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← “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the
laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.” The Declaration of Independence
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← For decades, there have been those who have not only coveted political
power, but have gained that power and have, through a variety of cunning devises,
used not only the legislative, but the executive and judicial bodies of our
government to accomplish a system of the centralization of power that now affects
every area in the lives of the People of this country. This pernicious system of
centralization is stamped with the indelible character of a growing aggravated
oppression.
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← Laws have been crafted in such a way that many give a special pecuniary
interest to particular agendas, a variety of political beneficiaries and has done so
with such ingenious political and legislative devices that, at times, makes it
difficult to expose the actual character of the laws being passed and the effect those
laws have upon this country and its People. Every pretext is utilized, every socio-
political slight-of-hand is employed to confer upon the federal government
unwarranted powers that far exceed the clearly defined limitations found within the
Constitution. To this end, this government sets out every type of molestation upon
this People, implemented restraints and placement of hindrances before them
thereby preventing them from enjoying the very fruit of their labors and to live
their lives as they deem proper.
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← A sectionalism has evolved, one that pits the power of the federal state
against the People and it has, through various means of coercion, promoted all the
beneficiaries of a ruling class upon those who enter the federal regime and are
employed by its vast resources, all of which are plundered from the People. This
Congress has, for years, resorted to numerous unwarrantable acts, legislations,
statutes, regulations, taxes and schemes for the purpose of exercising powers not
granted to them either by the People nor by the Constitution from which it receives
its delegated, and thus subservient authority. They have usurped powers and
authorities that do not belong to them nor are such powers and authorities based
upon Constitutional principles, but emanate from the perversion of those very
principles upon which this country was built. Through devious and subversive
means, those within the federal government has changed both the character of
government and the execution of government, reducing, as it were, the
Constitution into a mere formality and upon the crumbling ruins of our Republic,
they have gradually erected a highly centralized power that now borders on a
consolidated despotism without any limitations to its powers and without the real
checks or balances upon those powers.
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← This federal government has assumed powers not inherent to it, in fact the
federal government actually possesses no inherent powers for all are delegated to it
by the People and the Several States respectively. It was the People, through the
agency of their respective States that created the federal government and at that
creation they conferred upon the federal government its powers in a purely
delegated manner and therefore limited form. All power within the federal
government is based upon that act of delegation and each power delegated to it is
based upon prescribed limitations enumerated within the voluntary Constitutional
charter. Prior to the writing and subsequent ratification of the Constitution, each
State was Free and Independent, each possessed full Sovereignty as provided by
the People residing in those States from whom all Sovereignty rests. The character
of that Sovereignty did not change by the ratification of the Constitution as each
State entered into a compact with each other for the creation of the general federal
government. The creation of that general government provided for very specific
objectives that were intended to benefit each of the Several States, yet those
specific objectives were framed within a narrow and strictly limited scope of
powers.
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← Jefferson once said: “the Several States composing the united States of
America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to the general
government, but by a compact under the style and title of the Constitution of the
united States, they Constituted a general government for special purposes,
delegated to that government certain definite powers, Reserving each State to itself
the residuary mass of Right to their own Self-Government, and when-so-ever the
general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are Un-authoritative,
Void, and of No Force.”
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← It should therefore, be understood that the federal government is nothing
more than an agency created by the States through the People Assembled in
Convention; with that understanding it must also be recognized that the federal
government can exert no power or exercise no authority beyond the prescribed
limitations of power delegated to it by the Compact of the Constitution. The
Constitutional Compact therefore, was not an agreement between the federal
government and the States, but between the Several States themselves as they
created the federal government as a beneficial agency to act upon the Will of the
People within the Several States. Thus, the federal government can lay no claim to
any power or authority that was not expressly granted to it by the People through
the Several States Individually or Assembled; it can only assume such power and
authority through virulent usurpation.
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← Has it not become evident that this Congress, as well as others before it,
have both passed and attempted to pass legislative acts on numerous issues that, on
the face, purport to be beneficial for the American People, yet such legislations
usually result in the expansion of government, the regulation of all aspects of our
society and the confiscation of the choice fruit of our labors. Such gross violations
of the Constitution are the most deliberate and palpable, as such they assume some
of the most dangerous assaults against the People’s future well being. The
Congress even uses those powers that are properly and specifically delegated to it
for entirely different purposes, perverting the legitimate powers for illegitimate
goals.
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← The consequences of these violations have, over the decades, served to
establish some of the most pernicious principles found within our government,
creating a foundation that is now accepted as the norm, providing the greatest
latitude of operation and application as government continues to consolidate its
powers. Instead of applying the Constitution to government, the government has
applied its perverted principles to the Constitution as it has consolidated the
Several States and the representative government, by degrees of legalistic invasion,
into a nationalized sovereignty.
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← This government has, through a myriad of contrivances, established an
excessive exercise of its general legislative control over the interests and even the
pursuits of the People of this country. In ignorance, the government has assumed
that it has both the wisdom and ability to undertake the regulation of the lives,
labors and properties of the American People. The once Free and Independent
States are treated as though they are dependencies, mere colonies of the central
government and the People, once the source of all Sovereignty are now subjugated
to the all-powerful rule of the consolidated government. The Several States, as the
People themselves, are no longer subject to their own interests, but to the interests
of others, namely the government and its attempt to create a total dependent state,
dependent solely upon the plentitude of the government benefits doled out at its
own pleasure.
