Contracts

Covenants and

Constitutions

- Roasting Sacred Cows -

By Brother Gregory HHC
His Holy Church

Dedicated to the service of the

Lord.
Exodus 34:12 “Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with
the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in
the midst of thee:”
Exodus 34:15 “Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants
of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do
sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his
sacrifice;”
Isaiah 8:11 “For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
Say ye not, A confederacy... A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear,
nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself...”
Proverbs 22:26 “Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of
them that are sureties for debts.”
Matthew 5:34 “But I say unto you, Swear not at all...”
Matthew 23:9 “And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one
is your Father, which is in heaven.”
2 Corinthians 6:16 “And what agreement hath the temple of God
with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said,
I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people.”
James 5:12 “But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by
heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your
yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.”
Colossians 2:20 “Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the
rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye
subject to ordinances,”

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 Table of Contents
Roasting Sacred Cows ......................................................1
The Disclaimer ..............................................................................1
The Constitutions Part I ...................................................3
The Party of the first part..........................................................3
The Quiet Revolution ....................................................................4
The Constitutions Part II ...............................................11
Centralized Authority or Free Dominion ................................11
Customary Law............................................................................13
Blind Patriotism...........................................................................18
The Constitutions Part III ..............................................19
Is the Constitution Constitutional? ..........................................19
Duplicity in Federalism...............................................................22
The New King George.................................................................25
The Constitutions Part IV ..............................................29
Pursuing Perspective and Precepts ..........................................29
Early Constitutions......................................................................32
A King Over Me ..........................................................................34
The Horses of Egypt.....................................................................36
The Cost of Government..............................................................37
Shall he Multiply Wives...............................................................39
He Shall Read Therein.................................................................41
Then and Now..............................................................................43
The Constitutions Part V ................................................45
Equality of Responsibility and Rights .....................................45
Selfish Determination..................................................................46
No Fuss Selfishness......................................................................49
Tying the Gordian Knots.............................................................51
Loosening the Knot......................................................................54
The Constitutions Part Vl ..............................................58
Bound by Benefits...................................................................58
Balaamites and Nicolaitans.........................................................62
There are gods Many ..................................................................66
These Cometh of Evil? ................................................................68
A Witness from the Past ..............................................................69
The Constitutions Part Vll .............................................73
A Quest for Freedom ..............................................................73
A Place to Stand...........................................................................75
A New Place to Stand..................................................................78
Bought and Sold...........................................................................82
The Constitutions Part Vlll ............................................88
Charters and Choices ..............................................................88
Recalling Liberty Under God......................................................89
Christ and Kingdoms...................................................................91
The Dominion of Man .................................................................93
The Corporate Kingdom .............................................................95
Colonists, Crowns and Contracts................................................96
Good-bye Bondage, Hello Freedom .........................................101
The Constitutions Part IX ............................................104
Allegiance and Faith..............................................................104
State of Fidelity..........................................................................106
Status of a Republic and Democracy.........................................108
What You Bind on Earth............................................................111
Loosening...................................................................................114
The Invidious Assembly.............................................................115
The Alien State...........................................................................117
Pitfalls, Traps and Snares..........................................................122
Religions and the World............................................................123
Letters from the Earth................................................................126
The Constitutions Part X ..............................................127
For the people? ......................................................................127
The Democracy Cult..................................................................129
Cults of the Governed................................................................131
The Culture of the Kingdom......................................................134
The Kingdom Annotated............................................................135
We are to repent. ...................................................................144

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 Introduction
“The office (the duty) of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to
guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.”1
This book is the work of an iconoclast who must first tear down
the altars of falsehood before the altars of truth may be built up
from the hearts of the people’s understanding.
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against
his government.”2 As ministers of God we are patriots of our
Father in heaven and the whole earth is our country. Our
allegiance is to truth because we ought to obey God rather than
men and God is truth.
We should say nothing against governments of the world, for
they are not our province nor our patron. Our province is the
people of God and if we are to rebuke evil it should be out of love.
“...rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.”3 Proverbs 9:8
While men create institutions for their own protection, “The
ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill
the world with fools”.4 There is a right way to govern ourselves
and there is no right way to rule over our neighbor.
“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are
not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a
long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
defense of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more
converts than reason.”5
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong,
even if everyone is for it.”6

1 “The American Scholar” by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837

2 Edward Abbey
3 1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.” Luke
17:3; 2 Timothy 4:2; Titus 1:13: Titus 2:15
4 Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903).
5 From the Introduction to Common Sense by Thomas Paine, January 10, 1776
6 William Penn
Roasting Sacred Cows
The Disclaimer
“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we
know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
The term “sacred cow” has come to mean man’s religiously
stubborn loyalty to a long-standing idea or institution which
impedes objective thinking and natural progress.
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar
Wilde
Westerners often imagine that if certain poor ignorant people
would only slaughter the cows their diet would improve and
starvation would end. In fact the cow is an intricate and uniquely
essential part of the agricultural economy, ecology and existence
of life in India. If the cow was not religiously considered “sacred”
it would have been wiped out many years ago during times of
famine and a greater social and cultural disaster would have
followed.
“Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will
believe it.” G. K. Chesterton
Even sacred cows can serve a purpose and their removal should
not be done lightly or casually. Often the stubborn, mindless,
religious loyalty to an idea or belief is unreasonable, inconvenient
and even detrimental, still the alternative often remains even more
frightening, disastrous and unthinkable.
“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally
in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at
least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.” Luther Burbank
There are many sacred cows in the lives of men. They are found
in religion, government, science and philosophy. Often the more
educated a man, as related to “degrees” of knowledge and
diplomas, the more stubbornly he seems to cling to his personal
sacred cows, even in the face of facts and reason. The more a man
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likely it is that he is harboring a sacred cow or two. Still when
reason and wisdom are in short supply it is often the sacred cows
and superstitions that keep men from unbridled destruction.
Religion is probably the single most abundant source of sacred
cows. It has been one of the most important and stabilizing
influences on the order of mankind, individually and as a society,
while at the same time it has been one of the most volatile fuels for
the inflammation of bloody wars and agonizing inquisitions, to say
nothing of the day to day prejudices that keep men divided and in
bondage.
Since this book is for true meat eaters there is no cow immune
to roasting. Roasting a sacred cow is a dangerous business and
something is likely to get burned in the process. It takes a lot of
heat to roast a whole cow and one must apply that heat patiently.
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
Harry Truman
Just as you turn the meat slowly on the spit you may have to go
over this material giving it time to cook deep without burning up
the meat. Before we are done we hope to roast the whole ox from
nose to tail. Our interest is not in the death or injury to the ox but
in feeding those who will come to the banquet.
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m
frightened of the old ones.” John Cage
A poor farmer does not kill his prize ox but the ox that has out
lived his usefulness or has been pulling in the wrong direction or
especially one that has taken to poking neighbor or master.
We hope to turn an unproductive and dangerous beast into a
nourishing and tasty feast, giving strength and delight to all who
partake. The sooner we bleed and roast it the better it will be.
“Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths
without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that
what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not
necessarily good; and that all questions are open.” Clive Bell

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The Constitutions Part I
In America the Constitution of the United States is considered
by many to be a sacred document. Some even proclaim it as
divinely inspired. With great pride and pomp it is hailed as the
source of the United States’ success as a nation and the
fountainhead of its freedoms and fortunes.
The question asked by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775
remains ours to answer, “Are we disposed to be of the number of
those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the
things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my
part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know
the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it”.

The Party of the First Part

The men who signed the Constitution of the united States
beginning “We the People” had been given no authority to sign
anything, much less invent a new government. At the time they
scratched their John-Hancocks to that parchment, “We the People”
consisted of the names on that document. Patrick Henry, who
opposed the Constitution, aptly asked “Who authorized them to
speak the language of ‘We the People’, instead of ‘We the
States’?”.7
Prior to the Fourteenth Amendment, “No private person has a
right to complain, by suit in court, on the ground of a breach of
Constitution. The constitution it is true, is a compact, but he is not
a party to it. The states are party to it”.8
If the individual freeman was not a party to the Constitution,
then the constitution was not “a government of the people” or “by
the people”, at least as “private persons” but only those people
who signed the compact and those state governments in their
7 The Debate on the Constitution, Part Two , 596, Bailyn, Bernard, Ed., (New York:
Library of America, 1993).
8 Supreme Court of Georgia, Padelford, Fay ∓mp; Co. vs Mayor and Alderman,
City of Savannah, 14 Ga. 438,520 (1854)

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limited and legal capacity. If the Constitution is a compact or
contract then there is no contract or contracting away of rights of
the people in general at its signing or ratification. Those who
signed did not have the rights of the people in their possession at
the time. The States could invest no rights in the Federal
government that were not theirs to begin with and if they did so
they would have to do it according to the contract that granted
their existence. In any case the people were not a party to the
Constitution.
“Hence the attempt of the constitution to establish a federal
government, without these natural souls, was preposterous,
unnatural, and void...”9
Did the people want the constitution? Do they want it now or
even have a choice in the matter?
The Quiet Revolution
The Declaration of Independence was not a declaration of the
people’s revolt against lawful government but it was a clarification
of the revolt and usurpation of the crown of Britain against the
People.
America was already a republic composed of free men before
the declaration of independence. In colonial America, “The
ordinary citizen, living on his farm, owned in fee simple,
untroubled by any relics of Feudalism, untaxed save by himself,
saying his say to all the world in town meetings, had gained a new
self-reliance. Wrestling with his soul and plow on week days, and
the innumerable points of the minister’s sermon on Sundays and
meeting days, he was becoming a tough nut for any imperial
system to crack.”10
“An absolute or fee-simple estate is one in which the owner is
entitled to the entire property, with unconditional power of

9 New Views of the Constitution of the United States by John Taylor of Caroline,
Virginia, Edited with an Introduction by James McClellan pub. By Regnery
Publishing, Inc. Washington, D.C. and from Jesse T. Carpenter, The South as a
Conscious Minority 1789-1861 (New York: New York University Press, 1930) 209.
http://www.constitution.org/jt/jtnvc.htm
10 History of United States by John Truslow Adams, page 44.

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 disposition during his life, and descending to his heirs and legal
representatives upon his death intestate.”11
They possessed not only the title to the land but the “beneficial
interest” and therefore could not be taxed on it. It was this freehold
title that men came to this country to find not land for free but a
free land. Men paid dearly to obtain such “true and actual title”.
They knew that being a free people in a pure republic depended
on a large body of freemen, and they endeavored to obtain that
status so that they and their children might be free.
“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility
rests on possession and use of Land.” 12 From the earliest times it
was understood that the right of dominion over land was essential
to liberty. Even the word “Freeman”, means “the possessors of
allodial lands”.13 “For as labor cannot produce without the use of
land, the denial of the equal right to the 'use' of land is necessarily
the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.”14
In Lansing vs Smith 21 D. 89 it is written, “People of a state are
entitled to all rights which formerly belonged to the king by his
prerogative”. Freedom in America was not due to the collective
Declaration of Independence but rather the result of tens of
thousands of individual independent declarations in words and
deeds. Those declarations began a century before and at the
success of that conflict the freeman was truly king of his castle
under God alone.
The virtue that settled the wilderness and earned the freedoms
of early Americans are not automatically carried from generation
to generation. “When we are planning for posterity, we ought to
remember that virtue is not hereditary.” 15
“Are men the property of the state? Or are they free souls under
God? This same battle continues throughout the world?”16

11 Fee-simple. Black’s 3rd Ed. p. 761.

12 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and
poet.
13 liberi. In Saxon Law - Blacks 3rd. Also Oxford Dictionary
14 Henry George - Progress and Poverty. Bk. VII. Ch. I.
15 Thomas Paine: Collected Writings , Foner ed., Library of America Common Sense.
16 Cecil B. DeMille in “The Ten Commandments.”

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 Samuel Adams stated, on August 1, 1776 within one month of
the signing of the Declaration of Independence, “Our Union is
complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved.
You are now the guardians of your own liberties. We may justly
address you, as the decemviri did the Romans, and say: ‘Nothing
that we propose can pass into law without your consent.’ Be
yourself, O Americans, the authors of those laws on which your
happiness depends.”
Why would we need another constitution? All the power of
governing yourself was in the hands of the individual freeman.
Who did want the Constitution of the United States? Who could
impose it on the freeman? Where does it get its power and lawful
authority? To understand this process of governmental power,
authority and growth is to understand rights and the loss of rights.
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom
of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those powers
than by violent and sudden usurpations.”17
Today, many consider the constitution as sacred - but not those
who had won a great freedom through a century of sacrifice and
hardship. They feared and opposed it. And that generation who
had secured their free dominion against an unwarranted usurpation
and tyranny opposed those “great words” and its compact. They
did not war against it because it was not a compact with them nor
did it have much influence over them or their lives.
“Just as the revolutionary Adams opposed the Constitution in
Massachusetts, so did Patrick Henry in Virginia, and the contest in
that most important State of all was prolonged and bitter. He who in
Stamp Act days had proclaimed that there should be no Virginians
or New Yorkers, but only Americans, now declaimed as violently
against the preamble of the Constitution because it began, ‘We the
People of the United States’ instead of ‘We, the State’. Like many,
he feared a ‘consolidated’ government, and the loss of states rights.
Not only Henry but much abler men, such as Mason, Benjamin
Harrison, Munroe, R.H. Lee, were also opposed and debated...
others in what was the most acute discussion carried on anywhere...”

