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The People of this country formed a social compact; that compact wascontained and detailed within the written Constitution giving the exactextent of powers they deemed necessary to the government. As you note,these were powers that were delegated to the government by the People,not relinquished. There has never been a single power relinquished by thePeople, any power within the function of the government is isolated throughthe action of Delegated Trust based upon the Sovereignty of the People.
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This was to ensure that the People themselves enjoyed a very qualifiedLiberty of Action, Freedom from unnecessary restraints, unnecessaryrequisitions or extractions from the government. Of those limitations, thePeople in their Sovereignty gave their limited Consent to the government tofunction within a very, very narrow frame of action primarily for the solepurpose of the defense of the Liberty and the Rights for which they formedthe government in the first place.
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Any measures inconsistent with that very limited frame of action is tobe considered an illegal action and an assumption of un-delegated powers bythe government. In some cases where such illegal assumption of powerscontinues unabated, either by legislative or judicial process, it leaves thePeople with no peaceable remedy to follow since the general laws or themeasures which were instituted to protect the People are ignored, makingthe ability to have their sincere petitions and grievances redressed in alegitimate manner.
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When the government steps away from that social compact formedbetween the People to provide the protections of their Life, Liberty and thePursuit of their Happiness, then it proves itself defective; having abridged itsprimary responsibility, choosing instead to take a more oppressive andtyrannical direction by ignoring the proper function of the powers that wereDelegated to it in Trust. At any time when such a government violates thatTrust, it becomes a law unto itself, assuming powers outside the realm of itsauthority.
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is reading The Constitution was written to make the Union more perfect, not to destroy it and start over. Accordingly, the Articles are still in force as evidenced by their inclusion in USC Title 1 along with the Constitution. My Declaration of Re-Independence, closely following my original Declaration due to history repeating itself, proposes reverting back to the Articles (whereby references to a specified number of States is construed to be a proportion out of 13) given that democratic election of the President, Senators and Representatives has failed to stop abuses by national supremacists. It is available as a 4-page pamphlet at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19316765/Th... .