reply to post by PuterMan
I am not sure how you get round this problem but there has to be a method whereby the Government do the peoples bidding (Government FOR the People)
rather than in accordance with their own agenda against the best interests of the People....
I and a lot of others have considered this problem. Specifically our Founding Fathers here in the USA. That is why there is a system of checks and
balances and why the Power hungry Sociopaths have done their best to get around the system.
What needs to be done is to put the country back on track with the checks back in place in place.
JURY
As a people, our last resort is the guarantee of a trial by jury. To defeat this final check on irrational laws, the country has been flooded with
idiotic regulations and laws that tie the courts up in knots. Also juries are informed by the judge they are only to determine if the person is guilty
of breaking the law, when in actual fact the jury, especially a Grand Jury has wide ranging powers including investigation and determining if the LAW
should be nulified!
The fully informed jury movement:
www.fija.org...
FIJA seeks to require that juries be informed of their nullification rights. Informed jury amendments have been filed as an initiative in
seven states and legislation has been introduced in the Alaska state legislature.
...the right of juries to judge both the law and the facts -- to nullify the law if it chose -- became part of British constitutional law.
It ultimately became part of American constitutional law as well, but you'd never know it listening to jury instructions today almost anywhere in the
country....
Now a remarkable coalition has sprung up to challenge this secrecy as undemocratic, unconstitutional and dangerous. Though organized by libertarian
activists, the Fully Informed Jury Amendment movement includes liberals and conservatives...
...many groups in this country feel the government has overstepped its power in some way and that there must be protection for the natural rights of
American citizens. They are defending not only the right to protest or carry a gun or not wear seatbelts but challenging the right of the
government to decide such matters without the mediating effect of a jury's judgement of fairness in a particular case.
State Nullification - Tenth Amendment
State nullification is the idea that the states can and must refuse to enforce unconstitutional federal laws.
In the many discussions across several states, questions have arisen concerning exactly how the "Tenth Amendment Resolution" will help....
The principal motivation came from the myriad of federal mandates which have been placed and are planned to be placed on the states. State
legislatures feel they have little choice but to implement these mostly-unfunded mandates and pass the cost for implementation to the state taxpayers.
For most state legislators, this is a very frustrating dilemma.
The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have
always had, rights the federal government may not usurp. Article IV, Section 4 says, "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union
a republican form of government.....", and the Ninth Amendment states that..."The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people".
We have, through apathy and lack of will, allowed federal legislators and bureaucrats to assert their will over us and commandeer our funds for their
own use.... most of it today outside the authority granted to them by the Constitution.
When a state passes this resolution proclaiming its sovereignty, that state may then claim exemption to most federal mandates under the Tenth
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution....
by Colorado State Senator Charles Duke
www.sweetliberty.org...
Another weapon, one every single one of us should be pushing for, is
state law allowing voters to recall federal Senators and Representatives as
well as state officials.
Recall Congress Now Org
However this will be a bitterly fought battle. The last thing TPTB wants is their pet legislators worried about what the voters want instead of what
they have been bribed to do.
While 18 of the 50 United States offer their citizens an opportunity to recall their elected officials, it is a fact that in our nation’s
history, no federal legislator has yet been recalled.
It has not been for lack of interest. Rather, the process has languished in part due to debates on whether or not legal authority exists for
recall of U.S. Senators and Congressmen; and, in the case of Idaho, interference by a state court prevented recall of a federal legislator....
After reviewing the body of law and opinion concerning recall, it is apparent that if recall of federal legislators is to succeed, it will
likely only be after an intense battle in the federal court system as to the degree to which the courts will go to allow the literal meaning of the
Tenth Amendment to be in force and effect.
As this author reads this language, it appears clear that " the States ‘ and " the people " living with in them, should be recognized to
have the right of recall.
But in order to implement a strategy that will enable recall petitions to result in actual removal of errant Senators and Congressmen,
considerable legal and political obstacles will present themselves and can only be overcome by understanding the lengths to which those opposed to
recall can be expected to go...
Eighteen states have recall provisions. Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana,
Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin all have recall of some kind available to their voters. Only seven
of these states require any grounds.
www.uscitizensassociation.com...
Judges: Appointed vs elected? That is another question we as voters need to think very very carefully about.
The problem is we the people have been asleep and allowed the District of Criminals to do as they will WITHOUT check! How many Congress critters
have been in DC for 10, 20 and even 30 years without being replaced?