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← Indeed, pensions, subsidies, benefits have all been enlarged to such a extent
that no other conclusion can be reached but that this government has established its
pernicious principles with the purpose of the bestowal of gratuities on the political
ruling class and those politically connected. Additionally, in order to achieve this
type of usurpation, it has used methods of virtual enslavement, enticing great
numbers of the People to become dependent upon the government dole, providing
the political parties with a readily available voting block, providing a degree of
legitimacy to its actions. Beyond this, the central government has created such a
state of dependency that even the States themselves have become addicted to the
government’s redistributive system of the Peoples monies.
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← By all appearances, Congress is evinced of its own power, determined to use
its distributive powers to in all manner of new and creative ways to channel the
resources of the People into favored avenues, ultimately to the benefit of the
government, not the People. Essentially, the central government has sought to
absorb all the powers of the Several States, becoming the premiere depository of
all sovereignty and power in the Land. It has, in this grand grasp at power,
assumed jurisdiction and guardianship over even the most mundane matters in this
country, disregarding the fact that many, if not all those matters were either
entirely the purview of the Individual or of the Several States in which the
Individuals held their Citizenship.
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← This government has, through systematic manipulation of law, laid claim
and assumed the right to exercise such claim, as well as control, over the ability to
appropriate public monies in any manner it deems necessary. Like public monies,
this government has also assumed complete authority for the appropriation of
property, controlling public properties and regulating those, which are private. It
has, on numerous occasions, asserted judicial supremacy, not only over the once
Free and Independent States, but the Citizens of those States who are, by any
estimation, the essential source of all legitimate Sovereignty in this country and by
whom all government derives its power to govern by the consent of those State
Citizens.
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← The practice of Patronage has been intentionally established in this
government, from the Legislative Branch to the Executive Branch, in order to
achieve its complete consolidation of power over this country and its People.
Political and financial influences, undue and unjust, permeate the functions of this
government. The Several States have been reduced to ancillary elements of the
“Supreme Federal”, now nothing more than petty corporations, parts of the whole,
and colonies dependent upon the central government for their existence and
continued viability. The Several States have been effectively shorn of all hints of
Sovereignty as the Sovereignty of the People has been effectively neutralized and
their voices silenced.
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← Saturated thoroughly with the corrupting influences of political patronage
and the power that results from such patronage, the government, comfortable in its
cozy relationships lends its ear to its patrons while it maintains itself on the backs
and payroll checks of the People. This Congress has been fully instructed in the
arts of strengthening its hold on power, guarding its prerogatives and extending its
reach into every possible aspect of our society.
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← The continued remonstrations of the People fall upon the stopped ears of our
elected officials, all but ignored and answered only with the vainest of promises for
reform; with no room for redress, no hope to find a common arbiter between those
who seek to rule and the People. With all reasonable hope fading for redress, the
People must turn to their States as a means of Interposition to stand in the gap
between the People and this illegitimate government. There must come a time
when the assertion of the Sovereign Rights of the People are once again expressed
through the Several States to pressure this government to abandon its corrupt
system of partiality, favoritism, monopolies and protectionism, unjust in its
operations as it assumes powers, strengthening its authorities, that were never
delegated to it by either the People or their States when they ratified the
Constitutional Compact in assembled conventions.
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← Our forefathers rose up in their might for far less than this People now suffer
under, yet, we continue to submit to this thralldom. The American People have
become spoon-fed with the idea that our situation is normal, lawful and completely
acceptable under the principles of the Constitution and yet, there are few legislative
acts passed by this government that conform to those principles.
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← The governments of the Several States recline in complacency, no longer
advocating the Rights of the People or their prerogatives under the Federative
Compact agreed upon between the Free, Independent and Sovereign States. Is it
not the Right of the People, through the agency of their individual State
governments, to lay complaints, to demand redress remonstrating all infractions
against them? Is it not the responsibility and the duty of the State governments to
refuse any and all obedience to any legislative measure taken by the federal
government that is manifestly a violation of the Constitutional Compact? Shall
those within this federal government violate the Constitution with impunity?
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← As it appears, the vast majority of those who call themselves public servants,
they must think themselves above the actual Law of the Land, giving lip-service to
it while transcending the limitations as prescribed and authorized. The government
no longer recognizes the Rights enumerated and completely ignore the fact that
there are Rights Reserved to both the States and the People that are not
enumerated. How could it be otherwise with the Sovereignty of the People, are
they not the Sovereigns, is it not within the character of that Sovereignty that they
must consent to the manner in which they allow themselves to be governed?
