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Founding Principles/Essays (Liberty Tree Library) Discussion

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"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." John Adams

 

(360 B.C.) The Republic - Plato

 

(46 B.C.) Cicero's Brutus - Cicero

 

(1517) Discourses on Livy - Machiavelli

 

(1553) The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude - Étienne de La Boétie

 

(1690) Two Treatises of Government - Locke

 

(1698) Discourses Concerning Government - Algernon Sydney

Sidney's Discourses and Locke's Second Treatise were recommended by Jefferson and Madison as containing the "general principles of liberty and the rights of man, in nature and society"

 

(1748) The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu

 

(1748) The Principles of Natural and Politic Law - Burlamaqui

 

(1758) The Law of Nations - Vattel

 

(1764-1769) The Writings of Samuel Adams

 

(1765-1769) Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England

 

(1766) The Declaratory Act

 

(1770) The Writings of John Adams V1-2

The Writings of John Adams V3-4

The Writings of John Adams V5-7

The Writings of John Adams V8-10

 

(1771-1788) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

 

(1772) The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants

 

(1774) Novanglus - John Adams. The Principle Controversy between Great Britain and Her Colonies

 

(1776) Common Sense - Thomas Paine

The pamphlet Common Sense appeared on the very day that the King of England's speech reached the United States, in which the Americans were denounced as rebels and traitors, and in which speech it was asserted to be the right of the legislature of England to bind the Colonies in all cases whatsoever.

 

(1776-1783) The Crisis - Thomas Paine

 

(1780) Journal of the Convention for Framing the Massachusetts Bay Constitution

 

(1785) Remarks concerning the Government and Laws of the United States of America: in Four Letters addressed to Mr. Adams

 

(1787) The Anti-Federalist (audio)

 

(1787) The Federalist (text) The Federalist (audio)

 

(1781-1826) The Declaration of Independence and Letters by Thomas Jefferson

 

(1788) The Debates in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Virginia

on the adoption of the Federal Constitution

 

(1788) Speech delivered at the Virginia Convention debate of the ratification of the Constitution - Patrick Henry

 

(1789) James Madison Speech to the First Congress - Madison's proposed Amendments to the Constitution

 

(1791-92) The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine

 

(1792) A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal - Thomas Paine

 

(1792) Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America - James Wilson, Thomas McKean

As far as I know this is the first legal treatise written on the subject of the U.S. Constitution.

 

(1794-95) Age of Reason Pt. I, II and III - Thomas Paine

 

(1796) Washington's Farewell Address

 

(1800) The Origin and Principles of the America and French Revolutions Compared

 

(1804) The Works of the Honourable James Wilson - Wilson signed the DoI and the federal Constitution, appointed to the Supreme Court by Washington

 

(1805) The Dangers of American Liberty - Fisher Ames

 

(1820) The Republican Part I & II Part III - Wiliam Jarvis

“I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your Republican which you have been so kind as to send me… looking over it cursorily I see much in it to approve, and shall be glad if it shall lead our youth to the practice of thinking on such subjects and for themselves…”   Thomas Jefferson

 

(1820) Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated - John Taylor

 

(1823) New Views of the Constitution of the United States - John Taylor of Caroline

 

(1829) The annals of America - Abiel Holmes

From the Discovery to the year 1826

 

(1830) The Letters of Algernon Sydney, In Defense of Civil Liberty - Judge Spencer Roane's letters to the Richmond Enquirer, 1818-19

 

(1831) Essays on the American System, its Principle and Object - Spencer Roane

 

(1833) Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States - Joseph Story  

* [see 1868 - A Brief Inquiry....]

 

(1835) Democracy in America - Volume I - de Tocqueville

 

(1837) Introduction to American law - Designed as a First Book for Students

 

(1839) The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse - John Quincy Adams

 

(1840) Democracy in America - Volume II - de Tocqueville

 

(1849) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - H.D. Thoreau

 

(1850) The Law - Frederick Bastiat

 

(1859) The Government Class Book - Designed for the Instruction of Youth

 

(1860) Diary of the American Revolution. From Newspapers and Original Documents - Frank Moore

 

(1861) Ancient Law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas - Sir Henry Sumner Maine

 

(1861) Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, 2 vols. 

 

(1862) Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill

 

* (published 1868) A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of our Federal Government - Judge Abel Upshur (highly recommended reading - Frog )

A critical review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. 

 

(1872) A Manual of American Ideas - DESIGNED For the Use of Schools, For the Instruction of Foreigners seeking Naturalization and For the Use of Voters

 

(1875) History of the United States of America: - George Bancroft

History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent

covers America in depth up to 1789.

 

(1883) Social Statics - Herbert Spencer

 

(1885) Popular Government - Sir Henry Sumner Maine

 

(1888) The American Commonwealth, 2 vols. - James Bryce

 

(1889) The Old South Leaflets Seventh Series

The Old South Lectures for Young People were instituted in the summer of 1883, as a means of promoting a more serious and intelligent attention to historical studies, especially studies in American history, among the young people of Boston.

 

(1890) The Unwritten Constitution of the United States- Christopher Tiedeman

 

(1890) Life of the Hon. Thomas McKean - Roberdeau Buchanan

 

(1891) The Theory of the Social Compact and its Influence upon the American Revolution

 

(published 1891) A Fragment on Government - Jeremy Bentham (first published in 1776)

 

(1892) Essays on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people 1787-1788 - Paul L. Ford

 

(1894) Sources of the Constitution of the United States - C. Ellis Stevens

 

(published 1903) The Complete ANAS of Thomas Jefferson

 

(1905) The John P. Branch historical papers of Randolph-Macon College-           Collected works of Judge S. Roane

 

(1908) The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught

 

(1963) Burke, Paine, and the Rights of Man - R.R. Fennessy

 

(1981) 5000 YEAR LEAP - AUDIO VERSION

 

 

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Comment by Robert David Hummel on January 8, 2014 at 3:26pm
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NOW is the TIME for all GOOD Veterans  PATRIOTS to COME to the AID of Our COUNTRY...to REGAIN the PRIVILEGE of Our CONSTITUTIONAL HERITAGE,to... "LET FREEDOM RING", ...as WE DEFENDED since JUNE 16 1775... "PERIOD".
 
