A Theme for Governmental Changes
Our founding fathers were brilliant in setting up our republican form of government and giving us a written constitution that spelled out our fundamental rights and purposely limited government. Yet they admitted it was not perfect and provided mechanisms by which The People could amend it. The Constitution of the United States of America is We The People’s defining document for our government and governmental change shall only be made through the constitutionally defined amendment process. The exclusive change mechanism provided by our founding fathers is a formal Constitutional Amendment process in which amendments are proposed, considered by the several states and incorporated only when ¾ or more of the several states formally ratify the specific amendment under consideration. The ratified amendment then becomes an integral part of the Constitution. Government can not be changed by any other mechanism.
Throughout our history, nefarious politicians have effected unconstitutional change of our government because the changes executed would not have been accepted by We The People if such were attempted by proper amendment process. The mechanisms used are unconstitutional and include; laws, regulations, enactments of various names, treaties, agreements, executive orders, judicial mandates.
The constitution and the government it defined was setup by our founders which has served us well for over 230+ years but, as the founders always knew, it was not perfect. Government, over many years, has managed to pervert this near perfect governmental system into the tyrannical one we have today. We have observed the perversion of our Amendment process whereby the tyrannical government controls what can be considered for amendment and even when it can be considered, if at all. We The People will further enumerate our Constitutional Amendment process, making it safe from nefarious obstruction and perversion by tyrannical government. Our founding fathers were wise indeed but did not foresee the vigorous ingenuity of the nefarious in perverting our constitutional government.
The following summarizes our founders’ intentions for governmental change in their own words and even of President Lincoln:
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government” - George Washington Farewell Address (1796)
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution” – Thomas Jefferson 1798
"The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln (17 September 1859, speech in Cincinnati, OH)
Clearly, our founders intended for We The People to oversee government and even to change our constitution when We find it necessary to change our governance. We The People are given authority by the Declaration of Independence in which it commands The People to “alter or abolish” the tyrannical government and form a new government that is fully compliant to our Constitution of the United States of America.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That 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 effect their Safety and Happiness. - The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America July 4, 1776
We The People shall institute change in government that will return to us our rights, liberty, safety and happiness. Fellow citizens, this can be done in full compliance of the Constitution by simply amending it with further enumeration of our founder’s grand principles.
– Restore Our Union.org (2011) Copyright© 2011 RestoreOurUnion.org - Revision date Sept 13, 2011
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