Our
Rights Shall NOT Be Infringed
By JB Williams
Political leftists with global
ambitions, who fear the wrath of a
free people, have been trying to disarm
American citizens for more than a hundred years now. Although Americans have
been quite tolerant of past overreaches of political authority at the federal,
state and local level, the silence of the people should not be misinterpreted
as their consent. Far from it…
In the end, our rights shall
NOT be infringed! PERIOD!
The subject of our inalienable
rights, protected by the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights and State
Constitutions, is simple. – “the right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Why? – Because, a
well-regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free
State and a free people.
A Free
State
A state which is subservient to
any supreme central power is not a “free state.” Our Founders created a Constitutional
Representative Republic,
not a democracy. The thirteen original colonies and the balance of the states
by ratification, created a federal government via a compact known as the U.S.
Constitution, and further protected states and individual rights via the Bill
of (inalienable)
Rights.
The people, via their states,
assigned certain specific and limited duties to the federal government they
created, along with the limited authority to carry out those duties.
The Ninth Amendment states
unequivocally – “The enumeration in the
Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage
others retained by the people.”
The Tenth Amendment states
without reservation – “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.”
And the Second Amendment to the
Constitution states without any ambiguity – “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.”
Shall NOT Be Infringed
The following inalienable
rights shall not be infringed…
·
The free exercise of religion
·
Free speech
·
A Free press
·
The right of the people peaceably to assemble
·
The right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances
·
A well-regulated Militia
·
The right of the people to keep and bear Arms
·
The right of the people to be secure in their homes
·
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
·
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous
crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury
·
nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in
jeopardy of life or limb
·
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against
himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
law
·
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just
compensation
·
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein
the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously
ascertained by law
·
and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be
confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for
obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his
defense
·
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed
twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact
tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United
States, than according to the rules of the
common law
·
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
A condition of passage of the
U.S. Constitution was the immediate passage of additional prohibitions to the
federal government, known as our Bill of Rights. In addition to countless
individual rights as a free people, these rights are specified as inalienable
rights. These rights shall not be infringed… PERIOD
The Ninth Amendment exists as
absolute affirmation that the people retain all the rights of a free people.
The Tenth Amendment exists so that State Governments can and shall protect the
rights of the people and their state when the federal government becomes
abusive towards the states and the people.
To Infringe
There is not one way to infringe
upon the rights of the people or the states. There are two ways in which the
federal government can infringe upon the rights of the people or their states.
To infringe
is – “To break, as contracts; to violate,
either positively by contravention, or negatively by non-fulfillment or neglect
of performance.”
1. The federal
government can infringe upon the inalienable rights of the people or their
state by taking positive action from one of the three federal branches, which
directly interferes with these rights.
2. The federal
government can also passively infringe upon these rights by failing to carry
out its assigned duties in a manner which results in the interference of the
right of the people or the state.
EXAMPLE # 1
– When the federal government attempts to interfere in any way with the right
of the people to keep and bear arms, it is taking an affirmative action which
is a direct infringement upon the people’s Second Amendment right.
EXAMPLE # 2
– When the federal government fails to enforce existing immigration and
naturalization laws, by non-fulfillment and neglect of performance, it is
infringing upon the rights of the states and the people to be secure in their
home, their country.
A Time for Intolerance
“Prudence, indeed, will
dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
So it is… that the American
people have indeed tolerated many infringements upon their rights over the
years since the passage of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Their
silence has been a mark of tolerance, not acceptance.
The moment in history when
federal assaults on the people’s rights have become insufferable, has arrived.
Although the many usurpations
of power have taken place over an extended period involving numerous
administrations, combined, they pale by comparison to the overt assaults on
American sovereignty, security, freedom and liberty that have taken place over
the last four years.
The rapid decline in America
started at the 2006 election in which progressive Democrats seized both houses
of congress and sat congressional Republicans on the sidelines. The election of
a blatantly unconstitutional White House resident in 2008, left the reigns of
our once great nation solely in the hands of progressive Democrats. They have
worked around the clock to destroy The United States of America ever since.
The election of Tea Party
Republicans in 2010 delivered a net zero gain for the country, as those
Republicans were inexperienced and ill-prepared for the battle they would face
in the political sewer known as Washington DC.
One Remaining Peaceful Opportunity
“… whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.”
The federal government is not The United States of America. The
fifty member states and more than three-hundred million “legal” American
citizens are The United States of America.
The states created the federal
government and the states can alter or abolish the federal government at will.
The People are The United States of America.
Freedom and liberty is an
American concept and the right of every American. Most Republicans are
pro-freedom and liberty. So are most Democrats.
But our federal government has
become destructive of that end. Neither the Republican National Committee nor
Democrat National Committee is pro-freedom and liberty today.
What should the people do?
The rights of the people shall
be protected by the states under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. The people
must work with their state governments to erect Tenth Amendment protections at
the state level, making it possible for the state to block unconstitutional
acts of the federal government via peaceful legislative processes.
For freedom and liberty to
exist, there must be a delicate balance of political powers restricting the
authorities of government so that those governmental bodies operate in the
interest of freedom and liberty. Once the balance of power is lost, it can only be regained at the state level via the people.
Our Constitutional
Republic was designed with both a
horizontal and vertical separation of power. The federal government is made up
of three co-equal branches, executive, legislative and judicial. None of the
three has supremacy over the other. That’s the horizontal separation of powers
at the federal level, intended to keep all three branches in constitutional
check and balance.
The vertical balance of powers
is divided between federal, state, county and local powers and the Tenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution defines the separation of state and federal
powers as follows – “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.”
The powers delegated to the
executive branch of the federal government are defined in Article
II of the US Constitution.
The powers delegated to the
legislative branch of the federal government are defined in Article
I of the US Constitution.
The powers delegated to the
judicial branch are defined in Article
III of the US Constitution.
All other power belongs to the
states and the people under the Ninth
and Tenth Amendments of the US Constitution.
The rights of the people and the states shall NOT be infringed…. PERIOD
The people must restore the proper balance of powers in order to restore
their Constitutional Republic.
They can only do this at the state level today and time is running short.
The people must take appropriate actions to regain control of their states
in order to regain control over their federal government, or their nation,
freedom and liberty will be lost.
Founder John Adams said it best
– “A Constitution of Government once
changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
Fight peacefully, through appropriate state actions, or lose freedom and
liberty forever…
Our Rights Shall NOT Be Infringed…
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JB Williams is a writer on matters of
history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a
twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of
Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for
all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a
Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He
is co-founder of action organizations The
United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The
Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The
North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and
activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles.
Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com
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