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"On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?" [Thomas Jefferson: notes on Virginia Q.XIII, 1782 ME 2:71]

TELL THEM to "Obey our Constitution"!

TELL THEM to "Audit the Fed!" we the People have a right to know how they are spending our money.

TELL THEM to "End the Fed!" we the People have a right to own our money, not a private foreign Corp.

TELL THEM to not vote for any bills that continues to erode our freedoms,

TELL THEM to work to repeal all bills that have already put our Liberty in jeopardy.

TELL THEM to tell the Administrative office that We the People have only given 10 powers to the office of the President and legislating through executive orders and going to war is not among those 10 powers. Both legislating and declaring war was delegated to the congress, with restrictions. We the people demand that all elected and appointed officials "obey the law".

REMIND THEM that we entrusted them with only 18 powers and that they should review them often so that they don't break our law.

TELL THEM that if they don't understand the powers they need only ask "We the People" and not some, "elite appeasing", lawyer for the meaning of those 18 powers, and we can introduce them to the Author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson the highest authority on our founding documents.

"Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of laws themselves, and of their construction." [Thomas Jefferson]

"Strained constructions ... loosen all the bands of the Constitution." [Thomas Jefferson]

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure”. [Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823, ME 15:450]

We the People have entrusted Congress with 18 powers and none of those powers allow them to create more then 586 Federal Departments, create a Federal Reserves or own territories. Nor do they have the power to own almost 30% of the land of the 50 States and 100% of our water ways.

The phrase “To regulate Commerce” is the reference every politician quotes, without explanation, when asked where do they get the authority to create all these laws, acts "regulations” and now socialized medicine. The meaning is to be understood to mean to make regular by addressing anything or any state that would prevent that commerce and not to create social programs or prevent commerce from moving between the states, these actions are doing the exact opposite of what the founders intended.

Thomas Jefferson gave us insight on its meaning when he said: “Although the power to regulate commerce does not give a power to build piers, wharves, open ports, clear the beds of rivers, dig canals, build warehouses, build manufacturing machines, set up manufactories, cultivate the earth, to all of which the power would go if it went to the first, yet a power to provide and maintain a navy is a power to provide receptacles for it, and places to cover and preserve it.” … “While we pursue then, the construction of the Legislature, that the repairing and erecting lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and piers is authorized as belonging to the regulation of commerce, we must take care not to go ahead of them and strain the meaning of the terms still further to the clearing out the channels of all the rivers, etc., of the United States. The removing a sunken vessel is not the repairing of a pier.” [Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1802 ME 10:337 & 339] Clearly its meaning to regulate is defined by Jefferson’s concern in the moving the commerce among the States and not to tax and control everything that moves nor to restrict our Bill of Rights by claiming the power to control and restrict our guns, speech, health care, education, media, food, energy, labor, income, faith, technology, our communications and etc..

Concerning the holding of foreign territory Thomas Jefferson when the congress ratified the Louisiana Purchase made it clear that the Constitution made no provisions for our holding foreign territory or incorporating foreign nations into our Union. [Thomas Jefferson to John Breckenridge, 1803 ME 10:410] So where does the federal government get the authority to rule the 14 US territories?
Concerning the phrase “general welfare” found in the preamble of the Constitution - “Congress is not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare but only to lay taxes for that purpose … It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers, and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.” [Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on National Bank, 1791. ME 3:148]

Our federal government has become an illegal institution, they have become lawbreakers and we the People are responsible to make these politicians realize that they are breaking the law and if they refuse to listen and obey the law then they probably already know but the pay they receive from these special interest groups [owned or controlled by the elite] is too good.

Its time that we the people get involved and take our country back. If a politician is fighting the good fight we should be aware of it and support and vote for them. But in the case where there is no difference when we vote democrat or republican its time to vote for another party, and if that’s not available then I think we should write in the vote “none of the above”! What if there were more votes for none of the above then for the candidates running. Common sense would rule that the people have spoken and voted for none of the above and a special election should be initiated with new candidates. We need to get the message to “toon town” enough already!

STATES RULE - "The States alone being parties to the federal compact ... are solely authorized to judge in the last resort of powers exercised under it. Congress being not a party but merely the creation of the compact and subject as to its assumptions of power to the final judgment of those by whom and for whose use itself and its powers were all created and motified." [Thomas Jefferson: draft Kentucky resolution, 1798 ME 17:387]

The Constitutional Solution the Only Solution

Thomas Jefferson said: How can a people who have struggled long years under oppression throw off their oppressors and establish a free society? The problems are immense, but their solution lies in the education and enlightenment of the people and the emergence of a spirit that will serve as a foundation for independence and self-government.

