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America and the Day of the Lord - Obadiah 1:15
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Posted: November 13, 2010 | 1:00 am Eastern | © 2010
"What's Harry Reid done for us lately?"
That question was posed in one of the informal voter opinion sessions in Nevada hosted by Fox News during the recent election cycle. The constitutional response would be: U.S. senators are not supposed to represent the citizens of the state.
When the First Continental Congress was convened via a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation, one of the first issues discussed on May 29, 1787, was the balance of power for a newly created federal government:
James Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers No. 45: "The Senate will be elected absolutely and exclusively by the State legislatures." John Jay, co-author of The Federal Papers is quoted: "Jay then informed Governor Clinton that, unlike the Senate, where the two-thirds rule was in force for treaties and impeachment, the lower house had nothing to do with treaties; it represented the people whereas the Senate represented the states – for the Federalists always a significant distinction."
The framers of the Constitution wisely understood the absolute necessity of ensuring we the people would have the right to vote for our representative in Congress, and at the same time because they all jealously guarded freedom and liberty, the states must also have equal representation. We the people would have the ability to remove via the ballot box miscreants and scoundrels, while the state legislatures could recall their U.S. senators who acted against the best interests of their states.
The Senate was supposed to be a sort of check and balance, but that disappeared when U.S. senators began to be voted into office by special interests and mobs demanding more from the people's treasury. The absolute right of the states to equal representation was wiped out when the 17th Amendment was declared ratified April 8, 1913.
The limited legislative authority delegated to U.S. senators is very important. They confirm federal judges, U.S. Supreme Court justices, the U.S. attorney general, secretary of state and other Cabinet heads – individuals who can and have had a negative impact on the states of the Union over the decades.
The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties. Just look at the destruction of jobs in the states because of "agreements" like NAFTA (No American Factories Taking Applications) and treaties like CAFTA and GATT/WTO. Millions of jobs shipped overseas to Mexico and South America while Americans stand in unemployment lines. Look at the destruction to our industrial and manufacturing sectors – nearly wiped out along with millions of jobs because of those unconstitutional treaties. Then there's the harm to our nation from our illegal participation as a member of the communist U.N. and the treaties coming out of that rancid operation. That is why the states were to have equal representation in the U.S. Senate – to check a president on treaties.
By having the state legislatures appoint their two U.S. senators, the citizens of the states actually benefit in far greater measure than by direct vote. States would appoint senators who would get the U.S. out of the U.N., Bretton Woods, NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT/WTO and begin to impeach activist judges whose decisions directly impact the lives of citizens in the sovereign 50 states. That is the constitutional solution.
Several major efforts are under way to repeal the 17th Amendment, but is that the right course to take? You can't repeal an amendment that clearly was not ratified by enough states.
In March 2009, I personally went to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., joined by two colleagues. Our purpose was to obtain, which we did, court-certified documents regarding the ratification of that amendment. Having obtained them, there is no doubt the amendment was not ratified by enough states at the time. Five states allegedly didn't ratify until months after then-Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan declared it ratified! All of the historical documents, court-certified, are available.
We find in the official publication called "Constitution Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, Eighty-Seventh Congress," Thomas Jefferson said, in part: "Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." Since many state legislatures were out of session at the time of the vote, have they been deprived of equal Suffrage in the U.S. Senate because they did not participate in the ratification of this amendment? Have those states been deprived of equal suffrage in the Senate as well as the states that took no action, like the state of Georgia?
Is fraud (non ratification) enough to allow a state to declare the amendment null and void? Jefferson also wrote in the manual cited above: "Question has arisen as to the power of a State to recall its assent to a constitutional amendment (V. 7042)." What about that?
How do the states resolve this critical issue? It will not come from Congress; that is a given cemented in concrete.
I am not a lawyer and have no legal training. However, one thing I do believe: It's absolutely wrong to correct a legal fiction using a method which would give legitimacy to that fiction. The same constitutional crisis exists over Obama/Soetoro and the growing call for impeachment. He is without question a usurper. You cannot impeach someone who has legally never held that office. Giving legitimacy to fraud demeans our Constitution and takes away honor and integrity for our system of government purchased with rivers of blood.
