I wonder who, or whom on a local level is responsible for ensuring my freedom?

One of the tragedies of the current misled, uninformed, and otherwise preoccupied American citizenry is the seeming apathy regarding the importance and necessity of electing constitutionalist sheriffs. In many
ways, State governors and county sheriffs just might be the most important elected offices in America. It is no hyperbole to say that State governors and county sheriffs form the last line of defense against tyranny and
oppression. If our governors and sheriffs do not understand the principles of freedom and federalism, there is virtually zero protection against the abuses of liberty–save the right of the people to personally and individually defend liberty via the principles of God-given Natural Law.

Hence, a freedom-minded sheriff is invaluable to liberty’s defense. And perhaps at no time in America’s history has it been more necessary that we elect freedom-loving sheriffs than it is today, what with the ever-growing propensity of the federal government to trample and usurp State and constitutional protections of freedom.

For example, in an almost totally non-reported incident, an armed conflict between federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents and a Nevada Sheriff’s SWAT team was averted only by virtue of the fact that, at the
last minute, BLM backed down from the impending confrontation.

For the record: federal police agencies have a long history of committing illegal searches and seizures (even assault and murder–can anyone say, ”Ruby Ridge” or “Waco”?) against the US citizenry. But BLM might be the
most notorious federal police agency of all. The tactics BLM employs against western landowners sometimes border on Nazi-like. When the late, great Helen Chenoweth was an Idaho congresswoman, she tried to raise awareness of (and
opposition to) this out-of-control federal agency.

According to Rep. Chenoweth, “BLM is taking onto themselves law enforcement that is normally saved for the State, law enforcement over motor vehicles.  They’ve written into the regulation without authority from Congress, the
ability to stop vehicles or to search people, to search a place or a vehicle without warrant or process; to be able to seize without warrant or process any piece of evidence and to test people for potential DUI (driving under
the influence).”

Chenoweth continued: “Our founders, when establishing our system of government wanted to make sure that law enforcement was closest to the people. You and I have talked before about how important it is to make
sure that you elect the very best local county sheriff because he should be regarded as the highest law enforcement officer in the area because he is accountable to the voters. They really worried about a national, a
federal, law enforcement. To federalize our law enforcement is to create a situation that the pilgrims were trying to escape.

“We are moving quickly to that. The Bureau of Land Management is taking onto themselves law enforcement authority that Congress never gave them. In the Federal Land Policy and Management Act that was passed in the early 1970s
it made it clear that Congress said that, first, you must go to your local county sheriff for law enforcement activities.”

Chenoweth added, “In the BLM proposed rules and regulations, you can’t remove any plants or soil or pick up any rocks or minerals. You can’t drive on any vegetation or soil. You can’t disturb soil at all. Now you can’t set a foot on soil without disturbing it. You can’t set a foot on a ground plant without disturbing it.”

For the sheriff in Nye County, Nevada, BLM abridgments of liberty had gone too far. When BLM threatened to arrest the sheriff if he refused to go along with BLM’s illegal searches and seizures against Nye County citizens, Sheriff Tony DeMeo countered by telling BLM in no uncertain terms that should any agent attempt to enforce BLM’s unconstitutional policies, he would have his deputies arrest them. DeMeo even had his SWAT teams standing by to enforce the law AGAINST THE OUT-OF-CONTROL FEDERAL AGENCY. To put it in Sheriff DeMeo’s words, “We’d be standing between them [BLM] and my constituents [county residents].” At the last minute, BLM backed off and the confrontation between the Nye County sheriff’s office and the federal agency was averted.

See Sheriff DeMeo’s testimony on the incident at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoYtnoFn09Y

Now, Sheriff Tony DeMeo is exactly the kind of sheriff the Constitution requires! Unfortunately, it seems that the vast majority of sheriffs across the country have no idea as to what their constitutional authority entails, and seem to have no discernment and understanding of just what the federal government is doing to usurp State and local jurisdiction. Or if they do, they seem to lack the courage to act upon their power and authority. Ors maybe they simply lust after federal monies (better known as bribes).

