Dear Tactical Civics™ members, I again remind everyone that we are in Phase 1 of a Four-Phase mission which should become a way of life for all responsible Americans. Our constitutional republic was not built in a day, nor has it been destroyed in a day, week, month, year, decade, or even in one generation. And certainly not in one election cycle.
I had a question today about Our First Right, which is Phase 3 of our mission, so I will post this complete response so you have it as reference, but ask you all to refrain from spending much time arguing the issue. THIS. IS. NOT. THE. TIME.
America's Sovereign-Servant System
I must first paint the chalkboard behind the math, because too many people get caught up in this very perplexing matter of the wording of 'Article The First', the original first right in the so-called 'bill of rights'; the initial set of amendments that congress proposed to the states in 1789. They don't think about the overarching hierarchy of authority in our constitutional republic. I have preached for over a decade about this most basic framework of American civics because it is what makes our republic unique in the history of mankind: the People (collectively) are alone OVER that law, and all levels of government are UNDER that law, viz:
I don't believe that this hierarchy can be reiterated and taught too often, or stressed too much. It is the key teaching infographic of this mission, and to our knowledge, AmericaAgain! Trust and our action mission Tactical Civics™ are the only organizations teaching it. Yet, anyone reading the Constitution as you would read any other law -- that is, literally believe what the words say! -- will agree, this is the real hierarchy of power in America.
Sense and Sensibility
The norms and nobility animating and defining our civilization are one part sense and one part sensibility. By 'sense' I mean plain logic and human reason. By 'sensibility' I mean the cumulative principles, norms, beliefs, and tastes that made this civilization.
The enemies of our civilization (demons on the spiritual plane and demonically-inclined people in the mundane realm) want to destroy America. You see it every day. They're attacking all that is good, and true, and beautiful. They begin in the womb, and work on human beings right up to the grave. They call evil good, and call good, evil. When you point out their destruction, they attempt to 'cancel' you, and because all of the largest social media are enemies of God, they play along with the 'woke' cultural Marxism ravaging our society today.
They are further ahead in this demolition process in Europe than they are here, but as I have demonstrated many times: those who are supposed to serve and represent us in government at the state and federal levels have, for generations now, been both Communist and Fascist as Marx and Mussolini defined those terms of political economy. So this 'New World' is coming to resemble the Old World in most sensibilities.
The only thing keeping this Christian civilization and constitutional republic from going over the cliff into the abyss is the dogged, prayerful faith of Christ's remnant in America...and our written federal Constitution.
More than Words on Parchment
If you had come here from another planet but perfectly understood English and human logic and ethics, reading the Constitution for these united States, you would see that it is being daily violated by its creatures in almost every particular.
I use the term creature as it is defined: something created. The sovereign party to the Constitution is We The People; see the first three words and entire Preamble. The creatures -- things we create -- are our three federal servant branches: Article I (legislative), Article II (executive), and Article III (judicial).
This being the case, as former Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer explains in his book The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, We The People are the final authority on what we intended in the Constitution; our creature the U.S. supreme court is not that final authority! Larry Kramer was not just the law school dean at Stanford; he's also a lifelong James Madison scholar. That book played a major part in helping us to design this mission, because James Madison was brilliant, and because our Constitution is a brilliant "supreme Law of the Land", not designed for the People to obey but for our creatures to obey, and for the People to interpret and enforce!
But to enforce it, you need to first see things for what they are, not for what you wish they were. You can overcome ignorance, but you can't overcome God-ordained stupidity. If you reject God, you're in for one hell of a tough ride in this life, and a tougher one in eternity. That's just a fact, whether you like it or not. Better to get right with your Manufacturer, than try to game His system. God is not mocked.
Or to put it another way: If most stuff just flies right over your head, you might consider why that's happening. Maybe you just don't try very hard to understand because deep inside you're just lazy and don't care. "Fat, dumb, and happy", as the old saying goes, is the profile of a dying civilization. You can play a part on either side; it's your decision how you spend your time, passion, and money: having fun as our civilization collapses, or helping to rebuild it over generations? That's up to you and me; in this mission, we've made our choice.
Criminals are All Alike
The criminal mind has always been unoriginal, ever since about 1,400 years ago when Danes, Saxons, Angles, and Normans hacked one another with hatchets and other blades and took their victims' land, silver, and women.
Lying and stealing are standard tools of the criminal trade. Just because a fellow wears an expensive business suit doesn't mean he won't lie to you and steal your stuff if he can. And don't think women can't be just as ruthless and treacherous as men; the two sexes are totally equal in that respect.
So who are the criminals in America's modern metanarrative? Well, there are many industries that have gone bad, but in terms of impact on the soul, the main players are...
Big War: an industry that kills people and destroys property as 'security' forces for...
Big Oil: a ruthless global industry that pumps petroleum out of other people's land.
Drug cartels: an industry that hooks addicts for profit, slowly killing them.
Human trafficking: an industry that enslaves and demonically mistreats the young and weak.
Banking: industry that lies, steals and makes debt slaves by making 'loans' out of keystrokes.
