American Patriot Pamphlet #7
THE CONSTITUTION OF NO AUTHORITY
by Ralph Boryszewski
Copyright 1996
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THE CONSTITUTION OF NO AUTHORITY
From 1774 to 1787, lawyers dominated the Continental Congress
and the
various state legislatures. They were an intimate group who
worked to
make the law serve their own interest. This put the legal
profession at
great political advantage over all other professions, for during
those
first years they met both in Congress and socially where they
discussed
ideas for the establishment of a strong central government. The
people
everywhere were fearful of such ideas as they had fought and won
the war
for liberty against another strong central government in
England.
The lawyers in charge of the Continental Congress were
undeterred. In
February, 1781 they submitted to the states an amendment vesting
in
Congress the power to levy a duty of five percent on imported
goods.
This and other similar amendments were rejected by the states.
Under the
Confederation, the federal government had no means of enforcing
obedience to its laws because they operated upon states and not
upon
their inhabitants. You cannot imprison a state if it breaks the
law. If
an attempt is made to seize its goods, a state's militia can
repeal the
action. The lawyers had a plan-- they would make the national
government
operative upon individuals instead of states. If a person defied
the law
he could be imprisoned or have a levy placed upon his property
until he
conformed.
The lawyers had power and the backing of the wealthy. They
dominated
Congress and converted most of its merchants and land-owning
members to
the Federalist cause for a strong central government. Most of
the
Federalists had been serving interchangeably for years, either
in the
national or state legislatures where they had also been
encouraging the
establishment of a strong central government. A dramatic change
from a
government of states to a government of people could only be
brought
about by a Constitutional Convention. To accomplish their plan,
the
Federalists in the Congress and various state legislatures would
have to
resort to subterfuge.
On February 21, 1787 Congress called for a Convention "for the
sole and
express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation."
Twelve
states responded and sent fifty-five delegates to a Convention
in
Philadelphiaf for that purpose. Thirty-four of those fifty-five
delegates were lawyers and most of them were to become the
leading
supporters of the Federalist cause.
The Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787 could not be
called a
Constitutional Convention because the delegates were not elected
by the
people nor did the people have any input into the constitutional
matters
discussed there. Lawyers dominated that Convention and their
efforts
were directed to establishing a legal dynasty in America
beneficial
mainly to themselves. Lawyers gave the newly proposed national
government jurisdiction over the individual citizen instead of
the
states. The goal of the Convention was to make the union strong
by
preserving slavery through coercion over individuals in the free
states
by requiring the return of runaway slaves. Additionally, the
conscription laws coerced the individual to engage in never
ending wars
of aggression in foreign lands.
The state of Rhode Island refused to send delegates because it
did not
wish to revise the Articles of Confederation which plainly
stated: "...
the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed
by every
state, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any
alteration at any
time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be
agreed
to in a Congress of the United States and be afterwards
confirmed by the
legislature of every State." The delegates at the Convention
should have
disbanded since they could not meet the required unanimity
necessary for
an alteration to the Articles of Confederation.
The Federalists in the Convention instead abandoned the
Confederation
and pretended they were the elected delegates of the people.
They
decided to draft a Constitution in the people's name. There was
nothing
to stop them. The people had no means through which they could
effectively communicate or engage in a concerted action to
thwart these
tactics. The Federalists had planned well for they were in
control of
the Convention, twelve state legislatures, and the Continental
Congress.
The Convention operated behind locked doors to keep its
business secret
from the people but not from its allies in the Congress and
state
legislative bodies. After signing the Constitution in
Philadelphia in
September, Madison, King, Gorham, Johnson, Langdon, Gilman,
Blount, Few
and Butler returned to New York City where they promptly resumed
their
Congressional seats. On the 26th of September it was evident
that the
Constitution was not a revision of the Articles of Confederation
and
should have been rejected. Congress was obligated to obey the
Articles
of Confederation, the agreement signed by all of the thirteen
states,
and not a new one signed by only nine states. The preamble of
the new
Constitution proposed by the Convention which stated "We the
people of
the United States... do ordain and establish this Constitution
..." was
in itself a fraud for the people were denied the right to elect
their
own delegates to the Convention in Philadelphia. Congress was
therefore
without authority to send the Constitution to the legislature of
each
state for submission to special ratifying conventions. The state
legislatures were also without jurisdiction to conduct the
election of
people to ratifying conventions, since the Constitution was the
work of
agents of the states and not duly elected delegates of the
people. The
people of that day should have refused jurisdiction to ratify
the
Constitution as the masses were disenfranchised by strict
property
qualifications. In 'An Economic Interpretation of the
Constitution of
the United States,' Charles A. Beard states:
... not more than 5 percent of the population in general or in
round
numbers, 160,000 voters expressed an opinion one way or another
on the
Constitution... we may reasonably conjecture that of the
estimated
160,000 men favored the adoption of the Constitution at the time
it was
put into effect - about one in six of the adult males.
