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Joseph Story, in 1833, published his book “Commentaries on the Constitution..” 1833 marks the decline of the USA

Story encourages a broad reading of the Constitution with the freedom of the judiciary to rule based on the times of the present day
2 ORIGINALISM is the counter to Story - reviewing how the ratifying conventions convinced the PEOPLE what the Constitution meant back then... Fortunately these records of the conventions and debates exist so we KNOW how the Constitution should be interpreted
3.

Unfortunately what is taught in Law School is JOSEPH STORY

Even if you do take Constitutional Law in law school, this doesn’t mean you’ll actually learn the Constitution. You will learn PRECEDENT.
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Precedent means that JUDGES know more about the Constitution than the men who wrote it.

Our law students learn that precedent is superior to the Supreme Law.
5

Jefferson in 1821 on Judicial Supremacy:

“It has long however been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression,... that the germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body,..
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“...(for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day & a little tomorrow, and advancing it’s noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, ...
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“...until all shall be usurped from the states, & the government of all be consolidated into one.”

Just as Jefferson feared, Supreme Courts have authorized the power of lawmaking through the sanction of federal regulations.
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Judges have upheld the authority of unconstitutional regulatory agencies who in turn usurp the power of the States. The courts usurp the power of the States by sanctioning the federal government’s control over powers reserved to the States.
9

Madison on court-sanctioned expansion of federal authority:

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.  Those which remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite…
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“...(federal powers) will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which the last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected…
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“..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.”
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Madison makes it very clear that “external” are the powers delegated to the federal government and everything else not expressly delegated remains in the hands of the people through their States.
13

Unless the States regain control, law schools will continue to avoid teaching the meaning of the Constitution, and instead will cause us to follow Joseph Story blindly to Hell

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25 Jul
1

Joseph Story contends that the Constitution was established by ONE PEOPLE..

Here’s how he defends this:

“Although the colonies were independent of each other in respect to their domestic concerns, they were not wholly alien to each other...
2

“...On the contrary, they were fellow-subjects, and for many purposes one people. Every colonist had a right to inhabit, if he pleased, in any other colony; and as a British subject, he was capable of inheriting lands by descent in every other colony....
3

“...The commercial intercourse of the colonies, too, was regulated by the general laws of the British Empire, and could not be restrained or obstructed by colonial legislation.”
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1/6

“All men are created equal”

Stanford historian Jack Rakove:

This was not intended to mean individual equality. Rather, that American colonists, as a people, had the same rights to SELF-GOVERNMENT as other nations.

news.stanford.edu/press-releases…
2/6

“All men are created equal” did not mean an equality of individuals, but a “collective right of revolution and self-government that the Declaration was written to justify”

networks.h-net.org/node/16794/rev…
3/6

“It was later accepted by Lincoln and most individuals that this was the proposition to which the entire nation was dedicated.”

In other words:

LINCOLN’S “PROPOSITION NATION ” was a lie
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1/9

The Compact Theory (Fact) of Thomas Jefferson and St George Tucker

Describes how the States created the Federal Government and therefore The States reserve the right to secession

#Secession

#Decentralization
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Compact of the States or People?

Some say that via Article VII WE THE PEOPLE in conventions created the *sovereign* govt. The states therefore CEDED their Sovereignty when they joined.

A sovereign (central government) CANNOT be divided against its will (they say)
3/9

When one gives up all his/ her Sovereignty, then that person / entity becomes a slave

Do you REALLY think that the CREATORS of the central government would agree to a COMPACT that would PREVENT them from leaving their own creation?

Make themselves slaves?
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1/5

Let’s revisit the Lincoln lies

A ) we are One People

B) Thomas Jefferson was meant to be interpreted literally at the Founding when he said “all men are created equal”

#Lincoln
#CivilWar
2/5

One People

We are NOT One People : never were, never have been

We are 50 Sovereign Nations held together via a compact

#States
#Sovereign
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- TJ was meant to be interpreted literally AT THE FOUNDING when he said “all men are created equal”

The key here is “AT THE FOUNDING”

AL and the North were just as racist as the South... AL did not believe this and did not fight for this..

He made this up as the war went
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It’s a Trump Triple Play

Of course you are aware of #DominionVotingSystems and Lord Mark Malloch-Brown
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Trump has set a trap... He KNEW the virus was started to take him out. He KNEW the take out would be the election system

And he devised a plan
3.

OF COURSE Trump was aware of Dominion and Satan Moloch... And he devised a plan to expose the screwed up election system in the USA

His goal is NOT the electoral college.

His mission is to make it so the nation is disgruntled with the VOTING PROCESS ITSELF
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