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“The sole fact that credit is today the normal and proper expression of value and of exchange has introduced an element of extreme instability into all contemporary economic systems. Modern economic systems appear to be balanced on a knife’s edge as it were; the tiniest excess or deficiency of national credit can tip the balance in one direction or the other. This system is minutely adjusted, so to speak, to reflect the smallest increment in weight which it can just support, and that is why it is so extremely sensitive.” –Karl Lamprecht
We have had decades of economic paving in this country, the road has been paved with what amounts too little more than “bills of credit”. With each manipulated “boom”, there has also come a very predictable “bust”; since each “boom” is completely financed by the creation of debt, these “booms” are, for the most part, economically superficial. These “booms” seem to make people think they are “wealthier” and act as though debt is wealth, when in reality it is just the opposite and sooner or later that reality makes itself known.
Since the 30s, the government, in conjunction with the Federal Reserve, has increasingly narrowed the “sweet-spot” of economic viability. Historically, every depressionary trough was preceded by a panic, which usually included bank-runs and failures. A very interesting fact about “depressions” is that the word itself has been defined out of existence, conveniently replaced with less-foreboding sounding words. Today, even the word “recession”, now nothing more then “depression’s replacement” has been politically relegated to the closet. Eventually, economic law will overwhelm the illusion that has been carefully crafted at the hands of the political handlers, the bureaucratic managers and the central bank economic planners. Their attempts at a very particular social and political plan is failing far more rapidly then they realize; the problem, of course, is that the rest of us will pay the price for their manipulation of our society through their central economic planning and excessive debt creation. As I have stated, they can simply repeat the mistakes of the past, they have nothing else in their bag of tricks, eventually nothing they try will shift the downward economic spiral they helped create.
The current Fiat System is about to demand reality and that reality is about to come in the way of interest rates. This country, the government and indeed, the Federal Reserve has yet to see that this demand is on the way and are doing everything to avoid such rate increases, but it is pressing against the artificial barriers that have kept massive rate increases at bay, but the fragile economic damn grows weaker and weaker. Eventually, even the powers that be will not be able to restrain the forces that press against the rate process in this country. The combination of an extremely sensitive economy, high levels of risk in the throws of decay, the artificial rate racket is about to come to an end.
There is though, one huge problem; this reality will wreak havoc in an already sensitive Fiat economy. There has been a sign that few seem to be aware of and that sign is the decreasing margin of tolerance this economy has between the low levels and the highs it can manage while remaining viable. At one time the economy could tolerate higher rates without convulsing however, as we have seen, that is no longer the case. With each “boom” and “bust” the level of tolerance has narrowed substantially to the point that even minor increases become reactionary.
Our “money” supply is being inflated at a precipitous rate and eventually, and we won’t have to wait long, that monetary expansion will, it must be mirrored in interest rates. They, the government and the Fed, are, of course, attempting to keep money cheap, pumping it out in hopes that they can avoid massive business and individual economic failure. However, the eventualities of reality, a reality that none want to think about, will forcefully, even violently push through the illusionary blissful world of the fiat economy.
The Fed, and its government darlings, has attempted to suppress the forces that naturally bear down on a fiat economy by keeping rates as low as possible, all in the hopes of preventing widespread economic insolvency, but since they will eventually have no other options left to them, the reality will exert itself and the very thing they have sought to avoid by keeping rates low will happen as rates catapult to the point that the economy falters. The fiat economy will be placed on the harshest anvil of reality it has ever been subjected to…think Great Depression ten fold.
There were however, a few saving characteristics of The Great Depression that our contemporary society lacks. First, economic resiliency has been removed from our society, the manufacturing base has been effectively decimated and the people of this country are wholly unprepared for such distress, particularly those in urban areas. Additionally, in all likelihood, this next Depression era, will be conflated with hyperinflation rather than deflationary as was The Great Depression. The amazing thing about the Great Depression was its slow creep, like a vine, it slowly spread across the country. This current recession will prove to be just the beginning of a far larger, far deeper depressionary creep.
As much as the government tries, it’s attempts to “cure” the economic woes that it helped create will only make things worse. Politicians are quick to deflect blame, but the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of those power-twisters in Washington, D.C. This country and its people will face a period that few people can even conceive at this point.
In Liberty,
Republicae-Seditionist
If one looks at the Presidential Campaigns over the last 50 years one thing becomes appallingly apparent. That appalling fact is that both the Republicans and Democrats seem to be playing the same game over and over again.
Every four years the People of this country are inundated with information about the issues, debates rage between the candidates and the Parties, but the problem is that the issues always remain amazingly the same during every single Presidential Campaign. The “Roles” played by both Parties are also amazingly the same only with different actors. The positions taken by either side are the same and the promises made and the solutions offered are always the same, yet the issues remain, the problems persist with no real advancement toward substantial change on any of the issues. Even the News Casters basically have the very same thing to say about the candidates as they have said over and over and over again throughout the years. Journalism is now a joke in this country. We don’t see the likes of a John Flynn or a Garet Garrett who would never dream of using watered-down ink when dealing with the hypocrisies of politics.
The only thing that really changes is the problems grow worse and far more complex. If you research those problems you will find one common thread throughout them all and that thread is that the majority of those problems directly stem from some action or legislation taken by the government itself. Congress has been one, if not the primary, source of all the problems this country faces, that remains a constant over at least the last 50 years, if not much longer.
So, what is going on, what is really going on in this country? The People of this country seem eager to swallow what the politicians regurgitate during election seasons, whether the election is for the Presidency, for the Senate or the House. People apparently never look at the issues of past campaigns otherwise they would be forced to ask some very hard and pressing questions, both of themselves and of the politicians who now seem to rule the roost without much oversight and definitely without the Consent of the People. We are a hand-fed People, given hand-full after hand-full of the same information about the same issues with the same promises from the candidates and yet we continue to believe that this election is the most important election of our life times. It is a bizarre and yet expertly preformed farce that seems to be played in such a believable way that it is accepted without much dissent or questioning.
As we can see in this current campaign, nothing, absolutely nothing is different; the two candidates have rehearsed their scripts and play their part, the same roles played by their respective predecessors in campaigns past. The Republicans and Democrats are so entrenched, so “inbred” with such a limited gene pool that they don’t even recognize that their stances on the issues are the same as they have always been, that their promises have been heard so many times before that they are meaningless in terms of confronting the actual issues faced by this country and its People. I am astounded that so many are so blind to the obvious in these “stage-play” elections, it’s just flabbergasting to realize that so many are suckered into this charade and have been for decades.
The problems this country faces, as I said, in just about every case, can be directly traced to the actions and legislations of the government. So, why, why do we continue to listen to these politicians, these promise-making candidates who are usually the same ones who caused the problems in the first place?
For example, for the last few decades it is estimated that this government creates approximately 75,000 pages of regulations every year regarding every single possible issue that you can imagine. Over a decade that amounts to 750,000 pages of verbose legal jargon that is physically and mentally impossible to either interpret or apply. This one example can easily be considered the epitome of absurdity and burdensome waste. This example is yet another a sign of the entrenchment policies of political compromise
Dissent is considered unacceptable, damnable and destructive to the “common-good” of the country, yet dissent is one of the most fundamental principles upon which this country was founded. The voices of dissent have been amazingly silent over the years; the plague of complacent compliance and apathy has so infected this land that it seems that few are angered by the incredibly untenable circumstances that this country now finds itself.
There have been few things in the last 50 years that have stirred the People of this country; the slumber is seemingly deep and widespread. Even when the People do become stirred by some issue or event, they continue to believe that the “Status Quo” of the entrenchment polices of both the Republican and Democratic Parties will somehow make a difference this time around, yet, as history proves, it never, ever does!
Perhaps we have become so comfortable in our complacency or so apathetic that we now feel that nothing can be done, that our voices will never really be heard and that our redress of grievances will, as usual, go unanswered.
Perhaps we have completely bought into the idea that the brightest minds always float to the top of the leadership chain, that they must have the solutions to the problems we face; they simply must otherwise they would not be able to gain the support and recognition as leaders in the political arena however, as we have witnessed for decades that is not the case. In more times than not, those wise leaders cause many more problems then they ever solve. We have been conditioned to think that our leaders are somehow different, that they rank in some elite membership role of advanced thinking, efficient management and extraordinary leadership skills, but once again, we find ourselves very disappointed even though we continue to fall for the façade they present. Perception is, after all, everything, especially in politics.
I suppose it will take a catastrophe to fully shock the American People into the actual reality in which they move and have their being. Perhaps it will take the most unimaginable economic disaster to shake us awake, to make us realize that our losses over the decades have not just happened, but have been the result of either obvious political lunacy or intentional contrivances for political and financial gain. This country now faces such a catastrophe, it is inevitable since this government continues to maintain its bankrupting policies, all and I mean all, of which are completely unsustainable and have been for the last two decades, at the very least. The empire, built upon political contrivances and grand ideas is ending and ending far more rapidly than many can conceive, but it that is what it takes for the American People to realize what they have been robbed of over the decades, then so be it!
As I advance in years I grow in the opinion that we will be left with fewer and fewer options! I have come to the conclusion that the political process in this country no longer allows for either the freedom of thought and action needed to implement substantial change. As we begin to approach a period of even greater uncertainty, there may be an opportunity to provide answers to the growing host of questions that will naturally arise as the People rapidly lose faith in their government and lose loyalty to the charade presented to them by the entrenchment politics of the Republicans and Democrats.
My hope is for a peaceful revolution, but I seriously have my doubts if it will be enough to actually change this government and its polices that are now so embedded into the flesh of this land that it drains the very life-blood from this country. My optimism waxes and wanes, my hope, while it remains, is but a glimmer of its former self.
