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What is wrong with the Fourteenth Amendment?
What is wrong with the Fourteenth Amendment?
History provides
numerous examples demonstrating that respecting local self-government increases
the importance of the individual and keeps a union secure while denying local
self-government necessitates the sacrifice of liberties to secure the union and
guard against insurrections from within and attacks from without. (e.g., the
Roman Empire) Is history repeating itself? The US government steadily absorbs
all of the political life, routinely exercises powers that are not
constitutionally mandated, usurps States' rights and defrauds their sources of
revenue, and liberties are often sacrificed for the sake of unity and to
protect the US government against the possibility of insurrection. Keep in mind
that the meaning and application of the Fourteenth Amendment is left to the
discretion of the US government. For example, the Fourteenth Amendment is
currently interpreted to protect the "right" of a mother to kill her
unborn child even though when the 14th Amendment was written US law defined an
unborn child as a person and the words "nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" (Section 1) were said to be
included in the Fourteenth Amendment to keep abortion from being legalized.
Consider just a few examples of the negative repercussions of the Fourteenth
Amendment:
· The
Fourteenth Amendment makes a US citizen a citizen of the State wherein he
resides by virtue of his US citizenship instead of the citizen of a State being
a US citizen by virtue of his being a citizen of a State that is part of the
Union, and leaves the qualifications and requirements of citizenship to the
discretion of the US government, thus changing the United States of America
into the United State of America and further enabling the US government to
manipulate the masses. (Consider Article IV and Section 2 in particular)
· In
the discussions of the First Amendment the word "religion" was often
used to mean a single denomination. The First Amendment prohibited the US
Congress from establishing a single national denomination or ruling in
religious matters through a state church ("establishment of religion")
and forbade the separating of Christian principles and values from the public
sphere and allowed basic Christian principles and values to be present
throughout society ("... nor prohibiting the free exercise
thereof."). For over a century-and-a-half this was the only way in which
the religion clause of the First Amendment was interpreted because that is what
it says. US restrictions against Christians and religious groups influencing
government and government decisions, and US requirements that God, religion, and
Scripture must be kept out of government are based on interpretations of the
First Amendment in relation to the Fourteenth Amendment.
· What
is meant by "militia" in the Second Amendment? "I ask, sir, what
is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public
officials." (George Mason, in Debates in Virginia Convention on
Ratification of the Constitution, Elliot, Vol. 3, June 16, 1788) The purpose of
the Second Amendment was to prevent governmental oppression. "A free
people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have
sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any
who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own
government." (George Washington) "The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
themselves from tyranny in government." (Thomas Jefferson) Today the
Second Amendment is often interpreted to mean either the right of the State to
a National Guard (organized militia), even though the US Constitution already
provided for that, or the right of people to hunt animals for food, which makes
even less sense, as a result of interpreting the Second Amendment in relation
to the Fourteenth Amendment.
· The
Biblical worldview sees God as the present ruler of the earth and human
government as ordained of God to protect the rights of the people and punish
criminals; in His special grace God saves sinners and in His common grace God
uses human government to protect the good against evil. The pagan concept of
man and government, of which socialism is a modern version, sees man (corporate
man, the state) as sovereign and sees the individual as a mere servant of the
state whose value is determined by his usefulness to the state. The view of
property and liberty held by a nation or an individual is determined by who is
recognized as the ruler of the earth by that nation or individual. The Humanist
worldview, which now dominates most public school curriculums, most modern
scholarship, and US government, deifies man, does not recognize absolute
principles or truths, sees Christian culture and Bible truths as old-fashioned,
restrictive, and irrelevant, and means that the strongest men (or the
government) dominate home, school, culture, and church. The view that Satan
rules the earth, a view held by many modern Christians, sees Christians as
isolated and Christian culture as a counter-culture, makes Christian culture
and Christian influence irrelevant and insists that everything must go from bad
to worse, limits Christian influence and responsibility to soul winning and
church activities, and supports and adopts the Humanist worldview. The
Christian worldview sees God as the present ruler of the earth and the Holy
Bible as the final authority in all areas of human existence, sees Satan as a
defeated foe, sees Christian culture as leavening all areas of life and
blessing mankind, sees self-governing Christians as influencing and dominating
home, school, culture, and church, sees Christians as commissioned to subdue
the earth and build godly nations through evangelizing and discipleship, and
expects blessings for a nation that is obedient to the Word of
God. The Fifth Amendment and other constitutional protections are interpreted in
relation to the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment leaves the
protection and interpretation of liberty and property to the discretion of a
central government which must sacrifice liberty for the sake of unity and to
protect itself from insurrection in a coerced union.
· The
Fourteenth Amendment necessitates the increase of the power of the US
government with the additions of government programs that are not
constitutionally mandated. In the story "Gulliver's Travels," by
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver was a giant compared to the people of Lilliput who
were about 6 inches tall, but many tiny threads made it impossible for Gulliver
to move. Excessive legislation and excessive taxation tyrannize in the same
way, which is an important reason that limited constitutional government is
essential and big government is dangerous.
Consider that the Fourteenth Amendment
is often used to correct wrongs and injustices, whether genuine or perceived,
that were actually the direct or indirect result of federal intrusion or
responses to federal intrusion, thus influencing the masses to depend on the US
government to solve problems by expanding federal power and increasing federal
intrusion in order to correct problems that could have been prevented or
overcome through limited constitutional government.
The Fourteenth
Amendment is law of the land even though it was never ratified by the States
and therefore is not legally part of the US Constitution, which is another good
reason for States need to secede.
-Arnold J. Saxton
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Name: Arnold Saxton
