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States: A Time For Choosing – A Time For Action
By J.B. Williams
February 4, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
By now, it should be clear to everyone that the Obama administration is strategically destroying America. For those who don’t like America, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, our sovereign Representative Republic, this is no problem.
But for the rest of America, those who understand that America is the greatest free nation ever known to mankind, due to its firm foundations in Natural Law and inalienable rights, it’s a huge problem.
What can be done about it?
The Supreme Law of the Land
Contrary to leftist indoctrination, Barack Obama, congress and the Supreme Court, the federal government, is not the supreme law of this land. That lofty position belongs to the Charters of Freedom, our Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The people have no legitimate dispute with the federal government when that government functions within its constitutional authority, in a manner which protects and preserves freedom, liberty and justice for all. The federal government has not done that in decades!
When the federal government acts as it does today, in direct violation of the Charters of Freedom and in a blatant attempt to infringe upon the inalienable rights of the states and/or the people, the people and the states have a right and a duty to place the federal government back in check and balance, peacefully if possible, forcibly if not.
When a dispute over the “unconstitutional” acts of the federal government arises between a state and the federal government — the U.S. Constitution under Art. III – Sec. II – Clause II gives the U.S. Supreme Court original jurisdiction. No other court in the country has any jurisdictional authority whatsoever.
Original jurisdiction should not be confused with “final authority” which the court has tried to grant itself on numerous occasions. The people are the final authority in America, period!
The Rights of the People
The inalienable rights of the people are almost endless under the Charters of Freedom. They are specifically protected by the IX Amendment in the Bill of Rights – “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
The Constitution was not written or ratified to govern the people, but rather to restrict and govern the actions of governmental bodies, through a balance of powers.
The Charters of Freedom and every State Constitution begins with a fundamental affirmation that “all power is inherent in the people” and that “all governmental bodies derive their just powers from the people.” It is stated slightly different state-to-state, but all states and the Charters of Freedom are founded on this fundamental premise.
This means that the people are the “final authority” over what is constitutional or unconstitutional in the behaviors of their governments.
“You seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges … and their power [are] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and are not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves … When the legislative or executive functionaries act unconstitutionally, they are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves.” …. — Jefferson letter to Mr. Jarvis, Sept, 1820
The Rights of the State
As Madison explains in Federalist 46 – (paraphrased) – All power rests with the people. All free governments derive their power from the people. The government body closest to the people, as-in local and state government, is entrusted with the most political power. The government furthest from the people, as-in the federal government, is entrusted with the least power.
It is the first primary function of every State government to protect and preserve the rights of its people. The States power to keep this oath to its people is protected in the X Amendment – “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.”
Under each State Constitution, the State government has the duty to protect and preserve the inalienable rights of their people, in particular, from a federal government which has become too powerful, acting beyond its constitutional scope and authority, at odds with the people and the states.
The duty of each State government is defined in each State Constitution. The power to check the federal government is protected by the X Amendment.
Because the state assigned the power to provide for the common defense of the people in the Constitution, time would allow that the federal government would eventually develop a Military more powerful than any State military or militia.
It for this reason alone, that the Founders placed the II Amendment in the Bill of Rights – “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Only a State with a fully armed citizenry could protect the Rights of the people, under the X Amendment protections of the State.
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