In Liberty,
Republicae-Seditionist
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."--James Madison
Of course, that is exactly what has happened in this country, we have allowed a certain political ideology, composed of members of both the left and the right, to infect it with particular brand of Statism that is little more than a hybrid of Nationalism mixed with Socialism and a hint of Marxism.
So, what happened to the Constitutional Republic, why, as Statist claim, didn't the Constitution remain viable and continue to work if it were such a sublime document as touted by those, like myself, as the ultimate political form for the advancement of society and the individuals who make it up?
What Statist fail, utterly fail to realize or admit, is that this country and its government has fallen to the Statist. Nationalization and Centralization began in earnest during the reign of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln and his cadre of Radical Republicans, Hamiltonians and Nationalist set the stage for the growth and expansion of the State. After Lincoln, the Reconstruction Act of 1867 began the consolidation of the corrupt State ideology.
With the election of James Garfield, the Statist believed that they had finally buried the Ideals of Jefferson. The Sentinel said it best: ""Garfield's rule will be the transitory period between State Sovereignty and National Sovereignty. The United States Senate will give way to a National Senate. State Constitutions and the United States Senate are relics of State Sovereignty and implements of treason. Garfield's Presidency will be the Regency of Stalwartism; after that-REX."
REX was a particularly interesting word to use; it described the ideal of creating the State Oligarchy, a Nationalist Central Government as the dominate political and social power within this country through the elimination of the Constitutional Republic. Indeed, the State has succeeded to a large degree in creating its all-encompassing political machine.
On July 3, 1881, Mr. Garfield himself stated: "The influence of Jefferson's Democratic principles is rapidly waning, while the principles of Hamilton are rapidly increasing. Power has been gravitating toward the Central Government."
These Radical Nationalist, these Hamiltonian Statist wrenched power from the former Constitutional Republic through hook and crook, through blunt force and continued through the 1800s to the present to forcefully wield the Nationalist Brand upon this country, dragging it through periods of interventionism both at home and abroad. The example of just how necessary war is to the Statist can be found in the Presidency of the Nationalist McKinley, who was the first to use the Statist instrument of interventionism, on a massive scale, to accomplish the growth of the State Empire with his "fine little war". So, for the last 110 years the policy of interventionism has ted the ideology of the State, it has also proven to be ted with failure.
If such a doctrine were effective then we would live in and witness a far more peaceful world and have far more security within our own country. But under the guise of national-interest/national-defense, and that is all it is, a guise, interventionism is nothing more than the life-blood of the State. The waste of war is absolutely necessary to the State, for it allows the unquestioned expansion of its power and authority. Peace is the enemy of the State, that fact has always been the case. Peace, unlike war, does not allow the State to function as it pleases; peace inhibits the State from the power of imposition and coercion. The State calls it "foreign policy", but in reality it is simply a medium to enforce its ideals, its ideology and its attributes on both the foreign and domestic fronts. The State has manipulated, as it always has, the use of the term "defense" simply to justify interventionism and imperialism abroad and a specific social construct at home. No matter what the reason behind war, the State will always justify the reasons for war, whether justified or not. The only just war, by nature, is one that completely defensive.
To the State, war is an essential system for its own existence and the stable internal structure of politics by which it can legitimatize its right to rule. Without the existence of an external threat, the war system loses its meaning and the necessity of the Massive State Machine can no longer be validated in the minds of the People.
Peace and Prosperity can never accomplish the goals of servitude; only waste and destruction can make servitude possible on a scale that will suit the needs of the Statists. Peace and Prosperity are necessary to create a system that is anathema to that which The State seeks, Peace and Prosperity creates an atmosphere where the Individual can thrive in Liberty to fulfill the ultimate goal of the Natural Rights of Man.
Another essential ingredient for the Statist to accomplish their goal for the State is the Centralization of the economy. These Statist elements have increased the depth and breadth of the reach of the State; its growth depended on a particular monetary system that has always played an important role in every Statist regime in history that system is Money by Government Decree or Fiat. 1913 saw a huge leap forward for the supporters of the State with the passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments, as well as the formation of the Federal Reserve Act.
For at least the last 75 years, the economy has undergone a complete transformation into one of the most centrally planned economies in the world. Of course, this began much earlier; in fact the Statist began increasing the ideals of Corporatism in the late 1800s. While many call that period one of "laissez-faire", the fact is the period was not that of a free-market, but one in which big business found a very comfortable and very profitable bed partner with the fledgling Statist government. The big Bankers of the day were held in particular esteem by the Statist and realized their prize with yet another attempt at a "National Bank", this time it was a complete success for the Statist and yet a continuing disaster for the People of this country.
The problem with the Statist Monetary System is that it, and therefore the entire State Machine, is built upon a system that has an inherent terminal life span. Fortunately, when the Monetary System Collapses under the weight of its irreversible debt, so too will the State, in all its corrupt power and glory, collapse. Ah, on that day, after duly being tried for their Treason, the Central Bankers and their Statist will dangle, as they themselves, hanging from the Liberty Tree to the delight of all Constitutionalists.
The Statist reveled in the election and Administration of FDR, for it consolidated the power of the State to a degree that had never been possible prior to that point in history. The State was able, within a few short years, to contrive a massive increase of novel and intrusive programs and agencies to accomplish its goal. Many of those same programs remain albatrosses upon the future well being of this country.
Yes, the New Deal, what didn't it do? Very little for the common man, but what a jackpot for Statism. FDR and many within his Administration thought highly of Mussolini and the Cooperative System under Italian m. In fact, if you read the papers of both FDR and his advisors, like Rexford Tugwell, and you will find them advocating almost the exact same system as Mussolini, with m's Public Works Projects, Corporatism, organization of trade and industrial groups under direct government supervision. There were those in his Administration who admired Stalin and the Stalinist of State, thankfully few of those ideals influenced the direction FDR took this country, the Mussolini was bad enough.
Similar to Mussolini's tax program, the New Deal was financed by tripling various federal taxes and the creation of taxes on just about everything you can imagine, most of the consumer goods taxed during the New Deal were everyday consumer items used by the common working man. These excise taxes hit the poor and the working class harder than anyone else because it included taxation on things like cigarettes, matches, margarine, fruit juices, telephone calls, movie tickets, playing cards, dice, electricity, radios, soft drinks, cars, tires, even tires on wheel chairs.
The New Deal was a bad deal for those who had to finance it, mainly the ones it was suppose to help, in fact these taxes exceeded all personal income taxes and corporate taxes until the beginning of WWII and those taxes fell, according to the Treasury Department at the time, "disproportionately on the less affluent."
While it is true that FDR started many relief programs under the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933), The Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), National Labor Relations Act (1935), the statistics of the day indicate that those programs fostered a steady unemployment rate of 17%. In fact, these programs forced industries to cut back production and forced wages above what the market could bear and made it very difficult for employers to hire people, especially those who were unskilled. It was estimated that over a half a million African Americans lost their jobs because of the NIRA (1933). Tenant farmers were hit the hardest by the Agricultural Adjustment Act, forcing many off the land and the land owners to leave the fields bare and unproductive. The National Labor Act actually led to as workers went on strike as compulsory unionization created mass layoffs. All of these things actually precipitated a second financial crisis in 1938 that almost brought this nation to its knees again.
Of course, we rarely hear of the WPA strikes, we rarely hear about the fact that FDR vastly increased WPA jobs right before he won his second term only to lay off those same 400,000 workers immediately after the election.
If you look at how the New Deal was financed and who financed it you will soon learn that not only didn't it do what most people think it did, but also it increased the suffering of far more than it helped. The "little man" had far less because of the heavy taxation pressed upon him by the New Deal, less to spend on food, essential items, clothes, shoes, fuel and other necessities of life. Also, something else is overlooked, because the vast majority of funds came from taxation, there was actually little economic stimulation from real business concerns that would have had an effect on the economy.
Also, a fact that few people ever consider when speaking about the New Deal, is that the majority of the funds were siphoned off of and away from of the poorest States, those found in the South, once again the Statist of the North taxed the South in a similar way that brought about the War for Southern Independence. So, once more all those funds were drained from the South and pumped into massive projects in the East and the West. It is a strange fact when you begin to look at the political implications of those actions by the Administration of FDR.
Oh, but what about the Tennessee Valley Authority (a government corporation), didn't it bring electricity to the South? Sure it did and it did so at a very high cost to the people of the area, especially the thousands upon thousands of people expelled from their land, many of whom were very poor sharecroppers who didn't own the land and received no compensation from the government for robbing them of their lives and livelihoods. Ah, but the State could not be opposed from achieving its goal and its push for modernization of the State Machine.
At the time that the people needed help the most with the cost of goods and services was the very time that they received it the least. They were forced to pay higher than normal prices especially after FDR implemented the Anti-Chain Store Act (1936) and the Retail Price Maintenance Act (1937); these essentially banned the discounting of all goods, especially household goods and food. We rarely hear that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ordered farmers to destroy crops, kill livestock in order to increase prices, which in turn made if very difficult for the workingman to put food on his family's table.
Granted, the WPA and the CCC workers did some wonderful things, but the picture that is painted by those up hold the New Deal up as the salvation of this country during the Great Depression never, ever seem to want to reveal the entire story because it is not in their political interest to see such facts and face them while upholding their ideology.
We never hear that FDR feared a massive revolt among the American People or that he considered imposing a dictatorship similar to one of his favor t Mr. Mussolini. FDR d independent organized labor and he looked the other way as "industrial big wigs" used strong-armed tactics, using armed strike-busters and even city police departments to break up many of the violent strikes between 1933 and 1937. Oh yeah, FDR was for the common man all right as long as the common man lined up with FDR's programs.
