-Caveat Lector- http://buffalo-creek-press.com/cffrev.htm Constitution: Fact or Fiction by Dr. Eugene Schroder with Micki Nellis The Story of the Nation's Descent from a Constitutional Republic through a Constitutional Dictatorship to an Unconstitutional Dictatorship Buffalo Creek Press, PO Box 2424, Cleburne, TX 76033. ISBN 188553406X. $14.95 1-800-610-4908. Visa, MC, Discover, Personal Checks, Money Orders. Explains how the president can send 500,000 troops to fight overseas with or without the consent of congress, how he can bail out the Mexican economy over the objections of the American people, and why we have lost our Constitutionally guaranteed rights. The government's own documents prove the case. Constitution: Fact or Fiction Through the insidious, yet steady encroachment of "emergency powers," the government has achieved the ability to rule by statute or decree, without the vote or consent of the ruled. Senate Report 93549, written in 1973, said "Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency." It goes on to say "A majority of the people of the United States have lived all their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of National emergency. In the United States, actions taken by government in times of great crisis have ... in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of National emergency." And further "These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of allencompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule this country without reference to normal constitutional process. "Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens." The US constitution provided for the president to be granted emergency powers in times of war or enemy attack. The fatal flaw in the constitution, however, is that the only provision to end emergency powers is for the president to declare the emergency ended. Once the president has these powers, he himself must relinquish them. Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have failed to reinstate the constitution and give up these emergency powers. Today we see the president and entrenched bureaucracy passing rules through the executive branch's many agencies without challenge from congress or the judicial system, originally meant to provide checks and balances. The emergency powers clause was included in the Constitution so that a president could legally assume all powers in case of rebellion or enemy invasion if the public safety required it, and was intended to be terminated immediately at the end of the crisis. Through a maze of political maneuvers, the emergency powers granted to President Roosevelt in 1933 have become part of the U.S. Code as permanent everyday powers. America has continued under the "constitutional dictatorship" of war and emergency powers to this day, more than 60 years later. In reality, under this "constitutional dictatorship," the people have no rights except those granted by the government. Under our constitutional government, the people retained all rights except those specifically granted to the government. Government has grown so big, so unreachable, that the ordinary citizen has no chance to influence it. Even those with clout and political savvy, such as state governors, are stymied. The US government today, with its inflated bureaucracy, political posturing, and ineffectual programs, would be a laughingstock if it weren't for the sinister side arbitrary seizure of property without proven cause by many government agencies, ruthless invasion of privacy, federally mandated but unfunded programs that are choking the states' right to rule themselves, an unsound money system based on debt, and de facto economic depression for the last 10 years. A growing separation between "haves" and "have nots" makes a powder keg on a slow fuse. Today most Americans have not been taught the constitution, have never enjoyed the constitutional rights for which our forefathers fought a revolutionary war, and know that something is terribly wrong with government but have no idea what to do. The writing is clear, concise, and easy to understand. The subject is compelling. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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