We The People Congress
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Welcome
Freedom Keepers
The Articles of Freedom
The Profound Plan to Peacefully Restore
the Constitution of America
Presenter:
Bob Schulz
Chairman, We The People
The Problem
THE PROBLEM
The following violations of the Constitution have challenged
our Constitutional Republic and Her People to Its core.
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Meddling in the internal affairs of other countries
Police State that is repugnant to the Fourth Amendment
Undeclared wars
Private / Corporate bailouts i.e., corporate welfare),
A fiat currency
Bills of Credit / Federal Reserve System
Expenditures for activities that are not enumerated
Fraudulently ratified 16th Amendment
Direct, un-apportioned taxes on labor
Judicial system that refuses to consider the evidence
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The Problem
THE PROBLEM (continued…)
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Unenforced Immigration laws / Failure to “faithfully execute” the laws
The President’s father was not an American citizen
Counting our votes in secret by machine
No well-regulated state militias & Federal gun control laws
International treaties, contracts and relationships with foreign entities
Private land seizures for private purposes
Government mandated / provided Health Care
Money Legislations / Bills originating in the Senate
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The Solution
THE SOLUTION
The First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The meaning of the last ten words:
If the People have evidence that government officials are violating the Constitution,
they can Petition the Government for a Redress of the Grievance.
The officials have an obligation to respond. If the Government does not respond,
the People have the Right of Enforcement.[1]
[1] It is well settled in American Jurisprudence that if anyone has an obligation to respond
and he fails to do so, his silence amounts to admission. It is also well settled that
any Right that is not enforceable is not a Right – that is, with every Right there is a Remedy.
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However, the Constitution cannot defend itself. It is the duty of the People to defend it.
The People Have Petitioned
THE PEOPLE HAVE PETITITONED THE GOVERNMENT
FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES: VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION
WE HAVE PETITIONED THE JUDICIARY:
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Mexican Peso bailout
Bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Bailiouts of AIG and private financial corporations
Counting votes in secret v. voting Rights
WE HAVE PETITIONED ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
& THE PRESIDENT”
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Iraq Resolution v. war powers clauses
Federal Reserve System v. money clauses
Patriot Act v. privacy clauses
Direct, Un-apportioned Tax on Labor and Withholding v. tax clauses
Gun Control Laws v. 2nd amendment
Illegal Immigration v. faithfully execute clause
Foreign aid v. general welfare clause and enumerated powers
North American Union v. sovereignty clause of the DoI
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Parental citizenship v. natural born citizen clause
Chapter 61 of Magna Carta (1215)
FIRST CLUE RE MEANING OF LAST TEN WORDS
OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE
“If we, our chief justice, our officials, or any of our servants offend in any respect
against any man, or transgress any of the articles of the peace or of this security,
and the offence is made known to four of the said twenty-five barons, they shall
come to us - or in our absence from the kingdom to the chief justice - to declare it
and claim immediate redress.
If we, or in our absence abroad the chief justice, make no redress within
forty days, reckoning from the day on which the offence was declared to us or to
him, the four barons shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five barons,
who may distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, with the support of
the whole community of the land, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, or
anything else saving only our own person and those of the queen and our
children, until they have secured such redress as they have determined upon.
Having secured the redress, they may then resume their normal
obedience to us.”
1689 English Bill of Rights
SECOND CLUE RE MEANING OF LAST TEN WORDS
OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE
The 1689 Declaration of Rights proclaimed,
“[I]t is the Right of the subjects to petition the King,
and all commitments and prosecutions for
such petitioning is illegal.”[1]
[1] This was obviously a basis of the “shall make no law abridging the right to petition
government for a redress of grievances” provision of our Bill of Rights.
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1774 Continental Congress
THIRD CLUE RE MEANING OF LAST TEN WORDS
OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE
In 1774, the same Congress that adopted the Declaration
of Independence unanimously adopted an Act in which they
gave meaning to the People’s Right to Petition for Redress
of Grievances and the Right of enforcement as they spoke
about the People’s “Great Rights.” Quoting:
“If money is wanted by rulers who have in any manner
oppressed the People, they may retain it until their
grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief,
without trusting to despised petitions or
disturbing the public tranquility.”[1]
[1] "Continental Congress To The Inhabitants Of The Province Of Quebec."