The New Deal left out two main sectors of the population: blacks and women. Blacks in particular were excluded from labor laws, the GI Bill, Social Security, educational programs, home ownership programs and anything to do with small businesses. FDR exempted several groups of farm labor and domestic help from all labor protection, unemployment insurance and SSI. FDR also refused to pass or consider legislation that would have desegregated the Armed Force, anti-lynching laws, or abolishing the poll tax.
Read about the shameful Bracero Programs if you want to see the real deal about the New Deal. Basically, it allowed the legalized enslavement of guest workers by big farmers in the Southwest. Don't forget the Japanese Americans eithernothing like Concentration Camp justice to show the real deal behind FDR and his peculiar form of Statism.
The New Deal did little for over a hundred thousand homeless women and children who were forced to roam the city streets begging for food and it did nothing for almost 4 million unemployed women. If a woman was divorced, or single or widowed, they were hopelessly pushed aside in this marvel called the New Deal. It was not until almost a decade later that women actually was given some assistance under a limited program and then only a small percentage was allowed to work under the WPA leaving almost 3 million unemployed and another 2 million were only allowed part-time work that was barely enough to live on.
At the end of eight years, FDR was frantic about still having over 8 Million men and several Million women unemployed, many homeless and that left only one thing to do: allow, prompt, or prod a crisis to infuse the economy with capitalwhat better way to do that then a war. Indeed, this technique by the warmongers has been used very successfully before and since, most recently was the use of the Iraq War to pump capital into the economy after 9/11, unfortunately they misjudged the amount of Fiat would need to be borrowed to execute the war, the first war to be completely finance through borrowing.
Concerning SSI, the man who actually coined the term Social Security, Abraham Epstein, cried out against it and he was one of the strongest liberal reform proponents of the time. He said that the SSI bill would "transfers the entire burdento the backs of the young workers and their employers Since industry will make every effort to pass on its levy to the consumers, it means that the young employeesin their dual role of workers and consumerswill bear the major costNo other nation has ever put into operation a plan of this nature without government contributions derived from the higher-income groupsin placing the entire burden of insecurity upon the workers and industry, to the exclusion of the well-to-do in the nation, the present social-security bill violates the most essential modern principles of social insurance." An example of Statism at its best, I must say.
Today, the poor and the working class are still paying for the New Deal Statism. Corporatism that found its friend during the New Deal now reigns over a massive working class of producers. Workers who labor to receive dollars debased of value, poor who must submit to the authority of the government's restrictions on the benefits they receive. Today we have a heavily planned economy, thanks primarily to the New Deal that is now suffering under its own weight. The entire system is crumbling, inherently terminal and yet we continue to believe the promises of politicians who have not only benefited from the system, but also have been induced into many of their political opinions solely based upon the monetary system that controls them. When we fail to understand, when we fail to pull back the curtain we can only continue to believe that the "little elite man" pulling the levers behind that curtain is the Great and Powerful OZ.
The major problem with Statists is that they completely buy into their own political superstitions and myths about The State. Statist believe in liberty, but it is not the Liberty of the Individual, but the liberty of the State and it only accepts the individual as long as the interests of the individual coincide with those of the State. The State becomes all to the Statist and the only expression of the individual is within the State, which in order to be totally successful must become all embracing to the point that it a self-perpetuating myth imbued with the ideal of the multiple unity of State Authority. The problem with the myth that the ordinary Statist fail to see is that if you are not in the upper echelon of the State Oligarchy, then you are nothing but a peon, a cog in a system that demands both creative and intellectual conformity to maintain its control and its ability to coerce through compulsion and fear. It is interesting to find that those who proclaim their stance for Statism, from all appearances, are simply oblivious to the obvious regarding their own fate as little more than supporters, but not leaders of the State. They fail to see the philosophical futility of their particular position, what a sad mental state indeed.
An interesting quote from La Botie tells the story of how the power of the State or tyranny retains generational control over the population: "It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they are bornthe powerful influence of custom is in no respect more compelling than in this, namely, habituation to subjection."
Today, the people of this country, for the most part, live in a type of ignorant bliss following the dictates of the State, unaware of their own situation as they blindly bask the State's perpetual servings of political pablum. The electoral process in this country readily fits the needs and fulfills the goals of a Statist System. It is, by any real standard, little more than insipid intellectual fare filled with all the elements of entertainment that is devoid of serious questions demanding serious solutions to the very problems that the State itself has caused over the decades. There is nothing more than a comfortable commonality with the vast majority of candidates presented by the entrenchment political parties, each fulfilling their own part in maintaining the status quo of State ideology.
Again, La Botie states the need of the State to promote entertaining diversions for the People: " Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beast, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, there were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books."
Amazing isn't it? La Botie knew all the tricks of the Statist trade, even in 1500s. He went on to say: "they never undertake an unjust policy, even one of some importance, without prefacing it with some pretty speech concerning public welfare and common good." Statist constantly reinforce their ideological propaganda through an almost deliberate mystification and adept misdirection.
It is a doctrine that must rely upon a particular type of creative and intellectual bankruptcy melded together to benefit the State and only the State. The Statist System, by nature, is extremely stratified into two very distinct classes made up of those who rule and those who do not question its rule. Statism is the unthinking man's ideology for it requires the unquestioning dedication to the ideals of the State and the dictates of its leadership. It requires a certain passive obedience that binds the population en masse to surrender their freedom of will, their freedom of action in subordination to the will of the State. There is, after all, a certain poverty of philosophy within the ideology of Statism, this poverty is out of necessity as much as it is inherent in the nature of Statism itself. The best environ for the Statist is one of ignorance among the masses and an unquestioning allegiance to a source of power for guidance and direction.
A quote from Tolstoy on Statist Oligarchy: "The situation of the oppressed should not be compared to the constraint used directly by the stronger on the weaker, or by the greater number on the smaller. Here, indeed it is the minority who oppresses the majority, thanks to a lie established ages ago by clever people, in virtue of which men despoil each other."
To the Statist, the State becomes the expression of all personality and seeks to make the State an inward standard and rule of conduct for all, it is, in a word a pure dogmatic doctrine that requires adherence through faith, faith in the State and the State alone. It is difficult to understand how so many can fall for such an ideology, to submit and suffer themselves to the authority and power of a few who usually possess no more competence or wisdom than anyone else. Statism usually highlights the incompetence of those within power more than any other political system, simply because the entire system relies upon and focuses on the leadership of the system. Usually, the leadership of such a system must continue to press into service more and more novel programs, new agencies, more legislation in response to the exponential growth in problematic issues caused by other programs, agencies, and legislations of the State.
The results of this political and social malignancy of Statism is evident as you view the current state of affairs within this government as the Statist Ideology metastasizes throughout our highly centralized and nationalized government with outcroppings of inefficiency, dysfunctional agencies, and waste on a scale that pales any disaster in comparison. For Statist who decry the ideals of the Constitutional Republic, they ignore the fact that for the last century and a half we have not seen a Constitutional Republic operating in this country, we have seen nothing but the steady expansion of the Nationalist ideology of the State. The results of such Statism tes our daily lives, programs upon programs, agencies heaped upon agencies, codes, legislations, acts and regulations all point to the State as a defunct political system void of anything that can be equated with success and efficiency. Look around, you will see the sum total of 147 years of Statism at its best and it is a of failure upon failure.
Statism, as it always has been, is an infection, it is parasitic and it can only sustain itself through siphoning off financial, political and social resources from the people they seek to rule. All Statist Ideologies implode upon themselves, they all outgrow their ability to be efficient and functional.
So, to those Statist, take a good look around, look at our country, look at the massive mountain of incoherent legislative and bureaucratic regulations, taxations, fees, licenses, and regulations. Not surprisingly, the Statist always find need for more, they always clamor for more bureaucracy and legislation, in so many instances, the mounts of bureaucratic mumblings are usually little more contradictions to the previous mounds of legislation created at the behest of the State. The State and its Statist supporters allow such blindness to influence their desires and their actions that they fail to see their failures.
Welcome to the Nationalist State of America!
It is, in my estimation, time to once again return to the common-sense sanity of a Constitutional Republic.
In Liberty,
Republicae-Seditionist
"All Power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are no other sources. All delegated power is trust, all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." Thomas Paine
As Thomas Paine said, time does not alter either the nature or the quality of the principles behind power. Either that power is delegated from a superior source of Sovereignty or it is assumed and therefore usurped. Now, the question of Sovereignty is perhaps one of the most important questions concerning the degree and quality of Liberty within this country. Only a Sovereign Source can delegate power and authority; likewise, only a Subordinate Source can receive those delegated powers and authority to act upon them.
It then becomes quite obvious in the following words within the Declaration of Independence where all Sovereignty emanates: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America" Those peculiar words were to declare the independence of the colonies from Britain. Additionally, once the War for American Independence was won, Great Britain recognized each State, by name, as being Sovereign and Independent States. This same phraseology was then used in the Articles of Confederation in the description of the States.
When these same States, by the consent of their Citizens, through Convention ratified the Constitution they did so in the same Sovereign Status as they did when they Declared their Independence to form a Revolutionary government and then formulated a Confederation through Consent and Compact; as the need arose they then entered into a Compact between themselves to form the Sovereign States in Union. They, through Consent, retained the same style throughout every stage of political formation. Each government, both the government of the Several States and the general government of the States or the federal government, were delegated powers and authority derived from the Consent of the People Sovereign.
The facts are well-established and the provision within the Constitution is too explicit to deduct any other opinion except that the States retained their Sovereign Status through the delegated authority and powers of the People through their Consent. So, even after the Ratification of the Constitution, the independent, distinct and sovereign character by which they both formed and ratified that Compact was never divested from the States, nor the People. The People are the Prima Materia Imperium from which all Powers and Authority stems within this country and within both the State and the federal governments, it can not originate in either government since they are both ordained and established by the People. Remember, a thing created can never be greater then the one who created it, the act of creation is the superior act.
