Chapter Four

A STORM IS COMING

A storm is coming because We, the prudent people of the United States of America, forgot rightful authority in this nation. Just flat let it slip our mind. When we forgot rightful authority, we lost the only viable self-image available to citizens of the United States of America.

Today virtually no citizen in this nation understands exactly where the government of the United States of America gets its authority from. Because we the people do not understand where the government ordained and established by we the people gets its authority from, the present government of the United States has slipped into a vacuum of authority that is being filled by the governors themselves. Since the governors have no more insight into the rightful authority for the government of the United States than the people, there is no mechanism available to hold the governors accountable to authority. The governors are becoming subject themselves, not to the demands of authority, but to the demands of power. And power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Whoa! Hold it there, pard. What gives you the authority to talk about these things? What are your credentials? Who is this guy anyway? Is he going to try to finesse us into agreeing with his opinion about authority so that when we agree we'll be subject to HIS authority? Fat chance!

Actually, if I have any authority, it comes from understanding where the real authority for the government of the United States of America comes from. And it sure doesn't come from me. And it doesn't come from we, the people of the United States. And it doesn't come from the elected Representatives of we, the people. And it doesn't come from the Constitution of the United States of America. And it doesn't come from the Bill of Rights. It comes from the Truth. If I have any authority, it comes from the fact that I am presenting to you the Truth about the government of the United States of America.

The Truth, you say! What you call "The Truth" is nothing more and nothing less than your opinion! Who do you think you are calling your opinion the Truth? God?!

Well, no; I'm not. I've already told you who I am. Now I know it might be shocking to find out that a nobody like me could actually find out the truth about the government of the United States of America, what with so many people around who have given up on finding out the truth about anything in reality. But I've never suffered from that particular malady. I've always believed the truth was available to us. If we looked hard enough.

The truth is nothing more than a statement in words that accurately illustrates the way objective reality is organized. It's an extremely helpful concept, the truth. In fact, without it, people become hopelessly lost: they lose their identity. Without the truth to guide them, people have no access to a map that shows them the way around in this somewhat complex and potentially confusing place we call the world. In other words, without the truth, people have no viable self-image. Because I figured out the truth about the government of the United States of America, I discovered the viable self-image of the United States of America and that discovery authorized me to send this message to the citizens of the United States.

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This is the Truth about authority in the United States of America: The nation called the United States of America was created by its Founders to embody a definition of the Truth about government on this planet. From the day the government of the United States of America was born, the government itself was nothing more and nothing less than words designed by the Founders of this nation to define precisely the Truth about the thing called government. And that definition of Truth was meant by the Founders of the United States of America to be understood by every citizen of this nation to be Law. All the authority of the government of the United States of America was a product of the accuracy of this definition of the Truth about government on this planet. Our self-image as a nation was precisely defined by this definition of Truth. We got amnesia when we forgot the Truth about the government of the United States.

Now this is not my opinion. It is a matter of historical fact that can be evident to any person who takes the time and expends the effort to gaze back into the past and there review the documentary evidence that proves without a shadow of a doubt that the authority of the government of the United States of America is composed of nothing more and nothing less than a definition of Truth about government on this planet.

The storm is coming because we, the people of the United States, have forgotten where the authority of this government comes from. When we, the people of the United States of America, forgot this Truth, the government of the United States of America lost every shred of authority it possesses on this planet. All that was left was power. Raw, brute force. It is that raw, brute force that threatens us over the horizon.

We can keep the storm at bay if we will but remember where the authority of the government of the United States is couched. I will take you to the documentary evidence that defines precisely how the government of the United States received authority. I expect you to follow me now because the return of this nation to its rightful authority is the duty of every citizen of the United States of America; and if I've learned anything at all about this nation, it is that there are citizens here who will do their duty.

Chapter Five

THE LAW IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Revolution that has occurred in this nation cannot be seen until we understand that the foundation for Law in the United States of America has been destroyed. Let me explain: certain words summarize the foundation for the Law that is to have authority over every citizen of the United States of America. Unless these words are understood to be Law, the self-image cannot exist that was intended by the Founders of the United States of America to be the foundation upon which this nation rested.

Few thinking people in this nation would argue with the point I have just made. All legal authorities are quick to agree that the United States of America is "a nation of Laws". People do not rule the United States, political theorists tell us, this nation is ruled by Laws. And all across the nation, all the prudent people nod agreement as if their agreement to the formula proves there is substantial unity in this nation.

That unity is an illusion. Even when people agree with the formula that equates government authority with the law, there is nothing of substance agreed upon. The substance of such a formula is seen when we examine the laws that allegedly rule the nation. Only when we agree on which "laws" actually rule the nation can we be said to be in substantial agreement. Let's see if we can find such agreement by taking a close look at the concept itself, the concept called "law."

We all tend to relate to "law" as if it was made up of nothing but words. While it is obvious that law cannot be seen outside the context of words, real law is more, much more, than words. A real law is a picture drawn in the consciousness of people by words, a picture that illustrates what reality actually looks like. In other words, real law is a subjective illustration that accurately represents objective reality. Notice I said "real" law. Words can be called law that do not draw an accurate picture of what objective reality looks like. Those words, even though some may call them law, are not real Law; words like that are more accurately described as lies.

A viable self-image is found only in people who have the ability to tell the difference between real law and lies. The United States of America was once composed of people who had the ability to tell the difference between a law and a lie. As a matter of historical fact, this nation was created by such people.