Big Pharma: an industry that hooks people, often for life, on insanely expensive drugs.
Public 'education': an industry that programs the young and withholds the most vital facts.
Big Tech: an industry deeply involved in gaslighting and farming people like livestock.
Politics: the industry that enables and serves all of the industries above.
All of that is the chalkboard behind the math. Politics in America is a multi-trillion-dollar industry. Politicians are the game pieces that all the other industries use to control and plunder the American People. The fewer congressmen we have, the more power each congressman has (larger district = more tax base, power, money) and the more urban America rules everything.
When we return to what George Washington and his compatriots intended -- small congressional districts -- we will bring in America's 31,000+ small towns and all the rural homesteads who have had ZERO representation for over a century. Then we'll have over 6,800 congressional districts...and all this sea of red will have a voice again:
Imagine what that will do to the corrupt urban political machines! It will be impossible for the other industries to buy off that many congressmen, especially when we have them working from their hometown, full-time.
Tactical Civics™ is the first full-spectrum, long-term solution ever proposed, to arrest the politics industry and restore statesmen to America. But obviously that won't happen if those statesmen are not God-fearing, serious people. To get there, We The People have to be repentant and really serious about Christ, and our duties.
Here's the question I had earlier today...
Dear Mr. Zuniga - Thank you for all that you and leadership have done and are doing to help educate and support the responsible remnant. While reading The Great We-Set™, I encountered in Appendix A a troubling question about the proposed and hoped for 28th Amendment, re: apportionment. I've studied this fascinating topic, as We The People have been (are) overtaxed and under-represented; so my question has to do with how the "6,400" number of congressional districts was arrived (versus the 435 currently). The following can be found on the Census.gov website within their historical perspective on the topic:
“Following the 1990 census, two lawsuits concerning apportionment issues were filed in federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court held that the method of equal proportions was constitutional; that the Congress had properly exercised its apportionment authority; and that the inclusion of U.S. federal military and civilian personnel, and their dependents, in the apportionment populations of the states was constitutional. These cases were United States Department of Commerce v. Montana 112 S.Ct. 1415 (1992) and Franklin v. Massachusetts 112 S.Ct. 2767 (1992).”
Curious to know if those Supreme Court's cases take priority over the calculation method to arrive at the 6,400? Simply desiring maximum accuracy as I speak with others about the realistic vision of Tactical Civics™.
My response:
The SCOTUS has ruled correctly because the states have not finished ratifying the original 'Article the First'.
Most people who read U.S. Constitution 1.2.4 take it to mean that districts need to be no larger than 30,000 people; but that's not what it says. The actual wording is, "the number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand", which means that fewer representatives are okay. It's the same mess they created when they made the transcription error in 'Article the First' saying essentially the same thing, by transcribing it as 'no more than' instead of 'no less than'.
In this Philadelphia newspaper clipping from 1789, the wording was clear enough, and perfectly logical...until we had 100 House members, not fewer than one per 30,000; then until we had 200 House members, not fewer than one per 40,000; and after that, "not...less than two hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons", viz:
But in the versions sent to the states for ratification, that last word 'less' was changed to 'more', making the whole amendment nonsensical.
The politics industry meant to make all of this confusing, so the American People could not figure it out (the mental gymnastics are too hard for simple-minded people).
Even after we get 27 more of our state legislatures to ratify Our First Right, the entrenched DCCP will fight us on the language (that one mis-transcribed word), so it will become a wrestling match between the DCCP and the American People. As I demonstrate with that photo facsimile above (of the contemporaneous newspaper clipping), it is preposterous to think that the framers meant to use one procedure for steps 1 and 2 (until 100 congressmen; until 200 congressmen) and then reverse it with step 3 (once population requires more than 200 congressmen).
Plus, it doesn't make logical sense; if they meant the number of districts should then be LIMITED to no more than... why didn't they write 'no more than one per 30,000' and 'no more than one per 40,000', also? In that case, something like the Senate would be fine...just two congressmen per state would meet the stipulation in U.S. Constitution 1.2.4.
Yet after every census until 1910, the DCCP knew exactly what the People demanded with each census...MORE representation, not LESS!
But again, Our First Right is not yet ratified, so none of this has yet come before the People, the highest authority on constitutional law. Nor has any such case come before our SCOTUS, for this is a constitutional amendment. We The People don’t authorize the SCOTUS to stick its nose in any Article V matter, so they lack jurisdiction. The court will label it "a political matter", as though their black dresses make them the last word on the Constitution’s meaning. Nonsense. This key constitutional issue is entirely a matter for We The People to decide.
We can only do that through 27 more state legislatures voting 'aye' on Article the First. And because we see how criminal and ruthless the DCCP and politics industry are (as you see, they are fighting America more tenaciously than any foreign enemy would), We The People must first raise a massive force, well-briefed, well-educated, and determined to take our civilization back. That’s what Tactical Civics™ Phases 1 and 2 are designed to accomplish.
Steady on course. All those criminals didn’t destroy our rule of law in a day.
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