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From: Jane Galt on 21 Jun 2010 23:26
Usurpation: The Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
16. Jun, 2010

Derek Sheriff, Arizona Tenth Amendment Center

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/06/16/usurpation-the-weapon-by-whi
ch-fr ee-governments-are-destroyed/

What is Usurpation?

If there is a term that I wish would become a household word to be used
again by every American in their daily political discussions, it would be
the word �usurpation�. Yes, I would love it even more if average Americans
would add to that list the words: �Nullification�, �interposition� and the
phrase, �the principles of �98�. However, in order to understand the
meaning of those words in their political context, you have to understand
usurpation. Before you can discover an effective solution, you have to
correctly identify and understand the problem.

Usurpation is the unauthorized, unlawful exercise of power. Whenever a
person, department or branch of the government (federal, state, or local)
usurps, they assume undelegated powers and are therefore acting outside
the law.

Our Constitution (the supreme law of the land), created a federal
government of strictly limited, enumerated powers when it was ratified by
the people�s delegates in their respective state conventions. These states
were not created by the Constitution, beacuse they already existed.

As part of this new constitutional contract between the people of the
several states, their respective state governments and the federal
government, the people of each state (as opposed to one American people as
a whole), delegated a few, carefully defined powers to the new federal
government. They did so with the understanding that these powers could be
revoked if necessary. Furthermore, all the other powers which they did not
loan to the federal government, they either retained for themselves or
delegated back to their state governments. Each state�s constitution
differs slightly, but all of them guarantee their citizens a republican
form of government.

Whenever the people who make up the federal government, either as
individuals, as departments or as branches, exercise power not expressly
delegated to them as specified in the Constitution, they are usurping the
authority of either the states or the people. Why? Because as the 10th
Amendment makes it clear:

�All 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.�

The Bane of Free Governments

George Washington warned against the dangers of usurpation. He called it
�the weapon by which free governments are destroyed�. He urged Americans
to guard against it and reject it for the evil that it is. In his farewell
address, he wrote:

�If in the opinion of the People the distribution or modification of the
Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,let it be corrected by an
amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be
no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the
instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments
are destroyed.�

As Obama likes to say, �Let me be clear�. When the federal government
steps beyond the boundaries that are specifically drawn around it by the
Constitution and its amendments, it isn�t abusing powers that it does
have, it�s usurping powers that it doesn�t have.

Question: What should the people of the several states� reaction to
federal usurpation be?

Answer: Swift and resolute action in the form of nullification and/or
interposition by, with and through our state governments and their county
and local subordinates.

In such cases, we must not exercise patience and wait to �Vote the bums
out� in 2012 or even as soon as 2010! We should do that when the time
comes, yes. But in the meantime, to allow our state governments to wait
until the usurpers are removed from office through elections would be to
consent to a dangerous dereliction of their duty to protect our
constitutional rights.

What is Nullification?

In 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Kentucky Resolutions in response to
the Alien and Sedition Acts, which was one of the federal government�s
earliest acts of usurpation. An early draft of it began:

�The several states composing the United States of America are not
united on
the principle of unlimited submission to their general government�

and

�where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification
of
the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in
cases not within the compact, to nullify of their own authority all
assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this
right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of
whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them�

Nullification is a state�s decision to render a particular federal law
that it deems unconstitutional void and inoperative, or non-effective,
within the boundaries of that state. It is a process which can unfold in a
variety of ways. It may involve formal legislation, or it may not. I could
include court battles, but not necessarily. Interposition by state and
local officials, such as your state�s Attorney General or elected county
sheriff might be required, but not always. A few times in the past, state
nullification conventions have even been convened, but this has been the
exception, not the rule.

The process of nullification will look different in each state, according
to the particular issue and the social and political culture of that
state�s people. But understand, although it�s not a �silver bullet�,
nullification does work! Don�t let anyone feed you a bunch of phony
historical narratives. Do your own study of the history of nullification
and see for yourself.