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 “Owing to the way in which the conventions were held, the great
opposition manifested everywhere, and the management required to
secure the barest majorities for ratification, it seems impossible to
avoid the conclusion that the greater part of the people were
opposed to the Constitution.”
“It was not submitted to the people directly, and in those days of
generally limited suffrage, even those who vote for delegates to the
State conventions were mostly of a propertied class, although the
amount of property called for may have been slight.” 18
Limited suffrage dependent upon the ownership of property
was not an arbitrary concept but an essential quality of a free state
or nation. This has been true since the most ancient of times and is
still true to this day. It was originally part of the constitution, yet
deleted before a form of ratification. Its removal then - and
absence now - is an important point to consider and understand but
must be dealt with elsewhere.
In 1787, when the Constitution was ready to be submitted to the
Governors of the states for ratification, Patrick Henry lectured
against it in the Virginia State House for three weeks, criticizing
the Constitution, warning that it had been written “as if good men
will take office”! He asked “What will they do when evil men took
office?”! “When evil men take office, the whole gang will be in
collusion”, he declared, “and they will keep the people in utter
ignorance” and “seize the public liberties by ambuscade”. 19 He
further warned that the new federal government had too much
money and too much power and it would consolidate power unto
itself, converting us “into one solid empire”. And the President
with the treaty power would “lead in the treason”.
Alexander Hamilton,20 James Madison,21 and John Jay22 wrote
85 articles that were known as The Federalist Papers. They
advocated the ratification of the Constitution. Most of them

18 History of the United States by J.T. Adams V.I 258-259.

19 Life of Patrick Henry, By William Wirt
20 51 Federalist Papers articles: 1, 6–9, 11–13, 15–17, 21–36, 59–61, 65–85
21 29 Federalist Papers articles: 10, 14, 37–58, and 62–63. 8–20 were collaborations
between Madison and Hamilton
22 5 Federalist Papers articles: 2–5, and 64

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appeared as serials in The Independent Journal and The New York
Packet between October 1787 and August 1788.
The Federalist Papers have been a primary source for the
understanding of the U.S. Constitution, revealing the philosophy
and motivation of its advocates. The authors of the articles were
attempting to influence the states and the people to find favor with
ratification and reduce the opposition.
The authorship of the articles was kept secret for a number of
reasons, but no debate nor the constitution can be understood
without the opposing view equally examined and of course the
judge of history will determine the winner.
The book entitled “The Anti-Federalist Papers” is a detailed
explanation of American Anti-Federalist thought which appeared
in articles and speeches during the same time. The Complete Anti-
Federalist, was produced by Herbert Storing, and should be
thoroughly examined by anyone assuming that the Constitution
was seen as a prince of political salvation.
This movement23 that opposed the ratification of the
Constitution was far more popular with the people. These men and
the people who opposed the constitution believed that State rights
would eventually be undermined and that the office of president
would centralize power, attack state rights and eventually steal
away the rights of the individual under some pretext of
guaranteeing freedom.
History has been the judge but few today have heard the debate,
nor do they understand the precepts of human nature or the
construction of government through contracts that pump blood
into the veins of tyrants. It is the greed and avarice of the people
that give breath to the corporate state. When the people breath out
the sigh of sloth and acquiescence, despots take a deep breath and
act upon their vacuum of virtue.
“While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when
once they lose their virtue then they will be ready to surrender their
23 Major Anti-Federalist authors Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, George Mason,
George Clinton, Robert Yates, Samuel Bryan, and Melancton Smith, Richard Henry
Lee, Mercy Otis Warren.

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 liberties to the first external or internal invader.”24
Neither the people of America nor the States they instituted
created or legally ratified the Constitution. While the states did
adopt that document many years ago the march of history has
changed the course of mankind.
Edmond Pendleton, who debated Patrick in his opposition to
the phrase “We the People”, stated, “Permit me to ask the
gentleman who made this objection, who but the people can
delegate powers? Who but the people have the right to form
government?”.
The term federal is from Latin faedus, a league by contract
derived from an agreement between parties or nations.25 Originally
the parties to the constitution was only the states. That covenant
and league simply did not include the average citizens of the states
or their inhabitants.
“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish
without virtue in the people.”26
The Constitution is often an icon of popularity in the minds of
the people today, but the covetous souls of mankind have formed
government by the action and inaction of an indulgent population,
by covetous participation and application, by slothful acceptance
and acquiescence for more than two hundred years.
“For we are opposed, around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless
conspiracy, that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its
fear of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion
instead of elections, on intimidation, instead of free choice... a
24 The Writings of Samuel Adams, Cushing, ed., vol. 4, 124, 1779 - letter to James
Warren.
25 Federal. a. [from L. faedus, a league, allied perhaps to Eng. wed. L. vas, vadis,
vador, vadimonium. See Heb. to pledge.] 1. Pertaining to a league or contract;
derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, particularly between nations.
The Romans, contrary to federal right, compelled them to part with Sardinia.
2. Consisting in a compact between parties, particularly and chiefly between states or
nations; founded on alliance by contract or mutual agreement; as a federal
government, such as that of the United States.
3. Friendly to the constitution of the United States. [See the Noun.]1828 Webster's
Dictionary.
26 The Letters of Richard Henry Lee, Ballagh, ed., vol. 2, p.411, 1786 - letter to Colonel
Martin Pickett.

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 system which has conscripted vast human and material
resources ...”27
The powers of governments now prevalent in the world today
are a direct result of the people. Rights are instituted by God but
governments are instituted by men. Those institutions of men are
seldom formed by one single document but are constructed over
time by the witness and testimony of the people.
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and
public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a
positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour,
power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there
can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this
public passion must be superior to all private passions.”28
Should the states have made a league to form the federal
government? The debate may continue. But more important to
individual freedom and liberty under God is should the people
have entered a league with that federal government created by the
states? Have we lost sight of the virtue that has made us free?
Is the road back to liberty found in complaining about what
others have done or the admission of our own error and the
willingness to turn around and take another course and change our
personal policy of one to another?
“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an
indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty
and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and
magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity
and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the
propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that
disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself
has ordained.”29

27 John F. Kennedy Speech, April 27, 1961 to American Newspaper Publishers

Association. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY
28 John Adams, The Spirit of `Seventy-Six, Commager and Morris p.109; Mercy
Warren-Adams Letters, vol. 1 p.221-222.
29 George Washington, 1789 - First Inaugural Address, Inaugural Addresses of the
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The Constitutions Part II
In Part I of Constitutions we saw that the people were “not a
party” to the United States Constitution. We also saw that Free
Americans already living on their own land and untaxed were very
much opposed to the constitution and had it been put to a vote of
the people it would have failed to pass.
These landed freemen in America working in their fields,
building their homes, caring for their families, being there for the
members of their community, and righteous in their generations
were the true forefathers of the American republic.
How could a document like the Constitution, that was so
unpopular with the true forefathers of a nation, become the law of
the land ruling over those people in every aspect of their lives?
It could not happen in a room full of delegates. It could not
happen by the acquiescence of the states. It would not happen over
night and it could not be done by legislation. It was done as it has
always been done.
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
Edmund Burke

Centralized Authority or Free Dominion

It is clear that the people did not wish the constitution to be
ratified or signed. It is clear that many able men opposed it. Some
people have studied the federalist papers which were written by
those in favor of that constitution. Few have read the anti-
federalist papers written by the men in opposition to this new
written Constitution offered to the States.
If the people did not want the Constitution, why? And what did
they want and what did they fear and oppose that would
accompany or follow such a document?
More than anything it was the centralization of government and
its power to exercise authority that the people feared. They had
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of individual responsibility and resulting rights had been
discovered in the burden of their common hardships and sacrifices.
Their loose confederation and voluntary union had worked well
for the essential needs during the conflict with the Kings
usurpation.
“Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever
he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar
deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”30
Life was hard in America and those who worked hard could
prosper. The few cities had been built by their own hands but for
the most part people came for the land. The common dangers and
disasters compelled a common cooperation. There had been many
trials recorded in the recollection of their own history and they
brought back a remembrance of the ways of the ancients when
there was no king and everyman did what was right in his own
eyes.31
The crossing alone, if not the hardships upon arrival, thinned
out the riff-raff of Europe. Literacy was high among Americans
because they needed to read the Bible to confirm their faith and
that knowledge only whetted their appetite for more. They had to
study and learn everything about the agriculture, sciences, history
and law. If anything was going to be done they had to do it
themselves, make it themselves, solve the problems themselves,
and they did just that.
Did those brave souls who crossed the ocean and tested
themselves against the wilderness with their own sweat and blood
know or learn something we have forgotten again? Did their
hardship and suffering give them an understanding that our
affluence and pride has blinded us to? If this is true have we
traveled down an old road to new tyranny? If so, what is the road
back and how do we find it? Men often equate affluence with
freedom, comfort with liberty, and pride with nobility and virtue.

30 Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America [290]). Thomas Jefferson, 1781 - Notes
on the State of Virginia, Query 17
31 Judges 17:6, Judges 21:25 “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did
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 These early Americans had realized they had been deceived
about the gospel of Christ and in their study of history they were
reminded that Caesar “Augustus was sensible that mankind is
governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that
the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were
respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient
Freedom”.32
But in every gathering of men there is an Augustus, Herod, or
Cain willing and waiting to rise to some place of power. And once
men have created an office of power men like Lemech,
Constantine, and modern rulers will fill those offices.
No tyrant rises to power on his own but is raised on the
shoulders of thousands of little tyrants who seek power over their
own neighbor and brother. They serve themselves a little more
than they serve others. They place scales on the eyes of men with
praise but secretly in their own hearts they seek advantage and
profit through positions of prominence and power.
“These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts;
and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men’s
persons in admiration because of advantage.” Jude 1:16

Customary Law
The investiture of power within forms of centralized
government have been a painful propensity of the fallen nature of
mankind from the beginning of his history. But the assumption
that centralized government power has been the predominant or
most successful form of government is imprecise.
In The Enterprise of Law, Dr. Bruce Benson shows that, in fact,
“our modern reliance on government to make law and establish
order is not the historical norm”. The historical norm was
customary law, which was spontaneously created and voluntarily
obeyed. It provided law and order in all early societies and free
societies throughout history. It often included written guidelines to
aid in the understanding of law but these guidelines should not be
construed as statutory.
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 Statute is from the Latin statūtus, past participle of statuere,
meaning to set up, from the Latin status, meaning position; In Law
a statute is “an enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a
formal document”. But in International Law it is an instrument
annexed or subsidiary to an international agreement, as a treaty.”
Among freemen “The contract makes the law”.33
While, “The law (jus) is the rule of right; and whatever is
contrary to the rule of right is an injury”, 34 we find that “human
laws (lex, leges) are born, live, and die”. 35 Customary law was the
law between men and was entirely dependent upon individual and
collective virtue. Contracts, Covenants and Constitutions always
alter the free status of men. The more bonds you create to secure
your freedom the less free you are.
“In the most corrupt state, the most laws.”36
Society is born out of the family which is the institution of God.
All power rests first with the family. Those who understand the
rule of right understand “That which bars those who have
contracted will bar their successors also”. 37 This is why when God
took the people out of Egypt he warned them to make no contracts
with the people that would bring them back under the ruling
judges of a government like Egypt.
“Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the
midst of thee:” Exodus 34:12
Every society needs a form of law to settle disputes because all
men do not walk in virtue. It is important that systems of
resolution remain close to the people where responsibility may be
exercised. But natural prejudice requires a broader range of appeal
to prevent injustice.
Customary law had precisely the same status and served the
same purpose as the state-created law which we take for granted
33 Legem enim contractus dat. 22 Wend. N.Y. 215,223.
34 Jus est norma recti; et quicquid est contra normam recti est injuria. 3 Bulstr.313.
35 Leges humanæ nascuntur, vivuntet moriuntur.
36 Corruptissima republica plurimae leges. Tacitus
37 Quod ipsis, qui cotraxerunt, abstat; et successoribus eorum obstabit. Di.50.17.29.

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today. The commonly-held belief that law and and what we often
call government today developed together is mistaken.
“Good men hate to sin through love of virtue; bad men through fear
of punishment.”38
Customary law was the result of well established precepts,
procedures, practices, and patterns within a particular setting of
society. It is passed down from generation to generation or
between states and nations.
International law has developed between states over time by the
practices and accepted precepts of a customary law known as the
Law of Nations. Without an understanding of and an adherence to
these precepts of law diplomacy would be impossible and chaos
would reign. The same is true of people who live in voluntary
systems of government. They have common practices and
procedures used in case of disputes and to prevent injustice.
While a nation is composed of families, a family is not a nation.
To remain free families must bind themselves by means other than
contract. This earlier voluntary government was composed of free
people. These individuals understood the need for law and
community in order to remain free.
Yet, despite the success of such systems they often fall into
decay and under tyranny. Centralized governments do the same
but with more universal corruption and universal oppression,
though for the same cause of amour-propre and jealousy, apathy
and avarice which is the absence of virtue.
“The Superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks
of comfort.”39
Early Israel, Roman and Teuton republics, and later Saxon,
Frank and Christian republics of the first millennium were
originally patriarchal governments of the people, by the people,
and for the people steeped in individual freedom, rights and
responsibility. All eventually became subjects of ruling classes.
“We estimate men as great not by their wealth but by their virtue.” 40
38 Oderant peccare boni, virtutis anore; oderunt peccare nali, formidine poenae.
39 Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (551– 479 BC), a Chinese thinker and social philosopher.
40 Magnos homines virtute metimur non fortune .Cornelius Nepos , (100-24 BC)

