A Republic, if you can keep it

[Vexari]

I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States

(which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government)

it would become the most corrupt government on the earth..


~ Thomas Jefferson ~ (1743-1826)

US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Source.. Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800. 10:168



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And that's why they wrote a Constitution of founding principles that was meant to limit Government powers. Now we have an imposter/usurper from Kenya undermining every principle that "was" America. Throw the bum out and Restore the Republic.

~ J Carlton ~ Calgary


WOW how prophetic. The common law is a local application of natural law. It was to be the foundation of all applied legal and political tools (legislative, executive, judicial, codes, ordinances, regulation, rules, statutes, etc.) concerning each and every individual. It was considered a stretch for common law to extend to an entire State. Since each State had its own unique eccentricities (Maryland was mostly Catholic, Virginia had its large farms / plantations, etc.) the individual's lawful needs, wants, desires, expressions were all very different. There was no, nor could there be, a federal common law as the extension of the several States United had no authority to create crimes or deal, one on one, with the individual. All states now either relegate common law to an insignificant relic of the past with no real power (such as there is no true common law marriage recognized in any State any longer) or pass a rule eliminating it all together as though the States were god with omnipotent powers to exceed the laws of nature and of nature's god. Common law's definition has been reduced by carnal despots to an ever changing -most recent stari decises. Once the single body of States United expresses itself as an organic hegemony, dictating to the individual, as though there was a federal common law, it would become the most corrupt government on earth. WE ARE THERE ! ! !

~ Mike ~ Norwalk


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After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community.

It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform

through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd.

The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting.

Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people

till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd..


~ Alexis de Tocqueville ~

(1805-1859) French historian

Source..Democracy in America, Vol. II (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), Chap. 6


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No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise.

We are all Hobbesians now. Virtue is presumed to reside in the state. Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality.

Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted.

The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them..


~ Tom Bethel ~


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