God-given, unalienable Rights repudiated by Supreme Court
The American Revolution was fought to validate and secure the two, extraordinary, unprecedented principles advanced by the “Declaration of Independence”:
1) That it is both true and self evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; and,
2) “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men . . . .”
First, the fact that all men were equally endowed by their Creator with “certain unalienable Rights” elevated all men from the status of subjects to the status of sovereigns. This elevation was arguably the high-water mark of the Protestant Reformation. By making all men “sovereigns,” the American Revolution demoted all government to our public servant rather than our master. (Government has always despised this demotion and worked tirelessly to regain its dominance over the People.)
Second, the third sentence in the Declaration declares the primary purpose of government as envisioned by the Founders: ”to secure” to each man his God-given, unalienable Rights. Nevertheless, it is the nature of government to recoil from the idea that it should secure our God-given, unalienable Rights. Government instead seeks to cause us to forget our unalienable Rights or otherwise refuse to recognize or secure them.
The resulting struggle between the forces of government (that demand to be “master” over the people) and the People’s desire to enjoy Liberty and a government that serves the People as the “public servant” is a central expression of the spiritual warfare that’s been ongoing for at least 4,000 years.
Just 10 years after the American Revolution ended, the revolutionary idea that the people are individual sovereigns was supported by the Supreme Court of the United States. In A.D. 1793, in the case of Chisholm v Georgia, the Supremes declared that the American people were “sovereigns without subjects.” That principle is the essence of the American Revolution and the cornerstone of American Liberty. Everything great that this country ever achieved emanated from that principle.
However, in A.D. 1890, another Supreme Court effectively reversed the Chisholm case and thereby stripped the American people of their God-given, unalienable Rights. Until last week, I’d never before heard of this reversal. I knew it had taken place, but I had no idea where, when or how it happened.
The A.D. 1890 Supreme Court’s reversal of the A.D. 1793 Chisholm v Georgia was lame, contrived and most importantly TREASONOUS. Subsequent Supreme Court rulings in support of this reversal are few but likewise TREASONOUS. When the Supremes declared in A.D. 1890 that the people are no longer individual sovereigns, the Supremes overthrew the principles and fundamental victory won in the American Revolution. That’s TREASON. The bastards should be tried for their crimes and, if found guilty, hung by the neck until dead.
Attached is an edited copy of an A.D. 2007 article by law professor Randy E. Barnett entitled “The People or the State? Chisholm v Georgia and Popular Sovereignty”. This article was the first I’d read that explained how Chisholm v Georgia had been over-turned. The article may be the single most important article I’ve ever read.
We now know: 1) the system did remove our God-given, unalienable Rights; 2) when they did it; and 3) how they did it. This knowledge hasn’t been hidden, but its been obscured so as to prevent our understanding.
But now that we know, strategies can be devised and political support created to overcome the Supreme Court’s treason and restore government’s obligations to recognize and secure our God-given, unalienable Rights.
You can download a pristine copy of Mr. Barnett’s article from: papers.ssrn.com
You can download copy of Mr. Barnett’s article that includes all of my comments and (annoying) highlighting here: 1 100123 People or the State as Sovereign CHISHOLM V GEORGIA
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