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 These early predominant systems of freedom were based on
voluntarism, brotherhood and the exercise of personal
responsibility to your neighbor by daily choice. It was not based
on forcing your neighbor to support the will of leaders nor the
majority rule by vote. It was based on love of neighbor and daily
attendance to the weightier matters of law, justice, mercy and faith
in a loving God. People were not compelled to join it nor support
it through forced taxation.
“However, everyone was involved, and the system was respected
and sustained, because customary law successfully provided both
protection and arbitration at minimum cost. It evolved
spontaneously, without state involvement, for the simple reason that
there was no state.”41
In truth, the state and the law rested in the hands and hearts of
the individual free man and his family unit. Their status remained
unencumbered except by their own conscience. The virtue of the
people was the fountainhead of justice. If there was not justice in
their hearts and minds, then there was not justice in the land.
“Before the Norman conquest of England in 1066 the people were
the fountainhead of justice. The Anglo-Saxon courts of those days
were composed of large numbers of freemen and the law which they
administered, was that which had been handed down by oral
tradition from generation to generation. In competition with these
non-professional courts the Norman king, who insisted that he was
the fountainhead of justice, set up his own tribunals. The judges who
presided over these royal courts were agents or representatives of
the king, not of the people; but they were professional lawyers who
devoted most of their time and energy to the administration of
justice, and the courts over which they presided were so efficient
that they gradually all but displaced the popular, non-professional
courts.”42
Love for each other in the community exercised by mutual
charity and hope was the only social insurance available. People
Roman biographer with Gallic origins..
41 Book Review:Copyright Nicholas Dykes. The Enterprise of Law: Justice without the
State, Bruce L. Benson, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (San Francisco),
1991
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were bound together as a brotherhood and community and by the
common wisdom of gathering together.
When people relinquish or acquiesce their God given
responsibility to minister justice to their neighbor to more
mercenary professionals, they also lose one aspect of the mystery
of their own success as a free society.
Why would the people do this?
“For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure
through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that
were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they
promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter
end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for
them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they
have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto
them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,
The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was
washed to her wallowing in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:18-22
Today we are taught that the history of man is the history of
centralization of governmental power. It is common to believe that
without that central power men fall into violent selfish anarchy.
This is true for those who are not men and women of virtue and
honor. Such virtuous people if they come together should be able
to form a government based on the perfect law of liberty. They
would have to set aside, pride and greed, self-righteousness and
selfishness. They would have to be as much or more concerned
about their neighbor’s rights than their own. They would have to
love their neighbor as themselves.
“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched
situation. No theoretical checks - no form of government can render
us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure
liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical
idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community,
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 depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the
people who are to choose them.”43
Blind Patriotism
The word patriot is from the Latin word patria, which can mean
one's native country, and is from pater meaning father. The
foundation of the authority of government to rule is found in the
natural law of a father to rule over his children.
Blind patriotism, where men herald “My country right or
wrong”, is not wisdom or courage. It is just blindness.
It would be convenient to imagine that the Constitution was the
result of superior minds and noble hearts and even the inspiration
of God, but few moments in history can honestly claim such
presumptuous accolades.
“If we will not be ruled by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants.” 44
What does it mean to be ruled by God? How do governments
and tyrants gain power?
“All government without the consent of the governed is the very
definition of slavery!”45
Is it by written consent and contract alone that we are made
subject to the will of leaders, lawmakers and rulers? Leaders are
licensed by our licentious league through covetousness. It is our
willingness to have them rule over our neighbor for our benefit
that has made their constitutions our contract and covenant.
There is no one more patriotic than a Nazi.
“The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if
this cannot be inspired into our People, in a greater Measure than
they have it now, they may change their Rulers, and the forms of
Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.” 46

43 James Madison 1788 - speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention . (The True
Republican, French, ed. [28-29]).
44 William Penn – the 1st Governor of Pennsylvania
45 Jonathon Swift
46 John Adams, Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, p371, 1776 - letter to Zabdiel Adams

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The Constitutions Part III
Part I: The people were “not a party” and opposed the
Constitution for United States.
Part II: Speaks of the fundamental difference between free self
government and less than free government by contract.

Is the Constitution Constitutional?

Many claim modern government is unconstitutional or acts
unconstitutionally. It is easy to assume that the institutions and
activities of the present governing powers are in violation of that
originating document and undoubtedly it is from time to time.
A great deal of the turmoil and confusion can be put to rest with
a closer look at the Constitution. What did it actually create and by
whom and by what means was it established?
We have seen that the people were not a party to it, and we
have also seen that the people openly opposed and objected to it.
The states did not have the power of the King which had already
become limited and questionable even before the Declaration of
Independence because of the charters, deeds and sacrifice of the
people for centuries in this new land.
What authority did the States have to ratify the Constitution?
There were rules for the ratification of the Constitution which had
been set forth by those who had already signed it. Those men
meeting in secret had no more authority to sign such a document
into law for Americans than the average man on the street. They
had already far exceeded their commission from the states by even
drafting such a document.
The States owed their existence to their own varied history,
charters, compacts, and the Articles of Confederation. The Articles
of Confederation was an agreement between the States made in
accordance to customary international law. They also had limited
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 “The contract makes the law”47
The principle classes of law “when examined as to its different
systems it is divided into civil law, common law, canon law... It is
also divided into natural law and positive law. Into written law, lex
scripta; and unwritten law, lex non scripta. Into law merchant,
martial law, municipal law and foreign law”.48
In international law each state was as separate to each other as
Mexico is to Canada at least with “respect to their municipal laws
and foreign law”.49 Any violation of that original contract between
those separate States would be a breaking of the Law of Nations.
Pacta servanda sunt. Agreements must be kept.
Samuel Adams stated, in August of 1776, “Our Union is
complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved.
You are now the guardians of your own liberties”. Constitutions
are not always in writing. “For the most part the English
Constitution is unwritten.”50
“A constitution is a body of precepts the purpose of which is to
control governmental action until modified in some authorized
manner.”51
If a constitution is created in an unauthorized manner it is in
reality a revolution.
“If a constitution expressly provides that it may be amended only in
a certain way and another way followed, such an attempted
amendment is illegal; but if it is acquiesced in it becomes effective
as a peaceful revolution such as took place when the United States
Constitution took effect upon the ratification by nine states in spite
of the fact that the old Articles of Confederation provided that they
should not be amended without unanimous consent of the States.” 52

47 Legem enim contractus dat. 22 Wend. N.Y. 215,223.

48 Lectric Law Library’s Lexicon
49 FOREIGN. That which belongs to another country; that which is strange. 1 Peters, R.
343. ...2. Every nation is foreign to all the rest, and the several states of the American
Union are foreign to each other, with respect to their municipal laws. 2 Wash. R. 282;
4 Conn. 517; 6 Conn. 480; 2 Wend. 411 1 Dall. 458, 463 6 Binn. 321; 12 S. & R.
203; 2Hill R. 319 1 D. Chipm. 303 7 Monroe, 585 5 Leigh, 471; 3 Pick. 293.
50 Ibidem
51 Clark’s Summary of U.S. American Law page Constitutional Law Chapter I, p. 461
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 If the Constitution was a revolution who was revolting? And
against whom or what were they revolting? Every state contained a
formidable opposition to the Constitution. North Carolina and
Rhode Island prevented lawful ratification. The spirit of the
Federalists and their backers literally forced compliance there.
Individualism, in the hearts of a people who had carved out a
place for liberty in this wilderness, was the root of the tree of
opposition. Resistance against the Constitution was so entrenched
that war seemed likely.
On July 4, 1788 Judge William West and members of the
Country Party marched into Providence, Rhode Island with more
than a 1,000 armed anti-federalists.
Let us add one more ingredient to this stew of thought. If the
Declaration of Independence was signed and communicated to the
world because of the “long train of abuses and usurpation” of the
King and his “history of repeated injuries and usurpation” then it
seems that it was the King who was revolting against the People of
America not the other way around as we are commonly taught.
So, what was the real American revolution? Was it the
constitution itself? And what was the constitution revolting
against? Was it revolting against the lawful representatives of a
government of the people? Were there powers and men
encouraging them and even coercing them to break their pact of
agreement with the people?
I say “lawful representatives” because each of those States were
only republics. They were republics of a much purer nature than is
seen today anywhere. Very little power was in the hands of the
instituted legislative bodies and titular leaders. The real civil
power was in the hands of the individual freeman. They could not
rule over their neighbor but were free to rule over themselves.
Duplicity in Federalism
Ignorance and vanity tempered with apathy and avarice are the
greatest allies to tyranny. What is the authority that makes the
Constitution of the United States and the Federal government
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claim itself the supreme power which merely allows the people a
liberty subject to its power to “define the moral, political, and legal
character of their lives”?53
Could the Constitution alone create a national government?
The “states unanimously rejected the recommendation of
a national government, and by excluding the word national from
all their credentials, demonstrated that they well understood the
wide difference between a federal and a national union”.54
A nation is a people and a national government is established
directly by the people. Any attempt to create a national
government would fall subject to the natural rights of the people.
People could invest their rights in a national government, or their
children’s rights but they could not vest their neighbor’s rights.
We have seen from several sources that the creation of the
federal government was not put to the people, nor was it
considered national by the states.55 Although “... it was contended
in the convention that the creation of a federal government,
although the old Congress never made the discovery, revoked the
declaration of independence, and reduced the states to
corporations”.56
The separation of the individual states from the union was their
right. This was not seriously contested in the Civil War. It was
their attempt to leave the Union taking Federal property that
brought the conflict to its bloody outcome. This is a precept that

53 “The Constitution created a Federal Government of supreme, but limited, powers.

...The people of the States are at liberty, subject only to the limitations in the
Constitution itself or in Federal law, to define the moral, political, and legal character
of their lives.” Executive Orders 13083 May 14, 1998, President Clinton issued from
Birmingham, England, entitled Federalism
54 New Views of the Constitution of the United States by John Taylor of Caroline,
Virginia, Edited with an Introduction by James McClellan pub. By Regnery
Publishing, Inc. Washington, D.C. and from Jesse T. Carpenter, The South as a
Conscious Minority 1789-1861 (New York: New York University Press, 1930) 209.
http://www.constitution.org/jt/jtnvc.htm
55 “The idea that the recommendation of Congress was addressed to an American nation
or people, no where appeared, and that of a national government was rejected by
every state.” Ibidem.
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should be carefully weighed by every individual who wishes to
shed his Federal mantel today.
Because of constructive and direct waivers by the states it has
become common to hear the once sovereign states referred to as
only “quasi sovereign”. The states were States and contained an
element of sovereignty, but as republics the real power or the
potential for power remained with the people who would take the
trouble to retain it.
If the United States government is a national government now
then the question must be asked - did the people make this choice
by careful reasoning, calm debate and contemplated conclusions,
or was it created by constructions in word or deed?
“When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to
Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the
checks provided of one government on another and will become as
venal and oppressive as the government from which we
separated.”57
This fear voiced by Jefferson almost 200 years ago that
Federalism would become venal and oppressive was well founded
but is it usurpation? In the United States, today, the Federal
government claims a supreme power over, “States, local
government private associations, neighborhoods, families, and
individuals”.58 There is no one who does not feel the effect of
federal power upon their lives. The present is a product of the past
and we and the fathers who came before us have duplicity in its
creation.
“Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. Government is
force; like fire it is a dangerous servant—and a fearful master.”
Attributed to George Washington, 1797.
Men kindle the fires of government when they grant it power
for whatever purpose. The more responsibilities people bestow
57 Thomas Jefferson 1821- In a letter to Gideon Granger.
58 “Federal Government should recognize the responsibility of... States, local
government private associations, neighborhoods, families, and individuals to achieve
personal, social, environmental, and economic objectives through cooperative effort.”
Section 2. Executive Orders 13083 May 14, 1998, President Clinton entitled
Federalism

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upon its agency the more fuel they put at its disposal. The breath
of tyrants merely fans the flames sorely tempted by the weakness
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 The New King George
Mere agencies of the federal government may now limit the
policy making discretion of States and local governments. 59 Their
power reaches into every corner of man’s once free state.
“We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III.
Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If
it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution… the
truth is that the vast bureaucracy now runs this country, irrespective
of what party is in power.”60
States and local governments must now apply to that supreme
power for waivers61 yet people imagine that it is still 1776 or that
all this has come about simply as the result of some abuse by
government rather than their own neglect and even abuse.
“I am not well versed in history, but I will submit to your
recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most often by the
licentiousness of the people, or by the tyranny of rulers?... Most of
the human race are now in this deplorable condition...”62
Have the states brought the people to this deplorable condition?
The acts of the states cannot diminish rights retained by the
people. The problem is people have lost the incentive and wisdom
of retaining their natural rights.
“For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay
[them] on men’s shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move
them with one of their fingers.” Matthew 23:4
It is true the states have little interest in freeing the people or
providing an asylum state in refuge from what is often called
usurpations. Is it the state that binds us or have we bound
ourselves by binding each other?
59 “Agencies may limit the policy making discretion of States and local governments.”
Section 3 (a...d9) Executive Orders 13083 May 14, 1998, President Clinton entitled
Federalism
60 William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, 1969 (page 95, page 54).
61 “Agencies shall review the processes under which States and local governments
apply for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements and take appropriate steps
to streamline those processes.” Sec. 5. (a). Executive Orders 13083 May 14, 1998,
President Clinton entitled Federalism
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 Is there anyone in state government less bound than the citizen
on the street to the powers of the Federal Government?
The Constitution plainly states, in the ninth amendment:
“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
The Tenth amendment states:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”
What does it take to keep those rights? What does it take to
remove those rights from our reach?63 We may be endowed with
certain inalienable or unalienable rights and even every man in
prison has such rights - but must enjoy them from behind the
lawful bars which restrict him in his own crimes.
Iron bars and stone walls are not the only things that imprison
men, nor are ropes and chains the only things that bind them.
The truth is, if we can learn to handle the truth, it is the
responsibility of the people to retain their rights. Citizens have
entrusted obligations and duties in the Federal government that
would have been better served if we had done them ourselves.
“Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection.”64
The private individual and local communities have vested
many responsibilities and rights granted by God in local, state and
federal agencies. People have steadily waived those natural and
moral duties and with them their birthrights in exchange for the
benefits of a new patron and benefactor.
“Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface,
many citizens, because of their respect for what only appears to be a
law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights, due to
ignorance.”65
If by ignorance alone the enlightenment of the individual would
give a grace for mere correction of our mistake, we could likely
63 See The Covenants of the gods HHC.
64 Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio protectionem. Coke, Littl. 65.
65 US vs. Minker. 350 US,179 p187.