We must not allow ourselves to be tied for eternity by the
votes of
100,000 men who were either very wealthy or gullible dupes who
followed
those false leaders over two hundred years ago.
The people have listened to those who extolled the virtues of
the
Constitution while lawyers continued to extract great wealth and
benefits from a government founded on lies and deceptions. Most
of the
"educated" people ignored men like Lysander Spooner, a lawyer of
rare
exception, who looked for truth and justice, not wealth and
self-aggrandizement. In his 'Essay on the Trial By Jury (1852)',
Spooner
warned the people about the corruptive influence that rendered
the Jury
ineffective in its true purpose. In another treatise he
explained to the
people that ours was a Constitution of no authority.
TYRANNY IN AMERICA
The Constitution has been an instrument of deceit through which
our
domestic enemies (Presidents, Congressmen and Judges) have
divided and
oppressed us. Fools among us still can't recognize tyranny and
blindly
follow our false leaders in war or in peace. The Constitution
first
enslaved black people and now enslaves all of us through the
huge debt
incurred by wars and social experiments. International bankers
and our
puppet-leaders have devised a perfect system for our
enslavement. The
people of this nation work to pay the usurious interest of about
half a
trillion dollars each year and their children will do likewise.
Until
enough people realize that our leaders have used the
Constitution to
betray us, we will continue to work as slaves. American people
have the
appearance of freedom since we can travel freely as long as we
do not
neglect our fruitless labor-- fruitless because our money and
savings
buy less and less. The day will come when we all will realize we
are
slaves.
We have not learned from our mistakes; we have repeated them in
Korea,
Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia. Our
military
men are in reality mercenaries serving special interests. It's
easy for
the CIA to manufacture a reason why we should invade an island
or small
harmless country. None of the above countries would dare invade
America.
None of those countries was ever an imminent threat to our
rights and
liberties.
Our civilian population must likewise resist our leaders and
reject
this false Constitution which is not "the supreme law of the
land." As
patriots they should only take the oath to defend the Bill of
Rights.
Constitutional officials have turned our land over to the
criminals and
made our streets, homes and workplaces unsafe. The purpose of
the Bill
of Rights was to protect us from those entrusted with
constitutional
powers who would use them to abuse us. The lawyers who have
accumulated
all powers -- legislative, executive and judicial -- into their
own
hands are responsible for the criminal dangers to which we have
been
exposed. They have been working to prevent the people from using
the
Bill of Rights as a check against constitutional abuses.
Congress has
remained silent while the Supreme Court built a body of false
laws by
overruling the actions of the police and those Juries.
We have only the illusion of freedom in America. Those few of
us who
regularly research and investigate the real story of the
Constitution,
know the folly of the masses who believe nine lawyers on the
Supreme
Court are the ultimate authority who rule the Constitution to be
"the
supreme law of the land." For over two hundred years the
lawyer-judges
have been telling the people that the Constitution is a check on
the
Bill of Rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Madison warned in #47 of the 'Federalist Papers' that "the
accumulation
of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the
same
hands... may justly be pronounced the very definition of
tyranny." From
the beginning, lawyers have accumulated all legislative,
executive and
judicial powers and have been blocking constitutional checks and
balances. They denied the people Bill of Rights protections by
placing a
dominating number of lawyers in all three branches of
government.
Lawyers, as Attorney General and U.S. Attorneys, are in
positions where
they can influence Jurors, or with the help of judges,
unlawfully
override decisions made by Grand and Trial Juries.
In 1788, the people and the States had demanded the Bill of
Rights as a
check on constitutional officials. The Bill of Rights became
effective
December 1791 as "the supreme law of the land." Government
officials
were granted only limited powers; therefore, the Constitution
they
administer cannot be "supreme law of the land."
The first order of business must be to vote out the nests of
lawyers
who misuse both constitutional and Bill of Rights powers to gain
their
own ends. Juries then will be able to work for the guarantee of
all
protections including the assumption of powers reserved in the
ninth and
tenth Articles of the Bill of Rights, which authorize the people
to
intervene whenever constitutional remedies are not invoked.
For further information on this and many other topics of
interest to
American citizens, write for the book, 'The Constitution That
Never Was'
by Ralph Boryszewski. Send check or money order for $20 + $3
s/h. (New
York State residents include sales tax.) to Foundation for
Rights, PO
Box 17699, Rochester, New York 14617.
