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Part 5 in a series - by Publius II A confederation is a formal document used to enter into a compact (contract) between two or more states (nations) for the specific purpose of forming an allegiance. In this case the Union of the several States.
Thus we have the Articles of Confederation
(AOC
), which is the actual document
used to establish a Union (allegiance) between the several States, including
the formal establishment of a central government. Notice how these two
entities are shown to be separate and distinct from each other and that
the (central) government is "sovereign" and external to the Union of the
several States. Notice too, what the proper name and title of each is:
It
cannot be overstated, these two entities are not the same entities. The
"United States" (US) is Congress, while the "United States of America"
(USA) is the Union of the several States. Then, it was the original thirteen
colonies. Today, it's the fifty states.
We must never, ever forget these two fundamental facts, which are just as true today as they were when the several States ratified the AOC in 1781: The
Union of the several States is the "United States of America" (USA). Today,
it includes the geographical boundaries of the current fifty States - ONLY.
"Congress"
is the "United States" (US). The term "United States" is the proper
name and title of the combined houses of the "legislature", (in
Congress assembled) and is the "federal (central) government." All
four of these terms are, one and the same entity. Each interchangeable,
one for the other and this entity is today, located within the District
of Columbia (not to exceed a ten-mile square) and it is not a state.
So it is NOT a part of the Union (USA) and is therefore "foreign" to
it.
Here
too, we must realize and always remember, this Union of the several States
by virtue of this Confederacy is a "perpetual Union" (forever) and secondly,
that the AOC may only be altered (amended) by the combined consent of
both the Congress and the Legislature of each and every State within the
Union. [To date, there has never been an alteration to the Articles
of Confederation.]
So, in a legal sense, there are only two ways this Union can be dissolved. 1) By consent between ALL of the States of the Union to terminate the Confederacy, each then to go their own way, or; 2) By some foreign entity's successful invasion and of course they must win their war. Referring to the Preamble to the Constitution, we see how the connection is made to the AOC.
In
examining the Preamble, first recall it was Congress (the United States)
who called the Constitutional Convention and it is they, who are now presenting
it to the nation for all to see and know and to ratify.
It is true that "We the People" are those "free inhabitants" of the Union of the several States (United States of America) and from these People we elect representatives to the Congress (United States). "We the People of the United States" is Congress, not the People themselves. While it is true we elect these officers (representatives) of Congress from within the ranks of the People, they thereafter, act independently as to their own personal philosophy and character as well as being external to the Union of the several States (USA). Then it says, ". do ordain and establish this Constitution FOR the United States of America [the Union of the several States - USA]." Again, it is clear there is a distinction being made between these two terms, US vs. USA, as two entirely separate entities. Simply put, one entity (US) is doing something FOR the benefit of the other entity (USA). While a confederation is a compact (contract) used to form an allegiance between independent nations, which generally includes the formation of an initial (central) government to operate the affairs of the newly formed nation, a constitution is a formal document used only to define the makeup of that government, not the nation itself.
First
notice, it does not say, it is a document used to create a nation or state.
It is merely the law of a nation. "But what nation?" Is our next question
to answer.
Obviously, in our discussions here, the answer to this question is the United States. This means simply that the United States is, in itself, a nation with its own sovereign powers (recalling the the definition of Confederacy where the initial government is "sovereign" and "mostly external") authorized by the Articles of Confederation and then as outlined within the Constitution. Notice too, that these organic and fundamental laws are in regards to its INTERNAL LIFE to conform or to organize, to regulate the government in distributing and limiting the functions of its different departments. Not the People of the United States of America, just itself. Within a few years, it became evident that the newly created (central) government, as established within the AOC, was lacking in certain respects as to its actual goals, authorities and jurisdiction, especially with regards to the interaction between the several States as well as "foreign states." So it was decided to convene a Convention. At first (as the AOC had provided) to offer certain "alterations" to the AOC in an effort to better define the (central) government by modifying or adding to those articles already dealing with the creation and structure of the (central) government. Instead, after some debate, filled with concern over the establishment of an all too powerful (central) government, and at the recommendation of the Virginia committee, which was formed to outline the subjects to be considered by the convention, it was opted to create a separate document altogether, a Constitution, which would provide, by their notions, to define the personality and character of the (central) government in how it would operate within its jurisdictional boundaries as a sovereign nation within its own right and yet remain within the framework of the AOC. So a Constitutional Convention was called by the Congress (the United States), while elected officials from the States became the delegates