Each government is the natural extension of the governed since each government, whether State or general, partakes in the character of the source which formed it to act as an Agent on the behalf of those who gave Consent; thereby delegating authority and power to act in their best interests. Since Sovereignty is the source of all delegated powers and authority, the primary benefactor of such power and authority will be the States in which the Sovereign People reside, from there the States, acting as Agents of the People will properly delegate and grant a degree of authority and powers to the general or federal government to act in a limited capacity on behalf of the States united as a political community for the Sole Benefit of their Citizens.
The federal government has no powers or authority that emanates inherently from itself, despite its claim to the contrary, but must rely solely upon the delegation of those powers and that authority from the Sovereignty of the People of the Several States. The federal government is a reflection of the States united through the Voluntary Compact of Union, otherwise known as the Constitution.
The allegiance of the People therefore, will naturally be toward their respective States since it is the Several States that make up the Voluntary Union of States which reflects those States through the usage of Three Distinct and Separate Branches. Each of those Branches are also totally dependent on the Concurrent Consent of the States and the People in their Sovereign Character as each Branch depends on the Delegation of Their Power and Authority to act.
So, the States were Ordained to act through the powers and authority delegated to them by the Sovereign People of each State, in turn the federal government was Ordained by the States to act both on the behalf of the States and in turn the People Sovereign. The government of the United States is not now, nor has it ever been singular, but reflects the Several States by their Concurrent Consent as Ordained and Granted by the People.
The Preamble of the Constitution defines the reasons for the Ordination of the government and those reasons are clearly enumerated as very specific objects: "to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." So, it was the Several States, or the People that make up the Several States, that Ordained the government through the Ratification of the Constitution between them; this Act of Concurrent Consent and Ratification did not place the federal government over the States or the People, the Several States, and thus the People only delegated a degree of authority and power to it in order for it to fulfill the specific enumerated objects previously stated.
It is obvious therefore, or at least it should be, that the one to whom authority and power is delegated is not, nor can it be higher then the one delegating that power and authority. The Authority that ordains and establishes must therefore, be higher than that which is ordained and established. This should be common sense, unfortunately the assumption of powers not only usurps common sense, but power as well.
The 10th Amendment states clearly that: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
So, by the Compact between the Several States vested a degree of power and authority to the general or federal government. It split this power and authority between Three Branches, distinct in purpose and operations. The 10th Amendment then continues to say that those powers that are not delegated to the federal government and that are not prohibited by it [the Constitution] are reserved to the States or to the People. This is not a limitation upon either the States or the People, but solely upon the federal government of these United States. It is also apparent that there are powers and authority that the People did not delegate to either the States or the federal government, but that are completely retained by them alone.
This is the bar, the measurement of all government action and legislation. There can be no action or legislation that infringes upon the Retained Rights, the Retained Authority and Power of the People. Although Congress and even the State Legislatures tend to present and pass legislation that does not conform to the principle that the People retain these Sovereign Characteristics, the proper and legal measure of all legislation is if that legislation contradicts those Rights Reserved and Retained by the People and the People alone. There are, in additional to those Rights enumerated within the Constitution, Rights, Power and Authority Retained by the People which are not mentioned, not enumerated within the Constitutional Compact.
Additionally, even the Supreme Court of these United States should, by the act of the Sovereign Source of its own delegated powers, always consider the measure of all opinions based not on an allowable degree of Rights due the People, but solely limiting the assumption of powers by the government itself. The Supreme Court only holds the degree of supremacy as it is delegated to it and no more.
Through the Compact between the Several States, the People ordained and established a government of the People, by the People and solely for benefit of the People. This government was formed and intended to operate as a federal, in contradistinction of a national government. In a national government all other Constitutions and governments, such as those of the States would be superceded and absorbed, but that was never the case, nor is it the case even though for decades that has been the primary focus of certain elements within the federal government and both of the ruling political parties. The Several States are the expression of the People's Sovereignty, as is the federal government the expression of the People's Will through the Several States in Union. Each of the Several States, by Concurrent Consent of the People, ratified this Voluntary and Reflective Union but retained all Sovereignty and Power to alter, abolish or, if necessary, to leave that Voluntary Union.
Likewise, the Executive and the Legislative Branches are only allowed a degree of authority and power as it is delegated to them to perform a very specific and narrow set of obligations to the People. Any actions or Legislation beyond those specific and narrow set of obligations and all Three Branches only assume power, or usurp it from the People.
Of course, through the decades the 10th Amendment, like the 9th has been ignored to the point of being effectively neutralized. There are no divided powers, no divided authority, no divided sovereignty; it all rest within the People and is only delegated to the Several States and to the federal government. The Several States and the federal government hold Authority and Power only in Delegated Trust; with that Trust comes all the Responsibility and Duty enumerated within the Compact between the Several States agreed by Concurrent Consent of the People of those Several States.
Since all Power and Authority is either Delegated through legal Consent or Assumed and thereby Usurped illegally, where does that leave us in our opinion of this current government? What respect or loyalty do We legally have to a government who has illegally Assumed and Usurped its Authority and Power from the People of these Several States united?
In Liberty,
Republicae-Seditionist
It is imperative to understand that this country is formed solely upon the Sovereignty of the People themselves and that in that Sovereignty, they have, out of both necessity and desire, come together to form communities of governments to act both on their behalf and upon their Consent. This Sovereignty finds its expression, and has done so, in the governments of the Several States, which in turn, have reflected their Will in the formation of a federation of States called the United States.
The Several States, in the purist expression of the People's Sovereignty have formed, established and delegated the government federal. The Rights of the People are embedded in the Rights of the States, you cannot have one without the other, nor can you have a delegation of authority and power without such Rights, both Reserved and Delegated. It is the Delegated Trust, from the People through the medium of their Respective States to the federal government, which pronounced and delineates the Sovereignty of the People themselves.
Delegated powers must always subordinate to those Reserved by both the States and the People. The powers Reserved by the People and thereby the States, which represent them, have the complete power to Amend the federal government by Constitutional Convention with three-fourths Concurrent Majority voting in assent. This power speaks to the sole Sovereignty of the People through the medium of the States in which they resided and hold their Citizenship. The subordinate federal government is simply the reflection of the States and thereby the People.
In its formation, the federal government is simply a reflection of the compact between the States, who by Consent of the People, did ratify that compact between them. The Constitution was not formed by the federal government but the federal government by the Constitution. This Constitution was merely a compact of agreement between the Several States acting upon the Consent and Will of the People who resided in those States. As such, this compact, with its specified provisions and divisions of authority and power, was and is subject to the continued Consent and Will of the People through their respective mediums of government, the States.
There is, in the essence of primacy, no such thing as States Rights outside of the delegation of both authority and power to the Several States by the People of those States. Likewise, there is no Sovereignty in either the Several States or the federal government outside of the Delegation, in Trust, of such authorities and powers by the People themselves as expressed in the Compact between the Several States, reflected in the federal government. The Constitution was not, nor is it today, an agreement between the Several States and the federal government since the federal government has no inherent powers or authority within itself. The Constitution solely an agreement between the People, through the medium of the Several States, and themselves.
The Constitutions of the Several States preceded both the formation of the Constitution and federal government so too, do they precede it in both execution and authority. The language of the Constitution cannot be stronger in the delineation of delegated authority and power emanating from the States, by the Consent of the People themselves to the federal government. As such, this agreement, ratified between the Several States, solely upon the Consent of the People, seeks to guards the Reserved Powers of the People, thus the Several States, against the government as a whole and against all its departments, officers and any mode that might be devised which would impair such construction thereby impeding the Reserved Powers of the States, respectively, which solely reflect the Rights of the People. It was this intention, clearly enumerated, to place the Reserved Powers of the States, and thus the People, beyond the possible interference and control of the federal government of the United States.
It was also clearly stated that, in consideration of these Reserved and Delegated Powers, that the Right of the Separate Governments of the Several States was complete and contained within themselves to protect their own Powers and Authorities as Consented to by the People to represent them respectively in each of their respective States. As to the federal government, the provisions of this Compact between the States, through the Consent of the People, was to allow for the protection of those Delegated Powers to the federal government as long as the federal government, thus the majority of the States, continued adherence to the provisions agreed upon by the Constitution.
To speak to the Delegation of Powers to the federal government, the Constitutional Convention was very deliberate in both content and expression, especially in the inclusions of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution. One of the more interesting facts is that the final version of the 10th Amendment was far more expansion as it was originally proposed which was worded in a far more restrictive verse: "That each State in the Union shall respectively retain every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, by the Constitution, delegated to the Congress of the United States, or to the departments of the federal government."
Of course, in the Resolutions of Ratification by the Several States, the meaning of both the 9th and 10th Amendments is clearly expounded. These Resolutions express the exact nature and character of what was taking place as they Ratified the agreement between them called the Constitution of the United States. This agreement did not place any Power or Authority within the grasp of the federal government as inherent, but only as Delegated in Trust. That Trust only extended to, and was expressed by the continuation of maintenance of the provisions of that agreement; upon violation of such provisions it was expressly expounded that such violations would effectively nullify and render void the agreement itself, thereby rendering the Several States to their original form as separate governments without an agreement forming a federal government between them to reflect certain preset and limited requirements.
In these Delegate Powers, the People, through the medium of the Several States, have given or granted an agency of execution of such Delegated Powers to act on behalf of the People themselves; thus performing certain duties, restricted by Compact, that are intimately connected with the Principle Power of the People themselves. Without such agency, all ability to act upon these Delegated Powers would be nugatory therefore, such powers are delineated in a structure of government broken into various Branches, each set with particular limited powers and overlapping powers crafted to both execute and check the powers of each Branch. So too, in the creation of a multi-layered government structure, the Several States play an indispensable role in maintaining balance within the system and in the protection of their Citizens.
