Constitutional Amendments for Those Who Lack Virtue
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". - John Adams
Apparent qualifications for elected and appointed public officials:
If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes. - Noah Webster
[P]eople lacking in virtue could be counted on to trade liberty for protection, for financial or personal security, for comfort … for having their problems solved quickly. And there will always be people occupying or standing for public office who will be happy to offer the deal. - Robbie P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. Professor of Politics. Director, James Madison Program at Princeton University
Our Constitution requires "sufficient virtue among men for self-government," otherwise, "nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another. - James Madison
Why do you think “ We the People” have been pitted against each other with CRT, transgenderism, sex education for little children, etc., while your country and freedom are being taken away from you by evil elected and appointed officials working with and for foreign powers as I will detail later?
The Constitution requires Congress meet at least once in every year. Now they actually live in Washington DC. They think their job is to write and pass more legislation to vote on and make more and more laws. The Constitution refers to proposed legislation as a bill. A very apt title, since all bills passed into law cost you, either in your wallet or in some way impinging on your freedom. The same for state legislators who live in the state capital. Their mindset, even the well meaning ones at the national and state levels, is to keep passing more and more laws, instead of looking at the ones already on the books and see which one should be removed. It thrills them to no end to have their name on a new bill, one of the seven deadly sins, vanity.
Background on the Founders:
The Founders lived by a moral and ethical code that is more and more non-existent in America today, as exemplified in the last sentence in the Declaration of Independence:
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
When the 1787 Constitution was being ratified, two schools of thought argued it's pros and cons. The authors of the Federalist Papers which were pro-Constitution chose to give the benefit of the doubt that elected and appointed officials would have the virtue and integrity to abide by the Constitution. The authors of the Anti-Federalist Papers, who played devil's advocate, saw how corrupt human nature could be and pointed it out. If you read them both, the Anti-Federalists were correct in how the Constitution could be corrupted. They were the reason the Bill of Rights was added to the 1787 Constitution.
There are a total of 27 Amendments to the Constitution. None apparently have enough teeth to keep elected and appointed officials, which sadly is the majority of them, in check.
Constitutional Amendments for those who lack virtue:
Term Limits: Six years for Representatives and one six year term for Senators. The Founders all had established careers and public service was for one term at most. They never envisioned people like, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, etc., who would not have any other profession in their life and go into politics as their life career.
All federal, state and local legislation must be in accordance with the Constitution before being brought up for a vote. The Constitution is the law of the land. Based on laws proposed and already on the books legislators that created and passed them have no clue what is in the Constitution or a complete disdain for it, violating their oath of office. An amazing thing, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 668-668d) states destroying an eagle egg is considered destroying an eagle with a $100,000 fine and a year in prison. Yet destroying a fertilized human egg, let alone all the way up to birth and beyond is acceptable? Therefore, any law regarding any aspect of abortion would violate parts of:
the 5th Amendment- No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
the 6th Amendment- the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
the 8th Amendment- nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
the 14th Amendment- No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Making it unconstitutional.
In my state of Washington, there are several proposed “laws” concerning guns and gun ownership being proposed. Three in particular, HB 1240, SB 5078, SB 5193, are particularly interesting to Lord Inslee, as we call him, and his Attorney General Ferguson, better known as “sideshow Bob”. One bill is actually proposing law abiding citizens will actually have to obtain a permit to buy any firearm!
The other two measures are a prohibition on the sale, manufacture, or importation of so-called military-style assault weapons and legislation to ensure that firearms manufacturers and sellers face liability if they fail “to establish, implement and enforce reasonable controls in the manufacture, sale, distribution and marketing of firearms.” The bill also makes provisions allowing victims to sue when the firearms industry fails to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous individuals.
Using that idiotic logic, if a drunk driver injures or kills someone, then the manufacturer of the vehicle is liable?
Inslee and “Attorney General” Ferguson apparently don't know or don't care there are established court cases regarding “rules” or “laws” that infringe on rights or convert them to privileges:
"Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them." - Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 491
"If the State converts a right into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right with impunity." - Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, Alabama, 373 U.S. 262
Because they totally violate the Bill of Rights, in this case the 2nd Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Again, evidence of ignorance of the Constitution or a complete disdain of it which violates your oath of office. Which leads to another Amendment.