Of course, there are a few sheriffs across America who seem to be aware of what’s going on and have the guts to do something about it. A precious few. Along with Sheriff Tony DeMeo, there is Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Shane Harrington of Wibaux County, Montana, Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona, and, of course, there are former Sheriffs Ray Nash of Dorchester County, South Carolina, Richard Mack of Graham County, Arizona, and Jay Printz of Ravalli County, Montana. Plus, if the good people of Larimer County, Colorado, will elect Carl Bruning as their sheriff, there will be another principled constitutionalist sheriff to add to the list of patriot sheriffs. To visit Carl’s campaign web site, go here:
http://carlbruning.com/

Readers should know, too, that Sheriff Mack has a plethora of outstanding books and videos relating to the role and duty of a constitutional sheriff on his web site. I highly recommend that you avail yourself to as much of Mack’s materials as you can. Here is his web site:

http://sheriffmack.com/

If liberty has any chance of surviving in the United States, it will be because the American people wake up to the importance and necessity of electing constitutionalist governors and sheriffs. Sheriffs, especially, are critical to the maintenance of liberty. It is a truism that, next to the people themselves, the sheriff’s office helps form the last line of defense against federal abuse of power. Long live the constitutionalist Sheriff!

I just finished the 5000 year leap again. I am inspired by completeness that the author  “Cleon W Skousen” writes with.

I hope you can discover the 28 fundamental beliefs of the Founding Fathers which they said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desired peace, prosperity, and freedom.

These beliefs have made possible more progress in 200 years than was made previously in over 5,000 years.

The following is a brief overview of the principles found in The Five Thousand Year Leap, and one chapter is devotes to each of these 28 principles.

Principle 1 – The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Natural Law.

Natural law is God’s law. There are certain laws which govern the entire universe, and just as Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence, there are laws which govern in the affairs of men which are “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.”

Principle 2 – A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” – Benjamin Franklin

Principle 3 – The most promising method of securing a virtuous people is to elect virtuous leaders.

“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who … will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.” – Samuel Adams

“If our current leaders stay in office much longer there won’t be much left to govern!” – Thayne TR Trevenen

Principle 4 – Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.” – George Washington

“Integrity, which is not found in DC is born from a lifetime of honesty and good moral teachings. I am very un happy that this is not being taught in Schools today.” Thayne TR Trevenen

Principle 5 – All things were created by God, therefore upon him all mankind are equally dependent, and to him they are equally responsible .

The American Founding Fathers considered the existence of the Creator as the most fundamental premise underlying all self-evident truth. They felt a person who boasted he or she was an atheist had just simply failed to apply his or her divine capacity for reason and observation.

Principle 6 – All mankind were created equal.

The Founders knew that in these three ways, all mankind are theoretically treated as:

1.      Equal before God.

2.      Equal before the law.

3.      Equal in their rights.

Principle 7 – The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.

The Founders recognized that the people cannot delegate to their government any power except that which they have the lawful right to exercise themselves.

Principle 8 – Mankind are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights.

“Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal [or state] laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislation has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner [of the right] shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.” – William Blackstone

Principle 9 - To protect human rights, God has revealed a code of divine law.

“The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the Holy Scriptures. These precepts, when revealed, are found by comparison to be really a part of the original law of nature, as they tend in all their consequences to man’s felicity.” – William Blackstone

Principle 10 – The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.

“The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority.” – Alexander Hamilton

Principle 11 – The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes … but when a long train of abuses and usurpations … evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” – Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

Really? Makes me wonder how long this train is we are on?

Principle 12 – The United States of America shall be a republic.

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the republic for which it stands….”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic

Principle 13 – A Constitution should protect the people from the frailties of their rulers.

“If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary…. [But lacking these] you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” – James Madison

Principle 14 – Life and liberty are secure only so long as the rights of property are secure .

John Locke reasoned that God gave the earth and everything in it to the whole human family as a gift. Therefore the land, the sea, the acorns in the forest, the deer feeding in the meadow belong to everyone “in common.” However, the moment someone takes the trouble to change something from its original state of nature, that person has added his ingenuity or labor to make that change. Herein lies the secret to the origin of “property rights.”

Principle 15 – The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.

Prosperity depends upon a climate of wholesome stimulation with four basic freedoms in operation:

1.      The Freedom to try.

2.      The Freedom to buy.

3.      The Freedom to sell.

4.      The Freedom to fail.

Principle 16 – The government should be separated into three branches .

“I call you to witness that I was the first member of the Congress who ventured to come out in public, as I did in January 1776, in my Thoughts on Government … in favor of a government with three branches and an independent judiciary. This pamphlet, you know, was very unpopular. No man appeared in public to support it but yourself.” – John Adams

Principle 17 – A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power by the different branches of government.

