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Contributed by Ben Graydon
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Dec 28, 2006 at 11:40 PM |
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When Lincoln waged treasonous war against the Southern states, he ran up a tremendous war debt. He turned where most heads of state had been conditioned to turn – to the heads of the banks of England and Europe, the Rothschilds – and asked for backing. They were only too happy to comply…on certain conditions. First, Lincoln would have to authorize the re-chartering of the Bank of the United States. (The failure of Congress to re-charter the First Bank of the United States had led to the War of 1812, which led to the chartering of the Second Bank of the United States, which lasted until President Andrew Jackson – "I killed the bank!" – vetoed its renewal.) Lincoln thought he could get a better deal and, well…you know what happened to him.
Lincoln’s debt did not disappear, however, and guess who bought it? The same family who Lincoln had snubbed earlier, and before long, they came knocking. Congress had another problem: everything that they had done, at Lincoln’s behest or no, since 1861, they had done outside of their job description under the Constitution. In legal terms, that is called "ultra vires." A government body or any entity can do only what its founding charter says that it can do; go beyond that, and anyone at the helm can be held liable for all of those extra-legal acts. And they had done a lot – from suspending the Constitution and habeas corpus and outright war crimes in the South, to continuing to act as if they had Congressional authority when they clearly had no quorum after the Southern states walked out. So what does any good businessman do to protect himself from personal liability for the faults of his business? He incorporates. So Congress did just that.
In 1871, Congress passed The District of Columbia Organic Act, incorporating the government of the United States just as if it were a business – for, you see, by 1871 that is what it was…a business with more debt than it could pay.
Well, some might say, cities incorporate as municipalities, so what happened in D.C. in 1871 was no big deal. Not so, as Washington had already incorporated as a municipality in 1808. What happened was a necessary move by Congress to cover their derrieres for their numerous bad acts over the ten years prior, and probably had every authority under the Constitution to do so. Article I, § 8 says: "The Congress shall have Power to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may…become the Seat of the Government of the United States…and to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers." Or at least they would have had this power if they were lawfully acting as Congress at the time. As we already noted, however, Congress ceased to have the legal quorum necessary when the Southern states walked out, but then Lincoln declared martial law and …
So, if we can get over the hurdle of the absence of a Congressional quorum and see that incorporation was legal under the Constitution, what was its effect? Namely this: anything thereafter registered with the Corporation or entering into any kind of contract therewith was legally under its complete control. Congress’ authority over the states under the Constitution is virtually nonexistent; under a corporate contract, however, it could be great.
Article I, § 10, prohibits any state from passing any "law impairing the Obligation of Contracts." Contracts, therefore, trump the Constitution in authority (as do all "Debts, …Engagements," and "Treaties," according to Article VI.) Clearly the Constitution is a commercial law document, and it makes itself subservient to private contracts.
So the United States became a corporation in 1871, operating apart from the original Constitution, though they adopted it and its first twelve amendments as their own. The Corporation discarded the 13th Amendment and started with their own 13th Amendment, supposedly outlawing slavery. The goal of the Corporation, however, was to eventually enslave all free Americans and every state under the control of a private (not public) foreign (to the United States of America) corporation controlled by its international creditors, namely the Rothschild banks. In the 1960s, the individual states also incorporated under the aegis of the federal corporation, primarily because they needed protection for violating Article I, § 10, of the Constitution in making "any Thing but gold and silver a Tender in Payment of Debts" by using a private foreign currency – Federal Reserve Notes.
Now most of us are bound by many contracts to serve both the state and federal corporations – our debts, licenses, registrations, banking, real estate, etc. And we wonder why we lose when we attempt to argue our cases in Corporation courts, never realizing that our very presence there grants them jurisdiction. So how to be free? Stay tuned.
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Ben Graydon received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History at Bob Jones University in 1983 and his Master of Public Administration degree at Clemson and USC in 1996. He is founder and director of Parents United in Responsibility for Education (www.pureducation.com) and has written for The Times Examiner since the paper’s beginning.
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