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rescind such error merely by repentance except for two factors.
The criminal recompense of our deeds and the debt incurred by
taking benefits not paid for.
“Government is the great fiction through which everybody
endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” 66
Man has placed his faith and trusts, his allegiance and honor in
institutions created by his own hands and by the striking of hands
in application and acceptance of benefits at the expense of others.
He has made himself a surety for debt.
“My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy
hand with a stranger, Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,
thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Proverbs 6:1,2
No rights could be vested in the Federal government by the
states that would make man subject beyond the freedom he
enjoyed in each state without his individual consent or
constructive acquiescence.
In Ur, Haran, Babylon and Egypt men were bound by
governments under the authority of other men. Abraham and
Moses left to lead men to do something very different. In Judea
there had been a binding too. First under Hasmonian rule, then
Roman influence. How did this binding of men and rights come
about and how were they set free again?
“But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall
be added unto you.” Luke 12:31
The faith of Abraham led many souls from Haran. 67 Trust in
Moses and his God led the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt,
and faith in Jesus Christ and His gospel of the Kingdom of God
and the righteousness of God redeemed Christians to the perfect
law of liberty as Rome fell under its own corruption.
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
66 Frederic Bastiat, French Political Philosopher (1801-1850).
67 Genesis 12:5 “And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all
their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they
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 Galatians 5:1
All governments which rule over men have their own Creed
and the United States Federal government is no exception. It is a
political society existing within the jurisdiction of the original
Republic or Republics. The largest portion of the Republics’
original authority rested in the hands of the “individual freeman”
in the realm of his own individual dominion. The authority of the
leaders of government of the original American Republic was
merely “titular”, meaning “in name only”.
“The term republic, res publica, signifies the state independently of
its form of government.”68
In a pure republic the people are the state and the government is
their servant. This does not mean that the people may take away
the rights of their neighbor by majority vote as they do in
democracies. Nor can they take away the rights of those servants
who choose to serve the will of the people. Both are regulated with
the most fundamental right and obligation.
“Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”69
“We ought to consider what is the end of government before we
determine which is the best form. Upon this point all speculative
politicians will agree that the happiness of society is the end of
government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that
the happiness of the individual is the end of man....All sober
inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have
declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in
virtue.”70

68 Bouvier’s Vol.1. page 13 (1870)[also see 1856]..

69 Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor
any thing that is thy neighbour’s.” Deuteronomy 5:21
70 Papers of John Adams, Butterfield, ed., vol. 4 p. 86. 1776 - Thoughts on Government.

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The Constitutions Part IV
Part I: The people were “not a party” to the Constitution.
Part II: There are two forms of government, free and not so free
governments by contract.
Part III: The people opposed and feared the Constitution and
those fears have been realized.

Pursuing Perspective and Precepts

“The end does not justify the means.” Ayn Rand
In all fairness, the Constitution of the United States of America
occupies a unique place in history, although, its basic elements
have been seen in the centralization of governments for thousands
of years.
The creation of the institution called the “United States” was a
valiant attempt by some men to create a central exercising
authority in hopes of bettering the condition of man without losing
control of that power vested in that government. From the days of
Pharaoh, Saul and Rome such efforts often ended in disaster.
A detailed study, a broader approach, and a critical eye upon
that history is required to understand the context and condition in
which that document rose to prominence and the perils wrought in
its consummation.
There are two forces operating in governments.
1. To guarantee the safety of the people there is a granting of
power by the people to one form of government;
2. And there is an imposition of limitations to guarantee the
safety of the people from government.
The balance of these elements in the world of government
defines the difference between freedom and despotism. Those who
seek power will commonly make a promise of liberty but proceed
to create offices of power and take control to obtain that end. This
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the fallen nature of man from Cain to Christ.
People are fond of attributing the United States’ success,
prominence, and power to its constitution. There are many factors
that compose our past and present and the constitution and the
institutions it created and continues to create are only one part of
that equation. Not disregarding the unspoiled natural resources of
the land itself, it is the people that have made this nation great. It is
also the people who will destroy it.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and
lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
In early America there was a higher rate of literacy than in
Europe or Britain, even higher than it is today. You had to know
how to read to study the Bible and it was religious zeal and faith
that had been a great motivating factor in the settling of North
America. Education was important - even paramount - but faith in
higher principles, precepts and purposes was predominant.
Every home had a collection of books as a prized treasure.
Without TV, radio or other distractions, books and the ideas they
contained was a common pursuit. Books like Gibbon’s The Rise
and Fall of the Roman Empire had been published. There was a
keen interest in governments and how they should work or did not
work. The quest for Civil Freedom was another passionate pursuit
of those early adventures to the wilderness. There were more law
books per capita in America than anywhere else in the world.
It was the inuring conditions of survival and endurance that
played out the purifying process for those early Americans. There
was no social security, Medicare, unemployment, etc. The people
were responsible for their family’s needs, protection, education,
and condition. The community itself, often through the Church,
was dependent on mutual charity to sustain itself.
The burden of social responsibility cultivated an independent
and self-reliant character unprecedented in America ever since.
Shouldering that responsibility is correlative to retaining and
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 There are many people who espouse the Constitution as the
sacred source of American success. The success of every free
nation is not its structure but its virtue. The structure offered by the
constitution actually provided a means by which the people could
neglect and even waive their rights and return to bondage. Many
do not even know what is in the constitution and do those that do
often fail to really understand it and its flaws?
“Lawyers are being graduated from law school by the thousands
who have little knowledge of the constitution. When organizations
seek a lawyer to instruct them on the Constitution they find it nearly
impossible to secure one competent.”71
It has been well established that the people were “not a party”
to that Constitution and the vast majority opposed it. “We the
People” clearly did not mean the average American.
This does not mean they opposed many of the noble concepts
contained in it but that they saw certain dangers in its creation and
implementation. Patrick Henry was one of its most ardent
opponents yet he served in an office under its authority. Most
Americans saw great dangers in that structure and form of
government and to know their concerns is to be forewarned and
forearmed.
Any constitution is a body of precepts, written or unwritten, for
the purpose of controlling government action until modified. What
was the constitution of those natural people in America if they
opposed the Constitution of the United States? What did Samuel
Adams mean, on August 1, 1776 when he said, “Our Union is
complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved”.
Certainly customary law played a part in that constitution of the
people but it did little to give the whole nation international
standing. Hamilton thought debt to other nations gave the United
States standing.
We should look for the answers to these questions without
limiting our search to the brief history of America. We shall
examine the whole history of mankind. To not study and learn all

71 The Committee on American Citizenship, ABA , Denver,Co. July 14, 1926.

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you can about institutions and enterprises that have such a
dynamic grip and integral influence over our lives and the lives of
our children is foolishness and folly.
Anyone may seek out the Anti-Federalist Papers to see the
opposing views, pitfalls and dangers. Ruination and downfall so
common in history might be more readily avoided with a diligent
effort to understand the opposing fears and trepidation toward a
central governing power.
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” 72
Our entire concept of history has been greatly influenced
through the writing and rewriting of history in ancient and even
our modern text books.
It is not the constitution which was written as if good men
would take office but the exercise of principles of freedom and
God-given law upon which our faith should rest. The weightier
matters of law, judgment, mercy and faith 73 should be the pastime
and endeavor of every man and woman of America if they are to
be a free nation under God.
Early Constitutions
Early American settlers had a curiosity about government and a
religious devotion to the study of forms of government. Their love
of the Bible allowed them to read for themselves how the ancient
men of Israel lived free from kings and parliaments for centuries
and still govern themselves.
The examination of the Bible produces a diversified opinion of
what God wants. This dichotomy is the result of language and the
private agenda of the men who read it. The selfish nature and
agenda of men sows confusion in the world.
While men chose to interpret the text in millions of different
ways, they could see how Israel supported their government with

72 Georges Santayana, principal figure in Classical American Philosophy.

73 Matthew 23:23 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of
mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
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tithing to ministers only “according to their service”. 74 They read
how they owned the “milk and honey” produced on land they
“possessed” and taxes consisted of granting “freewill offerings” to
a network of men they chose. The army was a volunteer militia
organized along the same social structure of congregations and
servant ministers who supported the community through a system
of charity. Leaders were titular and supported the needs of the
people by the free offerings of the people according to the choices
by the people.
They had already become aware of the network of tens,
hundreds and thousands which were the foundation of their form
of government. It was seen in many cultures before Christ and
throughout Europe after Christ. Some yearned for the days when
the head of each house was prince on his own land, having been
delivered from bondage in Egypt by God through Moses.
They read about the sin of the “voice of the people” calling for
a king to judge them like the other nations, 75 and if they did fall
prey to the temptation of electing a ruling elite that they should
bind that ruler by written limitations.
Why did God bring men out of worldly governments like
Babylon, Ur, Haran, and Egypt? Did God lead men away from the
rule of men in the Old Testament and then in the New Testament
reverse His opinion and desire them to go back under governments
where men rule over their neighbor? Electing Saul was a rejection
of God. The agreement to go under Pharaoh was the result of a
series of choices. Men were making some of the same choices
before the birth of Christ down to this very day. The fact is Christ
came to set us free and seal that freedom in His own blood.
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,”
2Co 6:17