to the Convention, which then set out to define the internal functions, authorities and jurisdiction of the federal (central) government as authorized within the AOC. It is ONLY in this sense that a new nation had been created. Not a new Union. It is at this point, most of us fail to understand what actually happened and how it has come to affect our Unalienable Rights and us. Given that the AOC states it is a "perpetual Union" and that it may only be "altered" by the consent of the Congress and the UNANIMOUS ratification by the Legislatures of ALL the States within the Union and since there is NO formal legal document, then or now, which states categorically that the AOC has ever been "altered" or has ever been terminated, it therefore remains in full force and effect to this very day. It must be understood that ANY and ALL contracts are continued to the full duration of its termination date. Or in the absence of a termination date, it must be properly terminated by the parties involved. There simply is no individual, or set of documents, which have ever been presented that rescinds or terminates the AOC. Nor does the Constitution state in anyway it is a replacement for the Articles of Confederation. It does not terminate it in favor of itself (the created cannot terminate the creator), in fact the only reference at all is within the Preamble where it says, ".to form a more perfect Union." Actually, this statement proves they recognize the continuing existence of the Union, not that they are attempting to dissolve it. We should recall that once in our nation's history the Southern States' separated from the Union. However, their withdrawal did not disolve the Union. Twenty five States remained, and the Union was still intact. So what we have here, in the form of a Constitution, is merely the government itself, defining its own internal regulations (policies), by which to accomplish its goals as outlined within the AOC. Since all non-living entities are in fact "corporate" entities (non-living things), We offer this analogy:
Therefore, the
Constitution is a document describing the
internal policies of the federal (central) government, which is
external to the Union, as to how it is to go about the execution and accomplishment
of its chartered goals, as set forth within the Articles of
Confederation.
Remember the definition of a "confederacy" where it said,
It is from the perspective of the AOC this
definition is speaking, which means the government is external to it.
Therefore, the "policies" (Constitution) are internal only to the
government itself (including its possessions and territories) and are
"external" to the Union of the several States, which are not a part of the
government's possessions and territories.
To confirm this analysis as fact, let us review the last article within the Constitution itself:
Remember, the AOC can only be "altered" by the
consent of both the Congress and by the acceptance of ALL the States of
the Union. Then how is it the Constitution needed only nine States to be
ratified? Because, it isn't an alteration or a termination of the AOC.
Therefore, it must be an internal document, meant ONLY for those within
the government, as their means within which they are to carry out their
chartered goals and duties.
A sufficient number of delegates to the Constitutional Convention were fearful of establishing a Constitution for the (central) government. They feared this new Constitution could be misconstrued, in some way, and used to expand the powers of the government, rather than merely define it, which could then be used to usurp the Liberties and Freedoms of the People who had fought and sacrificed so much. For this reason, their objections were satisfied with the promise to add a Bill of Rights to the new Constitution. This was intended to notify the government of certain and specific Rights to be retained by the People and the States. It provided direct and specific limitations forbidding the government of any authority over the People and the States to either regulate, tax or license these Rights. As reiteratedwithin the 9th and 10th Articles of the Bill of Rights:
Rights are ABSOLUTE. If one can tax, license or
regulate a Right, it isn't a Right. Either one has the Right to (do)
something or one does not. On the other hand, "Privileges" are an entirely
different story.
As it seems today and despite the efforts of our worrisome forefathers, what they feared the most has come to pass. Today, the Constitution is looked upon as a standalone document, separate and distinct from the AOC as the sole authority over this nation. As we have just read, it is not. In The Next Issue: The 14th Amendment - What You
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How's your knowledge of United
States history?
The date is
February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. Refer to the
"Acts of the Forty-First Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61
and 62. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act
known simply as the 'Act of 1871". What was the official title of this
act?
No one had the correct answer, and so we present it here, to you, the Soverign Citizen, in the interest of education. The official title of this act
was: "An Act To Provide A Government for the
District of Columbia".
What does
this mean? Well, it means that Congress, under no constitutional
authority to do so, created a
separate form of government for the District of Columbia, which is a ten
mile square parcel of land.
What??? How could they do that? Moreover, WHY would
they do that? To explain, let's look at the circumstances of those days.
The Act of 1871 was passed at a vulnerable time in America. Our nation was
essentially bankrupt - weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath
of Lincoln's War. The War itself was nothing more than a calculated "front" for some pretty
fancy footwork by corporate backroom players. It was a strategic maneuver
by European interests (the international bankers) who were intent upon
gaining a stranglehold on the neck (and the coffers) of America.
