{"id":192,"date":"2009-12-12T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:59:00","slug":"states-need-to-take-their-10th-amendment-power-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amishinternet.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"States Need to take their 10th Amendment power back."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Edwin Vieira<\/span> is right on the mark. I have been saying for a long time that the key to recovery in this economy is from the small towns up. We know that the federal government is incompetent, corrupt, and out of touch with the average person. When the mom and pop shops come back into the little towns and people resume trading locally, this economy will turn around.\u00a0 Read Dr. Edwin Vieira’s<\/span> article.\u00a0\u00a0 -Kidron<\/p>\n

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TEA PARTIES NEED TEETH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By <\/span>Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
\nNovember 17, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

NewsWithViews.com<\/span><\/p>\n

[The following is the full text of an address presented to the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies at its 2009 Constitution Day conference.]<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tenth-Amendment Resolutions from State Legislatures, the Tea Parties, the Town Hall Meetings, and other manifestations of WE THE PEOPLE\u2019S feedupidness with monkey-business as usual in the Disgrace of Columbia\u2014even the massive congregation on the Mall last September\u2014are some of the most enlightening, encouraging, and energizing developments that American patriots have witnessed in a long time. For these events are all premised on the idea: \u201cWe don\u2019t want you!\u201d\u2014that WE THE PEOPLE do not want any more, indeed they demand a great deal less, interference in their lives from rogue public officials in the General Government.<\/span><\/p>\n

These events notwithstanding, the problem remains that too many among WE THE PEOPLE will start but then stop<\/em> right there, with \u201cWe don\u2019t want you!\u201d That is not enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

The complaint \u201cWe don\u2019t want you!\u201d needs to go further, to the resolve, \u201cWe won\u2019t have you!\u201d \u2014 that WE THE PEOPLE intend to rid themselves of the General Government\u2019s interference.<\/span><\/p>\n

And to make this resolve effective, WE THE PEOPLE need to design and put into effect remedial action<\/em>, so that they can say with finality: \u201cWe don\u2019t need you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The sequence must be\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

(i) We don\u2019t NEED you!\u201d which makes it realistic to say:<\/span><\/p>\n

(ii) We don\u2019t WANT you!\u201d which combined with the ability to make WE THE PEOPLE\u2019S wants effective will lead to the necessary and sufficient action:<\/span><\/p>\n

(iii) We won\u2019t HAVE you!\u201d and finally will yield the desired result:<\/span><\/p>\n

(iv) We are RID of you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If WE THE PEOPLE have the ability they can give \u201cteeth\u201d to the desire, take the necessary action, and thereby accomplish their goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what will all of this require?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> WE THE PEOPLE need to create actual workable institutions that take advantage of the political and legal position THE PEOPLE hold\u2014i.e., as the ultimate sovereigns.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> WE THE PEOPLE need to create actual workable institutions that take advantage of the economic resources THE PEOPLE command\u2014that THE PEOPLE are the true source of all real wealth in this country, and are in actual physical possession of most of it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

True enough, the Establishment holds bundles of paper claims<\/em> to wealth, many (if not most) of them generated through the unconstitutional Federal Reserve System. But the insuperable problem for the Establishment will be how to collect on those claims if WE THE PEOPLE simply refuse to honor them. Anyone in the paper-currency racket who doubts that these claims can be declared unenforceable should read the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Craig v. Missouri, 29 U.S. (4 Peters) 410 (1830).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/strong> WE THE PEOPLE need to create actual workable institutions that are politically, economically, and legally independent<\/em> of the General Government:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Institutions that can compete with the faulty and fraudulent mechanisms that rogue officials in the General Government have foisted on this country in the key areas of economic and political control, particularly in the areas of (i) money and banking and (ii) what is called \u201chomeland security\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n

Institutions that can replace these fraudulent control-mechanisms with proper means to \u201cestablish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity\u201d. And<\/span><\/p>\n

Institutions that will enable WE THE PEOPLE to defend themselves against retaliation from rogue officials in the General Government and from the private centers of multinational economic power.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In sum, WE THE PEOPLE must combine their economic resources and abilities with political and legal authority in large-scale organizations that will reflect the power inherent in numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

This cannot be done by or through the General Government at the present time, because the General Government is the main locus of this country\u2019s problem, not the source of any solution for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

