The End
of the American Republic: the Shadow Government is Born
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.
Taking Back Your Power
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