“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison

Principle 18 - The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written Constitution.

The structure of the American system is set forth in the Constitution of the United States and the only weaknesses which have appeared are those which were allowed to creep in despite the Constitution.

Principle 19 – Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government, all others being retained by the people.

The Tenth Amendment is the most widely violated provision of the bill of rights. If it had been respected and enforced America would be an amazingly different country than it is today. This amendment provides:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Principle 20 – Efficiency and dispatch require that the government operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority.

“Every man, by consenting with others to make one body politic under one government, puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded [bound] by it.” – John Locke

Principle 21 – Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.

“The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent [to perform best]. – Thomas Jefferson

Principle 22 – A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence of others, which cannot be where there is no law.” – John Locke

Principle 23 – A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.

“They made an early provision by law that every town consisting of so many families should be always furnished with a grammar school. They made it a crime for such a town to be destitute of a grammar schoolmaster for a few months, and subjected it to a heavy penalty. So that the education of all ranks of people was made the care and expense of the public, in a manner that I believe has been unknown to any other people, ancient or modern. The consequences of these establishments we see and feel every day [written in 1765]. A native of America who cannot read and write is as rare … as a comet or an earthquake.” John Adams

Principle 24 – A free people will not survive unless they stay strong.

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington

Principle 25 – “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.”- Thomas Jefferson, given in his first inaugural address.

Principle 26 - The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore the government should foster and protect its integrity.

“There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America , or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated.” Alexis de Tocqueville

Principle 27 – The burden of debt is as destructive to human freedom as subjugation by conquest.

“We are bound to defray expenses [of the war] within our own time, and are unauthorized to burden posterity with them…. We shall all consider ourselves morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within the life [expectancy] of the majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

Principle 28 – The United Stateshas a manifest destiny to eventually become a glorious example of God’s law under a restored Constitution that will inspire the entire human race.

The Founders sensed from the very beginning that they were on a divine mission. Their great disappointment was that it didn’t all come to pass in their day, but they knew that someday it would. John Adams wrote:

“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

Personally I can see that all this info is really just the surface level info. None of the info provided here really helps the common “Layman” American understand how the secret combinations work together. Which is what the Washington Post is leading you to believe! Look at the title “top secret america!! Who are you kidding you put a load of information together in a way that looks cool and then what are you leading the “sheeple” think?  (Sheeple = people that don’t think, they are like sheep, they go and do as their leader does, who leads the sheeple…. It rhymes with your moma!)

If you really want to understand how our Government works you have to live outside the Law. (I am not suggesting anyone doing any thing of the sort.) But move to Mexico for a couple years, watch how men yearn for power, and how power corrupts men absolutely.

How many people in our Government believe they have power? How many Politicians are Drunk with this power? How many high ranking officers in the Armed Forces are poisoned delirious with the amount of control they wield?

How many people in the United States worship the all mighty Dollar?

The Union (United States of America) was founded on certain principles, these principles have been eroded slowly and carefully by a cunning mastermind. This mastermind is the one behind the secrets, the hiding, the distrust, and the erosional distortion taught in schools and through the media.

Obama is the NOT the mastermind. He is a gifted orator however he is not smart enough, nor cunning enough to do what is needed to bring America to her knees

AZ-5 Harry Mitchell, AZ-8 Gabrielle Giffords, CA-11 Jerry McNerney, CO-3 John Salazar, CO-4 Betsey Markey, FL-8 Alan Grayson, FL-24 Suzanne Kosmas, ID-1 Walter Minnick, IN-9 Baron Hill, MD-1 Frank Kratovil, MI-7 Mark Schauer, NH-1 Shea-Porter, NJ-3 John Adler, NM-2 Harry Teague, NY-1 Tim Bishop, NY-13 Mike McMahon, NY-19 John Hall, NY-23 Bill Owens, NY-24 Mike Arcuri, ND at large Pomeroy, OH-1 Steve Dreihaus, OH-13 Betty Sutton, OH-15 Mary Jo Kilroy, PA-8 Patrick Murphy, PA-11 Paul Kanjorski, SC-5 John Spratt, TX-17 Chet Edwards, WI-8 Steve Kagen, WA -1 Jay Inslee, WV-1 Mollohan

The report continues by saying, “The bill, introduced earlier this month [by Senators Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Thomas Carper, D-Delaware], would establish a White House Office for Cyberspace Policy and a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications, which would work with private US companies to create cybersecurity requirements for the electric grid, telecommunications networks and other critical infrastructure.” See the report at: http://tinyurl.com/obama-can-kill-web1

A PrisonPlanet.com report says this about the bill: “President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday [June 24, 2010] and now moves to the floor. “The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman, would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.