Journals of the Continental Congress 1774, Journals 1: 105-13.
1775 Thomas Jefferson
FOURTH CLUE RE MEANING OF LAST TEN WORDS
OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE
In 1775, just prior to drafting the Declaration of Independence,
Jefferson gave further meaning to the People’s Right to Petition for
Redress of Grievances and the Right of enforcement. Quoting:
“The privilege of giving or withholding our moneys is an
important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative
which if left altogether without control may be exercised
to our great oppression; and all history shows how
efficacious its intercession for redress of grievances and
reestablishment of rights, and how improvident would be
the surrender of so powerful a mediator.”[1]
[1] Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North, 1775. Papers 1:225.
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1776 Declaration of Independence
FIFTH CLUE RE MEANING OF LAST TEN WORDS
OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE
In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the
Continental Congress. The bulk of the document is a listing of the
Grievances of the People had against a Government that had been
in place for 150 years. The final Grievance on the list is referred to
by scholars as the “capstone” Grievance.
The capstone Grievance was the ultimate Grievance, the Grievance that
prevented Redress of these other Grievances, the Grievance that caused
the People to non-violently withdraw their support and allegiance to the
Government, and the Grievance that eventually justified War against
the King, morally and legally. Thus, the Congress gave further meaning
to the People’s Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances and the
Right of Enforcement. Quoting the Capstone Grievance:
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1776 Declaration of Independence
(DOI continued…)
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned
for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions
have been answered only by with repeated injury.
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define a Tyrant, is thus unfit
to be the ruler of a free people…
We, therefore…declare, That these United Colonies…
are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown….”[1]
[1] Declaration of Independence, 1776
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1784 New Hampshire
SIXTH CLUE RE MEANING OF LAST TEN WORDS
OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE
New Hampshire Constitution:
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.]
“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection,
and security, of the whole community, and not for the private
interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men;
therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and
public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress
are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old,
or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance
against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and
destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.”[1]
[1] Added June 2, 1784 and has remained unchanged.
1836 U.S. Congress
SEVENTH CLUE RE MEANING OF LAST TEN WORDS
OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY CLAUSE[1]
Under Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution, "Each House may determine the
Rules of its Proceedings." 294 The First Amendment, however, provides that,
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging ... the right of the people ... to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances." 295
Those two sections ofthe Constitution came into direct conflict in the years
1836 to 1844, as the House of Representatives attempted to quell the rising
number of abolition petitions its members had been receiving. The attempts to
stifle the petitions became known as the gag rule or gag law. For eight years,
the existence of the rule was a source of tremendous controversy in the House
and the nation. 296
Abolitionism was the reason for the gag rule. The rule was the reaction of
southern congressmen who felt that the South could no longer bear the insults
contained in the language and content of abolition petitions. Designed to
staunch the flow of such petitions to the House, it was sweeping in its breadth
1836 U.S. Congress
(Continued…)
As first adopted on May 26, 1836, the rule and its preamble were to signal
abolitionists that the House of Representatives was not going to consider
the subject of the abolition of slavery and therefore it was superfluous to
continue the attempts to agitate the matter.
Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers,
relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the
abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon
the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon. 299
This seminal resolution was to be re-adopted in nearly identical forms during
the beginning of each session of Congress until finally made a standing rule in
1840. 300 The standing rule was not repealed until the opening of the second
session of the Twenty-eighth Congress, on the resolution offered by John
Quincy Adams. 301
[1] Fordham Law Review May, 1998, 66 Fordham L. Rev. 2153 . ARTICLE:
THE VESTIGIAL CONSTITUTION: THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE RIGHT TO PETITION. Gregory A. Mark
2010: The Right to Enforce
THE CONSTITUTION CANNOT DEFEND ITSELF.
YOU MUST DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.
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