The people who founded this nation understood that a law was nothing more, and nothing less, than a word that describes the process through which our consciousness judges the way reality is organized. Which takes us back to the definition of law I stated earlier: A law is a subjective illustration that accurately represents objective reality. There are other words in the English language that describe exactly the same process described by the word "law." These words are "fact" and "truth." Truth, Law, and Fact are synonymous terms that refer to exactly the same object in reality: the process through which our subjective consciousness grasps objective reality. In other words, when we think (or to be more accurate, when we believe) we have perceived the actual way certain aspects of objective reality are organized, we label that perception "truth" or "law" or "fact". Either term will suffice because all three point to precisely the same activity: a mind that has become convinced it has accurately grasped objective reality.

The foundation of a viable self-image is composed of two articles of faith: (1) the belief that the person is actually in contact with objective reality, and (2) the belief that such contact will allow the person to find a way of life. Without this foundation a person has no hope that can sustain them, and no certainty that can provide them the power to act. But these articles of faith do not comprise the complete foundation for a viable self-image. Intertwined within these articles of faith like the concrete poured into the structure of the foundation of a house, are certain laws, or facts, or--as the Founder's of the United States of America called them--self-evident truths.

Earlier I contended that a nation's self-image is composed the same way an individual's self-image is composed. The things the individual holds to be true about him/her self creates that individual's self-image. A nation's self-image is composed of the things the citizens in that nation agree are true about the nation.

The fact that virtually no citizen of this nation recognizes as Law the self-evident truths the Founders intended every citizen in this nation to believe as fact is conclusive evidence that a Revolution has occurred in this nation. Without treating the self-evident truths expounded by the Founders as truth, fact, and Law, the viable self-image designed by the Founders for the United States of America simply cannot exist. To cease to treat as Law the definition of reality, the self-evident truth, the laws, defined by the Founders is Revolution.

The Restoration of the duly authorized government of the United States of America will come when we, the people of the United States, once again recognize these words to have the rightful authority of Law in this nation. On that day, the viable self-image of the United States of America will be restored.

As the first step toward Restoration, I will remind you of the words that were understood by the Founders of the government of the United States to provide the viable self-image of the United States of America:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation--

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness--

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed-- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But..."(what follows is a list of grievances against the King of England which concludes with the following words:) "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

If you want to understand how truly mixed up our nation has become, think about the fact that every citizen of this nation from fourth grade up knows that those words were uttered by the people who founded the United States of America, yet virtually nobody understands that those words define the foundation for the Law that is to have authority over every citizen in this nation. Fourth graders don't know it, you don't know it, the President of the United States doesn't know it, the Supreme Court of the United States doesn't know it, but every person who participated in founding the United States of America knew it! And I can prove it.

Chapter Six

UNDERSTANDING THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE USA

All it took to destroy this government's authority was convince everyone that the words in the Declaration of Independence are just words without real authority in the United States of America. The ones who worked to destroy the Declaration of Independence as Law are bastard outlaws. I know those words sound harsh and make me appear less than prudent. But I am not using words to draw a favorable image of myself, I am attempting to use words to draw an accurate picture of objective reality.

So I repeat: The most accurate words available to describe those who have led the people of this nation to forget the significance of the Declaration of Independence are bastard and outlaw. They are bastards because they disown their own parents--the Founders of the United States of America; and they are outlaws because they destroyed the only foundation for law available to the people of this nation--the ideas defined in the Declaration of Independence. By leading the American people away from the foundation upon which the viable self-image of the United States of America was erected, the political leadership of this nation led the people of this nation into an identity crisis of historic proportions. In effect, they created a Revolution in our self-image as a nation, and in that Revolutionary Act, the political leadership of this nation destroyed the authority of the government of the United States of America. Before the work of those bastard outlaws can be overthrown, the real citizens of the USA must understand their government.

A citizen can only understand the government of the United States when they understand the relationship that exists between the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Our viable self-image as a nation is dependent upon our understanding that relationship. Now I know that this is asking a lot of the citizens of this nation. But we must understand that the experiment called the United States of America has always carried with it a presumption that ordinary people could actually create and sustain a government that could be a force for life rather than a force for death. In order for ordinary people to participate in such a government, they must be willing to understand their government. Since the Declaration of Independence occurred in history before the Constitution, let's examine the Declaration of Independence first.

The words in the Declaration of Independence are the only foundation for the authority of the government of the United States of America because the words in the Declaration of Independence define the plan that all the authority of the government of the United States of America is designed to implement. The Declaration of Independence is the Purpose Statement of the government of the United States of America.

Anybody who has ever worked for any organization understands that the Purpose Statement of that organization is the most important piece of information available to everyone in that organization because the Purpose Statement defines the viable self-image of the organization. The Purpose Statement defines the viable self-image of the organization because it defines the organization's reason for being. Without a reason for being, an organization, like an individual, wanders around like a victim of amnesia. Without a Purpose Statement, the organization has no foundation upon which a viable self-image can be erected.

The Purpose Statement creates the viable self-image of an organization because it provides everyone in the organization with The Strategy that guides every activity in the organization. Because the Purpose Statement defines the plan for the organization, any person in the organization can be held accountable by any other person in the organization.

