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Remember Our National Documents
Remember every day and especially on the holidays of Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and our July 4th Independence Day, what gave America its freedom and greatness. Everyone has their ideas, but what do our Founding Documents say? Our Founders wrote and spoke clearly about the Nation they founded.
Our Founding Documents describe our form of government and the relationship between the Federal and State Governments. Our Declaration of Independence declares that our Rights come from God (indicating source and kind) and that governments are to protect those Rights, and lists the corrupt ways their Rights were infringed; and concludes: “of Right ought to be Free and Independent States;” declaring a Right of secession. After the war the Free and Independent States sought governmental efficiency and created the Federal Government with limited enumerated (listed) powers - basically for taking care of foreign affairs and external affairs between the States.
The Federalist Papers explain The Constitution - as in: #39 “Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others only to be bound by its own voluntary act.” #14 “In the first place it is to be remembered that the general (Federal) government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects,” #10 “A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it,…” The Anti-federalist disagreed with the Federalist who believed in only listing the granted powers, they wanted all the powers not granted listed.
The Kentucky Resolution of Thomas Jefferson, and the Virginia Resolution by
“The Father of the Constitution” James Madison along with his Mr. Madison's Report explain the constructed responsibility between the States and the Federal Government since all powers were not given to the Federal Government; and the Bill of Rights, for the States and the people - the first ten amendments affirm that.
In the Kentucky Resolution, Thomas Jefferson brings out the importance of the State's right to declare a Federal law that is outside of the listed powers granted to the Federal government, as null and void in their State.
The Virginia Resolution affirms the same as the Kentucky Resolution, which caused some Governors to complain. So James Madison said he would go through the Virginia Resolution line-by-line, point-by-point to see if he was in truth or in error. He proved every line and point in his response titled Mr. Madison's Report. An interesting point he brought up was: even if the people after a long time of persuasion, finally want the Federal Government to administer the Bill of Rights back to them and the States - it would be criminal degeneracy to do so.
The foundational principles that gave this Nation its greatness must be returned to, if it is to be great again. Foremost of those declared founding principles is that God gives people Rights; which would be the kind of Rights that only a Holy, Righteous, and Just God would allow. Therefore only moral and personally responsible Rights could be allowed. Anything more would infringe on another person’s Right. In other words God given or legitimate Rights do not come out of another person’s pocket, or at the expense of another. That is why the culture of a people is so important; so that the responsible are not enslaved for the needs of the irresponsible and immoral.
If one is wondering what is happening to our country, just identify: what they are doing (first and foremost) and what they are saying (secondarily) to our Founding Documents (what our Founders said and wrote), or to The Communist Manifesto (what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote) to find your answer.
The Communist Manifesto is all about control, and giving up Rights for the common good. It’s ten principles are: abolition of private property, a heavy progressive income tax, abolition of inheritance rights, confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels, a central bank, government control of communication and transportation, government ownership of factories and agriculture, government control of labor, corporate farms with regional planning, government control of education. It functions out of a centralized power through socialism, and strives to abolish eternal truth, religion, and morality.
Our Founders Declared their foundational principles and the Nation united and ascended to greatness. Today we are far from their principles, and bankrupt. We are following the obliquity of political speech, and specious philosophy and reason. Our Heritage and Founders have been discredited unjustly by ignorant hypocrisy, made evident when compared justly, to others and their nations, at their time. The ACLU attacks anything displayed or practiced by the Christian Faith (which is not an established church) that is associated with the State, by claiming a “separation” to ban that historical practice.
Remember, what Byron Sunderland wrote in regard to our Nation and change: “The secret of all stability and enduring greatness in human governments, as with individual men, is to be found alone in the quickening power of the Christian Faith. …One generation passes away, and another generation cometh, and therefore the permanence of empire must rest in the ideas of a people. If then there be in such ideas no great enduring principles of spiritual life, there can be no perpetuity of national existence. If there be no grand, sublime, and imperishable thought, filling the soul of a people with its fire and fashioning their progress after its pattern, there can be no sense in which they may escape the inevitable mutations of the world, or avoid the fate of so many that have gone before them. The most powerful empires of the past have perished because they were wanting in a principle strong enough and spiritual enough to resist the self-destructive energies of human nature. The pagan world could not furnish such a principle.” Could that be why the 1776 NC Constitution only allowed those in agreement with the Christian Faith to hold office?