It cannot be done through political parties, because parties (along with other factions and special-interest groups) are the control-mechanisms in the \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d strategy the Establishment employs to prevent WE THE PEOPLE from asserting their political sovereignty in their own interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

It cannot be done by individuals or private groups alone, primarily because: (i) private individuals and groups enjoy no independent legal authority; and (ii) there is probably no way to create a sufficiently large and effective private operation in any State, let alone throughout the entire country, in time.<\/span><\/p>\n

It cannot be done by the State governments alone, because it is not simply a political question of governmental finance and administration, but will require a revamping of the entire private economies in each State, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, it will require both<\/em> (i) participation by the State governments, because they have the legal authority and the ability to mobilize people in sufficient numbers, and<\/em> (ii) mass action by WE THE PEOPLE as a whole.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The only<\/em> establishment or institution that combines all of these elements is \u201cthe Militia of the several States\u201d, the \u201cwell regulated Militia\u201d that the Second Amendment tells us are \u201cnecessary to the security of a free State\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

But a true constitutional \u201cwell regulated Militia\u201d exists in not one State in this Union today.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, WE THE PEOPLE need to revitalize \u201cthe Militia of the several States\u201d in order to regain and retain popular control over State governments, and through them to regain and retain control over the two fundamental powers of sovereignty: (i) the Power of the Purse\u2014i.e.<\/em>, currency and credit, and (ii) the Power of the Sword\u2014i.e<\/em>., community self-defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Revitalization of the Militia will enable WE THE PEOPLE to exercise community self-reliance and ultimately true self-government in \u201ca free State\u201d with a sound free-market economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans need to combine all of the following elements in a single plan for mass action:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Revitalization of \u201cthe Militia of the several States\u201d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7The Second Amendment instructs every American that \u201c[a] well regulated Militia\u201d is \u201cnecessary to the security of a free State\u201d\u2014not just \u201cuseful\u201d, and certainly not \u201coptional\u201d, but \u201cnecessary\u201d<\/strong><\/em>. And not \u201cnecessary\u201d in only some general sense, but specifically with respect to \u201cthe security of a free State\u201d\u2014which means that, according to \u201cthe supreme Law of the Land\u201d itself, the very survival of constitutional freedom in this country depends upon the Militia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Constitution identifies no other<\/em><\/strong> establishment, institution, or entity as \u201cnecessary\u201d for this vital purpose, or for any other purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

So why is not revitalization of the Militia, immediately if not sooner<\/em>, \u201cjob one\u201d on the agenda of every constitutionalist? How can patriots continue to deny in their actions what the Constitution tells them is \u201cnecessary\u201d for the maintenance of constitutional government? Americans may say that they have faith in the Constitution\u2014but faith without works is dead; and the Constitution is not self-executing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7The purpose of revitalizing the Militia is to combine all<\/em> the elements of each State\u2019s \u201chomeland security\u201d\u2014including police, emergency response, and so on\u2014under the Militia, in order to obviate \u201ctop down\u201d control by the police-state apparatus being set up through the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., and its various satellites, transmission-belts, and fellow travelers around the country. Revitalization of the Militia will return control to whom it belongs, in the hands of WE THE PEOPLE directly, with:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(i) total organizing, arming, disciplining, and training of THE PEOPLE to handle any emergency;
\n<\/span>(ii) State production and provision of arms, ammunition, and accoutrements for the Militia\u2014with all individuals to possess their arms and ammunition, whenever obtained from whatever source, as part of their Militia service\u2014thus ending all of the General Government\u2019s oppressive \u201cgun control\u201d; and, perhaps of most immediate importance,<\/span><\/p>\n

(iii) assignment to the Militia of oversight over all new institutions of \u201ceconomic homeland security\u201d within the State.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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2. Adoption of an alternative currency.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is an idea which began in New Hampshire, and subsequently spread to other States, including Indiana, Colorado, and Montana. An alternative-currency bill has yet to be reported out of committee in any State legislature. But as the national economy melts down, the pressure for serious consideration and then passage of such a bill will become overwhelming, simply because there is no workable alternative consistent with the maintenance of America\u2019s national economic sovereignty that can be put into operation in time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The alternative-currency system will require not just the State to participate through its own public financial operations, but also will require every individual member of the Militia\u2014that is, every able-bodied adult man and women\u2014to participate in his or her own private economic transactions, in order to move both the State\u2019s government and the State\u2019s private economy as quickly as possible out from under the control of the Federal Reserve System and the rotten financial power-structure of the New York City-Washington, D.C. axis of fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n