That accountability operates this way: suppose the President of the organization does something that interferes with the organization's ability to implement the Strategy defined in the Purpose Statement. Any person in the organization can go to the President and say, Look what you're doing: There's no way the action you just took can help us accomplish the goal defined in our Purpose Statement. At this point, everyone in the organization looks at the Purpose Statement and analyzes whether or not the President's behavior is helping or hindering the accomplishment of the goal defined in the organization's Purpose Statement. At some point in that analysis process, a consensus will develop among the individuals who make up the organization. If that consensus is in agreement that the President's actions hinder the accomplishment of the Purpose Statement, the President, if he/she desires to remain President, will refrain from such action in the future. In this manner, even the President of the organization is held accountable by the organization's Purpose Statement.

The Declaration of Independence is the Purpose Statement of the United States of America. But we, the people of the United States of America, don't understand this anymore. That's because a bunch of bastard outlaws have gotten most everybody in this nation to believe that authority in this nation is derived from the Constitution of the United States. We have all been taught that the Constitution of the United States of America is supposed to be the Supreme Law that rules this nation, the Supreme Law of the land. The day the bastard outlaws convinced the American people of that fact, a Revolution occurred in this nation because, on that day, the Purpose Statement of the United States of America was destroyed.

It is a lie that the Constitution is the only organic Law in the United States of America. What we have to understand is that the ideas in the Constitution of the United States of America are themselves unauthorized. By that I mean the Constitution does not contain one word explaining where its authority to rule comes from.

Potential confusion about the relationship between the Constitution and Declaration of Independence can be eliminated by asking a question: Am I saying that the Constitution of the United States is not the Law in this nation? No, that is not what I am saying. The Constitution is Law. I am saying that when the Constitution became understood by we the people as the foundation of the Law in this nation, we made a grievous error, an error that created a Revolution in this nation.

The Constitution of the United States of America is Law that was itself erected upon another foundation, the Declaration of Independence, which foundation was itself also Law. The two together, the Constitution and the foundation of the Constitution--the Declaration of Independence--comprise the whole body of organic Law in this nation. When we forgot that, we destroyed the government created by the Founders of the United States of America by destroying the foundation for Law in this nation. Such destruction is Revolution.

It is revolution because the destruction of the Declaration of Independence as Law usurps the authority of the definition of Truth defined in the Declaration. Such usurpation is as much a Revolutionary act as if we the people had decided to forget everything written in the Constitution.

There are those who say that we the people, through our Courts and elected Representatives, have already gone a long way toward forgetting what is written in the Constitution of the United States. And they fret and mutter that the Constitution is becoming just a piece of paper that means anything our contemporary society says it means.

What these fretful souls fail to realize is that the present confusion over the proper interpretation of the Constitution exists only because we the people have forgotten that the Constitution can be properly understood only when it is interpreted in light of the Law defined in the Declaration of Independence.

The Constitution begins with these words: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The rest of the words in the Constitution define how the government is to be structured and how the powers of the government are to be divided.

Now at first glance, the preamble to the Constitution sounds exactly like a Purpose Statement. Right? But look again. There is something missing. Not one word in the Constitution of the United States of America explains where "We the people" get the authority to rule ourselves, and not one word explains where we the people get the right to ordain a government.

The people of the United States must understand that our ability to understand how we got the right to create a government is the actual foundation upon which the viable self-image of this nation must rest. People can have the best intentions in the world, but if they do not understand that their intentions are right, they become powerless to impose those intentions on others in reality. The responsibility of government is nothing more and nothing less than the responsibility to impose the intentions of government on other people in reality. Uncertainty on the question of right and wrong creates paralysis in government because such uncertainty is evidence of the lack of a foundation that can support action.

Only when we the people understand the ideas in the Declaration of Independence can we understand how we got the right to ordain a government. And only this understanding can give us the knowledge of right and wrong that will equip us to impose the power of our government on people in this nation--or elsewhere as the need arises. Only this understanding can prepare us to weather the storm ahead.

Chapter Seven

SANCTION FROM THE COURT OF LAST RESORT

If you want to understand the government of the United States of America you must understand that the people who designed and ratified the Constitution of the United States understood that the ground of authority, the foundation for the Law of the government of the United States of America, did not need to be defined in the Constitution; it had already been defined. Everybody in the United States understood that the authorization for the Constitution of the United States had already been precisely defined in the Declaration of Independence. There was simply no need to say again what everybody in the world already knew. We the people had the authority to form a government, to write our own Constitution, because the words in the Declaration of Independence about the plan of the Creator had been proved to be true, not only in the minds of the people who wrote and signed those words, but in the entire length and breadth of this place that was now called the United States of America. The words had been tested, a hard test, a real test, and the words had stood the test. The Purpose Statement for government defined in the Declaration of Independence was fully sanctioned.

There is no word in the English language more important in a discussion of government than the word "sanction." If you don't know what the word "sanction" means you can't possibly understand government, because sanction is the word that describes where the authority of government comes from.

Webster defines sanction as "an authoritative action that confirms or ratifies a decision." Think about that. Sanction implies that every decision requires an action of some kind that proves the validity of that decision.

Now, in essence, government is nothing more and nothing less than a series of decisions. In other words, all actions in reality that we call actions of government begin with a decision. The word sanction implies that the decision itself, even a decision of government, requires an action of some kind before that decision can be seen to be authorized: that's what Webster means by "an authoritative action that confirms or ratifies a decision".

