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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written with the PRESUMPTION OF LIBERTY that is the inalienable right of each citizen

Government acts with the presumption of total power over each citizen. It is easy for one branch of government to give itself other branches permission to expand or maintain their power. It is difficult, indeed a conflict of interest, for one branch to reign in the power of another branch. This is made even more difficult when a common, power-oriented, ideology pervades members of each branch.

The primary limit on government power is the limited money it can spend. When government gives itself power to create near-infinite amounts of money through an “independent” central bank, then there is very little to limit near-infinite amounts of government in all forms, particularly the groups that it will give subsidies to and the bureaucrats it will employ.

Both constituencies will make their own unique demands on government.

Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.

The first order of business of an Article V Convention must be to limit government’s ability to spend and create near-infinite amounts of money.


10 posted on 06/23/2014 8:14:05 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat
The Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written with the PRESUMPTION OF LIBERTY that is the inalienable right of each citizen

Exactamundo.

But what the SCOTUS ruels on today is nothing but corporate law - and those laws are written with the PRESUMPTION OF SLAVERY.

Not "metaphorical" slavery. Real, actual, the-government-owns-your-existence slavery. THAT is the actual, legal presumption of corporate law, regarding the relationship between the government and any corporation.

Amd that's why corporate "rights" are the biggest lie on the planet. "Corporate rights" is actually a 'term-of-art' that means the PRIVILEGES granted to corporations by the government, for the benefit of the government alone.

So you can see why, if this complete reversal of the original Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were, for example, to be presumed upon non-corporate human beings, it would... cause problems.

Welcome to our world.

23 posted on 06/24/2014 12:35:26 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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