74 Numbers 7:5 “Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man
according to his service.”
75 1 Samuel 8:10-19 “...Voice of the people.... refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and
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 Is it the will of the Father in Heaven that men go under the
authority of other men by consensual or quasi contracts through
application and participation to obtain benefits? We know that we
are to make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.76
“And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye
shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why
have ye done this?” Judges 2:2
The word league here is the same word normally translated
covenant some 264 times in the Bible. It is from the word barah
which is translated eat, choose or give and even cause to eat. The
word for covenant actually is defined covenant, alliance, pledge;
between men.
God is telling men in the Bible not to pledge allegiance to other
men or the organizations they create with their own hands. If we
pledge allegiance or apply for gifts, gratuities and benefits then
benefactors, Soters or Patonus’77 and conscripted fathers will have
the right to rule over us.
If we enter into a contract, covenant, constitution or league
what would it look like and does God have an opinion as to what
should be in the agreement?
A King Over Me
John Wycliffe was imprisoned by the government and his body
burned at the stake by the orthodox Church because he had
translated the Bible into English. He identified the books of
Samuel and Kings as Kings 1 through 4. Kings as opposed to
Judges is the period of history where Israel went under rulers
rather than the once free nation of God where every man was
prince in his own house and there was no king in Israel.
Yes, God allows men to have Kings and Rulers if they so
choose. He allows men to make these covenants and contracts if
they so choose. He allows men to create their civil states such as
those of Cain and Lemech, or Egypt and Rome. He allows men to
sin and suffer the consequences of that sin.
76 Exodus 23:32 [De. 7:2, De. 13:8,]
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 Is God the Father’s true desire for man to be in bondage or to
walk with Him and live by faith, hope and charity according to the
perfect law of liberty and love?
Moses had known the weakness of the people. They would
eventually desire a central governing authority again. He
prophetically warned the people what such rulers would be
inclined to do and wisely established constitutional limitation for
those chosen as benefactors of the people but who could exercise
authority like most other nations and governments do.
“When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I
will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about me; ”
Deuteronomy 17:14
Men had come to America to actually “possess” the land. They
did not come to merely be a tenant upon the land where they had
to pay yearly for its use or be cast off. They desired to own the
land as freemen so that the land could not be taxed and they would
be free souls under God.
A half a millennium had passed since the rise of kings over the
people in Europe. Wars and inquisitions had taken their toll on
liberty and the knowledge of its ways. Most of the people had
become subjects of governments. America supplied a unique
opportunity to regain freedom.
In America the voice of the people would eventually choose to
elect someone to exercise authority and they would create a
constitution containing rules to protect them from the rulers.
“Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD
thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set
king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is
not thy brother.” Deuteronomy 17:15
If we read the phrase “set a king over” we might imagine a
modern monarch with a crown ruling over the people. The Hebrew
word for king is melek [Klm]. The word is actually translated as
both king or counsel. The office of melek ranged from little power
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 One of those limitations of government written by Moses was
that if you elected a ruler you had to choose someone who was
part of your people. Brethren had to do with the same Father
which of course is God the Father. They should also not be a
stranger. There is more than one word for stranger in Hebrew.
The Hebrew word nekar [rkn] is often translated stranger and is
defined as that which is foreign. The word in this verse for
stranger is nokriy [yrkn]. The word ending in the fourth letter yod
could be interpreted as foreign to God or the understanding of
God. The same three letters nekar [rkn] given the Strong’s number
5234 is commonly translated know or acknowledge.
The moral character of your leader is clearly important. When
the people tried to make Gideon their king he said:
“And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall
my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.” Judges 8:23
There are many men who would not refuse the power to rule
over other people. They would fall to such a temptation only to be
seduced by the desire for even more power. Good and honorable
men like Saul and David are examples of how power corrupts.
The Horses of Egypt
“But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to
return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses:
forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth
return no more that way.” Deuteronomy 17:16
The bar against returning to Egypt had nothing to do with
geography, but it was about returning to that form of government
where a portion of the labor of a man could be annually extracted
by the government. God had taken the people from Egypt, out of
the house of bondage where they had to pay one-fifth of every
thing they earned in a given year to the government and the
government was to care for them in time of need.
There are many references in the old and new testament about
the bondage of Egypt where the people had to bow down and serve
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who made their instruments of war, suppressed the people and
wreaked havoc on men’s lives.
God wants men to live as free souls according to virtue and
good conscience. Every time they go back to a government like in
1 Samuel 8 it was called a rejection of God. Any leader who was
knowledgeable of God and His ways would not lead the people
back to bondage and, like Gideon, would not try to rule over them.
The king was also not to multiply horses. Did God not want
leaders to own a horse ranch? God was not concerned with the
king owning horses. He qualifies this statement by correlating the
multiplying of horses to the returning to Egypt.
Egypt was a large grain producer and it had perfected the art of
war by the use of horses for cavalry and chariots as well as
military supply lines. In denying the king the right to accumulate
horses he was denied an unlimited power to wage war. 78 When the
people do not have trust or faith in God’s way, they often return to
a central government to assure their security.
Things went from bad to worse and eventually Solomon had
40,000 “stalls of horses” and 12,000 horsemen. He also maintained
1,400 chariots in his chariot cities including Jerusalem.
The Cost of Government
When the voice of the people elected to give Saul power as
commander in chief to fight their battles for them these limitations
should have been in place. During his reign Saul feared the enemy
would be ready before he was and he took matters into his own
hands forcing the people to give him what he needed.79
The word “offering” here in 1 Samuel 13:9 is from the Hebrew
alah and can mean “withdraw… to be taken up, be brought up, be
taken away… to be carried away”. It is also translated “increase,
put” and “raised”. The word “and” is not in the original text. What
is being said is that Saul compelled the taking of a burnt offering.
A burnt offering is just something you are not getting back, as we
78 War and Peace in Jewish Tradition by David M. Elcott
79 1 Samuel 13:9 “And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
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have already seen. Since Israel had operated for centuries by
freewill offerings when Samuel arrived he said:
“...What hast thou done?... Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not
kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he
commanded thee... now thy kingdom shall not continue...” 1 Samuel
13:11-14
Because Saul was afraid the people would not come, he
compelled a sacrifice, a tax. He coveted the goods of the people
and demanded they contribute. This was a clear violation of the
Ten Commandments. It was a noble cause, but still a sin.
Samuel’s response to Saul was to the point and direct. He called
him a fool:
“And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not
kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded
thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon
Israel for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD
hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath
commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast
not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.” 1 Samuel 13:12-
14
God had not just taken people out of Egypt and the house of
bondage. He had continuously taken the people out of
governments where men can exercise authority one over the other.
“And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was
thirty thousand men.” 1 Kings 5:13
“Raising a levy” is more often translated “tributary” from the
Hebrew word “mac” (mas), meaning “gang/body of forced
labourers, task-workers, labour band/gang, forced service, task-
work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited …
forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment”. 80 “Of the
twenty-three uses of this term, all but three (Isa 31:8; Lam1:1; Est
10:1) occur early in the literature. The institution of tribute, or
corvée,81 involves involuntary, unpaid labour, or other service, for
80 On line Bible & Concordance. Woodside Bible Fellowship.
81 “I (i.e., the suffering servant) gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them
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superior power - a feudal lord, a king, or a foreign ruler (Ex 1:11;
Est 10:1; Lam 1:1). in Gen. 49:15, Jacob’s blessing on Issachar
identifies him as bowing to ‘tribute.’ In Egypt, the Israelites find
themselves in that position (Ex 1:11). This unpopular measure, and
Rehoboam’s refusal to moderate it, was the immediate cause of the
secession of the ten tribes and the establishment of the northern
kingdom.”82
Today in almost every country in the world the vast majority of
the people are forced to contribute two to five hours out of every
day laboring without pay. Although they imagine they have some
control over government in truth they are entangled again in the
yoke of bondage. They have returned to Egypt.
“The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be
under tribute.” Proverbs 12:24
Tribute, tributary, levy, corvée, or statutory labor are different
names for a tax on labor. It is compulsory (forced) labor without
pay. It may be collected in funds equal to the of value of labor or
forced labor and is withheld by regulated taskmasters or it is taken
annually.
Solomon conscripted 30,000 men, 10,000 each month, working
for him in Lebanon. There was another 70,000 who “bore
burdens”, and 80,000 “hewers in the mountains”. There were
3,300 officers who ruled over the working people like in Egypt.
Shall he Multiply Wives
“I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other
gods before me.” Exodus 20:2-3
Now whole nations practice this form of government supported
by forced labor to provide the support they need for their leaders.
Has the whole world been brought back to a state of bondage?
same verb to describe the condition of baldness (Lev 13, 4041) in the context of
leprosy diagnosis. Ezekiel 29:18 says that the heads of the people of Tyre were
“made bald” by Nebuchadnezzar. This does not mean he tore out their hair; rather,
the baldness was the result of carrying loads on their heads as corvee labor gangs.
From R. Laird Harris’ ‘Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament’
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 “How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is
she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations,
[and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become
tributary !” (La 1:1)
This idea of not returning to that house of bondage was also
seen in the bar of the king from the accumulation of the gold and
silver of the nation as was the case in Egypt.
“Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart
turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold.” Deuteronomy 17:17
With an accumulation of wealth in its treasury, the power to
conscript the people in to its service the government could create
armies, wage war and wield untold power. With unlimited power
came unlimited corruption. With an army under its control a
central government could not only protect the people but it could
wage war on them. This was always a concern in history from
Nimrod to the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar down to modern
times.
Babylon, Egypt, eventually Rome and other countries
throughout history have often regulated the ownership of gold and
silver and its use as money. Often these countries went to the use
of some form of monetary exchange that was supported only by an
artificial value imposed by the state rather than an actual
commodity money like gold or silver with a present value. The
removal of these honest weights and measures was a common and
often a last ditch effort to maintain some stability as their usurious
economies began to collapse.
“Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye
have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land
of Egypt.” Leviticus 19:36 [Deuteronomy 25:13 ]
The bar against the multiplying of wives was another of many
limitations placed on any king or ruler that the people might
choose. In those days when a ruler signed a treaty it was common
to consummate the contract by giving a daughter in marriage to the
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 Although multiple wives leads to trouble of its own the real bar
in relation to the king is the making of treaties. Because the people
are bound under the king then the king by his agreements can bind
the whole nation. The same is true of any treaty making powers.
He Shall Read Therein
In a pure republic where the leaders remain titular they cannot
bind the people. The whole body must sign because each one
remains free. The authors of the Constitution could not bind the
people by their signature alone. The people would have to sign by
their own hand waiving their rights through word and deed. They
would have to make a league and covenant. They would not heed
the warnings of God nor throw down their altars but pray at them.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with
thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the
gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go [to be] among
them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have
made with them.” Deuteronomy 31:16
God forbade the king from making leagues or treaties with
other nations and their leaders. This was also stated for all the
people in Exodus 23:32, “Thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor with their gods”. The word covenant in this commandment and
the word league are both brriyth and is translated covenant,
league, confederacy. It means a covenant, alliance, pledge;
between men; treaty, alliance, league (man to man). All these
things meant that they were making men authorities over
themselves instead of God the Father.
Moses directed the king to not only remember all these basic
rules but to write them down and read them over and over. He was
also still bound by the Ten Commandments which did not allow
him to covet his neighbor’s goods, or kill, or commit adultery or
bear false witness…
“And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which
is before the priests the Levites: And it shall be with him, and he
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 the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these
statutes, to do them: That his heart be not lifted up above his
brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the
right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in
his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.”
Deuteronomy 17:18-20
Moses knew what he was talking about and though it took
centuries, eventually the people wanted a king. People become
more interested in their own security than their neighbor’s liberty.
God has stated clearly through the words of Samuel that the
voice of the people had rejected God and His kingdom on earth
according to all the works which they have done since the day that
He brought them out of Egypt, wherewith they have forsaken Him,
and served other gods. God warned them what kind of ruler that
government would produce.
“...This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He
will take your sons, and appoint them for himself... will set them to
ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments
of war... he will take your daughters... to be cooks... he will take
your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards... and give
them to his servants.... he will take ... take ... take...” 1 Samuel 8:11-
19
If the government created by the people can take the first fruits,
the sons and daughters, the best of its fields etc. then it is because
the people have long since rejected God, coveted their neighbor’s
goods and made covenants.
“And David numbered the people that [were] with him, and set
captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.” 2
Samuel 18:1
When David became king because the people rejected God and
Saul had foolishly disobeyed God and forced a tax upon the
people, David decided to number the young men so he could draft
them into his army. Thousands died resisting his efforts. David
repented this breach of his authority.
“And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the
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 that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the
iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.” 2 Samuel
24:10

Then and Now

Why was it a sin to number the people for a draft under David
but it is acceptable under governments of the world? Why was it
foolish to force the people to pay for government needs under Saul
but it is okay now? Why was it a rejection of God for the voice of
the people to elect a ruler who could exercise authority over the
whole people according to Samuel but it is okay in the eyes of
modern Christians?
If God wanted you to write a constitution that forbade a ruler
the power to accumulate the gold and silver of the people, to make
treaties, to have large standing armies or the power to do anything
to return to the bondage of Egypt then God could not have wanted
the people to create the constitution of the United States. If all the
predictions by Samuel for the people were the result of the choice
of the people to reject God, and all those predictions are true today
then the people must have rejected God again. If God will not hear
our cries under the government of our choice then it is time to
repent before we claim to pray to God.
“.... ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall
have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and
they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;” 1 Samuel 8:5-19
Law and justice as well as national security had been in the
hands of the people for centuries. The people assembled
themselves in voluntary militias based on a pattern of tens,
hundreds and thousands.83 These congregations were fused by the
bonds of faith, love, sacrifice, and charity. The leaders were titular
in their authority and held office by mutual respect and the
consensus of those they served. Every captain was chosen by the
ten men he served. This was a pure republic designed by God

83 Ex 18:25 “And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the
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where the people were free from things public under the perfect
law of liberty.
“Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are
sureties for debts.” Proverbs 22:26
Leaders should not have the power to take from the people,
make war for or on the people, establish a central treasury, make
treaties for the people, and they should never do anything to return
the people to that bondage in Egypt where they labored for the
governing powers without pay or cause them to covet each others
goods through the power of government. They are to require love
only and live by that love and forgiveness of debt, not become a
surety for debt.
These precepts should be written in every constitution if it is to
be of God. When any constitution is written contrary to those
precepts then it is a rejection of the decrees of God. If the people
establish men to be their benefactors and then give them the
authority to take from their neighbor to ensure their welfare and
social security then they will be trapped in the net 84 of their own
covetous consent.

84 Ex. 23:33; 34:12; Deut. 7:16; Psalms 9:15...; 10 & 35; 57:6; 66:11; 69:22; 140:5;
Proverbs 1:10...; 12:12; 29:5: Job 18:2... Micah 7... Matthew 13:47,50; Luke 21:35; 2
Peter 2:3, Romans 11:9; 1 Timothy 3:7...; 2 Timothy 2:26...

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The Constitutions Part V
Part I: The people were “not a party” to the Constitution.
Part II: There are two forms of government - free and not free.
Part III: The people opposed the Constitution for good cause.
Part IV: The centralization of power and authority in the hands
of governments created by the hand of man is a rejection of God
and the Constitution from its inception was such a rejection.

Equality of Responsibility and Rights

Those early American settlers who came to this land seeking
liberty and freedom were unique among most colonization in the
new world. Their struggle was not merely to escape tyranny or
gain riches of gold but to achieve the burden of responsibility and
the pearl of freedom under God.
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw
Either Americans have steadily turned over the responsibility,
power and authority granted to every man by God and therefore
the correlative rights endowed by God in order to obtain the
benefits of government, or again, “Because of what appears to be a
lawful command on the surface, many citizens, because of their
respect for what only appears to be a law, are cunningly coerced
into waiving their rights, due to ignorance”.85
“Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment
and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support
the totalitarian state.”86
Does mankind do this because they are abandoning their God-
given responsibility through avarice and apathy or because they
are ignorant of the importance of the exercise of that responsibility
in order to maintain their corresponding rights?

85 US vs. Minker. 350 US,179 p187.

86 John Dewey (1859 – 1952), an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational
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 When people rely upon government institutions to do that
which they should do for themselves they become dependent,
weak and subject.
“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like
individual responsibility.”87
Government, in order to provide the benefits of security and
order expected of it, has set about revising, editing and adding to
the legal system with an overwhelming zeal. This has been a
common trend by central governments that has always ended in
the same historical disaster, called tyranny. Has this system gone
astray down that path or is the concept of central government
fundamentally flawed? In order for central governments to keep
the people secure they must first secure the people.
It was not the written Constitution of the United States but the
body of precepts, actions and deeds that predated its adoption
including those that secured the charters - that were proclaimed as
the earlier guardian of the American free dominion. The
Constitution for the United States was written to regulate the
government created by it. The constitution was never the whole
body of law, the origin of our original freedom nor was it the
desired destination of the average freeman.
“The civil law reduces the unwilling freedman to his original
slavery; but the laws of the Angloes judge once manumitted as ever
after free.”88
Selfish Determination
There are always men who want to be free, but they are not
always men willing to let their neighbor enjoy that same freedom.
Most revolutions are simply won by the more dominant force.89
The early colonists came seeking religious and civil freedom.
Some thought to create governments to be different from them and

87 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902) an American social, abolitionist, and woman’s
rights.
88 Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinalm servitutem redigulnt; sed leges angiae
semel manumissum semper liberum judicant. Co. Litt. 137.
89 Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
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were willing to take away the liberty they themselves sought.
Others thought that governments could be instituted for the
protection of rights of the individuals with compacts and
constitutions devised to restrain government. While other people
have come to believe, “The purpose of government is to rein in the
rights of the people”.90 And still others believed that, “In general,
the art of government consists in taking as much money as
possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other”.91
Americans have pondered and tested many ideas and forms of
government, because bad government was a major motivator for
their arrival. For the most part they survived these social
experiments, the same as they did the wild Indians, ravenous
fauna, and the harsh elements of this new land.
The colonists, who feared the oppression of their former
governments, attempted to check the possibility that their own
freedoms might again be taken away with what is called social
contract. Clear vision has often been obscured by minds which
remain the habitation of anger and resentment, fear and judgment,
while pondering the plan for or possibility of paradise.
The wilderness was good cause for fear or at least trepidation.
They were without the monarchy to secure their protection. They
were seeking some form of government that would secure their
society without taking away their freedom. True freedom is not
dependent upon government but upon the virtue of the people. Bad
government is the product of the lack of virtue among the people.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his
need seems a good idea in the beginning and it has a Christian ring
to it too. Fortunately, the colonists must have examined the Bible
before everyone starved to death.
They knew that the sin of Sodom was an abundance of idleness
and failing to strengthen the hand of the poor.92 And that, “The