This idea that decisions have to be confirmed or ratified by an action is as old as government itself. In the days of kings, sanction was provided to the king's decision when the king pressed his ring into the hot wax that sealed the document on which the decision was inscribed. The symbolism of that action on the king's part was a graphic demonstration of the meaning of the word sanction. When the king pressed his ring into the hot wax sealing the document on which his decision was written, the king was actually balling up his fist and pushing it into the decision itself. It didn't take a genius to figure out that the king was telling everybody that the power behind the decision written on that particular document was the power symbolized by the king's balled up fist. In other words, the king was saying he personally would see to it that any person who disobeyed the decision in the document was beat into submission.

The problem the king was dealing with is the age old problem of government: call it the problem of consent. Unless people granted the king the right to be the author of decisions that people have a duty to obey, the only way the king could get people to obey his decisions was through brute force.

Everyone who has ever been involved in government knows government is a meaningless word unless the decisions of government are obeyed by everyone subject to government. Every government that has ever existed on the face of the earth has known there are two ways government can rule: by authority and by brute force.

Let's examine the way of authority first: Authority is the word that describes the power that people grant government. Notice that the word "authority" is very similar to the word "author." There is a reason for this similarity: the power we call "authority" is actually the power to be the author of decisions. In other words, the power of authority is the power to author--to write--decisions for other people.

The power of authority is a real power in reality because people consent to obey the decisions made by those to whom authority is granted. The power is seen when government decisions actually move people to do things they did not independently decide--write--for themselves.

For instance, there was a time in history when most everyone believed kings received sanction from the author of governments to rule people. Because the people believed the king had the right to author decisions that people were obligated to obey, the king was given authority by the people. An ax murderer might have the power to force people to obey his will temporarily, but he would never be seen to have authority because the people knew the ax murderer had never received sanction from the author of governments for his actions.

Here's an example of how authority functions: The king's ring pressed a sign into the document containing his decision. Now those who granted the king the right to make decisions for them saw the king's insignia as sufficient evidence to obtain their consent to obey the king's decision. The governed consented to the fact that the king had the right to be the author of decisions that must be obeyed. The king ruled those people by authority.

But what about those who refused to grant the king the right to be the author of their decisions, the right of authority? For those people, the king had a message, the message that lay behind the insignia on the king's ring: the message in the king's balled up fist.

The message in the king's balled up fist had real meaning because the king was backed up by real power, the power represented by the brute force of everyone who granted the king authority. It was that brute force that was brought to bear on those who refused to concede authority to the king.

Sanction is a word that includes in its meaning both of the two possible alternative mechanisms through which government can occur. A decision has meaningful legal sanction if that decision carries with it both authority and the raw, brute force necessary to force obedience from those who refuse to consent to the authority of the author of the decision.

Are you beginning to see why the concept of sanction is the key to understanding where authority comes from? Without the action taken by the king to push his fist into the wax, the decision written on the document would have no recognizable sanction that could enforce obedience from everyone.

For another example of sanction, take the Constitution of the United States. Sanction for the decisions contained within that document was provided when the various states acted by ratifying the document. Legal scholars today recognize that ratification process as exactly equivalent to the king pressing his fist into the wax. The elected Representatives of we, the people, committed all the force, the brute power, of the people of the United States of America to defend and enforce the message contained in the document called the Constitution of the United States of America. Therefore the document was perceived to have legal sanction, to be law in the United States of America.

The point is that no decision, no matter whether it be by king, Court, Congress, or whoever, can be seen to be authoritative without some authoritative action that provides sanction to the decision.

In order to put the government of the United States into a meaningful historical perspective, you've got to see how sanction was provided that allowed the government of the United States to exercise authority. Long before the Constitution of the United States was ever ratified--exactly eleven years before to be exact--the government of the United States of America received permission to exercise authority in this nation.

That permission came in the form of a sanction, an authoritative action that confirmed or ratified a decision. That sanction, the insignia of the King that sealed the decision spelling out the foundation for Law in the United States of America, was pressed into the document containing that decision in the Revolutionary War of the United States of America versus the Empire of Great Britain. That sanction was provided in the verdict handed down in the Court of Last Resort by the Author of governments in response to a case brought before that Court by the Founders of the United States of America. The brief for the Case that was brought by the Founders and the American people was contained in a document called the Declaration of Independence. When the real citizens of the United States of America analyze that brief, they will realize that they are looking at the foundation for the Law that has authority over every citizen of the United States of America. And when the real citizens of the real United States of America realize what has happened to the Law in this nation, the real citizens of the United States of America will grant authority to those who are willing to enforce that Law in this nation.

If the people who live in this country refuse their consent to that Law, there will be no alternative but to take the case back to the Court of Last Resort. Those interesting in avoiding that alternative must understand the real Law that presently rules the real citizens of the United States of America.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF SANCTION

Our inability to understand exactly how the Declaration of Independence received sanction that carried with it the full authority of Law can be traced to the fact that we have been taught to assume that the only sanction that can provide a government with legal authority has to be provided by some type of elected assembly of the people. Such is not the case.

We have been treating the subject of government as if the creation of the government and the creation of the form of government were one and the same process. That is a mistake. The creation of a government is one thing; the creation of the form that government will take is another. Each of these two activities requires a different type of sanction.

Throughout the history of mankind, only one action has ever worked to provide sanction for the decision to create a government. Now this, I am convinced, is the precise point that we have all been ignoring that has made it impossible for us to make sense of what has happened to the government of the United States. How did the decision embodied in the Declaration become sanctioned as law?