What options do the states of the Union have should just one state legislature take the courageous step in challenging the ratification?
A state legislature could pass a resolution that would be sent to their attorney general to file a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court. Why the Supreme Court? I think because it would be an original-jurisdiction case: Article III, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution:
Such a lawsuit most certainly is a controversy to which the United States would be the prime party involving fraudulent ratification of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Shouldn't ratification of amendments to the U.S. Constitution be subject to judicial scrutiny where fraud is clearly in evidence? The answer is clearly yes.
What about treaties in place should the amendment be declared not ratified? Realistically speaking, you couldn't just declare all the treaties passed since 1913 null and void on the spot, even though legally it would be correct. However, the House of Representatives can introduce a bill like H.R. 4759, which has been languishing since March, to get us out of NAFTA. Simply apply the normal process to get us out of those treaties.
The long over due states' rights movement is growing at lightening speed. Americans are learning about the 10th Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, the real meaning of the Welfare Clause and nullification. For the states to fully regain their sovereignty, the 17th Amendment must be challenged. If a state legislature is happy with the individual "voted" into office to serve in the Senate, they can keep that individual. In a calm, rational manner, the problem can be worked. Is there one state in our Union with the courage to challenge this fraud and restore their right to be represented in Congress, or will they remain little more than doormats for corrupt senators?
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Saving America
Now is the time for all of us to come to the aid of our Country !!! For the first time in any of our lives we have found ourselves in a Constitutional crisis. Since the beginning of our great Country there have been many attempts made at amending the Constitution. The framers of our founding document realized that, for its meaning to stay intact, there could never be changes made to it. It was made clear by the language in it, that there were to be no amendments made to the Constitution of the United States of America. To do so would erode its guarantees that we as a people would remain free and self determining, that regardless of social status, no one person could impose his will on another person in relation to that person's inalienable rights for the pursuit of happiness. As long as that person obeyed the laws of society, he was guaranteed certain inalienable rights. The framers knew that to change one part of it, would affect its structure as a whole. Like a Spider Web, to cut one strand would compromise the integrity of the web as a whole.
Now, as a political party, we are facing a similar crisis. The conservative ideal, the principals that unite us as a whole, are having our connecting fiber cut along the lines of ideological divides. We have extreme right wing Republicans favoring their one size fits all approach, no room for deviance from the party line, battling moderate Republicans (Rino's) who are willing to sell their soul for power and money, and who are willing to cut a deal with the Devil. Who are in turn in conflict with Independent and just barely right of center independents or centrists depending where you draw the line on being a conservative, who want an end to the business as usual. I am not saying we don’t all want an end to business as usual, all I know is neither party has helped get us out of this mess. It is almost like they are joined at the hip. There are far too many deals being cut that leave us tax payers holding the bill. There is too much Pork on both sides of the isle and it seems no one is truly looking out for us, the tax payer. There is no doubt that a Conservative’s ideals are; Pro life, less taxes, less Government is better Government, Government out of our lives, The Government has no wealth, only our wealth, Christian based faith, Pro business.
The Constitution of the United States of America is a perfect document when left unchanged, desecrated if changed, that we as a people have a right and an obligation to defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign or domestic (Today’s Politicians). The list is long, but there is no mistaking our differences with Utopian and Progressive based Liberals who believe your money is their money, that the Government is wealthy. That is where we must all unite at once, we must save our ideological differences of party for another day and defeat this great Politically Correct Devil that will consume our wealth and freedoms and render us slaves to a Godless society. We can’t afford to worry about where to dig the well as our Country's framework burns. The conservative tent must be all inclusive, Just as hard core Republicans do not have the numbers to defeat the libs, neither do the moderates nor Independents alone have the numbers. We must put our differences aside and come together as Conservatives; business as usual must end now, and we need an overwhelming show of force, an unmistakable mandate and new politicians with a spine. We must unite now, or it will be forever too late !!!!
Source: "THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC"
By: Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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