It’s a start… but I have in mind more of a statement of particulars.
I would think that an element missing from the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution is in order : The sovereign right of the individual citizen to determine one’s own manner of health care as well as that for the maintenance of the health and well-being of one’s family and household.
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That’s good and specific.
Here is an excelent summation of CoVid Scamdemic we can use as source material.
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Attempts to amend founding documents are time consuming and risk being hijacked by opposition. Joseph is correct in his Bill of Particulars approach.
The sovereign right to transact outside of a Federal Reserve currency with NO restrictions. (FINCEN - BSA - KYC financial reporting Patriot Act garbage should be expunged)
The sovereign right to transact in amounts equal to or greater than zero without restriction and/or surveillance reporting requirements.
The sovereign right to trade currency/goods without restriction.
The sovereign right to do business with whomever i wish in whatever way I desire.
The sovereign right to conduct myself like a corporation with complete approval from government minions without restriction.
Corporations are people too.
-High Court of Babylon
Producing a petition without a plan to gain political support where the effeprt can actually make a difference. I believe this effort will end up being a vetting session or worse yet individual novellas. I see people diving in on the solution aspects completely overlooking planning or structural aspects and unaware of existing Constitutional processes involved in amending Bill of Rights and/or Constitution.
Tulips - You raise valid points. I believe you’re thinking a few steps ahead. If I understand Dr. Farrell’s proposition, it’s to come up with a list of problems that need to be addressed, the purpose being merely to start focusing people’s minds and clarifying their thinking about what needs to change. Questions like gaining political support, actually getting any government to redress grievances, or whether to propose sticking to, amending, or entirely scrapping the existing Constitution (e.g., by secession) would come later in the reasoning process.
That is, if I understand what Dr. Farrell has in mind…
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Is this the kind of thing we’d be aiming for?
[Brief introduction here]
[Name of office or institution] has prohibited the free exercise of religion, citing public health as a justification.
… has abridged the right of the people to peaceably assemble, citing public health as a justification.
… has attempted to abridge the freedom of speech and of the press by encouraging private companies to… as a means of circumventing the Constitution.
… has infringed the right to bodily integrity by [doing such-and-such], and in so doing has used executive powers to circumvent the Constitution.
… has infringed the right to equal protection of the laws by forbidding certain citizens to work on the pretext that…
… has attempted to circumvent the authority of the executive officers of several states.
Etc.
[Brief conclusion here]
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You are exactly correct. Scarmoge has pointed out that the “Patriot” act is in effect, effectively a nullification of constitutional provisions, and he is correct. What I’m getting at is precisely an attempt to specify problems if one WERE to petition. So you are correct.
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Yes precisely… a list or bill of particulars…
One could always add:
… has wrongly presumed the authority to suspend certain provisions of the Constitution…
To clarify: I take this is as a theoretical exercise, just meant to sharpen people’s thinking. I don’t personally believe this kind of petition would ever be used or that it would have any positive effect if it were used. I think it’s a useful exercise nonetheless.
@TulipsMoran, I think perhaps you misunderstand my point. My point of departure referring to the Bill of Rights was to provide context. I am not proposing amending the USA’s Constitution: that would be most dangerous for a nation that is not agreement-capable.
The corporatized federal government, malignantly metastasizing the 10 Mile square federal zone has taken false ownership of often more than half of the land in many states, which it then deigns to lease back to collect fees, lording over the lands users, while collecting fees to finance the enforcement of its illegal seizure and returning a pittance to the states so deprived. We call for a return of all Federal lands to state control.
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That’s an interesting specific, and one which of course to some degree sparked the Civil War.
We the People of the Divided States of America do hereby petition the active members of this government body our GOD given right to be heard, acknowledged and represented as the past, present and future of this Great Nation. 1. We shall re-establish the Bill of Rights in all arena’s and facets of societal living. The citizen shall be held in the highest respect for free societal living. Corporations shall not be granted the same rights and privileges as a living breathing citizen. Corporations in order to operate and function in the newly revised United States if perchance this occurs will be subjected to incorporate the bill of rights and the Constitution of these United States within their corporate charters. Failure to do so will result in full closure of operations. No foreign government, foreign citizen or foreign owned corporation shall own property in the United States. No corporation, foreign citizen,government or institution shall infringe upon the rights and liberties of any U.S. citizen irrespective of the proximity of that individual. We are a “Free People” and shall remain so unfettered by the constant threat of tyrannical overlords whom are constantly devising new ways to subvert and enslave these inalienable rights.
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Interesting: the idea of legal corporate personhood is one of those issues I think needs to be addressed and have said so on many occasions. One way I’ve thought about doing that is that in order to have that status, corporations must enshrine the Bill of Rights in their corporate charters and act accordingly. It’s a small start, to be sure, but it’s a start.
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Yes, I believe that the founders held those truths to be self-evident but have over time been lost.
My only disagreement with your last observation is that they’ve been lost. I’d rather say that they’ve been murdered.
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We oppose the abuse of states of emergency that illegally concentrate power in the executive. A few states of emergency have lasted for more than ninety years. There are more than a dozen which have been in effect for more than ten years. These declarations violate the separation of powers by falsely enabling executive powers that are quasi legislative and quasi judicial in the executive.