In 1860-61, the Southern
states walked out of Congress. This created sine die, a
situation in which not enough representatives were present to carry on
legislative business. This was a constitutional crisis that the newly
elected president, Abraham Lincoln, had to resolve.
The Introduction to
Senate Report 93-549 (93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973) summarizes the
situation as best as possible:
"A majority of the people of the United States
have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. . . And, in the United
States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have –from,
at least, the Civil War—in important ways, shaped the present
phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency."
From the research
information available, it can be reasonably proven that when the Southern
states walked out of Congress on March 27, 1861, the quorum to conduct
business under the Constitution for the united States of America was lost.
Thus, the only votes that Congress could lawfully take, under parliamentary
law, were those to set the time to reconvene, take a vote to get a quorum,
vote to adjourn and set a date, time, and place to reconvene at a later
time, but instead, Congress apparently abandoned the House and Senate
without setting a date to reconvene. Under the parliamentary law of
Congress, when this happened, Congress became sine die (pronounced
see-na dee-a; literally "without day") and thus when Congress
adjourned sine die, it ceased to exist as a lawful deliberative body,
and thus the only lawful, constitutional power that could declare war was no
longer lawful, or in session.
It can also be reasonably
proven that the Southern states, by virtue of their secession from the
Union, also ceased to exist sine die, and that some state
legislatures in the Northern bloc also adjourned sine die, and thus,
all the states which were parties to creating the Constitution for the
united States of America apparently ceased to exist. On April 15, 1861,
President Lincoln executed an executive order, Lincoln Executive
Proclamation 1, and it can also be reasonably proven that the united States
of America have been ruled ever since by the President under executive
powers.
It can also be reasonably
proven that when Congress eventually did reconvene, it was reconvened under
the military authority of the Commander-in-Chief and not by Rules of Order
for Parliamentary bodies or by Constitutional Law, thus placing the American
people under martial rule ever since the "national emergency" declared by
President Lincoln. Thus, the Constitution for the united States of
America has subsequently temporarily ceased being the acknowledged law of
the land in many courts, and the President, Congress, and the courts have
unlawfully presumed that they were free to remake the Union in a new image,
whereas, lawfully, no constitutional provisions were in place which afforded
power to any of the actions which were taken which presumed to place the
Union under the new form of control.
President Lincoln
apparently knew that his executive orders no longer had any
force under
Constitutional Law. So he commissioned General Orders No. 100 (April 24,
1863) apparently as a special code to govern his actions under martial law
and to justify the seizure of power, which further extended the laws of the
District of Columbia and which also fictionally implemented the provisions
of Article I, Section 8, Clauses 17-18 of the Constitution beyond the
boundaries of Washington, D.C. and into the several states. General Orders
No. 100, also called the Lieber Instructions and the Lieber Code, have
apparently extended the laws of war and private international law into the
American states, and the United States government has become the presumed
military conqueror of the people and the land of the several American
nations.
Martial rule has
apparently been kept secret and has never really ended. Lincoln was
assassinated before he could complete the implementation of his plan to
constitutionally and not militarily reform the Southern national governments
and restore Congress. Ever since the united States of America has been ruled
under military law under the Commander of Chief—the President—and his
assumed executive powers according to the policies of Executive Orders: a
military dictator type function.
Constitutional law
under the original Constitution for the American states is apparently
enforced only as a matter of keeping the public peace under the provisions
of General Orders No. 100 under martial rule.
This "peace" is further evidenced in the Preamble of the so-called
Expatriation Act of 1868. Under martial law, title is a mere fiction,
since all property belongs to the military except for that property which
the Commander-in-Chief may, in his benevolence, exempt from taxation and
seizure and upon which he allows the "enemy" to reside.
In proclaiming the first
Trading with the Enemy Act by Executive Order, President Lincoln set in
place the means by which the federal government could interact with
Americans who were not federal citizens. They could
technically be designated as enemies. Are you beginning to understand how
We the People could be at odds with our “government?”
In a message to Congress
December 3, 1861, Abraham Lincoln answered the banker's argument that the
people could not be trusted with their constitutional power, the political
and monetary system of free enterprise conceived by our Founding Fathers, by
saying:
"No men living are more worthy to be trusted
than those who toil up from poverty -- none less inclined to take or touch
aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a
political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered, will
surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to
fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be
lost."