Let's look again at the Declaration: The Declaration is designed to define what kind of government the Creator intends to exist on this planet. The Founders declare that this government was intended by God to be one created by the consent of the governed, following the form the governed deemed fit to accomplish its purpose. The Law being defined in the Declaration was a Law concerned not with the form of government but with the creation of a new type of government. It was that Law that was being declared in the Declaration. In other words, the Declaration of Independence is a proposal for the creation of a new type of government based on a new definition of the plan of the Creator for government. In theological terms, the Declaration of Independence is a definition of exactly how God intends the ministry of the law to be carried out (government by consent of the government for the purpose of protecting Creator-endowed rights, etc.).

Now the proposed form of government outlined in the Declaration obviously met with some serious opposition from the king, et al. For this reason, the signers of the Declaration called the document a "Declaration" rather than a Law. They knew that their declaration, in order to have the force of law, would have to be tested. But they also knew that if their Declaration met the test and was found to be an accurate analysis of the Creator's plan for government that their Declaration would be fully sanctioned and stand as Law with all the full authority that term stands for.

The men who created this government took their decisions--their self-evident truths about what God wants from government--to the only Court on this planet that can actually rule on questions related to the creation of a government. The Revolutionary War fought by the Founders of the United States of America was a case fought in the Court of Last Resort. And in that Court they made their case before the Judge of nations, and the Judge of men's souls. And the Judge ruled on the decision taken by those men. His decision was revealed in the outcome of the proceeding. And in that outcome sanction was provided to the decision taken by the men who created the government of the United States of America. Their decision became fully sanctioned as the Law for government in this New World called the United States of America.

All else was simply formality. The ratification of the Constitution of the United States was a formality because the Constitution itself was a formality. The Constitution was a formality because it concerned only the form that the government would take. The reality--the government itself--had already been created and had already been ratified. It had been ratified and confirmed by the authoritative sanction received in the Revolutionary War. And everybody in the United States understood it!

We have gotten in trouble because we have forgotten what was once as plain to everyone in this nation as the nose on your face. When this nation was young, everybody understood exactly where the people got the right to write their own Constitution, they understood precisely how they got the right to play governor: God himself had sanctioned their right by allowing them to prevail in the Court of Last Resort. People would have laughed in anyone's face who tried to argue that sanction was derived from the consent of the governed, or from the Constitution of the United States. They all knew that this government had received sanction years before the Constitution was even written. And they knew exactly how that sanction had been provided: the King of Kings had pressed His fist into wax warmed by torrents of human blood and thereby sanctioned the decision outlined in the Declaration. Sure, we, the people, "ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States" but we did it with full knowledge that we had received sanction to ordain and establish the form of government: God Himself had sanctioned the creation of that government by the decree He issued in the Court of Last Resort. And that decree confirmed the ideas in the Declaration of Independence as Law.

But now historical fact has almost faded from view. People have forgotten what is necessary in the creation of a government. But that's not all the people of the United States have forgotten: we have forgotten the very plan that was sanctioned as the grand strategy that would guide this government in every action taken by government!

How could such an awesome and potentially earthshaking lapse of memory occur? Is it possible that two hundred years of life have caused the United States of America to contact some virulent form of Alzheimer disease that afflicts nations? Or is there another explanation available, one that while not so simple and easy to understand actually allows us to become equipped to participate in implementing the only plan that can actually allow the government of the United States of America to operate with real authority on this planet?

There is such an explanation and you need to understand it if you are a citizen of the United States of America.

Chapter Eight

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF GOVERNMENT

Before we the people of the United States of America can have a chance to find a viable self-image, we must understand what lies hidden behind the word "government".

History shows us that the people of every nation on the face of the earth have always been willing to subsume themselves, their individual identity, their individual self-image, under the thing referred to by the word government. In fact, recorded history is nothing more than a record of the various experiments people have carried out throughout the ages in their attempt to find a government that actually can provide them with life. From its beginning with the family unit headed by the Father and the Mother to the most sophisticated full-blown governments of today, people have been forced to rely on government as the instrument that offered them the best hope of shielding them from the harsh realities created by Death on this planet.

People's allegiance to government has always been created by their willingness to accept as True certain words that were seen to justify government's exercise of power. For instance, in the earliest governmental unit, the family, authority was gained by saying the words, "I am your Father"; or "I am your Mother". These words defined both the basis and the purpose of government in the beginning, and the citizens in this earliest governmental unit, the children, understood these words to define precisely why and how government power was justified. That those who called themselves Father and Mother were responsible for the lives of the citizens in the earliest government unit was self-evident to the children who sprang from the loins of the governors (the Father and the Mother). This self-evident truth gained the consent of the governed (the children) and justified the right of the parents to exercise power in the governmental unit called the family.

Government outside the family unit came into being because of the ownership problem. The ownership problem is the cause of conflict between people on this planet. The ownership problem is created by the unavailability of a means of establishing unquestionable right to ownership--primarily of land, but potentially of any other aspect of reality. In other words, there is no basis for a right to own anything that everyone on earth has agreed is unquestionable. When ownership is disputed, conflicts have always arisen.

The ownership problem forced people to abandon the family as their primary form of government. In a world where possession of land capable of sustaining life was the first requirement for survival, the family unit found itself impotent to obtain and keep habitable land when confronted by landless larger families or landless families that had united together in pursuit of habitable land. This need to protect habitable land explains why the family unit was replaced as the primary instrument of survival and replaced by the overarching authority structures commonly called "governments" that we see evolve in history. Government has always been nothing more than a family or a group of families cooperating together in order to protect the land they occupied. The root explanation for the existence of government has to include the land problem to be factually valid. Whether we look at government in the family unit or government in any fully developed nation, the purpose of government has always been to protect access to land fertile enough to provide sustenance for life.