Now, to reiterate the scope of the Powers of the Several States and thus the People themselves who delegate such Powers to the States we need look no further, of course, than the Constitution. In support of this opinion the Constitution is of extreme clarity, it relies upon, in the first place, on the 2nd Section of the 6th Article, which provides the following: " This Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land: and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." It is apparent in this clause that there is a very definite supremacy associated with the mechanics of the government of the United States except when such supremacy contradicts or infringes upon the laws or Constitutions of the Several States. This is a delineation of the various levels of Power and Authority that has been duly delegated to each stratus of government, from those of the States themselves, then to those that the federal government reflects in both application and scope of such powers and authorities thus delegated.
It is, or should be sufficient to see that such a statement is declaratory in both nature and character and that there are no powers or authorities vested in the federal government by the Constitution that extend beyond those enumerated in the Delegated Trust placed into the mechanics of the federal government as it reflects the Will of the People as expressed through their Respective States. The layers of supremacy results from the relationship that was formed between the Several States in agreement to form the federal government and within the very specified limits placed upon the federal government by the States in Convention. The reach of the federal government does not extend beyond the Delegated Trust of powers and authority, all others being Reserved to the States and to the People of the States. Beyond these enumerated and thus Delegated Powers, the Constitution is completely destitute of all authority. In other words, without the Delegation of these very limited powers by the States, acting upon the Consent of the People themselves, all execution of any power or authority by the federal government any operations outside such of Delegated powers is mere assumption and therefore illegal.
It is interesting to see just what the Delegates of the Constitution Convention rejected when they dismissed certain "articles", and it is this dismissal that speak volumes about what was and was not intended in the construction of Constitutional Order, thus the various delegation of powers to the States and the federal government. As reported by Committee, the following words were proposed and then rejected: "The acts of the legislature of the United States, made in pursuance of this Constitution, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the Several States, and of their Citizens and inhabitants; and the Judges of the Several States shall be bound thereby, in their decisions; any thing in the Constitutions or laws of the Several States to the contrary notwithstanding." As we can see, there is a very distinct difference between what was proposed and what was approved for final ratification by the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The above, as opposed to the prior approved version, clearly demonstrates the designation of supremacy over the mechanics of the federal government by the Constitutions and laws of the Several States.
Thus such limitations on the scope of supremacy of the federal government, in all its operations and powers, were marked with such distinction and clarity that there should be no need to elucidate, but obviously that is not the case. These limitations are clarified, not only in degree, but also in extent. It is within these limitations duly imposed upon the government by the authority of the Constitution, as agreed in Compact by the Several States in Convention, that the proper operation of government can be achieved and assure the protection of the Will and Rights of the People. To assume that the government can carry its own supremacy beyond such limitations, thus extending its own authority over the Reserved Powers of the Several States, in any shape, channel or form, would essentially destroy the entire system of the Republic by consolidating all its power in the hands of the government without regard to the Will of the People.
Thus we have seen that there has, through the decades, been a rapid expansion of the reach of the authority and powers that the federal government has assumed. This assumption is nothing more than usurpation, illegal under the Compact between the Several States as Ratified and, as we see, very detrimental to the Rights of the People. Even within the governments of the Several States, authority and power has been usurped from the People who retain Rights that are not even enumerated within the Constitution itself. We have been effectively taught that the Rights stated within the document of the Constitution are the only Rights We the People have, but that is untrue. There are Rights that were never Delegated to either the States or the federal government, not only were such Rights never Delegated they were not even enumerated; yet we make no claim upon them.
Congress and indeed the State Legislatures have both extended themselves and the scope of their power beyond that which was delegated. Our times have seen a myriad of novelty legislation emanating from both bodies however, this does not mean that such legislation is legal in the Constitution sense, it merely denotes that both legislative bodies have made an assumption of powers and authorities beyond those delegated to them. The law, whether on the level of the federal government or the State, must also be as proper as it is necessary. Without those two standards of character, then the law is without competency and should be considered void of demand.
The law therefore must yield that which is both proper and necessary, under such delegated powers, to be executed legally. We must realize, and therefore press upon all government, that is it, both our Right and therefore our Power to establish and ordain our government. Indeed, we have, ordained and established our State governments through their State Constitutions; from that origin, the States, by our Consent and through such Powers and Authority Delegated in Trust, did ordain and establish the federal government upon our behalf and for our sole benefit. We did so, in such ordination and establishment, form separate State Constitutions and thereby State governments, each created by itself and for itself without any concert or agreement with any of the other States; afterwards, in our Sovereignty, we did ordain and establish the federal government to be a reflection of the States to perform very specific functions within a very limited scope of delegated power.
Unlike the ordination and establishment of the governments of the Several States, the planning, ordination and execution of the federal government was done in concert and agreement between the Several States. It is this very same Power and Authority, through the Conventions of the Several States that did ordain and establish a federal government. This Supreme Power, as declared by the 10th Amendment, still resides within the People themselves and is solely Reserved by the People of the Respective States. I dare say that while there are those who would claim that such Power has been extinguished, they either fail to understand or refuse to assent to the Authority that still resides within the People themselves and if they hold such views then they only continue to allow for the assumption of power by the federal government.
This is the Right of the People, to Retain and Reserve those Powers and Authorities unto themselves and to exercise such Rights even when the various departments of government act to the contrary. Although there are those who would, through such assumption, lay claim to power and authority through the government, in both its infringements and abuses over Constitutional Order; there must come a time when We the People realize, and therefore exercise, the fact that Sovereignty resides in the People and not in government. When government, at any level, relinquishes its loyalty to the Constitution, the People themselves are released from all allegiance to the government for it is impossible for the People to remain loyal to an un-loyal, and therefore illegal government.
It must be logical to adhere to the principle that, so far as the federal government is concerned, that the People of the Several States can act in the very same way, in the same capacity, in which they did ordain and establish the federal government by Constitution, can, by the same united and concurrent voice, change, abolish or establish another government in its place, as well as completely dissolve the Union altogether. The Power to ordain and establish must also, by the very nature of such Power, have the Authority and Ability to dissolve the agreement that they entered into by Concurrent Consent. This, both the act of creation and dissolution, is an example of the high Sovereignty of the People. If this is not the case then all our Rights are contingent upon the whims of the government and our compliance to its will regardless of our desires or Consent. Our system must stand as one in the relationship of the superior to the subordinate, the People themselves being superior to the subordinate federal government as the creator to the created.
An interesting note concerning constitutions is that the constitution of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics included within its articles the right of any Soviet Republic to Secede. The banality of that right can be seen in the way that constitution was ordained and established; in contradistinction to our own Constitution, the constitution of the former U.S.S.R. was ordained by the central government itself, for itself, of itself, and did not rely upon the consent of the people over whom this legal document resided. Of course, the right of secession was among many rights guaranteed to the people of the former Soviet Union however, since none of those rights and indeed the existence of the Soviet government itself did not depend upon the consent or will of the people and since the people themselves held no concept of their natural rights or sovereignty, the constitution was of no effect regarding the people themselves or their potential grievances. This is an example of what happens when there is a complete centralization of power. All so-called rights in such a system are absolutely contingent upon compliance.
In our original, thus former Constitutional Republic, it was the People, after all, that both called for the creation and existence of the federal government and conferred upon it all the powers and authorities it utilizes. Without such conferment the federal government has no ability or power to operate in any capacity or strength whatsoever, in fact, there would be no federal government since it emanates solely from the Consent of the People. As we have seen however, there has been a consolidation of powers and authorities by the federal government, centralized over the years to the effect that the Powers and Authority Reserved to the States and the People respectively have been assumed and absorbed by the centralized federal government; the effects of this process is evident.
So, the People of the Several States, in the essence of their Sovereign Capacity, agreed to unite themselves in a connection what was as close as possible without merging their Respective Sovereignties, the States, into one common sovereignty and consolidated government. For, it that had been the case we would not have State Constitutions or State governments and would only have one central government with one Constitution. The governments and Constitutions of the Several States are not, in any way, subordinate to the federal government, just the opposite is true. As to this Compact, that is the view of the document that legally provides the provisions of the functionaries of the federal government on behalf of the People in the Several States.
It is, in no way, the rule over the individual governments of those States, only the rule over the federal government as emplaced by the Several States in Compact. To use the language of the Constitution itself, it was solely ordained as the "Constitution for the United States" and not over them as they Ratified it between themselves. So, if a State or several States violate the provisions of the document they violate it in terms of the Compact made between the States, but when the federal government violates the document it violates the Law as set forth by that document as ordained by the Several States.
The Constitution was ordained over the federal government, over all departments and functions of the federal government, not over the States, which possess their own Constitutions that provide for the laws of each of the Several States. The federal government is therefore, under complete obligation to follow the strict legal format enumerated in the Constitution as it was ordained and established by the Ratification of the Several States in Compact Agreement between them. In the most distilled legal form, the federal government owes complete and absolute allegiance to the People as reflected through the Compact enacted between the Several States. So, if the Constitution is indeed a Compact between the Several States, acting in their Sovereign Capacity, upon Consent of their Sovereign Citizens, the rest should logically follow the necessary consequences of that action of ordination and establishment.
The absorption of Reserved Powers by the Delegated Authority is one, as we have seen for the last 150 years, of the most pressing dangers to the future health and well-being of our country for the absorption of those Powers Reserved to the States and to the People respectively effectively neutralizes the Rights of the People themselves. There can be no restoration of the Constitutional Republic without the restoration of the proper role of the Several States along with the Power and Authority Reserved to them and the Sovereignty of the People. Conversely, if the federal government is not reigned into and limited to the scope of power and authority that was Delegated to it in Trust, then there can and will be no restoration of the Constitutional Republic.
