We the People posses the superior principle of correction
We the People, We the Sovereignty, have two avenues of correction. To determine which avenue to take, We the People must conclude wherein lies the error. Is the error in what We the People ordained and established [Constitution(s)] or does the error lie with those Public Servants who swore an oath to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution?
If the error is in the Constitution(s);
1) We the People posses over our constitutions control in ACT as well as RIGHT.
We the Sovereignty;
May change the cons...
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We the People posses the superior principle of correction
We the People, We the Sovereignty, have two avenues of correction. To determine which avenue to take, We the People must conclude wherein lies the error. Is the error in what We the People ordained and established [Constitution(s)] or does the error lie with those Public Servants who swore an oath to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution?
If the error is in the Constitution(s);
1) We the People posses over our constitutions control in ACT as well as RIGHT.
We the Sovereignty;
May change the constitutions whenever and however we please,
Possess the fee-simple of authority,
Reserve the right to do what we please,
May assume into our own hands the alteration of the Constitution(s),
Have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish our government in such manner as we may think expedient.
If the error is with the Stewarts of our lent power;
2) We the People have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefensible right to wholly recall our delegated powers, or reform them so as to prevent such abuse.
We the Sovereignty;
Are the source of authority,
Retain the right of recalling what power we have parted with,
Those who ordain and establish have the power to recall, repeal, revoke or annul,
Have a right to do what we please with regard to our government,
Are the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power, a power from which there is no appeal.
Hierarchy of Authority
1) The Law of Nature and Nature’s God [Yehovah]
2) We The People/Inalienable Rights
3) Constitutions
4) Public Servants [President, Governors, Legislators, Judges]
5) U.S. Citizens/Civil Rights [Privileges] 14th Amendment
It was commonly understood at the founding of the Republic that the People could, whenever necessary, assemble in convention [Ad Hoc Assembly] and correct the errors. We the People have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish our government in such manner as we may think expedient.
“We, the People, possessing all power, form a government, such as we think will secure happiness: and suppose, in adopting this plan, we should be mistaken in the end; where is the cause of alarm on that quarter? In the same plan we point out an easy and quiet method of reforming what may be found amiss. No, but, say gentlemen, we have put the introduction of that method in the hands of our servants, who will interrupt it from motives of self interest. What then? We will resist, did my friend say? conveying an idea of force. Who shall dare to resist the people? No, we will assemble in Convention; wholly recall our delegated powers, or reform them so as to prevent such abuse; and punish those servants who have perverted powers, designed for our happiness, to their own emolument. We ought to be extremely cautious not to be drawn into dispute with regular government, by faction and turbulence, its natural enemies. Here, then, sir, there is no cause of alarm on this side; but on the other side, rejecting of government, and dissolving of the Union, produce confusion and despotism.”
Mr. PENDLETON – Page 31
THE DEBATES IN THE CONVENTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.
In Convention Richmond, Monday June 2, 1788.
“As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived, it seems strictly consonant to the republican theory, to recur to the same original authority, not only whenever it may be necessary to enlarge, diminish, or new-model the powers of the government, but also whenever any one of the departments may commit encroachments on the chartered authorities of the others. The several departments being perfectly co-ordinate by the terms of their common commission, none of them, it is evident, can pretend to an exclusive or superior right of settling the boundaries between their respective powers; and how are the encroachments of the stronger to be prevented, or the wrongs of the weaker to be redressed, without an appeal to the people themselves, who, as the grantors of the commissions, can alone declare its true meaning, and enforce its observance? There is certainly great force in this reasoning, and it must be allowed to prove that a constitutional road to the decision of the people ought to be marked out and kept open, for certain great and extraordinary occasions.”
James Madison, FEDERALIST NO. 49
Method of Guarding Against the Encroachments of Any One Department of Government by Appealing to the People Through a Convention
From the New York Packet, Tuesday, February 5, 1788.
“The honorable gentleman [Mr. Pendleton] who presides told us that, to prevent abuses in our government, we will assemble in Convention, recall our delegated powers, and punish our servants for abusing the trust reposed in them. O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!”
Mr. HENRY – Page 40
THE DEBATES IN THE CONVENTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.
In Convention Richmond, Monday June 2, 1788.
