This morning I wrote to Jay Ashcroft, Missouri Secretary of State, sending him, by email, the following message entitled,
Protect Life by Enforcing the Constitution
This was precipitated by the elections that took place in Ohio yesterday in which the initiative petition process wiped away the protections for the unborn. If you take an opportunity to read the letter, you will understand the context of what happened and what ought to be done.
What happened in Ohio is a bellwether for Missouri. We have watched liberty take cover under our current initiative petition process. I inferred to Secretary Ashcroft that the process - at the least - ought to be modified to mirror that of how amendments are made to the Constitution of the United States.
In any case, the primary purpose of this message is for you to know, that the Republic needs you - and now!
America needs citizens, now, who can no longer be silent and can no longer be idle. Isn’t that you? Everybody is telling you about the issues. Who’s got solutions? WE DO!
On Saturday, 18 November, the Constitution Party of Missouri is having its Fall State Committee Meeting in Jefferson City. Bring your issues, bring your passion, bring your commitment to …
Advance the Cause of Liberty
Yep! More to come…
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National News
An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson!
Is America Supposed to be a Democracy?
Paul Venable, Chairman of the Constitution Party of Missouri and recent
candidate for United States Senate, answers this question for Tucker!
Hey Tucker...
I’m reaching out to you because America needs your help.
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- Plato, 1999 (Originally published in 360 BC), The Republic, Book VIII, (New York, NY: Barnes & Nobles Book), p. 264.
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- James Madison, November 22, 1787, Federalist Paper No. 10. Taken from James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers
- James Madison, November 22, 1787, Federalist Paper No. 10. Taken from James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers
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- John Adams, Letter to John Taylor, 17 December 1814
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6371
- John Adams, Letter to John Taylor, 17 December 1814
- A diffusion of power;
- A moderating influence against extreme positions;
- A structure that protects the rights of the minority;
- Governing influenced by the People at the most local level.
So again, are the members of Congress and the mainstream press either ignorant of this distinction or deliberately hiding it? Maybe someone, somehow, is attempting to impose a democracy on We the People of the United States.
- “Save our democracy;”
- Export democracy around the world (even, if sometimes necessary, at the point of a gun?);
- Fight against those things that are “dangerous to our democracy!”
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Dear Friends of Liberty…
On this day, 244 years ago, a nation was born out of hardship and struggle, recognizing that there are inherent rights that are a gift of providence that are as outside of the control of government as the difference between the daylight is from the dark night. Liberty cannot exist in the same place at the same time as tyranny and so our nation's founders, after repeated pleas for redress and relief, finally felt compelled to throw off the tyranny by force.
Is there not a desire for freedom in every man and woman? You cannot deny this, for it is inherent. We learn, starting at birth to move and express and grow within the world around us, but we eventually grow out of smaller shoes, clothing, ideas and practices until we seek to make our own way. It is inherent. We do not, by nature, want to be controlled but seek personal independence. Eventually, we leave father and mother, to make our own way and so it was with the thirteen colonies which, as the Treaty of Paris declares...
“His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and Independent States;”
…which is in ascent to these words from the Declaration
“That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.”
But dear fellow Citizen, this information is not unknown to you. Independence Day has become tradition with remembrance of the concepts and pronouncements of freedom and patriotism. What appears to be misunderstood or sometimes even maligned is the mission of the endeavor… that there might be on this land, not a nation subject to a king, but a Nation of Kings, a land of freedom on which the inhabitants might enjoy liberty so unfettered that it had previously and only been considered the benefit of those who claimed the divine right of kings.
Our internal struggles over time and even now are missing this concept and there are those among us who would claim this to be a land still subjugated by free, white men, founded on racist documents and principles. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The sentiments and urgency during the times of the revolution had an effect in ways that are not well known today. It would then be instructive to share them now. There are words from the original draft of The Declaration of Independence that did not make it into the final document. They’ve been hidden from the dialogue of a day when they may be found useful. They are shared here for context and the entire draft document can be read at the Library of Congress website, HERE.
Speaking of the grievances against King George were these words, probably removed at the insistence of the slaveholding states, which are not in our current version of The Declaration:
“…he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.”
This last grievance was removed from the version we currently have, but shows clearly the understanding of the Founders who sacrificed so much for what we have today and that they were enemies to slavery, the antithesis of liberty, a condition that because these very men were born into the practice, and because of their revulsion to it, they exercised the vision to eventually have it come to an end. That we may have more work to do is unquestionable, but that it is not doable, is questionable.
We can find as many reasons to be divided as there are politicians and globalists to divide us. Or – we can come together as Americans and recognize that we are united by a common, inherent desire for Liberty, and that we have – united together – the power and tools to subjugate those forces that would subvert it.
We need your help – even today, to ADVANCE the Cause of Liberty!
Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789: “Nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While both remain certain 232 years later, nothing requires them to be combined. In fact, taxing death itself is one of the most immoral things the government does — and that’s saying something.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
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