As we see, the issue of centralized power is gradually being questioned, not only by Citizens in their Individual Status, but also by the States. It is once again time to make this a primary issue in our hopes for the Restoration of the Republic for without the proper role of government, without the checks and balances as enumerated within the Constitutional Compact as Ratified Between the Several States then this country will continue down the road that will only lead to an increase of centralized power and tyranny. Without the proper exercise of Power and Authority as delineated within the Constitution the hopes and dreams of those who maintain Constitutional Patriotism will never be realized. We must make every concerted effort to regain each and every legislature of each State in order to press upon the federal government its place as a subordinate servant of the People.
This is indeed a Revolution that is no less important, no less critical for our Liberty than that fought in 1776. The results of this Revolution will determine the future of this country and whether our children and children's children will enjoy the Heritage of Liberty passed down from those who had the insight to form and craft our once-prosperous Republic. Increasingly, there will be forces, which will rise against all who contend that these Principles are both valid and pertinent to our lives and the wellbeing of our country. At some point in the future we must all decide whether we will be considered merely collaborators with the centralized power expressed by the federal government or if we will oppose such assumption of powers and therefore be considered, for all intents and purposes, enemies of such usurpation of power by that government.
We have become a society which must seek permission, pay taxes, fees, hold licenses and generally comply with all codes, rules, regulations and legislations whether they be proper and necessary or not. We are a society that must completely rely upon our complance to the central government, and increasingly to another layer of compliance acts legislated by our own States, if we wish to remain relatviely free and unfettered in our pursuits.
THE DAY MUST COME WHEN WE REALIZE THAT FREEDOM CONTINGENT UPON COMPLIANCE IS NOT FREEDOM!
In Liberty,
Republicae- Seditionist
Though not apparent at the moment, the ringing of the Death Nel is getting louder each day for the Federal Reserve and its Fiat Monetary Debacle. In fact, there are few that have even heard it's ringing, but soon it will toll louder and louder. As more and more of the People of this country awaken to the devious functions of the Federal Reserve and its partner in crime, the government and its pandering politicians, the time is close at hand when they will no longer allow such reckless and illegal shenanigans. Along with the welcomed death of this hideous quasi-governmental monstrosity called the Federal Reserve, will come the end of our government, as we know it. When enough People realize what has actually taken place and what the government, along with their banking partners have done to this country then they really will be up in arms.
There is one incredibly fantastic trait inherent within all Fiat Monetary Systems and that is that they are mathematically impossible to sustain indefinitely. The fact is that they all have an inherent terminal point, a maximum life span if you will. Our Fiat Monetary System is particularly interesting because it is what is considered a Total Fiat System with no inherent value backing the currency. Most partial Fiat Systems usually have a life span between 50 to 70 years; Total Fiat Systems on the other hand have been shown to have a practical life span of between 20 and 40 years depending on the abuses heaped upon it by overzealous and reckless politicians. In 1971 President Richard Nixon cut the final ties between the Federal Reserve Notes and gold, on that fateful day, 36 years ago the debasement of the purchasing power of those Federal Reserve Notes began in earnest and has diminished at an unbelievable rate.
Now along with this little scam comes another little trick that supports the Fiat System and that is taxation. A former governor of the Federal Reserve, Beardsley Ruml, stated that under a Fiat Monetary System there is absolutely no need for taxation as a means of raising operating revenues since it need only depend upon the expansion of the Fiat money supply to achieve any fiscal functions of operation. In fact, Mr. Ruml went further by saying that there were only three reasons that a government with full access to a Fiat Monetary System would implement income, gift and estate taxation, these reasons are as follows:
1. To maintain social control over the population.
2. To enforce the use of Fiat Currency by the People.
3. To redistribute wealth.
I mean the government's debt, or should I say our debt, is now estimated at nearly $10 Trillion Dollars with unfunded future obligations at over $60 Trillion Dollars on top of that. In the last year this government spent around $500 Billion of your tax dollars just on the periodic interest payments on the debt, the remainder of our taxes amounted to little more than a pittance in the grand scheme of things. The government outspends tax revenues at an unbelievable rate, our taxes, in essence, do nothing in terms of actual government operations. Taxation is however, very necessary to maintain the Fiat Monetary System.
Today, a person making an annual income of $35,000. 00 has the effective purchasing power, in 1970 "dollars" of merely $6,359.83 per year. So, a person making that $16.83 "dollars" per hour really has an effective purchase power of only $3.06 in 1970 "dollars" per hour. Now, can anyone see why the government must mandate minimum wages? The fact is that a person making the average minimum wage of $5.85 per hour has the effective hourly wage in 1970 "dollars" of only $1.06 per hour; in other words that person working forty hours a week has a wage of only $42.40 per week in 1970 purchasing power "dollars". Hardly a subsistence wage, wouldn't you agree?
Now, for more horrifying news, consider what has happened to the purchasing power of our "dollar" since the inception and imposition of the Federal Reserve on this country in 1913. That same $35,000.00 "dollars" per year has the effective purchasing power of only $1,622.74 in 1913 "dollars", or $0.78 per hour. So today, it takes approximately $21,568.48 "dollars" to purchase what $1,000.00 "dollars" purchased in 1913. In other words, it takes One Fiat Federal Reserve Note, $1.00 to purchase what $0.05 cents bought in 1913. These numbers however, are based upon the government's own CPI calculations, which are fraudulently low to say the least, meaning the actual numbers are even worse, but this little example gives you some idea about what has happened to the value of the currency.
What has happened to all that immense wealth? It has effectively been siphoned away from the People, making their labor basically free, making them basically serfs who slave by the sweat of their brow only to receive a pittance in return. That wealth has been diverted through the use of this Fiat Monetary Scam imposed against our Will and the best interest of this country by those who should be considered nothing less than criminals and traitors. Even today, they continue to rob the People of the fruit of their labors; these Bankers and their willing partners in government that allow these crimes and, at times openly support such underhanded methods of swindle are still deserving of nothing less than a traitors death. They deserve to dance the Tiber Jig. They continue to take the food from your children's mouths and consume the bulk of prosperity from the hard-working men and women of this country.
Most Fiat Systems throughout history have been partial in their character and nature, combining a portion of backing to the currency, but the one imposed upon this country is different and that distinction will ultimately cause it to implode in a way that few of us presently can imagine.
It will be both the worst of times and the best of times, for it will awaken this People, slothful in their pleasures to once again hold things of meaningful value in high esteem, but it will prove to be a time of untold suffering, chaos and cruelty. A time that will definitely try us in ways that can yet be conceived.
But that aside, let us get back to the topic at hand: Fiat Currency. Due to the particular nature of the structure of our Fiat System every single Federal Reserve Note must be borrowed into existence, effectively making each of those Notes a legal notification of a debt obligation carrying an additional interest obligation. So, our money is borrowed into circulation as a interest bearing debt obligation; in order to continue the process of economic growth money must continually be borrowed and re-borrowed into circulation otherwise there is a contraction in that circulation and thus a contraction in the economy. In order to maintain this extremely flawed System all payments made toward the principle debt and the periodic interest obligations must be constantly re-assumed in the form of a new principle amount that is not only equal to the old principle but with the addition of more interest obligations on top of it the entire underlying balance of the principle debt and periodic interest only multiplies. We have reached the point where the debt is now completely irreversible and is beginning to consume the economy at a much more rapid rate. This balloon expands exponentially to the point that it siphons off all viability within the economy which collapses in under the massive weight of insoluble debt.
So, when at one time the economy could tolerate those interest rate hikes, we have seen signals that the economy can no longer sustain itself with what was once considered only minor rate increases. This is a signal that the System can no longer service the underlying debt upon which it is created and that an increasing amount of currency is needed to service that debt taking more and more currency out of circulation thus contracting liquidity in the market. The fist sign of the System reaching the terminal point in its life span will be something similar to the Great Depression, but with much farther reaching effects. Afterwards, the fun really begins as the System when it reaches the point of systemic collapse. Think Dark Ages.
There are several signs that the Fiat Monetary System is approaching the terminal point of its lifespan. The economy, which at one time could tolerate interest rate increases, even high rate increases, becomes more and more intolerant of such increases. The stress cracks have been showing for years and this latest economic quake is only but the beginning. The problem is far greater, far deeper than anyone is revealing, especially those in government.
Now this is, at first, hard to grasp since we rarely deal with such matters in our everyday lives, but it is essential knowledge for those who wish to prepare for the events that will press us all in the future, a future much closer than we realize. We must realize that everything that is built and depends upon this Fiat Monetary System will suffer the same fate as the System itself. For a moment imagine what depends on this Fiat Monetary System: the government with all its functions and all government programs like Social Security, Medicare, government checks, our paychecks, savings, insurance, stocks and bonds, 401ks and even the banks themselves are all totally and absolutely dependent upon this Fiat Monetary System.
The Federal Reserve, along with just about every other central bank around the world, can do nothing to stop this collapse; sure they can continue to slap band-aids on the growing problem, stitch patches on their decaying economic blanket, but they cannot stop a terminal process that is inherent in the System they created. As I said, it is a mathematical impossibility for such a System to continue indefinitely.
The day may come when the People of this country will once again Demand not only their government return to sound and solid Constitutional Principles, but that the money that circulates in this country once more carries with it actual Property Rights.
So, you say you want a Revolution?