The Congress realized our country was in dire financial straits, so they cut a deal with the international bankers - (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone's pie) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers. If we think about banks, we know they do not just lend us money out of the goodness of their hearts. A bank will not do anything for you unless it is entirely in their best interest to do so. There has to be some sort of collateral or some string attached which puts you (the borrower) into a subservient position. This was true back in 1871 as well. The conniving international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States (a prize they had coveted for some time, but had been unable to grasp thanks to our Founding Fathers, who despised them and held them in check), and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed. In essence, this Act formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Note the capitalization, because it is important. This corporation, owned by foreign interests, moved right in and shoved the original "organic" version of the Constitution into a dusty corner. With the "Act of 1871", our constitution was defaced in the sense that the title was block-capitalized and the word "for" was changed to the word "of" in the title. The original Constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers, was written in this manner: "The Constitution for the united states of America". The altered version reads: "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA". It is the corporate constitution. It is NOT the same document you might think it is. The corporate constitution operates in an economic capacity and has been used to fool the People into thinking it is the same parchment that governs the Republic. It absolutely is not. Capitalization - an insignificant change? Not when one is referring to the context of a legal document, it isn't. Such minor alterations have had major impacts on each subsequent generation born in this country. What the Congress did with the passage of the Act of 1871 was create an entirely new document, a constitution for the government of the District of Columbia. The kind of government THEY created was a corporation. The new, altered Constitution serves as the constitution of the corporation, and not that of America. Think about that for a moment . Incidentally, this corporate constitution does not benefit the Republic. It serves only to benefit the corporation. It does nothing good for you or me - and it operates outside of the original Constitution. Instead of absolute rights guaranteed under the "organic" Constitution, we now have "relative" rights or privileges. One example of this is the Sovereign's right to travel, which has been transformed under corporate government policy into a "privilege" which we must be licensed to engage in. This operates outside of the original Constitution. So, Congress committed TREASON against the People, who were considered Sovereign under the Declaration of Independence and the organic Constitution. When we consider the word "Sovereign", we must think about what the word means. We've seen in a previous edition of the newsletter the defination of the word as defined by Black's Law Dictionary. Now let's look at it from a more familiar source. According to Webster's Dictionary,
"sovereign" is defined as: In other words, our government was created by and for "sovereigns" the free citizens who were deemed the highest authority. Only the People can be sovereign - remember that. Government cannot be sovereign. We can also look to the Declaration of Independence, where we read: "government is subject to the consent of the governed" - that's supposed to be us, the sovereigns. Do you feel like a sovereign nowadays? It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a constitutional historian to figure out that this is not what is happening in our country today. Government in these times is NOT subject to the consent of the governed. Rather, the governed are subject to the whim and greed of the corporation, which has stretched its tentacles beyond the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia - encroaching into every state of the Republic. Mind you, the corporation has NO jurisdiction outside of the District of Columbia. THEY just want you to think it does. You see, you are presumed to know the law. This is ironic because as a people, we are taught basically nothing about the law in school. We are made to memorize obscure factoids and paragraphs here and there, such as the Preamble, and they gloss over the Bill of Rights. But we are not told about the law. Nor do our corporate government schools delve into the Constitution in any great depth. After all, they were put into place to indoctrinate and dumb down the masses - not to teach us anything. We were not told that we were sold-out to foreign interests and made beneficiaries of the debt incurred by Congress to the international bankers. For generations, American citizens have had the bulk of their earnings confiscated to pay on a massive debt that they, as a People, did not incur. There are many, many things the People have not been told. How do you feel about being made a beneficiary of somebody else's massive debt without your knowledge or consent? Are we gonna keep going along with this?? When you hear some individuals say that the Constitution is null and void, think about how our government has transformed over time from a municipal or service-oriented entity to a corporate or profit-oriented entity. We are living under the myth that this is lawful, but it is not. We are being ruled by a "de facto", or unlawful, form of government - the corporate body of The Controllers . With the passage of the Act of 1871, a series of subtle and overt deceptions were set in motion - all in conjunction and collusion with the Congress, who knowingly and deliberately sold the People down the river. Did they tell you this in government school? We doubt it. They were too busy drumming the fictional version of history into your brain - and mine. By failing to disclose what THEY did to the American People, the people became ignorant of what was happening. Over time, the Republic took it on the chin to the point of a knockdown. With the surrender of their gold in 1933, the People essentially surrendered their law. We don't suppose you were taught THAT in school either. That's because our REAL history is hidden from us. This is the way Roman Civil Law works - and our form of governance today is based upon Roman Civil Law and Admiralty/Maritime Law - better known as the "Divine Right of Kings" and Law of the Seas, respectively. This explains a lot. Roman Civil Law