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← This government has a long line of measures intent on the annihilation of all
hints of Sovereignty, whether it is the Sovereignty of the Individual or the
Sovereignty imparted to the Several States by the People. The centralized
government has wiped away the Independent nature of the States, consolidating all
power in Washington D.C.; something that was never intended by the Framers of
the Constitution, nor was there any design that could be construed to support such
consolidation and concentration of power in the federal government by the
Constitution. The powers being asserted by the federal government, controlling
numerous internal measures within the States, in many cases, amount to little more
than a form of legalized pillage as their Reserved Powers are trampled under the
heel of a federal government that no longer shows interest in anything but its own
interests.
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← So, what shall be done to redeem us, to restore that which has been taken by
both deceptive methods and by force of arbitrary laws that have resulted in a state
of peonage for the People, a huge productive Vassal State for the federal
government? The question is of the gravest sort, the answer most solemn for if we
are simply continue in our present state, waiting for this government to reform
itself and return to some sense of justice then our wait will obviously be in vain
and any hope can no longer be indulged. The sensibilities of the People have long
ago been numbed, their estimation of their Rights lowered and they have been
gradually taught to find comfort in their chains as though they were actually free.
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← The People, for most part, have resigned themselves to their condition and
allow the voluntary relinquishment of the prospects of actual freedom to a class of
politically advantaged, pecuniary benefits are secured to those who are politically
connected by various laws and policies that favor them over the vast majority of
the People and indeed over the general welfare of the Country itself. The political
and corporate classes have joined forces to enrich themselves under the operation
of laws, which are always crafted in the name of the public good.
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← The crisis has arrived and yet few recognize its arrival; the public is assured
that there is nothing to worry about; the government has matters well in hand. It
will soon be evident that it is useless to delude ourselves any longer; the time has
indeed come when we must either take a very decisive course of actions or we
must completely abandon all hope of remedy; there is no middle course. We will
either surrender the Rights purchased by the Blood of our Fathers, or we will
commit ourselves to the coming struggle that we might once again, as our
Forefathers, provide our posterity the Heritage of Liberty.
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← There must no longer be any restraint in our expression of intent nor in the
depth of our conviction that we will take any measure necessary to secure our
Liberty and will never consent to be reduced to a state of total dependency or
dictated to by un-Constitutional powers usurped and then mandated upon the
People by this government. Has not our own experiences taught us the most
lamentable truth, that this government is in open and total disregard of the
limitations placed upon it by the Constitution and that our Liberty cannot be
dependent upon such a government? Without Liberty there is absolutely no need to
preserve this current union of States and if the complete Restoration of
Constitutional Order cannot be achieved then the peaceful dissolution of the
Compact reached between the States is preferable to the looming violent
convulsion of revolution as this degenerate state of affairs continue to evolve.
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← If We the People are given no other alternative but to continue to submit to
the injustices and coercive powers of this government, relinquishing to it the last
remnants of our Liberty, then what shall we do but seek the only remedy left to us,
that being the Revolutionary Right to defend ourselves and our Liberty. If such a
point is reached then there can be no recreancy in our resolve, no hesitancy in
applying the very hallowed principles provided us by the examples provided to us
by our Forefathers.
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← “We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission
to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. -- The latter is our
choice. -- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as
voluntary slavery. -- Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender
that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our
innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy
and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which
inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them…we
will, in defiance of every hazard, with un-abating firmness and perseverance,
employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die
freemen rather than to live slaves.”
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← If therefore, the Several States do not possess the Right of Interposition to
arrest the progressive pace of un-Constitutional advance, then all our claims to our
Sovereignty, indeed all claims of Liberty are in vain. If the Several States, through
the Sovereignty of the People, are not allowed the fulfillment of the promise of a
republican form of government, complete with every character associated with a
federated union composed of Free and Independent States, then the People must be
determined under all the obligations and duties to their own Liberty and that of
their posterity, to resist all efforts of subjugation.
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← “Each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming
as to itself the other party, that they alone being parties to the Compact, are Solely
Authorized to Judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it; Congress
being not a party, but merely the creature of the Compact, that it becomes a
Sovereign State, to submit to undelegated, and, consequently, unlimited power in
no man or body of men on earth; that in cases of abuse of the delegated powers, the
members of the General Government, being chosen by the People, a change by the
People would be the Constitutional remedy; but where powers are assumed which
have not been delegated, a nullification of the Act is the rightful remedy; that every
State has a natural Right, in cases not within the Compact, to nullify, of their own
authority, all assumption of power by others within their limits, and that without
this Right they would be under the dominion absolute and unlimited, of
whomsoever might exercise the Right of Judgment for them; and that in the case of
Acts being passed by Congress, so palpably against the Constitution as to amount
to an undisguised declaration, that the Compact is not meant to be the measure of
the powers of the General Government, but that it will proceed to exercise over the
States all powers whatsoever, by seizing the Rights of the States, and consolidating
them in the hands of the General Government, with a power assumed of binding
the States, not merely in cases made federal, but in all cases whatsoever, by laws
made, not with their consent, but by others against their consent, it would be the
duty of the States to declare the Acts void and of no force, and that each should
take measures of its own for providing that neither such Acts nor any other of the
General Government, not plainly and intentionally authorized by the Constitution,
shall be exercised within their respective territories.” Declaration of Arms, July 6,
1775.
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