In Liberty,
Republicae-Seditionist
The People of this country formed a social compact; that compact was contained and detailed within the written Constitution giving the exact extent of powers they deemed necessary to the government. As you note, these were powers that were delegated to the government by the People, not relinquished. There has never been a single power relinquished by the People, any power within the function of the government is isolated through the action of Delegated Trust based upon the Sovereignty of the People.
This was to ensure that the People themselves enjoyed a very qualified Liberty of Action, Freedom from unnecessary restraints, unnecessary requisitions or extractions from the government. Of those limitations, the People in their Sovereignty gave their limited Consent to the government to function within a very, very narrow frame of action primarily for the sole purpose of the defense of the Liberty and the Rights for which they formed the government in the first place.
Any measures inconsistent with that very limited frame of action is to be considered an illegal action and an assumption of un-delegated powers by the government. In some cases where such illegal assumption of powers continues unabated, either by legislative or judicial process, it leaves the People with no peaceable remedy to follow since the general laws or the measures which were instituted to protect the People are ignored, making the ability to have their sincere petitions and grievances redressed in a legitimate manner.
When the government steps away from that social compact formed between the People to provide the protections of their Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of their Happiness, then it proves itself defective; having abridged its primary responsibility, choosing instead to take a more oppressive and tyrannical direction by ignoring the proper function of the powers that were Delegated to it in Trust. At any time when such a government violates that Trust, it becomes a law unto itself, assuming powers outside the realm of its authority.
One of the primary Rights of Action is the ability of the Individual to leave his own community, his State or his country; even the Right to cast off his native allegiance is one of the primary tenets of Liberty. This same Right of Action extends from the Individual to his respective States, for if it did not then the Right of Action for the Individual would not exist since all powers Reserved by the States are a direct delegation from the People themselves through their Consent.
I realize there are some who absolutely deny the claim of such Right of Action however, upon reasonable thought and a small amount of research it becomes clear that such a view is entirely contrary to the principles acknowledged in the Constitution of the United States. That primary principle exhibits that any action voluntarily entered into by the Individual may also, if desired, leave that compact in the very same way he entered. Indeed, to whom or what do we owe allegiance to in this Republic?
I state that we owe no one or anything our allegiance, but we do voluntarily lend our allegiance to the Principles upon which this country was Founded. It is not some person, or an inanimate object such as a flag, or even a piece of paper called the Constitution that either demands or seeks our allegiance, but it is the Principles found within that Constitution that, through a voluntary act we espouse and proclaim our allegiance.
No allegiance is Due to anyone or anything in a free society. It is at the discretion of the Individual to judge the cause for his allegiance or lack thereof; so too, after careful and weighted consideration the same applies to the States who function at the pleasure of their People and indeed the Constitution provides for such actions by the Several States who wish to, upon Concurrent Consent, leave this Union in the same voluntary manner in which they entered it as appropriately and legally demonstrated in their respective Resolutions at the time of Ratification.
There is, at least in principle, along with the Rights of Action, the Rights of Conscience and the ability to have the Freedom of Inquiry which all are entitled to and that entitles the Individual to be Free from the control of anyone, especially from the government which was instituted by the People to which the People have delegated that very limited scope of power for very specific purposes enumerated within the Constitutional Compact. Those elected to government have absolutely no right or power, except when illegally assumed, to do anything to infringe upon those Rights.
Now, notwithstanding, within the delegated powers provided to the government are the necessary functionalities to render certain protections for the People who delegated those powers. So, my statements should not be, as I know they will be, misconstrued into some anarchist libertine version of unbridled lawlessness irregardless of the laws created by and through the Consent of the People and their delegation of powers to government for that purpose.
We are however, the sole judge of our own conscience and the attributes obligated to the direction our consciences lead. Therefore it can be readily assumed that there is no part of the government that has been deputized to regulate or infringe upon the conscience of the Individual. Every single individual has the Right and should be at Liberty to form opinions as he or she pleases and act upon those opinions as long as such actions do not infringe upon the Freedom and Liberty of others to act in concert with their own consciences.
Now, ancillary to the very limited above list of Rights comes the Right to Reform, Secede from or Dismantle entirely the government itself. This Right is the cornerstone of the American Republic of States. It forms the very nature upon which this country was founded. It is the Right to Resist those who govern when government invades the Rights of the People. No government can have a legitimate foundation except when founded upon the best interests of the People themselves and the Consent upon which the government should depend for guidance and deliberation of law.
When a government is effective in both its use and execution of powers delegated to it by the People then it becomes far easier for the People to enjoy the highest degree of Individual Rational Liberty. When the People can, without molestation from the government, feel secure in their persons and their property living quietly and undisturbed in all their Rights without worry of either turbulent or licentious intervention by the government then you have what can be called good government. On the other hand when these fundamental ideals are absent from government then it behooves the People to form every defense against such abuses and usurpations.
The Sovereignty of each of the Several States, which is totally dependent on the nature and character of the People who make up these governmental communities, is indivisible and remains totally integral, even though, through the Consent of the People, all powers of government are delegated. As such, the States, through the medium of the Sovereign People who make up such communities, may delegate a myriad of powers to the federal government without the slightest diminishment of the People's Rights, Power or Authority as represented by the agency of the States. Nor does any delegation of powers relinquish any control over such powers or authority. The States, which were pre-existent to the formation of both the government as it resulted from the Articles of Confederation and by the Constitution itself.
Now on to Secession and Constitutional Liberty, a most distorted and maligned Constitutional Principle. Early in his presidency, George Washington stated that: "free choice, of government founded, not upon force, but Free Assent, and instituted for the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed."
As always, it is rare that well-disposed and content People will join in any attempt to overthrow their government; it is only when their government trespasses upon the environment that promotes the ability of the People to maintain their beneficial dispositions that they would or should consider such actions, and then only after carefully weighed deliberation. Such actions should always be based upon
There are, of course, those who, both in the past and currently, think of these Constitutional Principles as false and seemingly have permanently embossed them as the height of political heresy, when the fact is that the view that they themselves hold is diametrically opposed to most, if not all, Constitutional Principles. After listening or reading their arguments to the contrary, it becomes apparent that they can offer few, if any actual proofs based upon the Constitution, the ancillary documents or the Debates of the Constitutional Convention that crafted the Principles upon which this country was founded.
There were two extremely important principles established by the Colonies; one being that it is the Right of a State to govern itself and it is the Right of the People to abolish a government when it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was instituted. It was concurrent with the establishment of these principles that Britain recognized each and every Colony, by name, as Free, Sovereign and Independent States. Thus when it was found that the functionality of the Articles of Confederation were deficient to fully express and execute the delegated powers necessary to ensure the fullness of the Liberty of the People, they instituted, by Constitutional Compact between those who Ratified that agreement, a government subject to those two great and enduring principles that were asserted in the Declaration of Independence. Ancillary to those two great principles naturally flowed a third and that was the Law of Compact, voluntarily entered into by assent.
Indeed, these common principles were clearly stated in the following:
"The Union was formed by a compact of sovereign and independent States upon covenants and conditions expressly stipulated, the mode of its formation subjects it to the principle, namely that in every compact between two or more parties, the obligation is mutual; that the failure of one of the contracting parties to perform a material part of the agreement entirely release the obligation of the other; and that where no arbiter is provided, each party is remitted to his own judgment to determine the fact of failure with all its consequences."
The above succinctly expresses what should be self-evident, that there is an essential principle inherent within the compact that binds our States based upon both Consent and Compliance to the Compact agreed upon. Without either Consent or Compliance, the Compact is essentially void; our Constitutional Compact is based upon the ancient principles found in Voluntary Contracts. That is the foundation upon which our Constitution rests and upon which all other principles are built.
In the form of the Confederation we find the following:
"Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union BETWEEN [all the States were named]. Article 1. The style of this Confederacy shall be "the United States of America". Article 2. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled."
That should be very clear, but obviously its not because some declare that the Articles of that Confederation were basically destroyed when the Constitution was Ratified because the Articles were deficient however, if you read the Debates on the Constitutional Convention you will quickly see just what they did when they formulated and then when it was Ratified by the Independent States. The Articles of Confederation were simply absorbed, in all its form and then expanded within a very narrow construct in the Constitution. You can find this throughout the Constitution; the Articles of Confederation remained the building blocks of that newly formed Compact. The only thing that was actually nullified was the "Perpetual Union" formed through the Articles of Confederation; this was affected by the Secession of every State of the Union from the Confederation. As referenced earlier, two States refrained for almost two years from Acceding to the new Constitutional compact and joining in the new federation. Both Unions were called the United States of America, the style of the foundational system remained the same, only the functionalities of the structure of government under the new Constitution were enhanced.
In fact, to express the actual nature of the States, one need not look far to see that both Rhode Island and North Carolina refused entry into the new Constitution for almost two years. Now, although the Articles of Confederation stated that the Union was perpetual, it becomes obvious that during that period, both Rhode Island and North Carolina were not part of the old Confederation, which no longer existed, but there were also not a part of the newly formed federation called the United States, but retained their former position as sovereign and independent States outside of compact.
Now, these States held no claim upon the sovereignty of their "sister" States nor did the States who, through agreement between them, entered into the United States claim any part of the sovereignty of either Rhode Island or North Carolina. In contradistinction, even within the compact of the Constitution, no State may lay claim or trespass against any other State because to do so is a violation of the principles of Sovereignty. Likewise, in the same construction, under the Constitution, each State retains, by their Respective State Constitutions and governments, their own sovereignty and independence to the exclusion of every other State in the Union. Otherwise, there would be no need for either State Constitutions or State governments, only a general and centralized national government, but alas, that was not the intention nor was it how this Republic was constructed by the Framers of the Constitution. The form of our governmental structure was not only that of a Republic, but it was a Republic of Republics. In the simplest construction, the federal government is not singular in usage but plural; thus the federal government is nothing more than a reflective governmental arm of the Several States formed through a federational compact based upon Consent instead of conquest.
