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• Welcome to the .001% club
• It’s about the contract
• We are obligated to save it
–The oath is implied!
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• Starting with the “End” in mind
–Setting up a national campaign for crowd funding
• Teaming with other local radio Host and personalities
–Network consisting of:
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• Starting with the “End” in mind cont.
–Seeking funds • For two years of operations
–Funding Video production
–Airtime –Four Employees to operate Ops and FIC elements
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• Starting with the “End” in mind cont.
–Seeking funds • Studio and air time costs –$1,500,000.00
• Operational Costs and Live Broadcasting costs per year (expect 4 year cap)
–$7,120.000.00
–This does not include individual local broadcasting costs
• These costs will be the onus of local hosts
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• The instilled general government of 1789
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• Today’s general government
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• There are even more appendages then this
Islam
IRS suppressing speech
Labor
EPA BLM Energy DoJ Drones Immigration
Healthcare
Common Core
Housing
Clinton’s
Corruption
Abortion
Iran Nukes
Corporate
Welfare
State
Welfare
Crony Capitalism
Homosexual Marriage
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• First, defining what to fight
–The problem has never been about:
• Abortion
• Welfare
• Immigration
• Etc.
–These are symptoms of the problem
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• The problem is:
Non‐compliance to the Constitution
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• Defining what to fight:
–Our objective must be to kill the monster created by these contractual violations
–The symptoms/appendages are a distraction
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• We the People Series – Whose Constitution is it anyway
• Irrefutable argument that we must convene a Convention for Republic Review
– The Strategy to Convene a Convention for Republic Review
• How to coalesce the Republic into the Convention
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• We the People Series
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• How to begin the Convention, technology, protocol, and recommendations as to what to do with some of the unconstitutional roles, responsibilities, and powers.
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• The Constitution is a Contract
amongst and for the States a.k.a. the Republic
–Delegating limited and defined powers to a general government… a.k.a. the Federal government
• Overwhelming evidence proves this and exists in our Founding Documents
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• Founding Documents:
– Declaration of Independence
– The Articles of Confederation
– Constitution
– The Constitution Convention debates
– The Northwest Ordinance
– The Ratification Debates of each State
– The Federalist Papers
– The Early debates in Congress
– The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
– Madison’s Veto of the 1817 Bonus Bill
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• Note 1 Limited and Defined
– In the first place it is to be remembered that the
general government is not to be charged with the
whole power of making and administering laws.
Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated
objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any. Federalist No. 14 James Madison
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• Note 2 Limited and Defined
– We have seen that in the new government, as in the old, the general powers are
limited; and that the States, in all
unenumerated cases, are left in the
enjoyment of their sovereign and
independent jurisdiction. Federalist No. 40 James Madison
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• Note 3 Limited and Defined
– The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State
governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers
reserved to the several States will extend to all the
objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs,
concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the
people, and the internal order, improvement, and
prosperity of the State. Federalist No. 45 James Madison
Bullet Review
• Note 4 Encroachments/Convention
– Were it admitted, however, that the Federal government may feel an equal disposition with the State governments to extend its power beyond the due limits, the latter (the
States) would still have the advantage in
the means of defeating such
encroachments. Federalist No. 46 James Madison
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• Note 5 Encroachments/Convention
– But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be
concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct
the whole. Federalist No. 46 James Madison
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• Note 6 Encroachments/Convention
– The separate governments in a confederacy
may aptly be compared with the feudal baronies; with this advantage in their favor, that from the reasons already explained, they will generally possess the confidence and
good­will of the people, and with so important a support, will be able effectually to oppose
all encroachments of the national
government. Federalist No. 17 Alexander Hamilton Bullet Review
• Note 7 Encroachments
– Independent of parties in the national legislature itself, as often as the period of discussion arrived, the State legislatures, who will always be not
only vigilant but suspicious and jealous guardians
of the rights of the citizens against
encroachments from the federal government, will constantly have their attention awake to the
conduct of the national rulers, and will be ready
enough, if any thing improper appears, to sound
the alarm to the people, and not only to be the
VOICE, but, if necessary, the ARM of their
discontent. Federalist No. 26 Alexander Hamilton Bullet Review
• Note 8 Encroachments
– As in republics strength is always on the side of
the people, and as there are weighty reasons to
induce a belief that the State governments will
commonly possess most influence over them…
there is greater probability of encroachments by
the members upon the federal head, than by the
federal head upon the members… the safest course to lay them altogether aside, and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and
extent of the powers as they are delineated in
the Constitution. Federalist No. 31 Alexander Hamilton Bullet Review
• Note 9 State Advantage
– The State government will have the advantage of
the Federal government, whether we compare
them in respect to the immediate dependence of
the one on the other; to the weight of personal influence which each side will possess; to the powers respectively vested in them; to the predilection and probable support of the people; to the disposition and faculty of resisting and frustrating the measures of each other. Federalist No. 45 James Madison
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• Note 10 Encroachments
– The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing from these observations is, that a mere demarcation on parchment of the
constitutional limits of the several
departments, is not a sufficient guard against
those encroachments which lead to a
tyrannical concentration of all the powers of
government in the same hands. Federalist No. 48 James Madison
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• Note 11 State Advantage
– Article 49 Title: Method of Guarding Against the
Encroachments of Any One Department of Government by Appealing to the People Through
a Convention Federalist No. 49 James Madison
• This is not speaking of an Article V Convention
– Commonly referred to as a Convention of States
– This is an example of an administrative
Convention that would audit the Constitution or
“Republic Review”
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• Note 12 Encroachments
– If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered
