So while we who love freedom do not believe principles die, we certainly would admit that the constitution’s effect can be lost where those we elect to uphold it ignore their oath to God to do the same, the original intent and meaning of the “mere parchment” notwithstanding. These are truths confirmed in Scripture, Laws of Nature, Juris-counsels, Philosophers and the great thinkers who shaped American ideals. To say that the constitution is “authoritative” is a misnomer: it is rather principles of truth and freedom that are authoritative. The constitution is no more authoritative than is a contract entered into between two parties where one party has ignored his obligations under the contract. Does that contract bind the other to observe his obligations? The non-breaching party has the power to ignore this obligation under the breached contract and to seek damages or simply move on. The contract might as well be used as kindling.

Fred Miller raises a very important Question. If we say our Constitution is dead, what will replace it? A convention of the states would come up with a compact significantly different from what we have. Since few people understand the importance of Federalism or separation of powers, and since people have become accustomed to so many special benefits from the central government (highway funds, social security, education benefits, Medicaid reimbursement, Unemployment Insurance) they are not likely to frame the same kind of government defined in our existing constitution.

Few states have the wherewithal to exist without a larger alliance. Texas is almost self sufficient and has a large seacoast. It has large expanses of agricultural land, water resources, iron ore, coal, oil, natural gas and other resources. It could exist without another central government.

Inland states, like Montana, North and South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico would have a problem. They have no access to the sea, and thus no ability to carry on trade with the outside world. Other states that line the Mississippi River would have to agree about passage through their states. Where the river forms the division between states, there is potential for dispute as to who owns what part of the river. Finally, whoever controls the seaport is in the position to exact huge tribute in order to permit passage through the port to the inland states.

I would rather take the position that our present constitution contemplated those problems and is adequate to address them. I think it is more productive to say that we don’t have a dead constitution any more than we have a dead Bible. What we have are people who intentionally misinterpret it or say it is irrelevant to address modern challenges. Both documents still live. They are fixed and they are certain. They stand in judgment of those who would violate them. They are still authoritative.

What Killed the Constitution? The Constitution was written by people of the 17th and 18th century, that was the age of Reason. In other words, the Constitution was a reflection of reasonable men, White men at that!

Then along came Georg Hegel and invented a new form of Logic overthrowing the ancient Aristitotelian logic. Compare Hegel to a modern day computer hacker writing a virus to destroy computers, Hegel is a destroyer of the human mind; today, people cannot think correctly because of the Hegelian Dialectic that permeates our culture. It is called the “third way”, meaning you have truth, you have error, and you have the blend of truth and error, the “Third Way”.

As such, the Constitution does not reflect the Hegel Dialectic. The Hegelian dialectic has produce a corpus of immoral people and this corpus needs it own constitution. The constitution of 1787 is a reproach to us today and cannot be tolerated. As I see it, the present constitution has its remedy for this, its called the Constitutional Convention Clause. Just as the Constitutional Convention of 1787 rode roughshod over the Articles of Confederation, Today’s convention will do the the same.

We are just two states away from doing it, too. Ohio and Virgina are all that are needed to forming a new Constitution! Can you imagine what the likes of today’s people could come up with?

But, then, what killed the Constitution? I have a birth certificate, a driver’s license, a marriage license,a family court destroyed my family, a social security number, I was impressed into the military, men are still required to register for the draft,(Why aren’t women required to register?) I have to pay property tax, pay income tax, and I go to a 501(C)3 governmental church to give thanks for my liberties. And I practice all ten planks of the Communist Manifesto, and you ask what killed the Constitution?

The talk of states seceding from the union is a joke. Would the Texans who seceded from the union still get their Social Security Benefits? Ha, Ha, Ha! As that old womanizer, Ben Franklin, said, “Those willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither”.

Fred Miller

Putting teeth into the law by the Jury system is the way to go at this in a peaceful manor.
See some posts here that back this up.

http://www.paulstramer.net/2009/12/in-conservative-circles-calls-for.html

http://www.paulstramer.net/2009/12/update-on-montana-grand-jury.html

http://www.paulstramer.net/2009/12/grand-jury-solution-to-government.html

For more on Jurors rights:
http://www.paulstramer.net/2009/12/grand-jury-solution-to-government.html

For more on Grand Juries:
http://americangrandjury.org/

Individuals must insist that their state legislators and governors do what they are supposed to do in the fact of federal usurpation. If your state agents do nothing, either vote them out, or initiate citizen referendums. See my other articles on this subject.

Good men and women do not stand by and do nothing!