This purpose has always been defined in what we call principles--words designed to justify the existence of government. In other words, government has always had to explain, both to itself and to others, why it had the right to hold habitable land. The words used by government to explain why it was right that they, and not some other, hold the land were the principles that justified the government.

WORDS AND GOVERNMENT

It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of words to government. Without words, government simply cannot exercise authority. If you will remember, I earlier pointed out that there are two ways government can exercise power: by authority or by brute force. Governments rule by authority when the governed have been moved to consent to allow governments to make decisions which the governed obey without having to be coerced by brute force.

Words are the vehicles that move the governed to grant consent to be governed. Words are the life blood of authority. In the same way that a human body cannot exist without blood, so too authority cannot exist without words.

Words connect the consent of the governed to the power of the governors. In other words, it is through the device of words that governors explain their right to govern in such a way as to gain consent from the governed. By using the mechanism of words, governors create a government that rules by the mechanism of authority. Without words that can move the governed to consent to be subject to the decisions of government, government can only rule by brute force.

Homo Sapiens is the only species that can form a government that exercises power through authority. In other words, only homo sapiens have access to the power of words. The fact that people insist their government be justified by words is that which most obviously separates governments created by homo sapiens from the governments created by other species of life. The fundamental difference between governments established by people and governments established by wolves is wolves don't need words to justify the use of brute force, people do. Governments that exercise power outside the context of words that authoritatively justify the use of that power is government of, by, and for, a beast, or The Beast, depending on your theology.

WORDS AND GOVERNMENT AND SELF-IMAGE

Just as a government cannot rule with authority without words, so too a nation's viable self-image cannot be created and sustained without words. People cannot sustain a viable self-image when they perceive themselves to be beasts. Yet people involved in government must sometimes do things that look beastly. In order to sustain a viable self-image, a nation must be able to understand that even though it is forced to do beastly things, it is not a beast. Words are the only device available to homo sapiens that has the power to create such an understanding. Let's examine how words are used to justify the use of brute force, Deadly Force.

The survival of the reality called government requires that people who do not willingly consent to the decisions of government be forced to submit. This requirement means that those who do not grant authority to government will be forced by government to submit to its authority by the use of brute force, brute force that sometimes takes the form of Deadly Force.

People involved in the exercise of Deadly Force against members of their own species must believe they are right in the exercise of that force or their viable self-image is destroyed. The belief that sustains those involved in the exercise of Deadly Force against members of their own species consists of words that explain why it is right that government exercise Deadly Force against members of its own species. Without those words, and the belief that those words accurately explain objective reality, terrible things begin to happen in the minds of those who exercise Deadly Force against members of their own species.

Instead of perceiving themselves to be individuals who are firmly seated on a reality that can sustain their lives, they begin to find themselves beset by terrible fears, beastly images flash into consciousness, they experience a chronic sense of dread--in short, their viable self-image has been destroyed by the destruction of their peace of mind.

Peace of mind is the essential environment for a viable self-image. Without peace of mind, members of the species homo sapiens are the most uncomfortable inhabitants of spaceship Earth. Since words are the things that provide people involved in government with justification for the use of Deadly Force, words are the things that provide those involved in government with peace of mind.

Those words become the most important things in life. Since you are involved in the government of the United States of America, the words used to justify this government are the only things that can provide you and I with peace of mind, and that peace of mind is the absolute necessity if we are to sustain a viable self-image.

Every citizen of the United States of America alive today is involved in the government of this nation. We the people are the source of the power exercised by the government of the United States of America. Not a day passes in this nation without the power of this government being exercised in Deadly Force against some member of the species homo sapiens. At the root of the anxiety that presently grips this nation is the suspicion that no one actually understands words that can explain where we the people get the right to exercise this Deadly Force.

I understand those words. I have found the foundation that was designed by the Founders of this nation to provide all the citizens of this nation with peace of mind as we went about the horrible business of government on this planet. The words defined by the Founders in the Declaration of Independence are words that explain exactly how and why we the people of the United States of America are justified in exercising Deadly Force in this world. Those words are absolutely essential to the viable self-image of this nation because those words, and those words alone, have the power to explain where and how we the people got the right to do whatever is necessary to protect and defend the government created by the Founders of the United States of America. If we are going to find a viable self-image for the United States, you must understand why the words in the Declaration of Independence are the only vehicles available to the people of the United States of America that can provide us with the peace of mind essential to a viable self-image.

Chapter Nine

SEEING THE LAW

The words in the Declaration of Independence are the only words in the United States of America that can actually create government authority in this nation. They are the only words because they were the words that were, in the beginning of this nation, designed by the Founders of this nation to create authority in this nation. While it is theoretically possible for the citizens of the United States to choose other words upon which they base authority, such a move is a Revolutionary Act that, at some point in time, would have to receive sanction from the same Court--the Court of Last Resort--that issued sanction to the words originally chosen by the Founders of this nation to be the basis of authority.

For the citizens of the United States to treat the words chosen by the Founders as the foundation upon which authority rests--the words in the Declaration of Independence--for the citizens to treat those words as meaningless in this nation is to abandon the foundation of authority in this nation. Since the words in the Declaration of Independence presently have no legal standing in this nation, real authority has disappeared in this nation. The destruction of authority means that the only mechanism through which government can rule is brute force.