Ron Paul said: “truth is treason in the empire of lies". "We can rebuild America and reinstate the Republic that the Founding Fathers envisioned".

Government has been growing bigger and bigger ever since the creation of the unconstitutional Federal Reserves, a private foreign corporation that congress has illegally created and handed over We the People’s Wealth and our posterity into slavery. There are 100’s of departments illegally created by congress the following is a list of just a few.

Dept of agriculture, Dept of health care, Dept of aging, Dept of for children & families, Dept of historic, preservation, Dept of Indian affairs, Dept of labor, Dept of land management, Dept of transportation, Dept of public debt, Dept of economic, Dept of alcohol tobacco and firearms, Dept of prisons, Dept of census, Dept of education, Dept of energy, Dept of communications, Dept of food and drug, Dept of forest services, Dept of wild life, Dept of fossil energy, Dept of grain inspection, packers and stockyards, Dept of general services, Dept of interior, Dept of internal revenue, Dept of justice, Dept of Medicare, Dept of housing, Dept of arts, Dept of oceans, Dept of railroads, Dept of refugee, Dept of peace corps, Dept of political affairs, Dept of radio and tv, Dept of rural development, Dept of social security, Dept of tax courts, Dept of voice of America,

Some of these departments might sound nice but they give way too much power to a distant and central government of which they simply do not have the constitutional authority to create out of thin air. Such powers, according to the 10th Amendment, belong to the states and the people, they can create and have these new found powers, the central government is not permitted to have these powers, it was not negotiated to them in the constitution.

Think about it they control our Communications, Media, Education, Food, Drugs, Justice, Transportation, Development, Energy, Manufacturing,Water ways, Money, Forests, Arts, Radio, TV and on and on and on! And naw they want to control your health along with "death panels".

We make the mistake of getting lost in the debate of health care and various other issues, The system is set up so that no matter how we engage these politicians we are going to loose, because they will either pass this illegal bill or that illegal bill and in the end they will become bigger and more powerful when they shouldn’t be passing any bills that the constitution does not specifically give them the authority to pass.

The question that we should always be asking when we engage these politicians is where do you get the authority to legislate these powers we can help them by listing the 18 legislative powers that We the People have given them And where does the President get the power, through executive orders, to legislative law? According to the constitution the President has only 10 powers and none of them include the power to legislate. The President cannot write executive orders giving him self the power to declare martial law, neither can congress legislate him more powers. He is only the commander and chief when congress declares war and he is call upon to be.

The following is the list of 18 powers We the People have entrusted to Congress found in Article 1 Section 8

(1) Lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

(2) To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

(3) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

(4) To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

(5) To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

(6) To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
(7) To establish post offices and post roads;

(8) To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

(9) To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

(10) To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

(11) To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

(12) To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

(13) To provide and maintain a navy;

(14) To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

(15) To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

(16) To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

(17) To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

(18) To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

Section 9 tells us what congress cannot do with the powers that the people entrusted them with:

(1) The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
Rebellion - A citizen or subject who unjustly and unlawfully “takes up arms” against the constituted authorities of the nation …
Invasion - an invading or being invaded; specif., a) an entering or being entered by an “attacking military force” b) an intrusion or infringement c) the onset, appearance, or spread of something
A so call war on terror does not give the government authority to remove the writ of habeas corpus, so where did they find the authority to take away habeas corpus. I don’t see an invasion by some attacking military force, foreign or domestic!

(2) No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

(3) No capitation, or other direct, tax [another words a tax on a mans income] shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

(4) No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.

(5) No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another.

(6) No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. [How can the fed go without audit]

(7) No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state. [All lawyers are Esquires therefore they cannot hold an office]

The following is the list of 10 powers We the People have entrusted President found in Article 2 Section 2

(1) The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, “when called into the actual service” of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices. [The President is not the Commander and Chief until he is called.]

(2) He shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

(3) He shall have power, by and with the advice and “consent of the Senate”, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;

(4) He shall nominate, and by and “with the advice and consent of the Senate”, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

(5) The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.

(6) He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;

(7) He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment,

(8) He may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers;

(9) He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

(10) He shall commission all the officers of the United States.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Written by :

John Darash