as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against
legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty. Federalist No. 78 Alexander Hamilton Bullet Review
• Note 13 Encroachments
– It may in the last place be observed that the supposed
danger of judiciary encroachments on the legislative
authority, which has been upon many occasions reiterated, is in reality a phantom. Particular misconstructions and contraventions of the will of the legislature may now and then happen; but they can never be so extensive as to amount to an inconvenience, or in any sensible degree to affect the order of the political system. This may be inferred with certainty, from the general nature of the judicial power, from the objects to which it relates, from the manner in which it is exercised, from its comparative weakness, and from its total incapacity to support its usurpations by force. Federalist No. 81 Alexander Hamilton Bullet Review
• Note 14 Encroachments
– We may safely rely on the disposition of the
State legislatures to erect barriers against the
encroachments of the national authority. If the foregoing argument is a fallacy, certain it is that I am myself deceived by it, for it is, in my conception, one of those rare instances in which a political truth can be brought to the test of a mathematical demonstration. Federalist No. 85 Alexander Hamilton Bullet Review
• Note 15 The Constitution is a Contract
– A compact between independent sovereigns, founded on ordinary acts of legislative authority, can pretend to no higher validity than a league or treaty between the parties. It is an established
doctrine on the subject of treaties, that all the
articles are mutually conditions of each other;
that a breach of any one article is a breach of the
whole treaty; and that a breach, committed by
either of the parties, absolves the others, and
authorizes them, if they please, to pronounce the
compact violated and void. Federalist No. 43 James Madison Bullet Review
• Contractual Point 1
– Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of
the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those
in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the
majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have
produced factions and commotions, which, in republics,
have, more frequently than any other cause, produced
despotism. If we go over the whole history of ancient and modern republics, we shall find their destruction to have generally resulted from those causes. Virginia Ratification Debate James Madison
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• Contractual Point 2
–the powers of the federal government
are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction. Virginia Ratification Debate James Madison
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• Contractual Point 3
– That this Assembly… views the powers of the federal
government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties; as limited by the plain sense
and intention of the instrument constituting the
compact; as no further valid that they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the
states who are parties thereto, have the right, and are
in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress
of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective
limits, the authorities, rights and liberties
appertaining to them. Virginia Resolution James Madison
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• Contractual Point 4
– That the several States composing the United
States of America, are not united on the principle
of unlimited submission to their General
Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special
purposes… delegated to that government certain
definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the
residuary mass of right to their own self­
government; and that whensoever the General
Government assumes undelegated powers, its
acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; Kentucky Resolution Thomas Jefferson
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• The Contract
– A contract between principal stakeholders and establishing a delegated body (i.e. the Federal government)
• The U.S. Constitution was delineated into a finite scope by Constitutional Convention delegates as arbitrating officers of the contract. These arbitration documents are called the Ratification Debates
– The contract is not based on case law or precedence
– All other powers were retained by the States
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• The Ratification debates were –Testimonies
–Speeches
–Minutes • All of which expounded on the contract and are legally and contractually binding
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• Per contract law, when stakeholders of a contract further:
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Clarify
Define
Illuminate
Elucidate
Reinforce and support
And ultimately agree to a contract based upon the expounded data
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• Constitutional appendages that ultimately dispel any questions to the ambiguity of the mystical clauses
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• Mystical clauses
–General Welfare clause
–Commerce clause
–Necessary and Proper clause
–Supremacy clause
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• The most violated clause today
The Uniformity Clause
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• Unconstitutional footings using the “Mystical Clauses” as construed by John Marshall (Fourth Chief Justice from 1801 – 1835)
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Marbury v Madison, 1803
Fletcher v Peck, 1810
Sturges v. Crowninshield, 1819
Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
Cohens v. Virginia, 1821
Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824
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• Departments that were defined as Constitutional were
–State
–Treasury
–Defense
–another necessary or proper role
• General Accounting Office
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• New Departments or RRP’s that are NOT
enumerated or Amended to the Constitution
Review
Interior
Agriculture
Commerce
Justice
Labor
Transportation
Education
Health and Human Services
Homeland Security
Energy
Housing and Urban Development
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• All told
– Over 500 entities that are unconstitutional have been created using unconstitutional footings established by John Marshall
• The Constitution was very clear
– Article V gave power only to the States to define what was to become Constitutional or unconstitutional
• Not Congress
• Not the President
• Not the Supreme Court
Bullet Review
• Note of Amending 1
– This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing
within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an
explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly
obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. George Washington 1796
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• Note of Amending 2
– If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an
amendment in the way which the Constitution
designates. But let there be no change by
usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may
be the instrument of good, it is the customary
weapon by which free governments are
destroyed. George Washington 1796
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• Note of Amending 3
– That this Assembly… views the powers of the federal
government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties; as limited by the plain sense
and intention of the instrument constituting the
compact; as no further valid that they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the
states who are parties thereto, have the right, and are
in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress
of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective
limits, the authorities, rights and liberties
appertaining to them. Virginia Resolution James Madison
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• Note of Amending 3 cont.
