On Wednesday, Dr. Paul joined Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch to discuss hate crimes legislation, individualism vs. collectivism, auditing the Federal Reserve, and how all of us can get involved in the fight for liberty.
Jack McManus was a great guest and really defined the hope that is possible:
McManus: We take the country back through the House of Representatives.
Buckner: But you are going to have to have 220 Mr. Smiths [like the movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]. You are going to have to have people with honor and integrity to do that.
Napolitano: When you say 220 Mr. Smiths, you mean people like John McManus is describing you are going to have to win a majority of the seats in the House.
McManus: Here’s my point. If you get 10, 12, 15, 18 types like Ron Paul in the House of Representatives, a lot of the fence sitters will say, “Hey, I better move over this way. I better start following these views.” That’s reasonable and that’s doable.
Napolitano: Just as the rolling of the ball has caused people to jump on the bandwagon towards big government, the rolling of the ball in the other direction can cause them to jump on that bandwagon.
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As if history is not repeating itself, below read the Kentucky Resolutions which Thomas Jefferson clearly outlines the limits of the federal government on this very same subject when in 1798 the federal government passed the Alien and sedition act under the John Adams administration;
Kentucky Resolutions 1798 by Thomas Jefferson:
2. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to
a.) punish treason,
b.) counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States,
c.) piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and
d.) offenses against the law of nations,
and >>>>>>> "NO OTHER CRIMES, WHATSOEVER";
and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,"
therefore the act of Congress, passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and intituled "An Act in addition to the act intituled An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," as also the act passed by them on the — day of June, 1798, intituled "An Act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the United States," (and all their other acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution,)
>>>>>>>are "ALTOGETHER VOID", and of "NO FORCE";
and that the power to create, define, and punish such >>>OTHER crimes is reserved, and, of right, appertains "solely" and "exclusively" to the "respective States", each within its OWN territory.
3. Resolved, That it is true as a general principle, and is also expressly declared by one of the amendments to the Constitutions, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, our prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"; and that no power over the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom of the press being delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, all lawful powers respecting the same did of right remain, and were reserved to the States or the people: that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated, rather than the use be destroyed. And thus also they guarded against all abridgment by the United States of the freedom of religious opinions and exercises, and retained to themselves the right of protecting the same, as this State, by a law passed on the general demand of its citizens, had already protected them from all human restraint or interference. And that in addition to this general principle and express declaration, another and more special provision has been made by one of the amendments to the Constitution, which expressly declares, that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press": thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press: insomuch,
>>>that whatever violated either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, arid that libels, falsehood, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion,
>>>>are WITHHELD from the cognizance of federal tribunals.
That, therefore, the act of Congress of the United States, passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, intituled "An Act in addition to the act intituled An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is NOT LAW, but is altogether VOID, and of NO FORCE.
That this commonwealth does therefore call on its co-States for an expression of their sentiments on the acts concerning aliens and for the punishment of certain crimes herein before specified, plainly declaring whether these acts are or are not authorized by the federal compact. And it doubts not that their sense will be so announced as to prove their attachment unaltered to limited government, weather general or particular. And that the rights and liberties of their co-States will be exposed to no dangers by remaining embarked in a common bottom with their own. That they will concur with this commonwealth in considering the said acts as so palpably against the Constitution as to amount to an undisguised declaration that that compact is not meant to be the measure of the powers of the General Government, but that it will proceed in the exercise over these States, of all powers whatsoever: that they will view this as seizing the rights of the States, and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government, with a power assumed to bind the States (not merely as the cases made federal, casus fœderis but), in all cases whatsoever, by laws made, NOT with their consent, but by others against their consent: that this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority; and that the co-States, recurring to their natural right in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring these acts void, and of no force,
and will each take measures of its own for providing that NEITHER these acts, NOR "ANY OTHERS" of the "General Government" not "PLAINLY and INTENTIONALLY" authorized BY the Constitution (APP: The Original Compact), shalt be exercised within their respective territories."
We would like to see this Resolution referenced each time by both Ron Paul and Judge Napolitano with regard to undelegated powers or laws to indicate the the old news of the federal government stepping away from the delegated powers;
Also to establish again the STATE'S DUTY to >>>"NULLIFY" these type acts in the exercise of their state power as also clearly established both in the Ratifying Conventions of 1788 and Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.
Further, also, as a suggestion to you Matthew and the C4L staff, It would be good to provide a link to both The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (or on their own site - or to Constitution.org)
As well as a link to the Ratifying Debates of 1788 in particular 6-16-1788 that define the intent of the Constitution;
So that people do not read the Constitution in a way that the federal government can use the simple wording to "EXPOUND" on the "GENERAL PHRASES"; as was obvious the federal government tried in 1798 and was severely corrected by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions:
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James Madison - Virginia Resolutions 1798:
That the General Assembly doth also express its deep regret, that a spirit has in sundry instances, been manifested by the federal government, to enlarge its powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter which defines them; and that implications have appeared of a >>>>>"DESIGN" to "EXPOUND" certain >>>>>>>"general" "PHRASES"
(which having been copied from the very limited grant of power, in the former articles of confederation were the >>> less liable to be misconstrued) so as to >>> destroy the meaning and effect, of the particular >>>"enumeration" which necessarily explains and LIMITS the >>>"general phrases";
and so as to "consolidate the states by degrees", into "one sovereignty", the >>>obvious tendency and >>>inevitable consequence of which would be, to transform the present republican system of the United States, into an absolute, or at best a mixed monarchy."
The Intent of the Founders, The authors themselves of both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution; Here it is clear that we are 50 independent states NOT "One Nation" as the federal propaganda since the thirties and before has attempted to sell us; The STATES in FULL control of a very limited powers national government & compact - the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson - Kentucky Resolutions 1798:
"....that in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the general government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy;
BUT, where powers are assumed which have NOT been delegated, a NULLIFICATION of the act is the RIGHTFUL REMEDY:
that EVERY State has a natural RIGHT in cases not within the "compact", (casus non fœderis) TO NULLIFY of their OWN AUTHORITY >>>"ALL" assumptions of power by others within their limits:
that without this "RIGHT", they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them: ..."
References:
a.) 1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention 6-16-1788:
http://www.pacificwestcom.com/americanpatriotpartynewsletter
b.) Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions:
http://www.pacificwestcom.com/candidates
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