 
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January 3, 2014 at 12:40 am

MAJ.GEN. Paul E. Vallely (RET.), 
Retired Army General Calling For The Forced Resignation Of Obama
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“OPERATION AMERICAN SPRING:

Beginning Of Tyranny Housecleaning!!!!

May 16, 2014 We the People MARCH ON DC! 

Sir, 

It is with sincere respect and honor that I privilege myself to LAUD and HONOR; your LOYAL, EARNEST, and TRUTHFUL, effort to IDENTIFY the Present; “DESTRUCTIVE & DEVASTATING, Failed Leadership”, facts of Pres.B Hussein Obama, and his Administrative CZAR’s, The Democratic Senate, along with the many RHINO’s in both Houses of Our Congress….One of your most efffective measures …Is your PLAIN SPEAKING…in a manner that even a Eighth Grader can understand and define in your Talking Points.

I am Willing to be accountable to render you my sincere and loyal support, in any manner appropriate, with in the limits of my capabilities in any AIDE I can provide to your mission Challenge’ ,…PERIOD.

I would rather endure the Dangers of Freedom than enjoy the Peace of Slavery…PERIOD.

Again Sir, THANK YOU, CALL ON ME, and May Our Creator Bless your Patriotic and Military Professional Leadership in the Mission at hand.

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Comment by Central Scrutinizer on December 26, 2013 at 10:38am
Comment by T Stirhen on October 26, 2013 at 10:42am

(con't) US Constitution, Article I, Section. 8,

Clause 15 which requires the congress: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and REPEL INVASIONS”. This clause is very straightforward also. The militia of each state is taxed with the defense of the USA and her people, not just with the defense of their state; and they are to be armed with weapons that can repel any invasions bearing modern weapons of war. Congress is required to provide those military grade weapons for the militias.

 

Clause 16 also makes clear that the ARMING OF THE MILITIA OF EACH STATE is a duty the congress is REQUIRED to carry out: “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”.

The US Congress is under the obligation by the supreme law of this land to arm each state's militia with the type of arms that will “repel invasions”- the same arms as the modern military uses. Each state has the duty to train the militia in the proper use of those arms.

This is JUST a start, and I hope it helps. Start with your state. States are EQUAL and better governments the the federal governmetn which has overran its banks. Build up the levees - which is YOUR state -  from the flood. The federal government has specific limits within the US Constitution which defines them and is the federal contract. The states have limites put on them ONLY where it crosses the Constitutional duties ASSIGNED each federal branch. Otherwise it has NO OTHER BOUNDARIES beyond what the people of the state allow.

Comment by T Stirhen on October 26, 2013 at 10:37am

(con't)

The Preamble to the Bill of Rights makes it very clear that the US Constitution sets limits on those who serve within the federal government: “... a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...”

Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section. 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Clause 11: “To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water”. The congress has the duty to grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal - which is using private citizens in their own privately owned crafts to defend the USA and her people.

Clause 12: “To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years”.

The money that the congress has illegally spent beyond the lawfully allotted time of two years of supporting a “standing military” must be returned to the people. It was/is a crime called Misappropriation of Funds (misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, ... or by any person with a responsibility to care for and protect another's assets (a fiduciary duty). It is a felony (a crime punishable by a prison sentenc.

No standing army except in times of war, and ONLY the congress can declare *war. War must be declared by congress to be a lawful war the US military are used to fight in. War cannot lawfully be "declared" against a tactic such as the "war against terror" or the "war against drugs"; both are not wars and not even the congress can declare a war against a tactic. (*War defined: 'Open and declared conflict between the armed forces of two or more states or nations'.)

(con't)

Comment by T Stirhen on October 26, 2013 at 10:34am

(Con't)

28 C.F.R. Section 0.85 Terrorism: “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives”.

Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States or Puerto Rico without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives. (con't)

Comment by T Stirhen on October 26, 2013 at 10:32am

(con't)  18 USC § 241 Conspiracy against rights: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

The laws are there, do NOT act as if they are not as that works to the US destroyers advantage.  Work within groups to get them enforced. If those who are REQUIRED by law and contract do not enforce them replace them. Foire them. Your state constitution will tell you who created it, usually it is something like "The people of the great state of XXXX..."  - that is who the contract is WITH.

Educate, hand out copies of the state constitution and the US Constitution to those who are in positions LAWFULLY REQUIRED to take the oath. ALL positions within your state.

(con't)

Comment by T Stirhen on October 26, 2013 at 10:27am

(con't) There are other laws that also apply within all states besides the US Constitution (only in certain areas):

5 U.S.C. 3331, provides the text of the actual oath of office the three branches of our government, the military, all law enforcement, the heads of the States, all federal employees are required to take before assuming office.

5 U.S.C. 3333 requires the three branches of our government, the military, all law enforcement, the heads of the States, all federal employees sign an affidavit that they have taken the oath of office required by 5 U.S.C. 3331 and have not or will not violate that oath of office during their tenure of office

18 U.S.C. 1918  penalties for violation of oath of office described in 5 U.S.C. 7311 which include: (1) removal from office and; (2) confinement or a fine.   "removal from office" is FIRING. (con't)


 
 
 

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