The Several States, by Consent of their People, Acceded to the Compact established and ordained between them. This act of Accession was the voluntary action that solely formed the agreement and by which it is maintained, without the act of Accession the document becomes void. In fact, until the moment it was Ratified, it was merely just another document without authority; for it was the act of Accession, the act of Ratification that imbued the Constitution with authority, authority solely derived from the People themselves.
Benjamin Franklin stated that: "Our new Constitution is now established with eleven States, and the Accession of a twelfth is soon expected."
There was a great debate on the structure of the new government; there were those who, in a "nationalistic" fervor favored a "national government" however, this was quickly rejected until it once again became the predominate doctrine in the 1860s. It was said that the most compelling argument against such "nationalism" was the name given to the country itself: The United States of America, which, in the understanding and verbiage of the period was descriptive in expounding the system of federalism. Indeed, the only resolution to the expansion of this "nationalist" government is to restore, reassert and re-establish the original federal plan, keeping the government within the restraint of the supreme law which allowed the federal government both to reflect and work with the State governments in a balance that hasn't been seen in nearly a hundred and fifty years.
In 1798, Mr. Madison used the following wording in the Virginia Resolution: "That this assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact, to which the States are parties." That sentence is very descriptive of the Constitutional Compact for it declares that the States are parties to this Compact, not the federal government that results from that Compact. In other words, the federal government is not a party to the Compact agreement made between the Several States only the result of that Compact. It is no different than two people crafting and signing upon agreement to form a company. The company itself bore no power or connection to the contract that created it except that the company must abide by the by-laws and provisions set forth in that contract to remain a valid and legally binding document.
So, the source of all power in our country emanates from the States, being the medium of the People's Sovereignty, and is delegated or flows to the federal government to operate at the Will and Consent of the People. It is interesting that in every original State Constitution you can find similar wording: "All political power is inherent in the People". This was not just an expression, an extract of philosophical niceties, it was a truth that, as the Founders realized, instituted Freedom.
Indeed, the clarity of these principles can be found in the words of John Jay: "The proposed government is to be the government of the people. All its officers are to be their officers, and to exercise no rights but such as the people commit to them. The Constitution only serves to point out that part of the people's business, which they think proper by it to refer to the management of the persons therein designated."
Judge Parsons of Massachusetts stated that: "The federal constitution establishes a government of this description, and, in this case, the people divest themselves of nothing; the government and powers which the congress can administer, are the mere result of a compact made by the people."
Pinckney of South Carolina, at the ratifying convention of the State said: "The sovereign of supreme power of the State, with us, resides in the people. The general government has no powers but what are expressly granted to it. By delegating express powers, we certainly reserve to ourselves every power and right not mentioned in the constitution."
The fact is that no State would have ratified the Constitution had they not believed that the States would not retrain their complete Sovereignty and Power as Independent and Free States. In fact statements to that effect are found throughout the Ratification process, both in the State Conventions and the Constitutional Convention itself.
Judge John Marshall, later the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, stated the full expression of these Reserved Powers retained by the States: "Those who give, may take away. It is the people that give power, and can take it back; what shall restrain them? They are the masters who gave it, and of whom the servants hold it. Are not Congress and the State Legislatures the agents of the People?"
James Wilson, statesman from Pennsylvania to both the federal and State conventions declared the following: "The supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power is in the people before they make a constitution, and remains in them after it is made. The absolute sovereignty never goes from the people."
In Federalist No. 46, James Madison also reiterated the common knowledge of the relationship of both the federal and State governments were to the people: "The federal and State governments are, in fact, but different agents and trustees of the people, instituted with different powers. The ultimate authority wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone." Madison clarified this principle at the Virginia Convention when he said that the phrase "people" did not mean, as the members of the Federalist and Radical Republican Parties later claimed, that "the people as composing one great society, but the people as composing the thirteen sovereignties."
In other words, this country was not to be considered governed under an all-encompassing national government that contains power, authority and sovereignty upon to itself to act or govern in any way its chooses, but all, absolutely all power rest solely in the People to determine the exercise of the agency called the government.
The Constitution, and the resulting federal government, is nothing more than an instrument of agency and that agency completely serves the Will and Consent of the People. As such, the federal government maintains no power, no supremacy and no sovereignty of its own; it only acts on behalf of the People and when it ceases to do so it becomes an illegal and rogue institution devoid of legitimacy.
It was, without any question, understood by the Framers of the Constitution that no government, either State or federal, contained inherent sovereignty. Nor did any of the Framers ever characterize the federal functionaries they constructed through the Constitution as sovereign; it was the People and only the People to were Sovereign, the People were considered Citizens of their Respective States, complete in their Sovereignty; in fact, the States were considered the People, Free and Independent. There was never a hint that either government, State or federal, would or could possess any inherent or original powers.
Yet, for all this, there were those who sought to pervert this sound foundation of government, even today there are those who, in lawlessness, seek to subvert the very foundation of our Republic in favor of a "unified nationalist principle" contorting, through willful ignorance or malicious intent, that the federal government, by will of its own, possess all inherent sovereignty to legislate or function in any manner it sees fit. This pernicious political doctrine, which began early in our country's history, relegates the States to minor factionaries of the federal government and therefore, the "nation"; in fact, they must view the federal government as the "nation" in order to maintain such political doctrinal heresy. They view this country as a consolidated "nation" under complete control of the federal government and its functionaries as a corporate sovereign. Of course, since the 1860s, we have seen this government, this foreign and perverted government; operate exactly as one would expect a corporate sovereign to operate.
It was a self-consolidation the government, fraudulently implemented by force and caused the treasonable destruction of the Reserved Powers of the States, thus the People themselves. The People were herded into a consolidated and undivided nation state; eventually even the functions of Constitutional government were skewed into favoring that nation state. This was a massive transformation because originally the States made up the federation and the general government was federal, not national.
These changes, these perverted transformations affected the very worst type of consolidation, placing within this "national" government all sorts of prerogatives that are almost regal in their execution. It has, for all intents and purposes, become a self-contained corporate body with all the characteristics of a complete sovereign with the ability to operate outside the parameters of the Constitution to achieve both its goals and self-perpetuation.
At one time, the People had the power and ability to place the pressure of their Will upon the government, knowing that all the checks and balances restrained the government and restrained, to a large degree, the actions of politicians. Thus under the guise and form of a Republic we now have little more than a consolidated empire functioning under the auspices of corporate despotism, disguised for its own benefit and function. Under such auspices, as our own history bears out, such a militarily-backed government despot can choose its own direction, its own actions even if it means using force against the People and against their Will to govern themselves by their Consent. In a very real sense, it means that this government can execute its "right" to impose and enforce its assumed "absolute supreme sovereignty" against its own People, and indeed, it has done just that through the years. Today, this government operates under a Simulacrum Constitution that is being adeptly administered in place of the legitimate Constitution, this government now functions under an image of the Constitution; a disguise that merely mask the level of tyrannical usurpation, concealed, for the most part, from the People themselves.
This foul effrontery, illegal and illegitimate at its core, allows this government to find all the appropriate tools to stage and perform before the eyes of the People, all the while its imperial polity is shackled upon the People through a gradual bleeding of their Liberty and Freedom. The People continue to be deceived through an image of civil liberty, doled out to them, contingent upon their compliance to its will, its direction and its self-perpetuation.
All coercion by the federal government is an abridgment of Trust, since each of our States, being equal in their Sovereignty through the People, voluntarily acceded to the Union; the Constitution being the very expression of their Will and Sovereignty, the federal government served only as the agency, in such a system no coercive power over them by the federal government could possibly be derived from the Constitution. It is also logically impossible for an entity, through such a voluntary contract as the Constitution, become involuntarily bound to that contract. In other words, the States, in both nature and character, voluntarily entered into Compact with each other resulting in the formation of the federal government, could not then become involuntary entities merely by the act of entering a voluntary union, the proof of which can be found in the Power of Amendment. The States have the sole power to Amend the Contract through the Concurrent Consent of the People.
Additionally, it is apparent, that under the Constitution, all disputes rising between the various States are to be dealt with through very specific statues; if the Constitutional Compact were dissolved it becomes obvious that the law of nations would be applicable to the Individual States once again. The Several States are the Citizens of those States, therefore, as such; the Sovereignty rests solely in the People and therefore their respective States as Independent and Free Polities. Therefore, upon every possible principle found within the enumerated Compact called the Constitution, the People have the absolute Right to determine the form of government, the reach and scope of that government or, they can, upon proper and determined Consent, withdraw from, alter or dismantle that government. For government only exists at the Behest and Consent of the People themselves, there is no other power that restrains them.
Let us remember, that Madison made it clear in Federalist Paper No. 40, that: "The States are regarded as distinct and independent sovereignties by the Constitution proposed." In the most clarified language composed, Madison made it clear that the Constitution did not then, nor has it sense, formed a "national government" that consolidated the States into one nation state.
By all the references provided to us by the Founders, coercion of the States was to be considered as War on the States. Thus those waging such coercion cannot be considered anything but enemies, no matter what they might call themselves, what color banner they may fly. There was never a single provision made for the federal government to coerce the States, in fact, you will find references where Madison and others decried the proposals of such provisions as totally incompatible with the Republic and the principles upon which it was Founded. As stated, it was the very people who carefully crafted the Constitution that declared such coercion by the federal government against the States as an Act of War, and that such use of coercion was completely incompatible to the principles of the Republic.
The People, as expressed through their respective State governments, possess all absolute power, the federal government being nothing, absolutely nothing more than a derivative of the People's Power expressed through the States; as such it, the f