was fully established in the original colonies even before our nation began and is also known as private international law. The government which was created for the District of Columbia via the Act of 1871 operates under Private International Law, and not Common Law, which was the law of the Constitutional Republic. This is very important to note since it impacts all Americans in concrete ways. You must recognize that private international law is only applicable within the District of Columbia and NOT in the other states of the Union. The various arms of the corporation are known as "departments" such as the Judiciary, Justice and Treasury. Do you recognize those names? Of course you do! But they are not what you assume them to be. These "departments" all belong to the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. They do NOT belong to you and me under the corporate constitution and its various amendments that operate outside of the Constitutional Republic. Take a moment to refer to the UNITED STATES CODE (note the capitalization, indicating the corporation, not the Republic) Title 28 3002 (15) (A) (B) (C). It is stated unequivocally that the UNITED STATES is a corporation. Realize, too, that the corporation is not a separate and distinct entity from the government. It IS the government. YOUR government. This is extremely important. We refer to this as the "corporate empire of the UNITED STATES", which operates under Roman Civil Law outside of the Constitution. How do you like being ruled by a cheesy, sleazy corporation? You'll ask your Congressperson about this, you say? HA!! Congress is fully aware of this deception. You must be made aware that the members of Congress do NOT work for you and me. Rather, they work for the Corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Is this really any surprise to you? This is why we can't get them to do anything on our behalf or to answer to us - as in the case with the illegal income tax -among many other things. Contrary to popular belief, they are NOT our civil servants. They do NOT work for us. They are the servants of the corporate government and carry out its bidding. Period. The great number of committees and sub-committees that the Congress has created all work together like a multi-headed monster to oversee the various corporate "departments". And, you should know that every single one of these that operates outside the District of Columbia is in violation of the law. The corporate government of the UNITED STATES has no jurisdiction or authority in ANY state of the Republic beyond the District of Columbia. Let this sink in for a minute, then, ask yourself, "Could this deception REALLY have occurred without the full knowledge and complicity of the Congress?" Do you think it happened by accident? You are deceiving yourself if you do. There are no accidents or coincidences. It is time to confront the truth and awaken from ignorance. Your legislators will not apprise you of this information. You are presumed to know the law. THEY know you don't know the law, or your history for that matter, because this information has not been taught to you. No concerted effort has been made to inform you. As a Sovereign, you are entitled to full disclosure of the facts. As a slave, you are entitled to nothing other than what the corporation decides to "give" you - at a price. Be wary of accepting so-called "benefits" of the corporation of the UNITED STATES. Aren't you enslaved enough already? As we said above, you are presumed to know the law. Still, it matters not if you don't in the eyes of the corporation. Ignorance of the law is not considered an excuse. It is your responsibility and your obligation as an American to learn about the law and how it applies to you. THEY count on the fact that most people are too uninterested, distracted or complacent to do so. The People have been mentally conditioned to allow the alleged government to do their thinking for them. We need to turn that around if we are to save our Republic before it is too late. The UNITED STATES government is basically a corporate instrument of the international bankers. This means YOU are owned by the corporation from birth to death. The corporate UNITED STATES also holds ownership of all your assets, your property, and even your children. Does this sound untrue? Think long and hard about all those bills you pay, all those various taxes and fines and licenses you must pay for. Yes, they've got you by the pockets. Actually, they've had you by the buttocks for as long as you've been alive. In your heart, you know it's true. Don't believe any of this? Pay close attention to the article on the 14th Amendment in our next issue. Check out how "free" you really are. We'll take a closer look at this purportedly ratified Amendment and how we became "property" of the corporation and enslaved by our silence. With the Act of 1871 and subsequent legislation such as the purportedly ratified 14th Amendment, our once-great nation of Sovereigns has been subverted from a Republic to a democracy. As is the case under Roman Civil Law, our ignorance of the facts has led to our silence. Our silence has been construed as our consent to become beneficiaries of a debt we did not incur. The Sovereign People have been deceived for hundreds of years into thinking they remain free and independent, when in actuality we continue to be slaves and servants of the corporation. Treason was committed against the People in 1871 by the Congress. This could have been corrected through the decades by some honest men (assuming there were some), but it was not, mainly due to lust for money and power. Nothing new there. Are we to forgive and justify this crime against the People? You have lost more freedom than you may realize due to corporate infiltration of the so-called government. We will lose more unless we turn away from a democracy that is the direct road to disaster - and restore our Constitutional Republic. Will we ever restore the Republic? This is a question we cannot answer yet. We hope, and most of all - pray - that WE, the Sovereign People, will work together in a spirit of cooperation to make it happen in this lifetime. What we need is a Revolution in THOUGHT. We change our thinking and we change our world. Our children deserve their rightful legacy - the liberty our ancestors fought so hard to give to us. Will we remain silent telling ourselves we are free, and perpetuate the MYTH? Or, do we stand as One Sovereign People, and take back what has been stolen from the house of our Republic? Something to think about ...it's called freedom. Thanks for the inspiration from Lisa Guliani of BabelMagazine.com
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