named Washington D.C., ceded by the several united states of America to the UNITED STATES to serve as its seat of governance. It is within that jurisdiction that the UNITED STATES conducts our business and wields a delegated portion of our collective sovereignty in order to -- among other specified duties -- defend our borders, manage international agreements as well as make laws related to the interactions between the several states of our union pursuant to the terms and restraints of the Constitution.
This foreign jurisdiction is in effect a place quarantined from the private Citizens of the several states under the terms and provisions of the Constitution. In most instances Citizens of the several states of the union entered the corporate UNITED STATES OF AMERICA thus becoming subject to the jurisdiction thereof, only by extraordinary means.
The general purpose of the Federal Government was to ensure that our lives, liberty and property (pursuit of happiness) were protected from foreign powers. Like England, Spain, Mexico -- any potential invader of our several states. It was also intended to assure our right to redress of grievances, to preserve our private rights and sovereignty from Federal and State encroachment, as well as represent our will as expressed by the Constitution. That contract was the uniform fabric by which the several states and the people thereof were bound and could find equality of treatment under the laws of the land.
John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, summed up the right relationship of we the people to our government in this opinion from an early case: Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall. (U.S.) 471, 1 L.Ed. 440(1793); wherein the Chief Justice stated in pertinent part:
". . .at the [American] Revolution, the sovereignty [exercised by the King England over the colonies] devolved upon the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of this country [the United States of America], but they are sovereigns without subjects. . . with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty".
We became kings of our own castles, sovereigns over our lives, liberty and property, diminished only to the extent that we formed governments to handle certain limited but necessary duties for our common good.
Federal and State governments are corporate entities created by we the People, subject to our will via the ballot box and as limited by the precisely stated duties and authority granted by their respective constitutions. We are the shareholders so to speak, and those individuals operating at our behest within the framework of the Federal and State Governments are our servants. State and Federal Governments of themselves own nothing. Whatever property, land or power they acquire represents an asset belonging to the shareholders - We the people of the United States of America and of the several states.
Somewhere along the line that right relationship between we the people and the republican form of government we created, has taken a sharp left into a South American banana grove.
How did we go from that to this: Trillions of dollars in government created debt to fund socialist medicine a.k.a. "national health-care" and assorted government bailouts; redistribution of our property via the welfare safety net to virtually any liberal/leftist that asks; instituting a mafia-like organization known as the Internal Revenue Service intended to strong arm of threaten the lives and liberty of American Citizens should they protest too vigorously the legalized theft of their hard earned property; how about nationalizing industries like banks, automobile companies and now perhaps news papers; or refusing to protect our borders from foreign invasion, in fact castrating our national security mechanism by releasing half truths about CIA interrogation tactics; becoming a place where the Federal Government, our servant, suggests that we may be required to serve it through some form or other of mandatory national service; and becoming a place where all governments local, state and federal use the so called provision of eminent domain to steal our land and give it to the highest bidder in the name of generating tax revenues for the general welfare of the collective . . .
What about wasteful and hypocritical politicians that abuse our property such as Presidents that might use Air Force One to do fly overs at 1500 ft above sea level in the proximity of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan Island -- for freaking photo ops and joy rides, at a cost of $350,000.00 a pop? Just remember one thing: that's your airplane, these government bloodsuckers are your employees capriciously wasting your money and stealing your property. AND As if that weren't enough we have an administration apologizing for our arrogance and insensitivity throughout the world, because we've had the temerity to defend our own interests and people against foreign attacks and invasions.
Our federal servants are individuals engaged in the "trade or business" -- 26 USC § 7701(a)(26) -- of performing the functions of public office, and use that sacred trust to spend trillions of your money, your children's money, your grand children's money, your great grand children's money your great great great great. . . All in the name of a change you can believe in. Translation: change from a capitalist, free enterprise market economy to a socialist authoritarian state that uses the emense size and power of government to control what you can say, where you can live, what you must like, what you can't dislike, what kind of car you can drive, what you are allowed to own, how you will be allowed to use or dispose of what you own . . . Worst of all, these rulers show respect to our enemies and utter contempt for "We the People" .
We're now governed by public policy, derived from media-manufactured public opinion, regardless of constitutional restraint. Our ability to seek redress is all but destroyed by the sheer expense of bringing suit and by political activism within a judiciary that routinely overturns the will of the people. Our corrupted rulers are simply the result of historically predicted moral decay. It's akin to the laws of thermal dynamics. Politicians have used our self inflicted apathy and ignorance to defeat us. Political opinion polls indicate to them that on the whole we're sufficiently dummyfied. So they feel confident they can get away with implementation of their socialist, anti-American authoritarian agenda. This is our fault, their corruption was always predicted, but we gave our tacit consent to this agenda by voting for candidates that declared openly what we should expect -- a change we can believe in. Remember Obama vs. Joe the plumber?
Today congress, the President and our courts operate outside the authority and circumscribed limits of the Constitution, thus threatening our lives, liberty, property and American way of life more than any foreign army. Government is by nature a consumer of the people's wealth, it produces nothing and can not add a penny to our Gross National Product. It's a beast devouring our productivity and property. The so called and much demonized wealthy people in this country got there --Thank GOD-- by working hard all their lives, innovating, inventing, starting businesses large and small that have employed hundreds, thousands even millions of people. In a dumbed down stupor of envy and resentment we fail to grasp that businesses, be they big or small, and the profits they seek, add greatly to all our wealth. Their pursuit of life, liberty and property(wealth) creates jobs and opportunity for hundreds of millions of people. It's the beautiful byproduct of investment, risk and profit.
Soon -- absent a free market economy, under crushing national debt, high inflation and increasing taxation -- we'll be left with a form of government that is truly a fascist/socialist highbrid which, to maintain power and control, will enslave every citizen economically if not physically. We will exist only to serve the State within a third world style economy. Subjects not sovereigns. Our Great Country will be reduced to making Yugos not Cadillacs, to importing the staples of life needed to survive instead of producing, manufacturing and exporting them, subject to a world government and world court system; we will follow and never again lead. Our individual freedom, liberty and prosperity will be a memory of the very old, a memory unknown to our grandchildren, who themselves will be just another asset of the STATE, mere human resources.
May GOD help us
2 help ourselves out of this MESS b4 it's too late