Where else can one find the noblest precepts, principles, and statutes of virtue for self and Nation? From the God of the Bible, which our Presidents take their oath on, flows all the beauty, stability, and wonder of life. E.A. Timm - July 4,2009 editorial
Our Founding Documents describe our form of government and the relationship between the Federal and State Governments. Our Declaration of Independence declares that our Rights come from God (indicating source and kind) and that governments are to protect those Rights, and lists the corrupt ways their Rights were infringed; and concludes: “of Right ought to be Free and Independent States;” declaring a Right of secession. After the war the Free and Independent States sought governmental efficiency and created the Federal Government with limited enumerated (listed) powers - basically for taking care of foreign affairs and external affairs between the States.
The Federalist Papers explain The Constitution - as in: #39 “Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others only to be bound by its own voluntary act.” #14 “In the first place it is to be remembered that the general (Federal) government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects,” #10 “A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it,…” The Anti-federalist disagreed with the Federalist who believed in only listing the granted powers, they wanted all the powers not granted listed.
The Kentucky Resolution of Thomas Jefferson, and the Virginia Resolution by
“The Father of the Constitution” James Madison along with his Mr. Madison's Report explain the constructed responsibility between the States and the Federal Government since all powers were not given to the Federal Government; and the Bill of Rights, for the States and the people - the first ten amendments affirm that.
In the Kentucky Resolution, Thomas Jefferson brings out the importance of the State's right to declare a Federal law that is outside of the listed powers granted to the Federal government, as null and void in their State.
The Virginia Resolution affirms the same as the Kentucky Resolution, which caused some Governors to complain. So James Madison said he would go through the Virginia Resolution line-by-line, point-by-point to see if he was in truth or in error. He proved every line and point in his response titled Mr. Madison's Report. An interesting point he brought up was: even if the people after a long time of persuasion, finally want the Federal Government to administer the Bill of Rights back to them and the States - it would be criminal degeneracy to do so.
The foundational principles that gave this Nation its greatness must be returned to, if it is to be great again. Foremost of those declared founding principles is that God gives people Rights; which would be the kind of Rights that only a Holy, Righteous, and Just God would allow. Therefore only moral and personally responsible Rights could be allowed. Anything more would infringe on another person’s Right. In other words God given or legitimate Rights do not come out of another person’s pocket, or at the expense of another. That is why the culture of a people is so important; so that the responsible are not enslaved for the needs of the irresponsible and immoral.
If one is wondering what is happening to our country, just identify: what they are doing (first and foremost) and what they are saying (secondarily) to our Founding Documents (what our Founders said and wrote), or to The Communist Manifesto (what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote) to find your answer.
The Communist Manifesto is all about control, and giving up Rights for the common good. It’s ten principles are: abolition of private property, a heavy progressive income tax, abolition of inheritance rights, confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels, a central bank, government control of communication and transportation, government ownership of factories and agriculture, government control of labor, corporate farms with regional planning, government control of education. It functions out of a centralized power through socialism, and strives to abolish eternal truth, religion, and morality.
Our Founders Declared their foundational principles and the Nation united and ascended to greatness. Today we are far from their principles, and bankrupt. We are following the obliquity of political speech, and specious philosophy and reason. Our Heritage and Founders have been discredited unjustly by ignorant hypocrisy, made evident when compared justly, to others and their nations, at their time. The ACLU attacks anything displayed or practiced by the Christian Faith (which is not an established church) that is associated with the State, by claiming a “separation” to ban that historical practice.
Remember, what Byron Sunderland wrote in regard to our Nation and change: “The secret of all stability and enduring greatness in human governments, as with individual men, is to be found alone in the quickening power of the Christian Faith. …One generation passes away, and another generation cometh, and therefore the permanence of empire must rest in the ideas of a people. If then there be in such ideas no great enduring principles of spiritual life, there can be no perpetuity of national existence. If there be no grand, sublime, and imperishable thought, filling the soul of a people with its fire and fashioning their progress after its pattern, there can be no sense in which they may escape the inevitable mutations of the world, or avoid the fate of so many that have gone before them. The most powerful empires of the past have perished because they were wanting in a principle strong enough and spiritual enough to resist the self-destructive energies of human nature. The pagan world could not furnish such a principle.” Could that be why the 1776 NC Constitution only allowed those in agreement with the Christian Faith to hold office?
