To the People of the United States,
AFTER over twenty decades of an established UNION formed by a collection of STATES lead by INDIVIDUALS concerned about protecting the FREEDOMS of the states from federal government tyranny, in response to decades of tyranny from our former government from across the ocean, we now face similar tyranny from our State and Local governments intruding upon INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS via the Federal Regulations tied to Federal Funds for State Operations.
At that time, we were concerned with establishing a Constitution, which could prevent tyranny at the Federal Level from infringing upon the interests of State Powers.
At this time, we find ourselves considering a Reformation from our current outsized government which has exceeded its original foundational limits.
The question is, how have we come to this juncture and tribulation with respect to the limits of the governing over the governed?
Today we find ourselves in unusual circumstances, where we now deal with the impact of fear and power, rather than in our former tribulation, where we battled the desire for power and perverted ambition by men of certain classes to control others.
Fear has been used to highlight our differences. The Fear of Not Being Included because of our choices in life. The Fear of Not Being Provided our Every Want. The Fear of The Unknown that could hurt us. Fear has been used as a weapon to DIVIDE this UNION, just like TYRANNY was used to CONTROL us prior to our DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
Should our response today be the same as it was then? NO!
When last we discussed this topic, we were fresh from that Tribulation against Tyranny and in the early throws of establishing our own way in the World. Today, we have not only survived for over 250 years, but we have thrived and lead the World to FREEDOM for most of that time.
We have only arrived at this point in our current Tribulation, because we have become complacent, spoiled, and disinterested in our Common Purpose because we have turned our culture to one which focuses on our INDIVIDUAL DESIRES.
We have allowed the Adversary to hyphenate America. The Enemy is our own self-interested INDIVIDUALISM, which we once understood to be Sin. As we have turned our focus from the One Who Created Us to the idea that We are Superior, we have lost sight of our Common Purpose and Fallen prey to our desires.
It is not, however, my design to address the issue of Moral Decay in our society, rather it is to address our Political Decay into a landscape where the GOVERNING OVERRULE THE GOVERNED. This was not our Original Intent. AS we discussed so long ago,
Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable--the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears. So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society.
Now, as then, we must attend to moderation and open discourse in order to achieve reasoned accommodations of perspectives with the focus on defending above all else, our FREEDOM or individuality, liberty, and property, not only from being removed by Individual Entities who seek personal gain, but from Government at ALL Levels that wish to incur upon us their constraints upon our FREEDOMS.
One of my good friends from long ago, Ben Franklin, once said,
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Within recent years, Fear has been used to convince us to give up exactly that. Fear of dying. First, ALL are appointed a time to die by the Providence of God. The question is not IF, but WHEN and from WAHT. To fear something that is inevitable indicates a lack of Hope in ones current condition. If one is secure in their position on Death, then one should not fear it, especially, when the threat of death to the current fear is NO Greater than ANY Other Threat in Nature. To help establish this FACT, I point to the current numbers reported by the current Governments of the World. At the time I penned this, their estimated total population of the World is 7,940,291,025. Even If I round that down to 7.9 Trillion (discounting 40 Million lives in my rounding, when I take the current reported Global Deaths from the current threat of 6,215,334, which I am willing to round up to 6.3 Million, the percentage of deaths from over a two year sample is .079% of the Global Population. This is NOT a Threat worth giving up ANY FREEDOM over.
As I said before, the threat is not from Nature, but from the Nature of Man:
And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.
It is this zeal for efficiency in government which has lead to this Current Tribulation.
In the beginning, the Powers were distinct and limited to each Branch of Government to prevent rapid growth and expedited change in the structure of the Governing. During our most Recent Tribulation associated to FREEDOM of our oppressed population in the Southern States, we began to tip this scale from limiting growth and change in our government to opening the door for rapid growth and rapid change, allowing the Governing to outpace and overcome the Governed. The balance of electing Representatives by the People, Senators by the state Legislators and the Executive Office by the Governors of the respective States has shifted to all three Offices now being elected by the popular vote, in essence, if not in fact. With this transition, the Judicial Nomination Process has become a Circus for Popular Support, against our Original Intent.
The question now before us is how to reverse this course of destruction and return to a course of Reason, Balance, and Intent which will enable us to return to our position of LEADING FOR FREEDOM in the World?
I’ve said it before,
In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow-citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare, by any impressions other than those which may result from the evidence of truth. You will, no doubt, at the same time, have collected from the general scope of them, that they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new Constitution.
So, I will say it again,
I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars:
THE UTILITY OF THE UNION TO YOUR POLITICAL PROSPERITY THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THAT UNION THE NECESSITY OF A GOVERNMENT AT LEAST EQUALLY ENERGETIC WITH THE ONE PROPOSED, TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THIS OBJECT THE CONFORMITY OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION TO THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT ITS ANALOGY TO YOUR OWN STATE CONSTITUTION and lastly, THE ADDITIONAL SECURITY WHICH ITS ADOPTION WILL AFFORD TO THE PRESERVATION OF THAT SPECIES OF GOVERNMENT, TO LIBERTY, AND TO PROPERTY.
In the progress of this discussion I shall endeavor to give a satisfactory answer to all the objections which shall have made their appearance, that may seem to have any claim to your attention.
As we dealt with the vastness of thirteen states constrained by a range of mountains past which was wilderness and an ocean full of turbulence and enemies in the past, we now deal with the vastness of fifty states and nine territories that appear to have no such geographic constraints, it is time to revisit these discussion and address the extent to which we have strayed from our Original Common Purpose.
I ask your patience as we deal with these original 85 thesis in light of our Current Tribulation. Today, as in the distant past, I close this letter with
It will therefore be of use to begin by examining the advantages of that Union, the certain evils, and the probable dangers, to which every State will be exposed from its dissolution. This shall accordingly constitute the subject of my next address.
PULIUS