Finally, as George Washington wrote, let there be no change by usurpation!
Instead, let us work with our elected state officials to nullify acts of
federal usurpation and reclaim the sovereignty that is every American�s
birthright.

Derek J. Sheriff [send him email] is the state chapter coordinator for the
Arizona Tenth Amendment Center. His blog and podcast �Principles of �98?
can be found at www.PrinciplesOfNinetyEight.Com

Copyright � 2010 by TenthAmendmentCenter.com. Permission to reprint in
whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given


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From: Gilford Brimly on 22 Jun 2010 01:17
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:26:44 -0500, Jane Galt <Jane_G(a)gulch.xyz> wrote:

>Usurpation: The Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
>16. Jun, 2010
>
>Derek Sheriff, Arizona Tenth Amendment Center
>
>http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/06/16/usurpation-the-weapon-by-whi
>ch-fr ee-governments-are-destroyed/
>
>What is Usurpation?
>
>If there is a term that I wish would become a household word to be used
>again by every American in their daily political discussions, it would be
>the word �usurpation�. Yes, I would love it even more if average Americans
>would add to that list the words: �Nullification�, �interposition� and the
>phrase, �the principles of �98�. However, in order to understand the
>meaning of those words in their political context, you have to understand
>usurpation. Before you can discover an effective solution, you have to
>correctly identify and understand the problem.
>
>Usurpation is the unauthorized, unlawful exercise of power. Whenever a
>person, department or branch of the government (federal, state, or local)
>usurps, they assume undelegated powers and are therefore acting outside
>the law.
>
>Our Constitution (the supreme law of the land), created a federal
>government of strictly limited, enumerated powers when it was ratified by
>the people�s delegates in their respective state conventions. These states
>were not created by the Constitution, beacuse they already existed.
>
>As part of this new constitutional contract between the people of the
>several states, their respective state governments and the federal
>government, the people of each state (as opposed to one American people as
>a whole), delegated a few, carefully defined powers to the new federal
>government. They did so with the understanding that these powers could be
>revoked if necessary. Furthermore, all the other powers which they did not
>loan to the federal government, they either retained for themselves or
>delegated back to their state governments. Each state�s constitution
>differs slightly, but all of them guarantee their citizens a republican
>form of government.
>
>Whenever the people who make up the federal government, either as
>individuals, as departments or as branches, exercise power not expressly
>delegated to them as specified in the Constitution, they are usurping the
>authority of either the states or the people. Why? Because as the 10th
>Amendment makes it clear:
>
> �All 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.�
>
>The Bane of Free Governments
>
>George Washington warned against the dangers of usurpation. He called it
>�the weapon by which free governments are destroyed�. He urged Americans
>to guard against it and reject it for the evil that it is. In his farewell
>address, he wrote:
>
> �If in the opinion of the People the distribution or modification of the
>Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,let it be corrected by an
>amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be
>no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the
>instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments
>are destroyed.�
>
>As Obama likes to say, �Let me be clear�. When the federal government
>steps beyond the boundaries that are specifically drawn around it by the
>Constitution and its amendments, it isn�t abusing powers that it does
>have, it�s usurping powers that it doesn�t have.
>
>Question: What should the people of the several states� reaction to
>federal usurpation be?
>
>Answer: Swift and resolute action in the form of nullification and/or
>interposition by, with and through our state governments and their county
>and local subordinates.
>
>In such cases, we must not exercise patience and wait to �Vote the bums
>out� in 2012 or even as soon as 2010! We should do that when the time
>comes, yes. But in the meantime, to allow our state governments to wait
>until the usurpers are removed from office through elections would be to
>consent to a dangerous dereliction of their duty to protect our
>constitutional rights.
>
>What is Nullification?
>
>In 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Kentucky Resolutions in response to
>the Alien and Sedition Acts, which was one of the federal government�s
>earliest acts of usurpation. An early draft of it began:
>
> �The several states composing the United States of America are not
> united on
>the principle of unlimited submission to their general government�
>
>and
>
> �where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification
> of
>the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in
>cases not within the compact, to nullify of their own authority all
>assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this
>right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of
>whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them�
>
>Nullification is a state�s decision to render a particular federal law
>that it deems unconstitutional void and inoperative, or non-effective,
>within the boundaries of that state. It is a process which can unfold in a
>variety of ways. It may involve formal legislation, or it may not. I could
>include court battles, but not necessarily. Interposition by state and
>local officials, such as your state�s Attorney General or elected county
>sheriff might be required, but not always. A few times in the past, state
>nullification conventions have even been convened, but this has been the
>exception, not the rule.
>
>The process of nullification will look different in each state, according
>to the particular issue and the social and political culture of that
>state�s people. But understand, although it�s not a �silver bullet�,
>nullification does work! Don�t let anyone feed you a bunch of phony
>historical narratives. Do your own study of the history of nullification
>and see for yourself.
>
>Finally, as George Washington wrote, let there be no change by usurpation!
>Instead, let us work with our elected state officials to nullify acts of
>federal usurpation and reclaim the sovereignty that is every American�s
>birthright.
>
>Derek J. Sheriff [send him email] is the state chapter coordinator for the
>Arizona Tenth Amendment Center. His blog and podcast �Principles of �98?
>can be found at www.PrinciplesOfNinetyEight.Com
>
>Copyright � 2010 by TenthAmendmentCenter.com. Permission to reprint in
>whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given
>
>
>If you enjoyed this post:
>Click Here to Get the Free Tenth Amendment Center New
>
>
>
>

