-Caveat Lector- (Use your own good judgment whether to re-distribute.) What is the opinion date(s) of the Slaugher House cases? The XIV Amendment was ratified July 9, 1868; after the rightful(lol) assassination of the tyrant Lincoln. Prior to AL people were citizens of the State in which they resided. Those people who did not reside in a State, but were domiciled in D.C. (SinCity) or a U.S. possession were Citizens of a federal District as defined in one of the first laws written by George Washington and enacted by the first Congress. The Bill of Rights acted as a restraint on the federal government. The People had the power, except for those enumerated powers given the federal government to perform its duties. The now radical rallying call, "Power to the People" was a reality prior to AL. It was the People who delegated Power, not the other way around. To wit: Amendment X The powers not delegated to the (U)nited States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the PEOPLE. Only AFTER Honest Abe (God bless him!) died, the People unwittingly got "screwed" by the power hungry thugs. I'm no constitutional expert, but I'll stand by the above until proven otherwise. The power hungry thugs of yesteryears are today's thugs which make up the Republican Party and the DemocRatic Party. Any Freedom loving citizen of the united States would, indeed, be foolish to cast their cherished vote for a Republican Thug or a DemocRatic (Socialist) Thug. (Those who do are scum protecting their benefits and/or subsidies paid for by WE slaves.) ------------------------------------------------------ ``On what rightful principle may a state, being not more than one-fifth part of the Nation in soil and population, break up the Nation and then cause a proportionately large sub-division of itself in a most arbitrary way?'' ---United States President Abraham Lincoln, February 18th, 1861 (They had every Right to do so because it was the States that created the federal government whose protective tariffs adversely affected the southern states. It was NOT a Civil War!!! It was a "War of Northern Aggression Against the South". Remember, the war was fought IN the southern States. Northern money interests required the maintenance of cheap labor in the South.) [Your child will never learn this in the socialist dominated public school system, which exist solely for the purpose of the school district collecting its share of the Average Daily Attendance dole.] -------------------------------------------- "A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague." --- Cicero in a speech to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust (Folks, Sound familiar?? Your damn right it infects the body politic so WE can no longer resist.) ["He rots the soul of a nation"! huuuuummmmmmm Wonder who he has in mind?] ------------------------------- Dane-Geld [my sub-title: Pay Up, Slaves] It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation, To call upon a neighbour and to say: -- "We invaded you last night -- we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away. And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld And then you'll get rid of the Dane. It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: -- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane. It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray, So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say: -- "We never pay ANY one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost, For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that pays it is lost!" Rudyard Kipling (Folks, Kosovo is an impoverished State of the federal Yugoslavia, and hardly a neighbor. I'll bet my bottom WE are going to PAY the Dane-geld to the Thugs of the Overclass, whose pervert Leader is constantly apologizing to the thug leadership of a Nation who stole us blind.) ----------------------------------------- Was able to compose this without raising my blood pressure! 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