“Despite the Center for Democracy and Technology and 23 other privacy and technology organizations sending letters to Lieberman and other backers of the bill expressing concerns that the legislation could be used to stifle free speech, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the bill in advance of a vote on the Senate floor.”

The report continued by saying, “Fears that the legislation is aimed at bringing the Internet under the regulatory power of the U.S. government in an offensive against free speech were heightened further on Sunday, when Lieberman revealed that the plan was to mimic [communist] China’s policies of policing the web with censorship and coercion. “‘Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,’ Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley.

“While media and public attention is overwhelmingly focused on the BP oil spill, the establishment is quietly preparing the framework that will allow Obama, or indeed any President who follows him, to bring down a technological iron curtain that will give the government a foot in the door on seizing complete control over the Internet.” See the report at: http://tinyurl.com/obama-can-kill-web2

Of course, pro-family groups have long lobbied Washington lawmakers to pass regulations restricting objectionable material on the Internet. But Senator Lieberman’s bill does more than restrict content on the Internet; it gives the federal government the power to completely shut it down. My friends, if you have any love for liberty left in your heart, one thing is critical: the Internet must remain free–absolutely, totally unrestricted and free.

When will we realize the line has been drawn?

Those days are long gone, and I know I should have been preparing for the worst long before today’s date. Many people have concluded our country is on the precipice of something catastrophic.

Most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events.  The potential for cataclysmic events, however, is very real.  The storm clouds of adversity are rolling over the horizon as we speak. These clouds could be hyper inflation, having a handful despots running the country hell bent on destroying true freedom and replacing it with a new let us take care of you freedom.

Over my life I have imagined what if…. what if this……. what if that………

Would I be prepared?

Can you imagine waking up and realizing that you now live in a quasi like form of Hyper inflation like what happened in Zimbabwe? How many people would go to the welfare offices of the state and local churches?

Are we helping them prepare?

Imagine if a device existed that could control the weather and a multitude of Hurricane Katrina-style natural disasters occurred all over the state you live in…

Here in “happy valley” imagine if multiple dams broke and everything was flooded up to 4500 feet? Would your home and 72 hour kits even help?

Maybe its time you looked at where you live, and studied the location and start asking yourself, if there was no water, no food, no way to buy food with my now worthless dollars what would you do?

Are you prepared?

What will you need?

Here is a little list I put together…

Generator (fuel, spark plugs, fuel hose)
Candles/lights/matches/wood/propane/white gas/
First aid supplies/TP/personal Toiletries/Medications
Extra clothing/shoes/underwear/ for all seasons
Cash/Bartering items/gold/silver

Transportation Car/Truck/Motorbike/Four Wheeler

Self-Defense skills and a healthy body to use them:
Knifes/Guns/Ammo (and the know how to clean, use and repair)

A Reason to live through Disaster/Spiritual Fortitude.
Scriptures/songbook/guitar/harmonica/golden harp? (inside joke, just ask me I will tell you about it.)

I clearly remember the three slogans that are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building:

‘War is peace,’

‘Freedom is slavery,’

‘Ignorance is strength.’

Wow, who would of thought, 2010 would be like 1984 (the book of course).

I can not think of a worse idea then the idea of a Lottery. When I was a young boy I grew up in a small town in Utah. Everyone worked, everyone played and life was generally good. The doors were not locked at night, the neighbourhood people took care of each other. Now I live in a place where people don’t even look at each other let a lone even have the desire to take care of each other. As I grew up my parents sent me to spend summers with my grandparents to work. In Moffat County Colorado I had the fine experience to learn about people and work ethics.

One beautiful Colorado morning I was riding my bike to 7-11 to get some candy for the day, and I saw a couple, old by my young eyes then, but now as I remember probably in their 30′s who looked so sad so depressed. They were dirty messy, generally un kept. I slowly rode pass them and heard them discussing the shopping list for food. I continued on my way.