Lincoln was short of money to
finance the Federal Government's war effort, so he went to the bankers
of New York. They agreed to make loans at interest rates varying from 24 - 36%.
In 1865, just before the
close of the Civil War, President Lincoln declared his new monetary policy:
“The Government should create, issue, and
circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power
of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of
these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity…. The
privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative
of government, but it is the governments' greatest opportunity."
Had it been implemented,
it would have ushered in a worldwide economic renewal. Unfortunately, a few
weeks after its introduction, Lincoln was assassinated because he defied the
bankers in proposing to print interest free money to pay the war debt.
Thus, the government continued to operate fully under the authority of
private law dictated by the creditor.
Since President Lincoln
was assassinated before he could complete plans for reforming constitutional
government in the Southern States and end the martial rule by executive
order, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution has further created
a "new citizenship" or "status" for the expanded jurisdiction. Laws for the
District of Columbia were proposed and passed by Congress in 1871, the
District of Columbia being incorporated as a private, foreign corporation by
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, and all states in the Union
were apparently reformed as franchisees or political subdivisions of the
corporation known as the UNITED STATES, hence creating a new union of
American states. What remained of the government was the private side under
the rule of the bankers.
The first attempt by
Congress to define citizenship was in 1866 in the passage of the Civil
Rights Act (Revised Statutes section 1992, 8 United States Code Annotated
section 1). The act provided that:
"All persons born in the United States and not
subject to any foreign power are declared to be citizens of the United
States."
And this in turn was
followed in 1868 by the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, United States
Code Annotated Amendment 14, declaring:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside."
At this period of time,
the only people in the United States who were under the jurisdiction of the
private bifurcated government of the ten miles square of Washington, D.C.,
were the government employees, those within the territories owned by the
United States and now the former slaves. The former citizens of the South,
now "captured" became 14th Amendment citizens. The remainder of
the people could still invoke the power over government through original
jurisdiction of the Republic side of the Constitution.
A new 13th
Amendment was enacted December 18, 1865 and the 14th Amendment
was enacted July 28, 1868. It was ratified in Southern states under martial
law. A state could only obtain its freedom from federal military rule by
ratifying this amendment. Any contract entered under duress is null and
void. But then the Constitution was not even in effect following sine die
and the proclamation of martial law.
The 14th
Amendment brought the freed slaves, whose previous owners were private
plantations and transferred those slaves under subjection of the government,
the ten miles square jurisdiction of Washington, D.C. And it offered its
protection to those who would choose to become its subjects…in exchange for
their sovereignty.
The 14th
Amendment is a good example of the “give-a-little, take a lot” strategy that
is often used, a sugar coating to a bitter pill. Sovereign Citizens had
created a government to guarantee them their rights. In contrast, the
federal government created fourteenth amendment citizenship to guarantee its
power over its citizens. It seems to be taking citizens under its
protection but at the price of servitude. Sovereigns may choose to become
subjects; free men and women to become vassals. This amendment has always
been controversial. Many people over the years have questioned the amount of
power it vests in the federal government. Some have even questioned its
validity. On one occasion Judge Ellett of the Utah Supreme Court remarked:
“I cannot believe that any court, in full
possession of its faculties, could honestly hold that the amendment was
properly approved and adopted. State v. Phillips, Pacific Reporter, 2nd
Series, Vol. 540, Page 941, 942 (1975)
However, the most
important fact about this amendment is that, although it created a new class
of citizen, it did not have any effect on Sovereign Citizens. Both classes
still exist: When the Constitution was adopted the people of the United
States were the citizens of the several States for whom and for whose
posterity the government was established. Each of them was a citizen of the
United States at the adoption of the Constitution, and all free persons
thereafter born within one of the several States became by birth citizens of
the State and of the United States.
Both classes of
citizen still exist. It's your right to be a Sovereign Citizen, while it's a
privilege to be a fourteenth amendment citizen, and most importantly, it's
up to you to determine which one you are, and which one you want to be.
Just remember that you “pay” for a
privilege, whereas a right carries no obligation. This is at the heart of
your personal Declaration of Independence.