90 William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States.
91 François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778) Voltaire, essayist and philosopher in defense of
liberties and freedom of religion.
92 Ezekiel 16:49 “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of
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hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under
tribute”.93 They knew that “everyman needed to do his share and
eat their own bread.”94 They knew that socialism violated the
commandments by coveting your neighbor’s goods.95
To each according to his ability96 and from each according to
his own choice97 is the only workable formula in a free
government. This precept is revolutionary in today’s thinking but
was the foundation of God’s government from Abraham to Christ.
There are few things more influential in the lives of people than
the governments they form. While the development of the
character of mankind is effected by the environment of the society
created by its government, the government itself is actually a
product of the character or lack of character present in the people.
“The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no
passion of principle but that of gain.” Thomas Jefferson
Economic systems, the means of exchange and wealth, are the
foundation of the industry. They are a product of the morals of the
people rather than the whim of the government. Among a moral
people there will be no call for monarch, ruler or regime. Among a
just people no unjust weights and measures will be offered or
accepted. Among charitable people no usury would have a use.
“Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic
principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for

strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”

93 Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be
under tribute.”
94 “For ... this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat...
they work, and eat their own bread.” 2 Thessalonians 3:10
95 Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor
any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s.”
96 Isaiah 65:22 “They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall
long enjoy the work of their hands.” Luke 10:7 “... the labourer is worthy of his
hire...”; Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Timothy 5:18 “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox... The
labourer [is] worthy of his reward.
97 Galatians 5:13 “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty
for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.” Matthew 10:8; Romans
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 doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for
selfish motives.” George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism tests the moral fiber of the people. America has not
had capitalism for about a century. It has operated under a system
of debt notes, borrowed money, and social programs that
impoverish the people in spirit and eventually in truth.
No Fuss Selfishness
At first the idea of giving everyone their own democratic voice
seems fair on the surface. To give every one a chance to voice
their opinion is not what democracy is all about. Democracy is not
about having your say, as much as it is about having your
neighbor’s say. They would eventually realize, that, “Democracy
means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the
people”.98 Democracy can only work with virtuous people but
virtuous people have no interest in democracy.
“A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are
undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a
straight line until one is stopped.” 99 “Democracy is the road to
socialism.”100 They are so closely related that we can say that
“more socialism means more democracy, openness and
collectivism in everyday life”.101
Under capitalism man exploits man;
Under socialism the process is reversed.
The truth is men exploit men.
Socialism is the result of application, membership, and greed.
“All socialism involves slavery.” 102 “Socialism: nothing more than
the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his
master.”103 “Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist
for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him,

98 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

99 Norman Mailer
100 Karl Marx
101 Mikhail Gorbachev
102 Herbert Spencer
103 Henry Louis Mencken

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but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is
his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any
way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own
tribal, collective good.”104
There are at least two types of people in the world, those who
are apathetic and those who want to take advantage of the
apathetic. Socialism streamlines this process and makes it more
convenient for both groups. There is a people of a third kind which
is far more rare. They consist of those few people who actually
care about others as much as they care about themselves and are
willing to do something about it.
“Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn’t needed,
and in hell where they’ve got it.” 105 It is only appealing to those
who covet their neighbor’s goods and are willing to do so through
the agency of government they create for themselves, while
democracy is its older brother where the majority covet their
neighbor’s right to choose through the privilege of voting.
Most people who seek to satisfy their own desires will seek to
control and exercise authority over others in order. It is the beast in
everyman which forms the corpus of the beast of Revelations.
Most of the struggles of mankind is between those who lack virtue
and those who love vice. The truly virtuous are often caught up in
the chaos and ruckus that inevitably will follow. If we will not
practice pure religion106 we will get something far less.
“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.”
Richard John Neuhaus
It is clear that if someone robs or injures someone that they are
sinning against righteousness, but coveting is a much more subtle
sin against the brotherhood of mankind. It is easier to hide and
disguise, justify and excuse.
“And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses,

104 Ayn Rand

105 Cecil Palmer
106 James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit
the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the
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 and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a
man and his heritage.” Micah 2:2
If the Ten Commandments were the foundational law of a
nation then the desire for anything that belongs to your neighbor,
even though it is obtained by legal means, remains a crime in the
eyes of God. If you do the crime you will do the time.
Tying the Gordian Knots
The legend of Alexander the Great’s Gordian Knot has been
used as a metaphor for an intractable problem, that cannot be
untied by any conventional means. If all willing have used, and
even abused their neighbor, then it is only just that all be used by
their neighbor. If this was done with a covetous heart or mind then
the God of justice can offer no salvation.107
If we are snared in a net of our own making, how shall we be
freed? People have bound themselves in a legal snare by contracts
and constructions of law because of their own wanton desires or
sloth so then they might be freed by the practice of an antitheses
policy.
We may only be freed by the love of Christ in us. His love
begins the journey of our return to liberty. Christ knew what he
was talking about.
“...he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that
proceedeth out of his mouth.” Numbers 30:2
While God holds us to our word and Christ tells us to make our
yeses yes it is not merely our word and constructive contracts that
bind us. Our covetousness has woven the net but it is our debt that
has entangled us in this net of bondage.
The debt to our neighbor and the surety nature of a system in
debt forms a Gordian Knot that binds all in the corporate state.
Even if we free our neighbor by waiving our legal right to his
purse what do we do about the debt of the whole body that is
bound as one?

107 Ge. 42:2; De. 1:42-45; 30:17-20; Jud. 10:14; 1 Sa. 8:18, Job 19:7; Jer. 11:12; Hab.
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 “My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy
hand with a stranger...” Proverbs 6:1
God may have made us to lie down in green pastures or wish to
lead us beside the still waters but we have not been following God
or Christ for a long long time.108
Proverbs goes on to say that we are snared and taken with the
words of our own mouth, our pledges, applications and consents.
You have delivered yourself and must humbly admit your error
even to the unrighteous mammon.
It tells us to no longer be slothful and blind to our own error.
We must be like the ant who has no master yet works together
without rulers. The poverty of our own debt is due to our own
slumber and avarice. We have been the naughty person, a wicked
man, who tells the world by where his feet have gone.
It is our own foolishness which has brought this calamity and
bound and broke the people without remedy. The Lord is specific
as to the six even seven things that keeps Christ from our hearts.
“A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in
running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that
soweth discord among brethren.” Proverbs 6:17-20
God loves those who love Him109 and those who love God will
love Christ.110 And those who love Christ will keep His
commandments,111 “For the commandment is a lamp; and the law
is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life”. 112 If God
loves Christ because he is willing to lay down his life, that he
might take it up again 113 then Christ will love us if we lay down
our life for our neighbor with nothing but hope that we might take

108 Psalms 23:2 “He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the
still waters.”
109 Proverbs 8:17 “ I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.”
110 John 8:42 “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I
proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.”
111 John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
112 Proverbs 6:23
113 John 10:17 “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I
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it up again.114
If we plunder our neighbor for our own welfare and security
then we do not love Christ, we have no faith in His sacrifice and
are not saved except in our own imagination.
By the legal net of their own making the people have been
justified in plundering their neighbor’s goods for false “freedom,
security, and peace”. The churches and their doctrine of licensing
corruption has lulled whole nations into slumber. They have sowed
the wind and will reap the whirlwind.115
The people take bites out of one another and are devoured in
their own deeds.116 How do a people betray God and make a
travesty of His law and legally plunder their neighbor?
“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the
beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would
otherwise involve... But how is this legal plunder to be identified?
Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs
to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn’t belong.
See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by
doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a
crime. Then abolish that law without delay ... No legal plunder; this
is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and
logic.”117
The problem is not the contracts as much as it is the vice of the
people. Vice is the absence of virtue and a return to virtue is a
return to God and a turning away from the ways of the world. The
love of Christ is the love of others. It is fasting from the legal
plunder offered by the benefactors who exercise authority one over
the other.

114 John 15:13 “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends.”
115 Hosea 8:7 “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath
no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it
up...”
116 Galatians 5:15 “But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not
consumed one of another.” Ezekiel 11:3-13; Micah 3:2-7
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 Loosening the Knot
The Gordian Knot was unloosed by the bold stroke of his sword
that cut through its complexity with his sword. Jesus too came to
bring a sword and free men with a bold stroke if we would repent
and seek His kingdom and the righteousness of God.
“Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter.”118
The more the colonists experimented the more they mistrusted
power in the hands of governing authority. And the more the
people saw the value in self-reliance tempered with brotherhood,
compassion and concern for their fellow man by daily choice and
personal sacrifice the more they and their liberty became
inseparable.
“The religious liberty which Christianity awakened among its
disciples organized it into republics.”119
There was some limited authority that remained in the hands of
representatives of the original Colonial Republics and those State
Republics following the Declaration of Independence. By law
Natural Rights or the exercise of Un-or-Inalienable Rights of the
freeman was only by their individual consent.
Greater jurisdictional powers could only be acquired by the
titular government leaders through evidence of consent, including
application, contract or acquiescence. If the people failed to attend
to the essence of the republic or delay in the protection of their
neighbor’s right to choose the Republic will die from neglect.
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility ...
In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have
is the ability to take on Responsibility.”120
Why did the colonists know this? They saw it in action and the
fruits of it in the face of adversity. They had read it in the Bible.
118 Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1 Scene 1. 45–47
119 Republics: or, Popular government an appointment of God By Rev. John Crowell
D.D. Chapter 2. The Republics Organized.
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 “Arise! For this matter is your responsibility, but we will be with
you; be courageous and act.” Ezra 10:4121
Those pilgrims colonizing this American continent had become
self-sufficient individuals and self-reliant as a truly independent
people in communities while enduring the hardships of the
wilderness and struggling with the lessons and precepts of their
most read book, the Bible.
“We have now shown from the New Testament that, in the plurality
and equality of their chosen officers, as well as by their constitution,
the primitive Christian churches were republics.”122
They had sought the ways of the Ancient Church seeking to
overcome five centuries of persecution and oppression of the true
spirit of Christ and the liberty he endowed. They knew not to
depend on government but upon the love of each other in
voluntary cooperation because they knew, the benefits of rulers
“are deceitful meat.”123
“A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for
neglecting his neighbor’s.” Richard Whately
Americans were beginning to learn to love their neighbor as
themselves out of necessity, if not design. They understood that,
“justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are
filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended”.124
The key to good government is good men who govern
themselves in the ways of the Father of us all. When people are for
their neighbors as much as they are for themselves then a
government by the people will prosper because you will have a
people of which good government shall be sustained. When men
fail to love their neighbor as themselves then no checks and

121 New American Standard Bible

122 Republics: or, Popular government an appointment of God By Rev. John Crowell
D.D. Chapter 2, The Republics Organized, P. 87
123 Proverbs 23:1 “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is]
before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not
desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.”
124 Plato (427 – 347 BC), Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of
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balances or constitution will save them from their folly. 125
A nation in love with the fruits of debt is like a falling man who
is in love with his ability to fly. The desire for benefits at the
expense of your neighbor is a crime against the sacrifice of Christ.
It is a rejection of God. To apply to men you call benefactors but
exercise authority over your neighbor, though it be legal, is a
rejection of Christ and a prayer to the Adversary of Christ.
To seek comfort in the present at the expense of your neighbor
and your mutual posterity is the religion of infidels. 126 Debt is the
abundance poverty in a nation without the discomfort and it is the
result of moral bankruptcy of the people. A nation is not great
because of its past but only because of its present and the people
who live there carry the burden of their own neglect. “The price of
greatness is responsibility.”127
“Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one
loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the
fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.”
Isaiah 1:23.
If you want to become a slave all you have to do is require
others to provide for you what you should be providing for
yourself. Just covet your neighbors’ goods and you too, shall be
sold into bondage. The colonists had heard that, “...through
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of
you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their
damnation slumbereth not”. 2 Peter 2:3
If you are to be redeemed you must repent and be baptized in
the spirit of Christ which flows through those who doeth the will
of the Father as doers and not just hearers. Each individual must
look for the beam in their own eye. They must lovingly hear the
rebuke of their neighbor if they wish to have a voice in their own
government.

125 Leviticus 19:18 and Matthew 19:19, Luke 10:27.

126 1 Timothy 5:8 “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those
of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
127 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (1874 – 1965) Prime Minister 1940 to
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 No man should walk away from the accusation of error but face
one another as you do yourself in the mirror. Society is the
reflection of our own souls and error neglected in one is error in
all. If you want your rights you must take back responsibility for
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The Constitutions Part Vl
Part I: The people were “not a party” to the Constitution.
Part II: There are two forms of government free and not free.
Part III: The people opposed the Constitution for good cause.
Part IV: Consolidation of power by men is a rejection of God.
Part V: To retain rights you must accept responsibility.