If we the people want to avoid a government that can only rule by brute force, if we the people want to find authority again, we must grasp the meaning of the words in the Declaration of Independence. To understand why the Declaration of Independence is the Foundation for Law and Authority in the United States of America, we must grasp what the Founders were doing when they wrote that document. They were defining for the world the way they perceived reality to be organized. Therefore, according to any definition of the word "law" or "truth" or "fact" they were defining what they understood to be the law. Even though the Declaration does not contain the word "law", it does contain the word "truth". If you understand that the two words are absolutely interchangeable because they point to precisely the same referent, then you can understand why the Declaration of Independence is Law for those who define their duty in terms of protecting the government created by the Founders of the United States of America. It is Law because it is Truth because it is Fact. Let us see that Law.

To see the real Law in the United States of America, we've got to see the reality viewed by the people who founded this nation. They saw a world ruled by kings. The Founders of the United States of America believed God wanted to change the world ruled by kings by forming a new Law on this planet. The Founder's were proved to be correct and the New Law they wanted to see operate on this planet became the Real Law in the United States of America. Review the historical record and see if you don't agree.

In the beginning, the government of the United States was founded on a radical new definition of the plan of God, a definition that destroyed the power of the Divine Right of Kings, the official explanation upon which all the governments of western civilization had been justified for over one thousand years. "...We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these Rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

With the American Revolution a fundamental change occurred in people's understanding of government. Where before all governments relied on some variant of the Divine Rights of Kings for justification, now in the United States of America, a new government had redefined the purpose of government by redefining the plan of the Creator. This new definition of the plan of the Creator is the American Distinctive, that unique contribution of the American political system to the world.

HOW WE GOT AMNESIA

We got amnesia in this nation because the present government of the United States has tried to do what no nation in the history of the world has ever been able to do: disengage its authority from the plan of god for government. Do I need to spend time pointing out to you the exact process through which this present government has gone about eliminating the idea of god from the decisions made by government in this nation? I think not. Most of us know there has been a concerted effort to separate the government of the United States from any connection with ideas concerning god. If that fact is not obvious to you, then you have not been paying enough attention to the world around you to understand anything I have to say. But you have been paying attention. That's why you can't stop reading this book. You have sensed that I am onto something very important. And I am. I understand the relationship between god and government.

Virtually all of my present authority stems from the fact that I understand that every government that has ever existed on this planet has justified its existence by either explicitly or implicitly founding itself on some explanation of the plan of God for government. Because I possess this understanding I possess the authority that comes to those who speak the Truth about government. This authority operates because people can hardly stop themselves from listening to those who speak the Truth.

But the authority I possess is authority that was intended by the Founders of the government of the United States of America to belong to every voting citizen of this nation. All that authority consists of is knowledge of the Truth, and the willingness to defend it. To get past being mixed up and to have access to the authority that belongs to you as a citizen of the United States of America, you must understand some things about the relationship of god to government.

In order to put the government of the United States of America in historical perspective we must see that all human governments share the same foundation. Remember all that I wrote about the necessity and importance of words to the exercise of government authority? Well, the only real difference between any nation in recorded history is the words used by people in explaining their right to hold the land. Since the fundamental purpose of every government that ever existed on this planet was to hold habitable land, the words used to justify that activity were the words that held the nation together on the land.

For most of recorded history, these words were composed of what were once called theological terms. Before the later part of the eighteenth century on western civilization's calendar, there was a strong consensus among the peoples of the earth concerning the presence of external force or forces referred to by the word God or gods. Most people believed these external forces were the actual causes of all events on earth whether human or natural. For this reason it was logically necessary to explain, to justify, human government with reference to the plan of God.

For instance, Thomas H. Greer, in his A Brief History of Western Civilization explains how government in ancient Egypt maintained authority over the people. He tells us, "Religion was the base of pharaoh's authority." In other words, the right of the ruler to hold the land and demand the obedience from the subjects necessary to hold the land was explained in theological terms. This example is only one of a pattern that includes every government that has ever existed on the face of the earth: Inevitably, and without exception, every government throughout the course of recorded history has justified its right to hold the land with words that explained why it was God's plan that they hold the land. Whether we look at the Egyptian Dynasties, the Roman Empire, the Greeks, or any of the myriad medieval kingdoms, every government justified its existence by words that explained the government existed because god intended it to exist in precisely the form it existed. The government founded in the United States of America was just like all the rest of the governments that ever existed on this planet in this regard.

In any overview analysis of government, the American Revolution has to be seen to be a pivotal event, a hinge upon which the door of government opened onto a brand new room. It is impossible to understand the evolution of government on this planet unless we firmly grasp what happened when the United States of America was founded.

The fundamental issue facing the Founding Fathers of the United States of America was this question: what gives you the right to overrule the will of a king who exercises his authority by Divine Right? The Founding Fathers were citizens of an English Colony. Even though England itself had evolved by the time of the American Revolution to be a monarchy limited by a Parliament, an unwritten Constitution, and bodies of legal precedents known as the Common Law, the king's authority to rule was still justified by the doctrine of Divine Right of Kings. Anyone with an eighth grade education has some insight into the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings. In other words, the king was understood by many to have the right to hold the land because God had given the king that right. In essence, Monarchists believed that anyone who denied the king's right to rule was arguing not only with the king but with God Himself.

