Issues
I. First Premise
The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is in full force and effect, and no subsequent amendment or judicial ruling may be construed in a manner that mitigates, detracts from or otherwise limits its meaning to any other than its most literal interpretation.
II. Second Premise
The aims, expectations and values of approximately half the American population are so at odds with the other that these differences are completely incompatible and irreconcilable within the framework of our existing republican form of government. This polarization fuels our national conflict when reform-minded states that oust their long-term incumbents are subordinated and subjugated in the congress by those that do not.
III. Third Premise
The cumulative effects of failed, unconstitutional government policies, the respective parties in power notwithstanding, have so weakened our internal institutions and polarized our society such that, left to its current trajectory, societal devolution, financial collapse, anarchy and civil war are not unreasonable eventual outcomes.
IV. Fourth Premise
There is little likelihood that our federal government can be fundamentally reformed within its existing framework, regardless of the outcome of national elections. This is due, in large measure, to the immense, overarching influence of lobbyists representing narrow, specialized interests working in concert with a massive, entrenched, self-serving bureaucracy accumulated over a span of 221 years of American history.
V. Fifth Premise
“No legitimate institution can be the sole and final arbiter of its own legitimacy,” yet the Supreme Court reigns supreme, unchecked and unaccountable, with no practical limits to its power or mischief. The carefully crafted safeguards imbedded in our Constitution have long since been and continue to be ignored and thwarted by a Supreme Court unbound by any willingness or duty to abide by its literal interpretation. This has, within the existing legal framework, irrevocably shifted power away from the States, and from the People, in direct conflict with the Founder’s intent.
VI. Sixth Premise
True reform can only come as an exogenic process, when sufficient numbers of States, through their respective legislatures, governors, and by the assent of their people, reassert all their original rights and powers as affirmed in the 1789 ratification. These rights are meaningless unless also accompanied by a right of refusal to further fund the unconstitutional endeavors of the federal government, and a mechanical means to implement same.
VII. Seventh Premise
The federal government never had the right or standing to deny to the states their right to declare their religious affiliation or the manner in which those beliefs may be expressed as a matter of public policy.