The actual silver and gold will be held: (i) in a State vault controlled by the Militia, and (ii) in the hands of Militiamen (the private holding of silver and gold will be as important as the private possession of arms). And,<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts drawn from and subject to supervision by the Militia will be in charge of or will provide oversight for the system.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Establishment of a State Credit Exchange.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This Exchange will deal solely in so-called \u201creal bills\u201d financed with actual deposits of the alternative currency (no \u201cfractional reserves\u201d). This will be necessary in order to protect the State\u2019s private economy from retaliation by the multinational financial power-structure, which will doubtlessly attempt to cut off credit to the State\u2019s businessmen, farmers, and others, so as to sabotage the alternative-currency system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts drawn from and subject to supervision by the Militia will be in charge of or will provide oversight for this Exchange, too. <\/span><\/p>\n

4. Additional areas of concern and action could include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Food independence and security through the suppression of multinational corporate agribusinesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Energy independence and security through mobilization of local resources and radical innovation in the provision of energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assertion of local control over land and water usage, and other natural resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

…et cetera…<\/span><\/p>\n

All of these arrangements will be statutorily structured as functions of the State government and thereby extensions of direct popular sovereignty, and will be administered through the Militia, thus coming under the Second and Tenth Amendments\u2019 guarantees of reserved powers to the States and the people.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Considerations for the selection of an initial State in which to bring this project to fruition.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the nature of things, the necessary legislation will have to be drafted one State at a time. (No \u201cone size fits all\u201d bill is possible). Inevitably, therefore, this work will require the commitment of a great deal of time, effort, and expertise. Before such a commitment can be expected, let alone requested, of anyone, adequate groundwork must be laid:<\/span><\/p>\n

There must be an extensive local grass-roots \u201cfreedom movement\u201d in existence<\/em> in that State and prepared specifically to promote the reform legislation.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

There must be a solid legislative caucus in existence<\/em> in that State\u2019s legislature, preferably in each house (where a bicameral legislature exists).<\/span><\/p>\n

There must be a workable plan, ready to implement and adequately funded<\/em>, for mobilizing large numbers of activists from across the country<\/em> to work in the targeted State to promote the reform legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is too late for parochialism on this subject: Everyone throughout this country has an interest in seeing this project succeed in the first State that undertakes it, because that State will be the exemplar for the others.<\/span><\/p>\n

No one can deny that a crisis of overwhelming proportions is overtaking this country at an ever-accelerating speed. And each day appears darker than the one before it. But that in itself is a cause for hope\u2014because, as the old saying goes, it is always darkest just before the dawn.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2009 Edwin Vieira, Jr. – All Rights Reserved<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Edwin Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School). <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For more than thirty years he has practiced law, with emphasis on constitutional issues. In the Supreme Court of the United States he successfully argued or briefed the cases leading to the landmark decisions Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson, and Communications Workers of America v. Beck, which established constitutional and statutory limitations on the uses to which labor unions, in both the private and the public sectors, may apply fees extracted from nonunion workers as a condition of their employment. <\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n

He has written numerous monographs and articles in scholarly journals, and lectured throughout the county. His most recent work on money and banking is the two-volume Pieces of Eight<\/a>: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution (2002), the most comprehensive study in existence of American monetary law and history viewed from a constitutional perspective. www.piecesofeight.us<\/a><\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n

He is also the co-author (under a nom de plume) of the political novel CRA$HMAKER<\/a>: A Federal Affaire (2000), a not-so-fictional story of an engineered crash of the Federal Reserve System, and the political upheaval it causes. www.crashmaker.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

His latest book is: “How To Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary<\/a>“<\/span><\/em> … and Constitutional “Homeland Security,<\/a>” Volume One, The Nation in Arms…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

He can be reached at his new<\/span> address:
\n52 Stonegate Court
\nFront Royal, VA 22630. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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