–This is one of MANY documents by the author of our Constitution asserting State Supremacy over all things not specifically delegated to the Federal Government!
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• Note of Amending 4
– having maturely considered the answers of sundry states in the Union, to their resolutions passed at the last session, respecting certain unconstitutional laws of Congress, commonly called the alien and sedition laws… the legislatures of our sister states…all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy: That this commonwealth does upon the most deliberate reconsideration declare, that the said alien and sedition laws, are in their opinion, palpable violations
of the said constitution; Thomas Jefferson 1799
Bullet Review
• Note of Amending 4 cont.
–This is the second of two supporting documents by Jefferson of State Supremacy over all things not specifically delegated to the Federal Government
Bullet Review
• Note of Amending 5
– seeing that such a power is not expressly given by the Constitution, and believing that it can not be deduced from any part of it without an inadmissible latitude of construction and a reliance on insufficient precedents; believing also that the permanent success of the Constitution depends on a definite partition of powers between the General and the State Governments, and that no adequate landmarks would be left by the constructive extension of the powers of Congress as proposed in the bill, I have no option but to withhold my signature from it, and to cherishing the hope that its beneficial objects may be attained by a resort for the necessary powers to the same wisdom and virtue in the nation which established the Constitution in its actual form and providently marked out in
the instrument itself a safe and practicable mode of improving
it as experience might suggest. James Madison 1817
Bullet Review
• Note of Amending 5 cont.
–This is the most powerful condemning document one can read that refutes Federal Supremacy and supports State Supremacy over all things not specifically delegated to the Federal government!
Bullet Review
• Note of Amending 6
– Having at the commencement of my service in this high trust considered it a duty to express the opinion that the United States do not possess the
power in question, and to suggest for the
consideration of Congress the propriety of
recommending to the States an amendment to
the Constitution to vest the power in the United
States James Monroe 1822
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• Note of Amending 7
– To avoid these evils it appears to me that the most safe, just, and federal disposition which could be made of the surplus revenue would be its apportionment among the several States according to their ratio of representation, and should this measure not be found warranted by
the Constitution that it would be expedient to
propose to the States an amendment authorizing
it. Andrew Jackson 1830
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• Note of Amending 8
–Bill of Rights
• 12 Amendments in 1791
• The 11th Amendment in 1795
• The 12th Amendment in 1801
• Amendments and the Article V process is the precedence or the established Standard
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• The process has been so subverted that an obscure letter has become an unconstitutional whip of tyranny
• All empirical facts in founding documents ignored and obviated
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• The process to make modifications to our contract (See Article V)
– Amendment initiated by two‐thirds of both Houses
– Amendments initiated by two‐thirds of the States
• All Amendments must be ratified by three‐
fourths of the States (today that is 38 States).
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• They failed to amend the Constitution
Islam
IRS suppressing speech
Labor
EPA BLM Energy DoJ Drones Immigration
Healthcare
Common Core
Housing
Clinton’s
Corruption
Abortion
Iran Nukes
Corporate
Welfare
State
Welfare
Crony Capitalism
Homosexual Marriage
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• OUR ONLY SOLUTION – Auditing the Constitution – or – Convening the Convention for Republic Review
• Done online at each State • Based upon the original contract and ratification definitions
– Article V process will be the successor to Republic Review
• Three‐Fourths plus Rule Super Majority = 38
– The One­Fourth plus Rule or Super Minority = 13
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• Republic Review is not –Rewriting the Constitution
–Amending the Constitution
• Republic Review is –Auditing the scope of the Constitution (contract) against the Federal Governments existing roles, responsibilities, and powers
The Status of the Republic
• Where were we as a Republic in 2012 election?
The Status of the Republic
• Where are we as a Republic post 2014 election?
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• Your opportunity cost?
–Before considering your costs
–What is at stake or what do you stand to lose?
• Individual Liberty
• Individual Sovereignty
• Our Republic
• Our Constitution
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• Your opportunity cost and competition for your time
• Worship
• Family
• Career
• Entertainment
• Fighting Evil
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• Have and keep your faith –Don’t let the financial cost deter you – our framers depended on external funding and the Lord blessed them every step of the way
–This cannot be about the money
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• What will it take to motivate the citizens of the greatest Republic to join in the only cause that can actually save our way of life?