As with all governments throughout history, the Founders had to explain in words why it was Right for their government to exist, why their government had the right to hold the land, and not some other. The Founders of the United States of America had to answer the question about the king's authority--"the greatest question which ever was debated in America," as John Adams called it--or they could never have the logical justification that would allow them to, in good conscience, rise up in rebellion against the king; nor could they expect the support of the masses of people who had been taught all their lives to respect the doctrine of Divine Right of Kings.

The Second Continental Congress of the United States of America answered the question about the King's authority in the Declaration of Independence, which is now, was when it was written, and always will be, a theological statement about the Creator's relationship with mankind and the Creator's plan for government.

UNDERSTANDING THE PLAN

Reread the Declaration of Independence in Chapter Four. The Declaration of Independence is a statement of truth--self-evident truth. The statement of truth had as its subject, rights. The signers declared that all men are created equal. Did they mean that any distinction between you and I, or them and us, must be a false distinction. Is that what is declared self-evident? No. All men are declared to be created equal because they are all equally endowed with certain rights. It is in that sense alone that this equality is couched. Instead of being a statement that declares there are no distinctions between people, the statement identifies precisely where equality between people is located: all men are created equal because they are endowed by their Creator with certain Rights.

One of the most obvious historical facts visible to anyone who tries to understand the United States of America is that the words in the Declaration of Independence were subject to widely varying interpretations from the moment the Founders consented that those words defined the Law for this nation. For fully a century after the Law in the Declaration of Independence was adopted by this nation, a significant portion of the citizens insisted on interpreting the "all men" portion of the Law in an amazingly narrow way. This narrow interpretation created a horrible situation in the United States, a situation that required this nation to engage in a horribly bloody Civil War before those who insisted on their narrow interpretation could be persuaded to consent to a much broader interpretation of the Law in this nation. But those who want to understand the United States of America must not ignore the moral of the story: it was the Law defined by the Declaration of Independence that was being disputed. There was never a question among any of the parties in the dispute about the Legal Authority of the picture of reality contained in the Declaration itself. In the past, we disagreed about what the Law meant, but we never forgot where the Law was found. The Revolution that has recently occurred in the United States of America has caused us all to forget where the foundation of the Real Law for the government of the United States of America is found--the Declaration of Independence.

The Founders of the government of the United States of America presupposed an image of the Creator--an idea about God--upon which they constructed a philosophy of government. The signers of the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that the Creator, an independent Being with a will and plan of His own, is the source of rights--and right. The Founders claimed that this Creator had created a state of equality by endowing all men with certain Rights, certain unalienable Rights. That which the Creator had granted could not be withdrawn by anyone, whether called King or commoner, because the Will of the Creator would oppose such withdrawal.

In other words, The Will of the Creator was identified as the source of individual Rights. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America declared to be self-evident truth that rights are not granted by any nation, or king, or person, or society, or human agency of any kind. They knew that if rights were understood to be granted by people, rights could be withdrawn by people, especially a King. All men were endowed with equal rights precisely because the Creator willed it. Not because people willed it, but because the Creator willed it. Upon these propositions the United States of America was built.

For the first time in the history of the world, a government was created that said the purpose of government was to protect the Rights of all men. Now is that a great plan or what?!

Before the American Revolution every government on the face of the earth defined the purpose of government as being the protection of the Rights of the Rulers. Think about it: every government throughout recorded history had justified its existence by saying God, the Creator, had created government to defend the Rights of the Ruler. Reverse that idea and define the plan of the Creator as defense of the Rights of all men and you see why they call what happened in the United States of America a Revolution. With the American Revolution a fundamental change occurred in people's understanding of government.

Where before all governments relied on some variant of the Divine Rights of Kings for justification, now in the United States of America, a new government had redefined the purpose of government by redefining the Creator' plan for government.

In defense of these propositions a Revolutionary War was launched by people committed to seeing their definition of the Will of the Creator enacted on earth.

The Founders of the United States were not stupid. They knew the ideas they were espousing were nothing more than their definition of reality, their definition of Truth, their definition of Law--a definition that could be contradicted by others. The point the Founders of the United States of America were making in the Declaration of Independence was this: the Creator of the Founders had endowed them with certain Rights, Rights that were unalienable while the founders remained alive. They knew all the king had to do to disprove the ideas contained within the Declaration of Independence was kill them, or at least arrest them and throw them all in prison. That's all it took for the entire structure of justification contained within the Declaration of Independence to be proved to be nothing but the rantings of foolish rebels, rebels who didn't understand reality, rebels against the Real Order that ruled the world. Because the Founders understood their point of view could be, and might be, contradicted in reality, they ended the Declaration of Independence with these words: "...to this end we pledge our wealth, our lives, and our sacred honor."

To what end were they pledged? The Founders were pledged to seeing their definition of the Plan of the Creator, their definition of the Creator's new purpose for government, enacted as the ruling force, the Law, in the colonies that would become the United States of America. The Founders of the United States of America were willing to die trying to make the American Distinctive come to power on earth.

But of course they didn't die; not all of them. They didn't die, but their plan did. It was destroyed by the people who run the present government of the United States of America. They destroyed the authority of government in the United States when they forgot the plan this government was designed to implement. Such forgetfulness on the part of rulers disqualifies them to exercise authority. A government without a plan, and without a clue how to find one, is no government worthy of the name or the respect due a government rightly named. A government that doesn't have a plan and doesn't have a clue how to find one deserves to be overthrown. I'm out to get them for it. You'll be willing to help me when you understand your own government.

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