Once at the 7-11 I searched for the perfect little candy that I could get with my 50 cent’s. I found a baby ruth and walked up to the check out. Funny thing was I was behind the people I had passed, I guess I spent a little more time searching then I thought!

I heard the man order a lotto ticket, watched him scratch it off, and then order 2 more. At a dollar a piece that’s not terribly expensive however I dropped my jaw when I saw what happened next. The clerk totalled the order and it was over the amount of money he had. As the clerk asked what he wanted to put back I was in shock, the man said “I am sorry I just spent the kids milk money on lotto tickets.  I will go put it back.”  I was appalled as I saw a pack of smokes and a can of chew up there with a loaf of bread.

I learned then that Gambling is an addiction and like any addiction it changes the way men and women think.

This man and this woman were fine to spend money on lotto tickets, smokes, and chew. All of which is more important then milk for the children.

State Lotteries are a tax on stupidity, all a State Government has to do is start one and the money rolls in…

PROOF

1. They distort economic freedom of choice due to addiction.
2. The normal flow of money that exists within a micro economy draws fiat money, large amounts of money away from buying Goods and Services.
3. This shifts the balance of fiat money out of consumers hands and concentrates that supply directly to State Governments.
4. Government spending increases to the point of using all of the excess supply.
5. The State Lottery encourages the impoverished whom should never gamble to take a chance, take that risk, when they are the ones who can least afford it.
6. Those living in the most impoverished areas of the state (New York) spent eight times more of their income on lottery tickets than did those living in the most affluent sections.” (“Lotteries in the United States: A Brief Overview”, by Ronald A. Reno, Citizen Link, Focus On The Family).
7. Local small business is hurt by Lotteries. Many retailers have discovered that people are spending their money on lottery tickets rather than for food and general merchandise! The small business man is what has made America great.
8. The State Lottery encourages a “Get Rich Quick” mentality, encouraging people to keep trying to get rich instead of gradually increasing their personal wealth through hard work and excellent spending habits.

Please take time to understand that work = happiness. A get rich scheme = sadness.

Please join me and start protesting state lotteries! Lets make our States responsible for a balanced budget, and then use the states to leverage our Gov to start attempting to Balance it’s budget.

The bottom line is State Lotteries create an environment that undermines a society and its people and unless fixed that states society will fall prey to Federal Governmental intervention.

Unfortunately, modern Congresses have blatantly disregarded their responsibility in the matter of powers delegated solely to them, lacking the courage to fulfill their constitutionally-mandated duty in this regard. They have failed in the natural tendency to jealously guard their sphere of influence. Dereliction of duty is the kindest definition which could be attached to the posture of Congress in this regard. Over the past several decades, Congress has made flimsy excuses as they have mumbled nonsense about “delegating” their authority in various issues (such as matters pertaining to war or international trade) to the President, or to international bodies; or blaming their impotence upon “treaties” which tie their hands and require (through entangling alliances) the United States to perform certain “obligations.”

Constitutional protocol was well understood by those who founded this nation, and they knew that the authority which was assigned in the Constitution could not legally be delegated to another entity (foreign or domestic). The founders had diligently studied the works of John Locke. John Locke was emphatic in the matter of delegating constitutionally-mandated authority:

“The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands, for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others. The people alone can appoint the form of the commonwealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. And when the people have said, ‘We will submit and be governed by laws made by such men, and in such forms,’ nobody else can say other men shall make laws for them; nor can they be bound by any laws but such as are enacted by those whom they have chosen and authorized to make laws for them.” (John Locke, Second Essay Concerning Civil Government)

St. George Tucker, one of the preeminent constitutional scholars of the American founding era agreed with that position, stating:. . .a delegated authority cannot be transferred to another to exercise. (Tucker, View of the Constitution of the United States Pg. 219 [1803])

For many years now, the nation has strayed from these sound principles. The carefully devised plan of the founders of this Nation regarding the separation of powers is almost universally ignored. Those who hold a given constitutional power routinely allow others to encroach upon their authority, and then reciprocate by usurping power not delegated to them. The price of such action is yet to be fully realized. If the liberties which were bequeathed to the nation are to be saved, we must immediately restore the foundation upon which the nation was established and built. Congress must again assume its duty in the matters delegated to them, and wrest again their rightful power from the hands, both foreign and domestic, which have usurped the congressional Constitutional responsibility.