Bound by Benefits
“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from
the heart; and they defile the man”. Matthew 15:18
Since Jerusalem fell to the Roman General Titus there had been
a steady decline of the Empire and central civil powers of that
world. For almost a thousand years the majority of people of
Europe lived without taxes, owning and working their own land,
caring for their families and protecting their communities on a
voluntary basis. There was almost as many people living in Europe
in 176 AD as there was in 1776 but the former were far more free.
The end of the first millennium brought a new rise in the power
of kings and a sometimes military reformation of the “Church”
through these new crowned heads under new religious overseers.
By the middle of the second millennium after Christ, men who
called themselves benefactors and wore the crown given them by
this reformed church continued to bind the land and the people of
Europe and Britain. It was during this time we see an expansion of
feudalism and fealty, tax levies and registry in the Doomesday
Book, celibacy amongst ministers and tax funds for the Church, a
system of statutory labor, draft and impressment into service,
legalization of usury, credit money - and last, but not least: “Oaths
of Allegiance and Supremacy”.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ruled what some historians call the
Golden Age of the Roman Empire. He was a Stoic philosopher
with high ideals of duty and humble service. The Meditations of
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Greek literature, second only to the New Testament in popularity.
Much of it reads like a modern Sunday sermon about duty to
country and governments of men, minus the common Christian
names. Marcus’ rule as First Citizen, Commander in Chief and
Appointer of the Judiciary was benevolent and prosperous with
the exception of bloody wars and official Christian persecution.
Why was there such mistrust and oppression of Christians? He
was influenced by the stoic philosophers who were both his
mentors and companions. Jealousy and envy, which should not be
stoic traits, may have come from an appearance of Christians
robbing them of many followers. Marcus Aurelius believed that
the Christians were secretly planning to overthrow the Empire.
If those early Christians were familiar with Romans 13128 and
there was constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom in Rome,
then why were the Christians singled out for persecution? At the
height of Christianity they only comprised 5% of the Roman
population, had no military aspirations, and because of their
Jewish origins were exempt from military service. It is true Jesus
had preached a kingdom. The Christians had developed a unique
and ancient system of family rule and community independence.
They applied for none of the “free” government benefits so
common in the affluent system of Rome.
Rome’s welfare system was often operated through its network
of what we call temples. Rome also imposed “contributions” or
taxes upon its citizenry and those they conquered militarily and
commercially under the operation of their legal system. To apply
for such benefits openly would be partaking of “meat sacrificed to
idols.” Any application to the Patronus 129 of Rome would be
praying to another Father on the earth.
Parens Patriae is Latin for “parent of the nation”. It is also seen

128 Romans 13:1 “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no
power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”
129 “Patronus (Lat.) In Roman Law. A modification of the Latin word Pater, Father. A
denomination applied by Romulus to the first senators of Rome, and which they
afterwards bore.” “A person who stood in the relation of protector to another who
was called his ‘client.’” Black’s 3rd Ed. page 1338.

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as Pater Patriae meaning “Father of the Country”.130 In law, it
refers to the public policy power of the state to intervene in the
natural rights of the father. It relates to an idea invoked in the
sixteenth century by the King's Bench in cases where adults “do
not have control over the mind or intellect”(non compos mentis).
When men herald “My country right or wrong” it is an
admission that you are turning the control of your own mind and
your natural liberty to choose over to another. To imagine that the
majority will elect to follow the virtuous path, mocks history from
Noah to Christ.
“And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your
Father, which is in heaven.”131 Matthew 23:9
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in
heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” Matthew 6:9
Christians had been set free from the laws of the Pharisees and
their statutory Sanhedrin which had been nailed to the cross. They
said there was another king, one Jesus who had set them free.
Rome had recognized Christ as a king and also His apostles as that
kingdom’s appointed ambassadors and overseers of the kingdom
of God that operated according to the perfect law of liberty.
Romans 13 was seen much differently in those days than the
meaning ascribed by the modern Church. 132 That Church was the
benefactor who did not exercise authority but served the people
through faith, hope and charity according to a different way.
“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads
among them bounties, donations and benefits.”133
The expansion of the power and authority in governments is
often due to application and contracts to government to obtain
benefits. The Bible is packed with warnings about eating at the
table of rulers, praying to or making agreements with governments
of men and those they call benefactors.
130 The plural Patres Patriae literally "Fathers of the Fatherland”
131 Call no man on earth Father
http://www.hisholychurch.info/study/bklt/father.pdf Pamphlets
132 “The Higher Liberty” by Brother Gregory. His Holy Church
133 Cecil B. DeMille in “The Ten Commandments.”

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 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should
have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.” Psalms 69:22
“And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a
stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:” Romans 11:9
Christians had their own table of benefits set by love for one
another through charity and personal sacrifice. 134 Like John the
Baptist their kingdom was not established by force.
It was “the union and discipline of the Christian republic”
which “gradually formed an independent and increasing state in
the heart of the Roman Empire”. 135 Romans both admired and
were jealous of Christians but were suspicious because of their
unity.
The objections concerning Christians were compounded by the
fact that they would not take an oath of allegiance and
supremacy,136 because to do so cometh of evil. Any taking of oaths
was considered by some Christians to be a “snare of Satan” who is
merely the adversary of the liberty in Christ.
“Do as you choose; I lay it down as a law that there be no swearing
at all. If any bid you swear, tell him, Christ has spoken, and I do not
swear.”137
Somewhere along the way Christians have been convinced that
worship has to do with singing in Churches or repeating words of
praise while your real allegiance is given elsewhere, your real
prayers are to those men who call themselves benefactors but take
from your neighbor to satisfy your lust and avarice.
Prayer is application and worship is allegiance and homage.
Because of the early American unfettered examination of the
newly translated Biblical text a strikingly different perception of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ was emerging. Acting separately and
134 Psalms 141:4; Proverbs 23; Matthew 15:27; Mark 7:28; Luke 22:30, Acts 2:46, 1
Corinthians 10:1-28; 2 Thessalonians 3:8-12; Hebrews 13:1;
135 Edward Gibbon - The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume 1
136 The Oath of Supremacy, imposed by the Act of Supremacy 1559. Some of the
language in the Oath would later inspire the United States Oath of Citizenship. “Oath
of Allegiance,” 8 C.F.R. Part 337 (2008).
137 St John Chrysostom (A.D. 345...) Homil. ix. in Act. Apostol.; see Sixt. Senens.
Bibliothec. Sanct. vi. Adnot. 26.

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independently from the governments of the world was growing
popular. Caesar had not been crowned by the church nor the
church supported by Caesar. The church had been separate from
Caesar and certainly from his benefits from which Christians did
not eat. The early church had an independent and republican form.
People were coming closer to the ways of the first century
Church and farther from what some men have tried to make the
Church from the beginning. When men gave their Allegiance and
oath of Supremacy to other men they bound themselves in homage
and service of king or government to which they swore. They
would then be protected but also procured by the walls of man-
made institutions by contract. They would be regulated and
restricted within those walls to the service and judgment of that
government. They would not be free but entangled again with the
yoke of bondage.138
Balaamites and Nicolaitans
“But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate.” Revelation 2:6
What was the doctrine of the “Nicolaitans”? There has been a
debate for centuries as to exactly what the deeds or doctrines of the
Nicolaitans139 might be. Some say a man named Nicolas formed a
sect that was charged with holding the error of Balaam, casting a
stumbling block before the church of God by upholding the liberty
of eating things sacrificed to idols as well as committing
fornication. There are a few unreliable accounts of this Nicolas by
men like Epiphanius. A number of authors believe that the name is
allegorical and is “the reference to the Nicolaitans is merely a
symbolic manner of reference.”140

138 Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” 2 Peter 2:20 “For if after they
have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is
worse with them than the beginning.”
139 Revelation 2:15 “So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans,
which thing I hate.”
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 There was a connection between them and Balaam. Balaam is
from the Hebrew word “Baal” meaning lord or master and “am”
references the people. It is an expression of superior rank over the
people. Its meaning has been accepted as “either lord of the
people, or he destroyed the people; and that, as the same effect was
produced by their doctrines as by those of Balaam, that the people
were led to commit fornication and to join in idolatrous worship,
they might be called Balaamites or Nicolaitanes - that is,
corrupters of the people.”141
Nike is the Greek word for conqueror with nikos meaning
victor. Laos is a word for people. Nicolaitan and Baalam are two
different forms of the same idea. Both include the idea of rank,
lordship and submission to an exercising authority who can judge
the people.
Many of the pagan temples offered charity to the poor and had
been dependent upon charity of the people to sustain their
activities. In fact the early government of Rome was dependent
upon the voluntarism of the people after casting out the Tarquinian
kings and establishing a Republic. Even the military was not paid
except by local support. The temples of Rome were the core of
social services, including the temple in Jerusalem. Some
eventually became more like investment brokers for major
enterprises from trade and mining to war.
War could be profitable and those who supported it through
their investment of funds or service would reap the benefits in
their share of the spoils and tribute demanded from fallen foes.
The taxes in Greece during war, eisphora, were sometimes
refunded by revenue extracted from the enemy. Rome was more
systematic as they developed the arts of finances and war. This
made victory sweet and war appealing.
Roman portoria was one of the earliest taxes in Rome. It
consisted of customs duties on imports and exports. But under the
Caesars other taxes were instituted.
Pompey was invited to Judea to settle the civil war between

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Hyrcanus and Aristobulus as to who was the rightful king. He
received a huge sum of gold as an international peace keeper.
When it appeared to be more a bribe rather than payment he gave
it all away to the temples for distribution amongst the poor.
Keeping the peace in Judea was expensive. Rome was invited
to stay by the Pharisees. There was a 1% annual income tax. There
was also the standard import and export taxes, through the system
of roads and harbors. There was also a tax on crops, 10% on grain
and 20% on wine, fruit, and oils. These taxes came over a long
period of time and often with a promise of sweet benefit to help
make the bitter medicine of taxation go down. Sales tax was
established by Augustus at 1% for most items but if you sold a
slave it would cost 4%. Inheritance taxes started at 5%.142
Augustus Caesar was very philanthropic when it came to
temples and giving to the poor. His benevolent grain and bread
distribution was extremely popular among all the citizens of the
Empire including the Jews who truly mourned his passing.
While Caesar gave much from his own deep pockets he also
used government funds to provide his benefaction. The temples
and the priests were often supported by these taxes.
While the tithe of ancient Israel was paid to support its
government ministers, providing the welfare of society through
free will offerings was unique in tax schemes. You were supposed
to pay, but you could pay it to whichever minister you chose. Even
then it was only paid according to his service. 143 This was a system
of self-taxation where the right to choose remained with the
people. The people taxed themselves and their contribution was
really a contribution.
No Levite could kick in your door because the people were
free. Even Christ tells his ministers that the people not only had
the right to choose but the ministers had to mark every

142 Charles Adams, For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of
Civilization, Madison Books, 1993.
143 Numbers 7:5 “Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man
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contribution as paid in full.144 This system requires a people
immersed and washed in the sacrifice and charity of Christ.
When Saul imposed a tax on the people in Israel it was called
foolish.145 It was for that cause that he would lose his kingdom.
The idea that you could eat of the table or accept the benefits with
impunity which were offered by governments, leaders who called
themselves benefactors but exercised authority over the people,
was unacceptable to Christians and God himself.146
To apply for benefits at the expense of your neighbor was the
error of Baalam and the doctrine of the Nicolaitan. The Corban of
the Pharisees that made the word of God to none effect fell in this
same category of sin.147 It is the trap that snares you that you think
is for your welfare spoken of by David and Paul. 148 It is the
deceitful meat of rulers you should not eat. 149 It was the sin of
Babylon150 and Sodom that in a time of affluence they weaken the
poor.151
These were governmental systems of social welfare that made
men gods, ruling judges, over other men. They made the men who
sought their benefaction subjects. That subjection demanded
worship and homage, homage being fealty to a king or ruler or
benefactor who can demand a portion of your service in exchange
for protection.
Augustus Caesar had been elected by the electoral college of

144 Luke 16:1-17; Matthew 6:19-24

145 1 Samuel 13:13 “And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not
kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now
would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.”
146 Matthew 20:25...; Mark 10:42...; Luke 22:25...
147 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 30:17, 18; Matthew 15:6; Mark 7:13
148 Ex. 23:33; 34:12; Deut. 7:16; Psalms 9:15...; 10 & 35; 57:6; 66:11; 69:22; 140:5; Pr.
1:10...; 12:12; 29:5: Job 18:2... Micah 7... Matthew 13:47,50; Luke 21:35; 2 Peter
2:3; Romans 11:9; 1 Timothy 3:7...; 2 Timothy 2:26...
149 Proverbs 23:1 “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is]
before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not
desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.”
150 Jeremiah 50:22-24; Genesis 10:9.
151 Ezekiel 16:49 “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of
bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she
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the Senate to the office of Emperator152 after he won the civil war.
It was a 10 year term of office taken under an oath of office,
regulated by constitutional restrictions. At first he was also elected
to the office of Principas Civitas or Princeps or President of
Rome. This was an annual election and he did not always win it.
The platform he often ran on was a return to the Republic and
family values. The third government office Augustus requested
was the Apo Theos of Rome, the appointer of gods.
There are gods Many
In the New Testament, the words “God” and “gods” is
translated from the Greek word theos, which figuratively means “a
magistrate”.153The word “god” specifies an office and means a
“ruling judge”. It was a title used to address men who have a right
to exercise authority or judgment in courts of law. To realize that
at the time of Christ, you addressed a judge in a Hebrew, Roman,
or Greek court as god, should change the entire way you read your
modern Bibles. This is why there are “gods many” of which Paul
spoke.
We find God has said, “Thou shalt have no other gods before
me” (Exodus 20:3). The words “gods” and “God” are translated
from the single word elohiym in the Old Testament, too. Elohiym
is defined “rulers, judges” and “occasionally applied as deference
to magistrates”. Even in 1st Samuel 2:25 we see the word elohiym
translated judge when speaking about men judging other men.
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:” Exodus
20:5
The words “bow down” are translated from shachah meaning
“bow (self) down… humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance …
worship”. Serve is translated from `abad meaning “to work (in any
sense); by implication to serve, till, (cause.) enslave, etc.: - x be,
keep in bondage …”.
“For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods

