[A Ticket to Liberty, November 1990 edition, page 146] [emphasis added]   In the constitutional Republic, however, the rights of individuals are supreme.  Individuals delegate their sovereignty to a written contract, called a constitution, which empowers the government to hire public servants to write laws primarily for the benefit of individuals.  The corporations occupy the lowest priority […]

I am forever indebted to M. J. Beckman, co-author of The Law That Never Was with Bill Benson, for clearly illustrating the important difference between the two.    Red Beckman has delivered many eloquent lectures based on the profound simplicity of the following table:             Chain of command and authority in a:             Majority Rule                 Constitutional           Democracy                     Republic  

[Glass v. The Sloop Betsey, 3 Dall 6 (1794)] [emphasis added]   The federal Constitution makes a careful distinction between natural republic state born  Nationalists that the Government Corporation now calls State Citizens or American Nationals, and CITIZEN PERSONS of the United States Corporation Municipality in Washington District of Columbia which is separate from the several

The Supreme Court has clearly distinguished between the operation of governments in Europe, and government in these United States*** of America, as follows:   In Europe, the executive is almost synonymous with the sovereign power of a State; and generally includes legislative and judicial authority. … Such is the condition of power in that quarter of the

[Constitution for the United States of America Union] [Article 4, Section 4, emphasis added] What exactly is a “Republican Form” of government?  It is one in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the People and exercised by the People.  Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, makes this very clear in its various definitions of “government”:   Republican government.  One

[Perry v. United States, 294 U.S. 330, 353 (1935)] [emphasis added]   No discussion of sovereignty would be complete, therefore, without considering the sovereignty that resides in “US”, the People.  The Supreme Court has often identified the People as the source of sovereignty in our republican form of government.  Indeed, the federal Constitution guarantees to every State in the

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1856) [emphasis added] The source of all sovereignty in a constitutional Republic like the 50 States, united by and under the Constitution for the United States of America, is the People themselves.  Remember, the States, and the federal government acting inside those States, are both bound by the terms of

[Heath v. Alabama, 474 U.S. 82, 89-90 (1985)] Now, if a State of the Union is sovereign, is it correct to say that the State exercises an authority to which there is absolutely no superior? No, this is not a correct statement. There is no other organized body which is superior to the organized body

Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 78 S.Ct. 1401 (1958). “No state legislator or executive or judicial officer can war against the Constitution without violating his undertaking to support it.” The Judge’s Oath of Office.. The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state, and federal officials only our agents.” “The