You must at some time realize, that you are posting this information to
"men" who still live in their mommy's basements and only psychotically
pretend to know anything at all about the real world and its history of
real civilizations. This is their virtual-reality life. The only life
they've ever known and had. Most have never even touched a real camera in
these newsgroups. True reality has no effect upon their reasoning. They can
imagine whatever they want so long as their "undead spells", "rune
fire-bolts", and "kryptonite cloaks of invincibility" still work in their
minds.

:-)

Yes, it's fun to play with their crippled minds and non-existent souls, but
keep it in perspective. For your sake, not theirs. :-)

From: Jane Galt on 22 Jun 2010 01:24
Gilford Brimly <gilfordbrimly(a)spamless.com> wrote :


>>
>
> You must at some time realize, that you are posting this information to
> "men" who still live in their mommy's basements and only psychotically
> pretend to know anything at all about the real world and its history of
> real civilizations. This is their virtual-reality life. The only life
> they've ever known and had. Most have never even touched a real camera in
> these newsgroups. True reality has no effect upon their reasoning. They can
> imagine whatever they want so long as their "undead spells", "rune
> fire-bolts", and "kryptonite cloaks of invincibility" still work in their
> minds.
>
>:-)

Oh my...

>
> Yes, it's fun to play with their crippled minds and non-existent souls, but
> keep it in perspective. For your sake, not theirs. :-)

LOL


--
- Jane Galt
From: Wolfgang Weisselberg on 23 Jun 2010 14:21
Jane Galt <Jane_G(a)gulch.xyz> wrote:
> Usurpation: The Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
> 16. Jun, 2010

[BLAH deleted]

Now I understand why you get death threats for your political
'views'. It's not the views, it's that you scream FIRE in a
crowded theatre. Let's hope your victims are armed.

And because you are stuck in your tiny worldview: The world ---
and this newsgroup --- is much larger than 'America', of which the
United States is but a small part. Words like "our constitution"
are therefore misplaced --- unless you want to argue about all
constitutions around the world. Which is still way off topic,
not being relevant for digital photography.

F'up,
-Wolfgang

PS: do get your McCarthy infection under control, it might cause
you to shoot at tax collectors (redistributing wealth and
therefore communistic) and miss.
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