"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." ~Samuel Adams
In a Republic, sovereignty resides with the people themselves.
Even though nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy, it is absolutely not true. The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a democracy and they repeatedly and emphatically said that they had founded a Republic.
If you were to ask people around you where their rights come from, far too many would likely tell you that they received their rights from the government. The problem with this should be obvious, if a government gives you your rights, it can also take them all away.
While our nation’s founders were keenly aware of the difference between a Republic and a democracy, most Americans today are not. We have drifted away from our Constitutional right of individual sovereignty to a point where groups of individuals falsely claim "rights" as a collective which even the individual doesn't have.
Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21
People everywhere are recognizing our diminishing freedoms. The key to effective action is to understand and expose the root of our problem.
It will take increasing public awareness to restore our unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The damage from Agenda 21, Sustainable Development policies is pervasive.
Our nation is a republic, not a democracy. When Ben Franklin was asked what kind of government they had given the world, and replied, "a republic if you can keep it." He was speaking not merely to the people of his time, but also to us.
Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution “guarantees to every state in this union a Republican form of government." Conversely, the word Democracy is not mentioned even once in the Constitution. Jefferson said, “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.1
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.2
Our Founding Fathers understood that people were created with inalienable rights, that these individual rights come from Nature's God and are not bestowed by human government. If you say that someone has an inalienable right to something, you are emphasizing that they have a right to it which cannot be changed or taken away. The framers expressly denied the federal government's authority in specific ways by creating a series of amendments to the Constitution—the Bill of Rights.
Amendment 1: "Congress shall make no law…"
Amendment 2: "…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
Amendment 4: "…against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…"
Despite the sacrifices of over 200 years, our Constitution today hangs only by a thread. Our Republic currently faces its most significant challenge ever: to reclaim the BILL of RIGHTS.
Remove the Bill of Rights from the rule of law and all that remains is tyrannical and abusive government which has lost all legitimacy.
Make no mistake about it, our fundamental liberties have been adulterated by false-authorities who deprive us of common law courts and thus deny us access to justice.
A tyranny can be defined as a government wherein the RIGHTS and liberties of the people are violated at will by those in power, and where the people possess no effective remedy to hold the transgressors accountable.
TYRANNY = a government in which the common-law of the people either has never existed, or has been replaced with the de facto policies, or the self empowering edicts, of officials that as a matter of course, authorize the violation of human RIGHTS, and, wherein procedural or "legal" ramparts are effectively constructed to prevent the accountability of government ministers, and their puppet judges and agents.
NOTE A: Excessive taxation is categorized as economic slavery and is included within violations of human RIGHTS. See: UCL, [Swindling]
NOTE B: Socialism (organized criminal rapacity) is invariably marketed as Neo-Liberal Capitalism, and/or Democracy. These, and socialism’s more extreme expressions (“Fascism” and “Communism”) are typically presented as beneficial and necessary politico-economic ideologies. In fact, these pseudo-ideologies are mere vehicles of propaganda which serve to transport and mask the self serving avarice of a criminal elite which operates at the expense of the people. Compare: REPUBLIC
NOTE C: All tyrannies are classified under the common-law, and the law of pre-eminent domain, as criminal. Ministers of all governments are subject by unalienable RIGHT, to reciprocal jurisdiction. Ministers of tyrannies exist in a state of war with their subjects, and are therefore subject to direct, immediate, and if necessary, terminal intervention.
Fortunately, our system of government gives the power to the County Sheriff to either ignore or enforce Federal law. The President of the United States cannot tell the County Sheriff what to do in his own county (neither can Congress, nor the Supreme Court). This then is our best defense against tyranny.
The Power of the Sheriff
The County Sheriff decides which laws are Constitutional and will be enforced and which laws violate his citizens' rights and will be ignored. And for the choices he makes, he will answer directly to the citizens of his county - not the federal government.
Retired Sheriff Richard Mack sued the federal government for promulgating a bill that commandeers the office of the Sheriff to do the federal government's bidding. The Supreme Court decided in his favor, stating that no Sheriff can be made to break his oath to uphold the Constitution. The County Sheriff's jurisdiction supersedes even that of the President's when it comes to the sworn oath of protecting the Constitutional rights of the people in the county that elected him or her.
On June 27th, 1997, the sheriffs won; in Printz v. U.S. (521 U.S. 898) the U.S. Supreme Court struck Brady down. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the ruling for the Court, in which he explained our system of government at length. The justly revered system of checks and balances is the key:
“… The great innovation of this design was that ‘our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other’” – “a legal system unprecedented in form and design, establishing two orders of government, each with its own direct relationship, its own privity, its own set of mutual rights and obligations to the people who sustain it and are governed by it.” (P. 920)
Scalia quotes President James Madison, “father” of the Constitution: “[T]he local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject, within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.” The Federalist, No. 39 at 245.
Again and again, Justice Scalia pounds the point home (page 921): “This separation of the two spheres is one of the Constitution’s structural protections of liberty: ‘Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the Federal Government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front.’…” Gregory, 501 U.S. at 458.
He quotes President Madison again: “In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.” (P. 922)
No peace officer, sheriff, or State government is obliged to comply with a federal law that violates the Constitution. This is why our elected officials, military, and police take an oath not to the federal government, the President, Supreme Court, or the Congress, but to the United States Constitution itself. States as sovereign entities can use their powers to prevent the enforcement of illegal statutes and executive orders in their states. Sheriffs, as the chief law enforcement officers of every county in the 50 states, have a duty not to allow such laws in their jurisdictions. Juries likewise have a duty to consider the Constitutionality of a law before they decide a case, despite what judges try to instruct them in the process of trying to herd them like cattle into a mindset that only the judge can read the law.
Limiting the government's power was not the only brilliance displayed by the framers, the Checks and Balance system was also implemented to ensure that no one branch of government could get out of control. As long as at least one branch of government kept it's primary goal as liberty, it could stop encroachments on the freedom of the people by the other branches.
But, what would happen if all three branches of government changed their agendas from freedom to power and coercion? Well, there was a check and balance for that as well. First is the jury system and second is the Office of Sheriff—both provide a way for the WE THE PEOPLE to resist tyranny.
The County Sheriff is elected by the people - not employed by any branch of the government. He or she takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Therefore the Sheriff is duty bound to uphold the rights of the people in keeping with their oath of office. Ultimately, the County Sheriff is our best check to balance any overreaching authority of the federal government.
The Sheriff is indeed the ultimate law authority in their respective jurisdiction, and they have the power and responsibility to defend the citizens of their county against all enemies – foreign and domestic. It is imperative that every citizen know who their Sheriff is and what he or she believes in.
The long dormant spirit of 1776 is reviving. The states are beginning to adopt Tenth Amendment resolutions, using powers they have always had. The American people are restoring our long unbalanced constitutional system, understanding We The People are the highest authority and that it is our responsibility to reclaim government form the bottom-up beginning with the Office of Sheriff. In so doing, we can stop the New World Order in it's tracks, right at the county line.
