By now, you’ve likely read plenty about how the Constitution has been twisted to give the federal government power far beyond anything the Founders ever planned. You already know the dangers of an unchecked President, of a Congress that passes bills without reading them, of agencies that do what they want, and judges who believe in precedent over original meaning.
So I won’t waste your time sharing more of the same.
Is the situation hopeless?
Absolutely not.
But in order to actually turn things around, a few sacred cows need to be dealt with. Here are TEN STEPS you should take right now to set the stage for a dramatic Constitutional recovery.
1. Recognize that massive change will only come through a revolution in thought.
John Adams forcefully asserted that the American Revolution was not, in fact, the war for independence. The “real American Revolution,” Adams wrote, was a “radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people.”
2. Take an honest and fearless inventory of the current situation.
It’s not just Obamacare that violates the Constitution. It’s almost everything these people do, from telling you what size toilet you can have, to what kind of light bulb you can buy or what kind of plant you can grow and consume in your own backyard. It’s their federal reserve, their wars, their executive orders, their regulations, their “national security,” and everything in between. Entire agencies – ATF, DEA, TSA, and many others – shouldn’t even exist, much less do what they do. Even programs you like, or feel entitled to because they’ve forced you to pay for them for years, are constitutional violations.
3. Understand that the federal courts are part of the federal government.
If a company was suing you, would you hire one of that company’s lawyers to represent you? If you and I had a dispute, would you want my girlfriend Sarah to decide who’s right and who’s wrong? No, federal judges absolutely cannot be impartial when it comes to federal power. Think “rubber stamp.”
4. Accept that our problems started well before the president took office.
Massive violations of the Constitution have been happening under every president in modern times. Replacing one president with another has happened every 4-8 years for a long enough time to know that the next president is going to be really bad too. Guaranteed. And if that guarantee fails, the one after will be awful. Putting your constitutional eggs into one person’s basket only ensures that the Constitution will end up totally smashed.
5. View both major political parties as an enemy of liberty.
No one in their right mind would see Lucky Luciano as a savior to the evils of Al Capone, or vice versa. Maybe you could convince one of your friends to do all the dirty work needed to rise up the ladder of the organization, so one day they would be in a place to reduce the harm it does to you personally. Maybe, but very unlikely. And even if you could, at the end of the day, a mob boss would still run the organization and would have you killed if needed.
6. Humbly admit that you’ve never cast a vote for federal office that has reduced the power of the federal government.
When you “vote the bums out,” you just get new bums. No further explanation necessary.
7. Admit that the feds will never stop the feds.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both recognized that if the federal government ever became the sole and exclusive arbiter of the extent of its own power, that power would always grow, regardless of protests, lawsuits, or elections. They were right. Going to the federal government to fix problems created by the federal government doesn’t work.
8. Be ready for the long haul.
Liberty is not a spectator sport. It takes action, sustained and persistent. It’s time we all get out of our comfort zone, even if that means we risk something. It’s for the future, and it’s worth it. We all need to be ready to do far more than what we are doing today. That includes committing to doing so incessantly until the job is done.
9. One step at a time.
Without being fully on board with these first nine steps, the tenth will almost certainly end in failure. You might find yourself distracted by the same old tricks they’ve played on all of us for decades (think Bush vs Clinton).
10. Be entirely ready to take a new approach to stopping the federal government.
You are facing a federal government that lies to you, spies on you, and claims the power to lock you up “indefinitely” (that means forever) without any due process. They rip you off at every turn and give your money to the politically connected. They make up the rules as they go, and change them on a whim. They have absolutely no respect for the constitution or your liberty.
They mean business. And that means you need to mean business too.
These people only get away with this stuff as long as you continue to use their approved methods to stop them from oppressing you.
James Madison, known as the “Father of the Constitution,” told us just what to do. There isn’t a person alive today who knows more about the Constitution than he did, so his advice needs to be followed. Now.
When enough people put Madison’s advice into practice, there’s not much that the federal government can do to force their unconstitutional acts, regulations and mandates down our throats.
Are you in?
Michael Boldin is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center where this article first appeared. Follow him on twitter – @michaelboldin, on LinkedIn, and on Facebook.
STEP 1: Be prepared to go to jail for standing up for our rights. Many of us are fighting every day to turn things around. We have been jailed and reviled by our neighbors thanks to the press that wants to curry favor with power and keep those campaign ad dollars rolling in. Don’t want to discourage but you need to know the ugly truth–every revolution begins with jailing and disappearing people. Are you ready?
Dennis Patterson–Stevens County, WA
since 911 what little rights you thought you had are out the window and you have none
better turn to an everliving Jesus instead
There’s only one step necessary to save America from the precipice of
moral depravity and destruction upon which she finds herself
precipitously teetering.
CLUE: Today’s woes were non-existent in
17th-century America whose governments of, by, and for God were
established upon His unchanging triune moral law (His Ten Commandments
and their respective statutes and judgments).
Consequently, there
has to be a defining moment in America’s history when her Christian
character and biblical course were formerly altered. That point was in
1787 when the late 18th-century founders replaced the 17th-century
Colonial governments for their own humanistic government of, by, and for
the people based upon capricious man-made Enlightenment concepts.
“…Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835: ‘They exercised the rights of
sovereignty; they named their magistrates, concluded peace or declared
war, made police regulations, and enacted laws as if their allegiance
was due only to God. Nothing can be more curious and, at the same time
more instructive, than the legislation of that period; it is there that
the solution of the great social problem which the United States now
presents to the world is to be found [in perfect fulfillment of Deuteronomy 4:5-8].
‘Amongst these documents we
shall notice, as especially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated
by the little State of Connecticut in 1650. The legislators of
Connecticut begin with the penal laws, and … they borrow their
provisions from the text of Holy Writ … copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and
Deuteronomy.…’23
“America was exalted in the
eyes of the world because of her applied righteousness, embodied in
Yahweh’s perfect law. Since 1788, when the United States of America, as a
nation, stopped following Yahweh’s laws and began following the laws of
WE THE PEOPLE, our legislation has ceased providing righteous
instruction to others. Instead, the rest of the world now holds America
in disdain. If America hopes to regain her favored status in the eyes of
the world, she must return to her original Constitution….”
For
more regarding these two polar opposite governments, Google online Chapter
3 “The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH” of “Bible Law vs. the United
States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.”
Then
find out how much you REALLY know about the Constitution as compared to
the Bible. Take our 10-quesiton Constitution Survey in the right-hand
sidebar and receive a complimentary copy of a book that EXAMINES the
Constitution by the Bible.
And understand that we live in a theocracy, especially believers.
NO theocracy is NOT the rule of the church as most try to define it, if that was the case it would be a ecclessi-ocracy, meaning the rule of the church.
Theocracy is the Rule of God through a decentralized limited authority functioning according to God’s rules.
The authority structures (kingdoms) that God established to govern on the earth, Rev 11:15 or the physical realm with every nation doing the same are…
1). Family government through which education, economics, business flow out off.
2). Spiritual government (church) revealing Biblical truths, communications, medical, legal flow through
3). Civil government through which defense of the borders against invaders, and enforcing the law, not man’s laws, but God’s laws that each governing authority is to live by.
KP