Full disclosure on any bill authored at the federal, state or local level- The author or authors of any bill must disclose the individual or group that would benefit from the passage of such bill and the amount of their campaign contributions to the bills author or authors.
Senator Patty Kuderer of Washington authored SB 5193 She received campaign contributions from Everytown for Gun Safety Fund - $500, Everytown for Gun Safety Fund Inc. - $500. Everytown is the creation of anti gun activist Michael Bloomberg. Alliance for Gun Responsibility Victory Fund - $250.
I can't possibly imagine why she would be authoring an unconstitutional anti-Second Amendment bill!
Congress gets no exemption from passed legislation: Congress has exempted itself from:
The Freedom of Information Act.
Investigatory subpoenas to obtain information for safety and health probes.
Protections against retaliation for whistleblowers.
Having to post notices of worker rights in offices.
Prosecution for retaliating against employees who report safety and health hazards.
Having to train employees about workplace rights and legal remedies.
Record-keeping requirements for workplace injuries and illnesses.
Competency Test: To qualify to run or be appointed to a position, must pass a Constitutional competency test and the Citizenship test. Doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians need to pass a competency test in order to practice their profession. Politicians swear an oath to uphold and defend a document many never even read. They should also be at least as competent about the United States, its history, its government and how it functions as someone who chooses to become a citizen:
President Biden’s nominee for a federal judgeship in Washington state was unable to answer what Article II and Article V of the Constitution actually do in response to questions from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) during her confirmation hearing.
Kennedy also asked Charnelle Bjelkengren, a graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law, to define “purposivism,” the method by which judges interpret statutes. She was unable, though she claimed to be a judge for nine years!
Random drug and alcohol screening: To qualify to run for or be appointed to a position, a drug and alcohol test like the ones imposed on Americans as a condition of employment. If elected or appointed, random drug tests with a breathalyzer at the front door of the Capital. I can't even count the number of times I saw Representatives and Senators on the floor so drunk they were slurring their speech. Would you allow yourself to be treated by an inebriated doctor? These people also make life and death decisions for you!
Mental acuity test for elected or appointed office: Sitting Senator Feinstein of California does not remember what you said to her a minute or so ago. As for newly Senator Fetterman of Pennsylvania:
That the citizens of Georgia 4th District have elected Hank Johnson to be their Representative since 2006 leaves me speechless! You absolutely need to watch this:
Brick and mortar physical residence in the district and state you are running in which you are running with proof of a deed of ownership or a rental agreement in your name.
Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose), 2001-2017 was registered to vote about 8 miles outside of his 17th District.
Records indicated that Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.) did not even have a home in Louisiana anymore and gave the primary residence of her parents in New Orleans to qualify for the Louisiana senate election, according to a Washington Post investigation.
Sen. Pat Roberts (R., KS) had been in Congress since 1981. His principal place of residence is in Virginia. But he is Kansas’s Senator. In fact, Roberts claims to own a residence in Ford County, Kansas, but the Ford County Tax Appraiser lists Pat Robert’s residence in Alexandria, VA as the address to send the bill to for his Kansas property. Sen. Roberts wife is even a very successful real estate agent — in Virginia. Roberts has had to admit he rents his Kansas house, and he sleeps on a friend’s recliner when he goes to Kansas.
Security clearance: Any security clearance obtained for elected or appointed office is relinquished upon leaving. Elected and appointed officials with security clearances for some bizarre reason keep them, then go on to be lobbyists for foreign governments??
Regarding security clearances, and violating them with impunity by not only disclosing classified material, but actually making it up:
“Pencil neck” is the affectionate name for Representative Adam Schiff.
10. Divestiture of stocks, business interests, etc., before taking office or employment including spouses or children: Before being sworn in or employed, you must sell your stocks, etc., and are not permitted to transfer them to a family member nor are any of their family members allowed to own any.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband purchased up to $5 million in stock options on a computer-chip company Nvidia ahead of a vote on legislation next week that would deliver billions of dollars in subsidies to boost the chip-manufacturing industry, new financial disclosures show.
Convenient Timing: Pelosi Sold $3 Million of Google Stock Weeks Before DOJ Launched Antitrust Probe. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and her multimillionaire husband sold up to $3 million in shares of Google in recent weeks—just before the Biden Justice Department launched an antitrust probe of the tech giant.
Funny Coincidence. After I started writing this essay:
Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) on Tuesday introduced the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act—the PELOSI Act—to prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from owning or trading individual stocks.