Where else can one find the noblest precepts, principles, and statutes of virtue for self and Nation? From the God of the Bible, which our Presidents take their oath on, flows all the beauty, stability, and wonder of life. E.A. Timm - July 4,2009 editorial
Declaration of the People of the States united of the United States of America (Author's Name withheld by Request)
We the People of the States united of the Continent of North America being the United States of America make the following declaration.
We the people of the individual States united under the Constitution of the United States being the United States of America in a declaration against past or present duly elected United States Senators and the United States House of Representatives who have been sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same and those having violated their oath as explained below, be declared domestic enemies because they do not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
Even with a simple reading of the US Constitution, it is evident that the people of the individual States united being the United States of America have sufficient cause to declare that many 'if not all' members of congress have so flagrantly violated their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that the people of the States so united have just cause to delare against members past or present of the United States Congress found violating said oath to be domestic enemies because they do not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
We the people of the individual States united being the United States of America declare that past and present members of the US Congress have violated the United States Constitution in not limiting the power of Congress to the enumerated powers granted by the States; in having expanded powers not granted by the States. We the People further state that any power that is not specifically declared by the States in the Constitution is therefore not granted to the federal government and is unconstitutional. The founders are specific in spelling out a limited federal government. If they did not specifically name it, then it is not constitutional.
When congress usurps the power of the the States in violation of the United States Constitution it no longer bears true faith and allegiance nor does it defend the Constitution from domestic enemies. For, we the people, declare that members of congress that violate their oath to defend the Constitution of the United States are domestic enemies because they do not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
We the People of the individual States united being the United States of America also declare that any person serving as President of the United States of America that violates their oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States and enforces such afore said illegal act or acts of Congress is also a domestic enemy of the United States of America because he or she does not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
We the People of the individual States united being the United States of America issue the following prescription as a relief of the illegal unconstitutional acts of the United States Congress and enforcements there-of to be the following: The congress shall resend all legislation that violate the enumerated powers granted by the States in the Constitution and charge the office of the president to cease and desist from enforcement of all the unconstitutional illegal acts of legislation of congress of said constitutional enumerated powers. Upon the completion and enforcement of the prescribed relief by the congress of the United States, the People shall be satisfied and find the congress in constitutional order and subsequently withdraw their declaration.
We the People of the States united of the Continent of North America being the United States of America make the following declaration.
We the people of the individual States united under the Constitution of the United States being the United States of America in a declaration against past or present duly elected United States Senators and the United States House of Representatives who have been sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same and those having violated their oath as explained below, be declared domestic enemies because they do not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
Even with a simple reading of the US Constitution, it is evident that the people of the individual States united being the United States of America have sufficient cause to declare that many 'if not all' members of congress have so flagrantly violated their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that the people of the States so united have just cause to delare against members past or present of the United States Congress found violating said oath to be domestic enemies because they do not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
We the people of the individual States united being the United States of America declare that past and present members of the US Congress have violated the United States Constitution in not limiting the power of Congress to the enumerated powers granted by the States; in having expanded powers not granted by the States. We the People further state that any power that is not specifically declared by the States in the Constitution is therefore not granted to the federal government and is unconstitutional. The founders are specific in spelling out a limited federal government. If they did not specifically name it, then it is not constitutional.
When congress usurps the power of the the States in violation of the United States Constitution it no longer bears true faith and allegiance nor does it defend the Constitution from domestic enemies. For, we the people, declare that members of congress that violate their oath to defend the Constitution of the United States are domestic enemies because they do not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
We the People of the individual States united being the United States of America also declare that any person serving as President of the United States of America that violates their oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States and enforces such afore said illegal act or acts of Congress is also a domestic enemy of the United States of America because he or she does not bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution.
We the People of the individual States united being the United States of America issue the following prescription as a relief of the illegal unconstitutional acts of the United States Congress and enforcements there-of to be the following: The congress shall resend all legislation that violate the enumerated powers granted by the States in the Constitution and charge the office of the president to cease and desist from enforcement of all the unconstitutional illegal acts of legislation of congress of said constitutional enumerated powers. Upon the completion and enforcement of the prescribed relief by the congress of the United States, the People shall be satisfied and find the congress in constitutional order and subsequently withdraw their declaration.