-Caveat Lector- I hope you are interested in supporting this Petition to Congress Assembled by WE, THE PEOPLE (Petition #405). It is time to take America back from the politicians and to hold them fully accountable for their unconstitutional actions. Please repost widely. The signatures will be sent to the President, Vice President and to each and every member of Congress Assembled. --Henrietta Bowman for WE, THE PEOPLE Go to http://sierratimes.actionize.com/view.php?action=405 to review and sign this Action. To comment on this petition, go to: http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=3&topic=7 Petition to Congress Assembled Subject: A return to our guaranteed Constitutional Republic form of government and strict enforcement of constitutional guidelines. PETIONER: WE, THE PEOPLE The United States Supreme Court ruled in "Norton v. Shelby" (118 US 423): "An unconstitutional act is not law. It confers no rights, it imposes no duty, it affords no protection, it creates no office." There is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to pass laws concerning personal arms, local environment, personal vehicles, food, toilets, water, drugs, farming, and a few hundred other things it is involved in regulating. Congress has wrongly assumed its own authority in complete disregard of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. WE, THE PEOPLE find Congress in gross violation of your oaths of office: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God." WE, THE PEOPLE declare the members of Congress Assembled have become the domestic enemy and no longer represent the will of WE, THE PEOPLE in a constitutionally-limited Republic as guaranteed in the legally-binding contract known as the Constitution of the United States of America. WE, THE PEOPLE hereby demand Congress abide by your Constitutionally-limited duties. To wit: ARTICLE I Section 8 Clause 1 The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States: Clause 2 To borrow money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3 To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; Clause 4 To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; Clause 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; Clause 7 To establish post offices and post roads; Clause 8 To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; Clause 9 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; Clause 10 To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; Clause 11 To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; Clause 12 To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; Clause 13 To provide and maintain a navy; Clause 14 To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; Clause 15 To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions; Clause 16 To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17 To exercise legislations in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings; And Clause 18 To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. In particular, WE, THE PEOPLE find Congress Assembled to have greatly exceeded your authority granted by the several States and WE, THE PEOPLE under Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution of the United States. You have infringed upon the sovereignty of the several States and WE, THE PEOPLE regarding our public lands. WE, THE PEOPLE find Congress Assembled in blatant disregard of the entire Bill of Rights and as such, in breach of contract with WE, THE PEOPLE. We therefore demand all statutes in the US Code pre-dating 1960 be immediately sundowned and all statutes post-dating 1960 be reviewed for strict constitutionallity. Those statutes not meeting constitutional guidelines are to be immediately declared null and void, per the United States Supreme Court decision in "Norton v. Shelby" (118 US 423): "An unconstitutional act is not law. It confers no rights, it imposes no duty, it affords no protection, it creates no office." We further stipulate that no Bill may be longer in length than the Constitution and may contain no amendments or riders not pertaining to the main subject of the Bill. Omnibus Bills are to be outlawed and each member of Congress voting for a Bill must swear before a notary they PERSONALLY have read the Bill, understand its ramifications and attest to its constitutionallity. Any member of Congress found to consistently violate this stipulation is to be removed from office and fined to the full extent permitted by law. Should Congress Assembled fail to act, WE, THE PEOPLE declare the contract known as the Constitution of the United States null and void. We remind you of the following words from the Declaration of Independence and reserve unto ourselves the right to call for a Constitutional Convention disolving the present federal government and to make new alliances of the several States of our own choosing, more representative of the Constitutional Republic WE, THE PEOPLE fought and died to achieve and preserve for posterity. "WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government." SIGNED: WE, THE PEOPLE This Petition is Supported by: HenriettaBowman, who started this Petition on 2001-02-26 12:34:51 <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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