Lobbyists:
Elected and appointed public officials can never become lobbyists for American or foreign entities.
Foreign entities cannot lobby legislators in Washington DC or any other place in the United States. Nor through any partnership with an American shell company. (A standard business practice of the Biden crime family.)
This article contains a list of 23 Congressman and Senators who lobbied for China! Some names:
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), began advocacy for China began right as he became Speaker of the House. In 2011, Congress was in the middle of passing a currency manipulation bill, the Currency Exchange Oversight Reform Act, which held China accountable for keeping its currency artificially low,Theking it easier to boost its exports. Boehner blocked the bill. Then later joined the lobbying firm working for China, Squire Patton Boggs (SPB), one of D.C.’s most influential law firms.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), represented California as a Democrat from 1993 to 2017 and was a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Later, she signed on to advise Hikvision, a Chinese surveillance company, and registered as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice. She claimed only wanted to help create American jobs.
Repeal the 16th Amendment: That created income tax and the IRS, probably the most powerful agency and the most oppressive to the American people:
The IRS Tax Code is 74,608 pages long. No two Certified Public Accountants can even come up with the same interpretation!
You are assumed guilty till you can prove yourself innocent.
Your bank account can be seized without a court order.
Before income tax, the nation had a consumption tax, where you paid a percentage of tax on goods you purchased. No purchase, no tax.
There is NO WAY the Congress would willingly agree to any of these Amendments. However, the Founders were wise enough to not only rely on one way to amend the Constitution.
Article V
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
The only way is an Article 5 Convention of States, where two thirds of the states propose Amendments and three fourths would need to approve them. If you've heard the propaganda that it would be a "runaway convention", or the states could dissolve the Constitution, where would be the logical place that “disinformation” would be coming from? In fact, according to Katherine Watt, Bailiwick News.Substack.com:
The basic goal of the architects, which has been achieved, was to set up legal conditions in which all governing power in the United States could be automatically transferred from the citizens and the three Constitutional branches into the two hands of the Health and Human Services Secretary, effective at the moment the HHS Secretary himself declared a public health emergency, legally transforming free citizens into enslaved subjects.
That happened on Jan. 31, 2020, in effect as of Jan. 27, 2020, through the present day.
In other words: Congress and US Presidents legalized and funded the overthrow of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. government and the American people, through a massive domestic bioterrorism program relabeled as a public health program, conducted by the HHS Secretary and Secretary of Defense on behalf of the World Health Organization and its financial backers.
Public servants don't have the power or authority to dissolve a government that “We the People” created through our creation of the Constitution have therefore committed treason, defined in Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Proving my point of their woeful lack of knowledge what the Constitution, their rulebook, contains, or their absolute knowledge of what it contains and their disdain for it demonstrating their absolute lack of virtue.
We have abdicated our duty by allowing public servants pretty much described in the “Blazing Saddles" movie snippet to run our country over a cliff while violating their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, breaking numerous laws they passed and profiting immensely at the same time. Contact your state legislators and educate them on their Constitutional duty to get us back on track:
What is an Article V Convention of States?
Our Founders understood that any power, checked or not, is corrupting and can ultimately lead to tyranny. With forethought these men included a process by which our Constitution could be amended in order to adapt and properly guide the republic through future evils that they could not foresee.
In our current state of politics in America it is difficult to imagine two-thirds of both houses of Congress agreeing on lunch plans, let alone important issues facing our nation.
Again, the Founders foresaw that this might happen. Included in Article V is another process by which our Constitution can be amended, a process that precludes any involvement by a deadlocked federal legislature.
That process is the Convention of States. The process calls for two-thirds of the states to call for a convention, during which amendments would be proposed. The proposals coming from such a convention would then need to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. The amendments that pass this process become part of our Constitution with equal weight to any proposed by the other path.
In this way, our Constitution retains power for the people through their local and state legislatures and puts them back in control of the federal government.
An Article V Convention of States is a method by which Americans can adhere to those great ideals in our Declaration, that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.”
The American republic was founded with the notion that it is the people who exercise power over their government. This notion has been distorted over the decades, and now people feel they have no choice but to obey their elected representatives.
It is past time that we the American people exercise our powers against tyranny in our own government. Let us join in a single voice and demand our true independence once again.
Wow lot of great work Dave - Bravo!