by J.B. Williams, NewsWithViews.com
According to modern leftists in academia and their Young Turk minions in the blogosphere, The US Constitution and Bill of Rights are “unconstitutional” on the basis that they fly in the face of their notion that the Founders created a dictatorship, a federal government with “supreme authority” in America, in which the states and people are mere subjects of the royal FED.
Twisting yet another constitutional clause to support their claim, leftist legal beagle’s misuse Article VI text…
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
This is the constitutional text used by modern anti-constitution leftists to claim that our federal government reigns supreme, unchecked by the balance of power throughout the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
However, this is the truthful interpretation and intent of the so-called “supremacy clause.”
The U.S. Constitution is the “supreme law of the land.” To the degree that the Laws of the United States are made “in Pursuance thereof;” in other words, so long as U.S. Federal Laws are consistent with, and not at odds with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, these laws shall also enjoy “supremacy.”
However, what about federal laws that are either not within the constitutionally delegated powers of the United States government; or, are directly at odds with the protections of state and individual rights afforded in the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights?
Our Founders answered this question is Amendment X – “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Our Founders further define this in Amendment IX – “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
We don’t have “constitutional rights…” – We have “inalienable rights” as “endowed by our Creator” and the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written and ratified as “protections” of these rights. Remember that the Bill of Rights was written to provide certain protections for specific inalienable rights of the states and the people, which are “endowed by our Creator,” – in addition to the unlimited general protections provided by the Constitution itself.
Remember that without the Bill of Rights, the Constitution would have never been ratified by the colonies, and our federal government could have never existed.
It is the Bill of Rights that made it possible for our Founding Fathers to ratify the US Constitution. Without the Bill of Rights, there is no Constitution and thereby, no federal government.
Also remember that our Constitutional Republic rests upon a three legged stool, known as The Charters of Freedom, the Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights each being a necessary leg of that stool. If any of these legs is broken, the entire stool is broken.
So, how can any intelligent American familiar with American history claim that the federal government is the “supreme authority” in America, suggesting that the states and people are mere subjects obligated to serve the federal government and barred from daring to challenge the constitutional authority of the government they created, and cannot exist without their authority?
Simply, their left-wing world view and political ambitions drives them to lie.
Most of the “legal experts” who promote blatant lies about states and individual rights do it in pursuit of their own power. They know exactly what they are doing. Of course, many of their Young Turk minions have no clue, since they were raised in unionized public schools and indoctrinated by 60s draft-dodgers turned professors, on the college campus.
Today, we see the same left-wing lies regurgitated by nearly every “main stream” (aka government controlled) media outlet. TV talking heads from Comedy Central to CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, PBS and even FOX News, repeat these lies daily with purpose and malicious intent.
According to all the president minions, our Founding Father’s created a dictatorship wherein a Chief Executive and temporary resident of the people’s Oval Office can do anything he wants without any regard for “the supreme law of the land” and the states and people can do nothing about it, other than vote him out.
Hogwash! Our Founders and their Charters of Freedom created no such thing. The Founders didn’t create an oligarchy made up of nine un-elected (politically appointed) ideologues, known as the Supreme Court, either.
Fortunately, these leftist morons are foolish enough to spew their lies in broad daylight today. As a result, they are shining a light upon themselves and the people will know them by their lies alone.
The question is this… What will the people do with these liars once they identify them, one by one?
© 2013 JB Williams – All Rights Reserved
JB Williams is a writer on matters of history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He is co-founder of action organizations The United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and activism organization preparing to take on American’s greatest legal battles. Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com
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Treaties and the Constitution
One of the most outlandish ploys being used to break down our Constitutional government is the promotion of the false notion that treaties ,when confirmed by the Senate , are more powerful then the Constitution, and can actually override our national charter in both foreign and domestic matters. Of course, this notion is ridiculous. America’s founders would never have worked so wisely to limit and contain government powers and then hold American freedom hostage to some to some future unwritten treaty with a foreign power. Let’s take a look at the second paragraph in Article V1 and consider its meaning: This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance there-of and all treaties made or which shall be made, ,under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and judges in every state shall be bound thereby , any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
The clause, ‘supreme law of the land” does not mean that a treaty is somehow superior to the Constitution; it means that treaties made in pursuance of ( in conformance with ) the U.S. Constitution are the only U.S. treaties.
Almost as if he were responding to modern schemers who view treaties as a method of overriding the Constitution , James Madison stated :
” I do not conceive that { treaty- making } power is given to the President and the Senate to dismantle the empire, or to alienate any great , essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authority have this power. The exercise of the power must be consistent with the object of the
delegation”
That is ,the treaty power must be consistent with the government’s delegated powers.
Madison further said of the treaty clause : “Here the supremacy of a treaty is contrasted with the supremacy of the laws of the States. It cannot otherwise be supreme.” And Alexander Hamilton said, ” A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes any express exceptions to the power of the Constitution of the United States.”
By Don Fotheringham — Constitutional Scholar for the John Birch society
State Sovereignty
Every Country in the world, is control by one central government, except the United States. Our Founding Fathers created Sovereign States, each State had it”s own Constitution. The Federal Constitution was written to control the federal government and they do not like their hands bound my the Constitution. The goal of the federal government is to try to control of the states. The 10 Amendment forbids this, but they keep on trying. Question; Why are the States allowing the feds to take total control of our Republic. Local governments were created to do the things that individuals cannot do for themselves. State governments should do only the things that local governments cannot do for themselves, and the federal government should do those things that individual states cannot do for themselves. Local governments and state governments created the federal government. The Federal Government was form to protect the sovereign States, it had a job to do, as outlined by Article One of the Constitution. Pres. Wilson, hated the Constitution, he try to eliminate State Sovereignty , their tools were the 14, 16,17, and the 19 Amendments. Presidents like Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, Bush and now Obama are doing their best to eliminate State Sovereignty. We must elect Governors that will fight the feds from intruding on the 10 Amendment and state sovereignty. These are good reasons to repeal the 14th,16th, 17th Amendments. The 14th Amend. turn all Americans into federal citizens. The 17th Amend. Federal Senators before the 17 Amend. were elected by the legislators of their State and they represented the State .Senators are now elected by the people of the State. Now since all American people are federal citizens, Senators going back to Washington DC, they no longer represent the State, they represent the people.