152 “Emperator, emperatoris m. commander in chief “Collins L.E. Dict. ‘62. This was
the head of the Roman military, army and navy.
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 whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them:”
Deuteronomy 29:26
It could be said that God doesn’t want His people to have any
ruler instead of Himself or to make anything with their own hands
a ruler over themselves other than Him. And He doesn’t want them
to beseech or appeal to that creation of their hands or put
themselves in bondage to it, serving it with their labor or service
for they are to belong to Him alone.
It should not be so strange to think of the Roman Emperors as
gods when you realize that George Washington himself is deified
in the ceiling of the Capitol Dome in the “... gigantic allegorical
painting by the Italian artist Constantino Brumidi. The painting
depicts the ‘Apotheosis,’ or glorification, of George
Washington.”154 “The word ‘apotheosis’ in the title means literally
the raising of a person to the rank of a god…”.155
George Washington appointed the federal judges throughout the
United States just as Augustus appointed imperial judges, gods
many, throughout the Roman Empire. In his day federal judges
had little to do and had little effect on private rights. Since the
Civil War in the United States there has been a vast and
continuous change in the power of the Federal courts.
“Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said,
Ye are gods?” John 10:34
Why would Jesus say “ye are gods”? If the people exercise
freewill, they remain the ruling judges of their own lives under our
Father in heaven. “Ye are gods” and are ruling judges since you
are made in the image of God. You may only be exercising
dominion over that which the God of heaven has endowed thee.
You have no right to rule over your neighbor as gods unless we
make covenants with your neighbors and their gods. This is sin
against God.156

154 “We, the People” “The Story of the US Capitol” by the US Capitol Historical Society,
Washington D.C., Library of Congress catalog number 65-20721.
155 US government www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_center.cfm
156 “I [am] the LORD thy Ruler, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of
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 In Egypt the people had been delivered into bondage to the
government of Pharaoh because they needed his benefaction in the
time of trouble. God, elohiym, brought the people out from under
that ruler and set them free. When the “voice of the people” in 1
Samuel 8 elected a commander in chief to fight their battles and
appoint judges God called it a rejection of Him that He should not
rule over them.157 Have the people of the nations made covenants
with new “gods many” today?
Giving men such power by swearing allegiance whether they
are a single king, prince, potentate, state, sovereignty or
democracy establishes a power that will corrupt all men. The
Kingdom of God is bound by the law of love for one another, by
love for God and his righteousness and love for one another.
These Cometh of Evil?
“The gods are the creation of the created.
They are not emanations of The Eternal.
They are made by the adoration of their worshipers.”158
What is a vote? According to Webster’s 1913 Dictionary the
word vote can be defined as, “An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a
prayer”.
“Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with
the words of thy mouth.” (Pr 6: 2)159
Comments on Oaths and swearing.
TITLE 28, PART V, CHAPTER 115, Sec. 1746.-
Unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury:
“Wherever, under any law of the United States or under any rule,
regulation, order, or requirement made pursuant to law, any matter
is required or permitted to be supported, evidenced, established, or
proved by the sworn declaration, verification, certificate, statement,
oath, or affidavit, in writing of the person making the same (other
than a deposition, or an oath of office, or an oath required to be
20:1,5)
157 Voice of the People http://www.hisholychurch.info/news/articles/voice.php
158 Kabbalah (B.C. 1200- 700 A.D.)
159 Job 15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify
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 taken before a specified official other than a notary public), such
matter may, with like force and effect, be supported, evidenced,
established, or proved by the unsworn declaration, certificate,
verification, or statement, in writing of such person which is
subscribed by him, as true under penalty of perjury, and dated, in
substantially the following form:”
• (1) If executed without the United States: “I declare (or
certify, verify, or state) under penalty of perjury under the
laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is
true and correct. Executed on (date). (Signature)”
• (2) If executed within the United States, its territories,
possessions, or commonwealths: “I declare (or certify,
verify, or state) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing
is true and correct. Executed on (date). (Signature)”
Although there is a distinction between an oath and a
declaration in the above title one subjects themselves to the power
of the court in either case and the rulers of that court, the laws they
make and are made for them.
Many Christians think it is okay to take oaths or make
affirmations before courts and governments. Jesus expressed a
different opinion in the New Testament:
“Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old
time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the
Lord thine oaths: But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by
heaven; for it is God’s throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his
footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make
one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea;
Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.”
(Matthew 5:33-37)
Taking oaths or swearing allegiance or service or anything at all
was a great controversy between Christians and the other nations
and led to their persecution from the earliest history of the Church
and the Kingdom it served. For centuries Christians would not take
oaths but modern Christians think it is okay now. Why?
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neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be
yea; and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.” (James
5:12)
A Witness from the Past
“All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all
things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power
of any.” 1 Corinthians 6:12
There were many who witnessed this controversy.
• “Let no one of you cherish any evil in his heart against his
neighbour, and love not an oath of falsehood. (Barnabas, The
Epistle of Barnabas, late 1st century). And with regard to our not
swearing at all, and always speaking the truth, He enjoined as
follows: ‘Swear not at all; but let your yea be yea, and your nay,
nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.’ And that
we ought to worship God alone, He thus persuaded us.” (Justin
Martyr, First apology of Justin, A.D.165)
• “…but also to love their enemies; and enjoined them not only
not to swear falsely, but not even to swear at all; and not only
not to speak evil of their neighbours, but not even to style any
one “Raca” and “fool; [declaring] that otherwise they were in
danger of hell-fire.” (Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 2, late
2nd century)
• “For they do not receive from the Father the knowledge of the
Son; neither do they learn who the Father is from the Son, who
teaches clearly and without parables Him who truly is God. He
says: ‘Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne;
nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for
it is the city of the great King’.” (Irenaeus, Against Heresies,
Book 4, late 2nd century)
• “Above all, let an oath on account of what is sold be far from
you. And let swearing on account of other things be banished.”
(Clement of Alexandria, A.D.195)
• “Of perjury I am silent, since even swearing is not lawful.”
(Tertullian, A.D.200)
• “You are compelled to swear, which is not lawful.” (Cyprian,
A.D.250)
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 Matthew… ‘I say unto you swear not at all.’”(Cyprian A.D.250)
Even earlier comments on oaths can be found.
• “Every man who vows another to death by the laws of the
gentiles will himself be put to death.” The Essene’s Cairo
Damascus Document following Geza Vermes:
• “The very need for any oath assumes that truth can not be
guaranteed without it, and that lies can be told, expected and
tolerated if there is no oath! Such a system ignores the fact that
lies are equally as offensive to God, with or without an oath!…
There is a reference (in Acts 18:18) which is often quoted by
some who want to set aside the words of Jesus, to make it
obligatory for Christians to swear oaths. That obligation is even
built into the creeds of some Churches!” (Allon Maxwell, What
Jesus said about Oaths, Bible Digest - Number 60 August 1996)
• “Anabaptists found explicit prohibitions in the Bible against
oath-taking (Matthew 5:34, and James 5:12). This alone made
them poor citizens, for they could not participate in most juries
and could not swear oaths of allegiance. It also meant that they
could not serve in public office.” (Dr. E.L. Skip Knox,
Anabaptist Beliefs - the Christian and the State, History of
Western Civilization, 18 October 1998)
• “We commit ourselves to tell the truth, to give a simple yes or
no, and to avoid swearing of oaths.” (Mennonite Confession of
Faith, Herald Press, 1995)
• “That war was looked upon as contrary to the will of God, and
oath-taking was forbidden.” (Uxbridge Quaker Heritage, By
Allan McGillivray, 1996)
Taking an “affirmation in lieu of oath” is not really a loophole
because, Jesus also prohibited affirmations, calling the practice an
oath “by thy head”. He clearly said in Matthew Chapter 5
“whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil”. The Quakers
accepted that as a victory. Given what they’d been through, that
was understandable.
DEFINITIONS:
• AFFIRM. To say positively; declare firmly; assert to be
true... v.i. in law to declare solemnly, but not under oath;
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 • SWEAR. To make a solemn declaration or affirmation
with an appeal to God or to someone or something held
sacred for confirmation: as, he swore by the bible. Webster
New World Dictionary.
What is the difference between “to declare solemnly” and
“make a solemn declaration”?
What is the difference between “To make a solemn declaration
or affirmation” which is to SWEAR and to AFFIRM?
In Bouvier’s an Oath is defined in one form of attestation as
commonly called an affirmation, (q. v.) the officer repeats, “You
do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm, that”.
Even the definition of swear includes an “affirmation with an
appeal to God or to someone or something held sacred for
confirmation”.
Jesus says for whatsoever is more than Yes for Yes and No for
No cometh of evil.
To take an oath or affirmation under penalty of perjury is more
than just answering yes or no and is solemnization of the penalties
of perjury and there are men who will judge you as the gods of
your testimony.
There is no more difference between taking an oath or an
affirmation than there is a difference between committing adultery
or having an affair. Both of these activities are the same just as an
affirmation is the same as an oath because the end result is the
same.
Christians used to be persecuted for refusing to take oaths,
affirmations of allegiance in obedience to Christ’s words but now
churches preach their own brand of Christianity and have often
become an adversary to the teachings of Christ. They, by their own
private doctrines and customs, have delivered the people into
bondage. By their customs they make the law of God to none
effect.
“And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus
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The Constitutions Part Vll
Part I: The people were “not a party” to the Constitution.
Part II: There are two forms of government - free and not free.
Part III: The people opposed the Constitution for good cause.
Part IV: Consolidation of power by men is a rejection of God.
Part V: To retain rights you must accept responsibility.
Part VI: Application for benefit, oaths and affirmation lead to
bondage.

A Quest for Freedom

The entire history and struggle of man has been marked with
his desire to take from or dominate his brother. Every crime,
conflict, division and war has been the result of man’s desire or
willingness to abuse the rights of others. This battle is more often
mutual in intent with the better claim being the lesser of two evils.
Adam and Eve may have sinned against God, but when they hid
from the truth of their failing they created a gulf, a vacuum, to be
filled with the intent of evil, passed down from generation to
generation. Since Cain killed Abel this conflict has been our
birthright and our burden. It has been the temptation of every man.
God is the creator, the giver of life, the bestower of love and
charity. If we are to return to Him we must return to that character
of God by living a life exemplary of His nature. We must act in
His name.
There will be no freedom for those who will not return to the
ways of God and His Kingdom. God wants us to be free, to
possess the earth, to care for it, preserve it, to love one another as
he loves us. Christ came that we might be saved, but we must
repent and receive His baptism. We must walk in His way
according to His sacrifice, by His love and in hope of His
everlasting dominion.
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except for the purposes of God. God’s purpose is to bless us and
keep us. Our purpose must be to bless also. 160 God will be our
protector if we are a blessing to others.161 This was the mission of
the Church appointed162 by Christ to consecrate all men, 163 all
nations with the blessings of liberty. 164 If we are Christ’s servants
we must know that Christ did not come to save Himself but to save
others.165 Can we do less and say we follow Him?
All roads lead to Rome and Babylon and all roads lead to the
Kingdom of Heaven. The difference is the direction we are going.
Most people are easily distracted by that which offers the greatest
comfort. Age upon age men and women are seduced into taking
the wrong path and wake up with a loss of liberty.
“The people never give up their liberties except under some
delusion.”166
The problem remains the same. It is ingrained in our fallen
nature. The solution has not changed either. We must repent, turn
around, change directions, but can we wrought such change
without divine grace and virtue? We must fundamentally change
the way we live. Christ said we were to strive. He said it was the
doers, not the hearers only. We have gone away from God. How
do we go back to the way we should have gone from the
beginning?
“For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed
[the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case
enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Mt. 5:20

160 Genesis 12:2 “And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:..”
161 Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
162 Luke 12:32; 22:29; 24:53; Romans 8:21; Hebrews 8:10
163 Ezekiel 44:30; Galatians 3:14; Hebrews 6:7-14;
164 James 1:25 “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
[therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be
blessed in his deed.” Romans 8:21; 1 Corinthians 8:9 [exousia]; 10:29; 2 Corinthians
3:17; Galatians 2:4 5:1-13; James 2:12; 1 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:19.
165 John 3:16; 10:17; 12:25,[Matthew 10:39; 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24; 17:33] 1
Corinthians 10:16; 1 John 3:14-16
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 The Greek word righteousness is defined as “state of him who
is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to
God”. We end up in a state we ought not to be because our
righteousness does not exceed even the scribes and Pharisees.
The people in Judea fell under Roman influence because they
failed to live faithful to the precepts of Jesus Christ or God. Some
of them failed to do so because their ministers failed to teach the
people the truth... This is true today. We are to blame for the
present state of things. We cannot change the course of the world
but we can repent and go another way.
A Place to Stand
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it.” Genesis 2:15
In the beginning, God gave man dominion over the earth and all
that is in it. Each man is a trustee of the corpus of that endowment.
Man himself is made from that same earth upon which he stands.
God never granted authority of man over man, but father over son,
parent over child. Man’s right to stand upon the land is passed
from generation to generation167 that is His kingdom.
“Freeman; the possessors of allodial lands.”168
The family was God’s institution, and they were supposed to
possess the land and subdue it but not their brothers. While,
“Possession is, as it were, the position of the foot”. 169 the question
is - who owns the foot, the man or his master?
Are we those free souls under God or have we gone under the
authority and power of other men subjecting ourselves as subjects?
The ownership of land meant freedom. It meant you were not a
serf or bound to pay rent. A freeman is defined as having an
“ownership of land” still to this day in the Oxford dictionary. How

167 Luke 1:50 “And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.”;
Daniel 4:3; 4:34 “... his kingdom is from generation to generation:”; Exodus 17:16;
Isaiah 34:17 “... they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall
they dwell therein.”; Isaiah 51:8; Lamentations 5:19; Joel 3:20;
168 liberi. In Saxon Law - Blacks 3rd. Oxford Dictionary
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can a man be king of his own home if he has no right to its “use”?
If you did not own land, untaxed as an allodial,170 then you were
not by definition a freeman or eligible to sit on a jury with the
power to judge law.
“Liber homo. A free man; a freeman lawfully competent to act as
juror.”171
For over a thousand years the Jury was the only one who could
decide fact and law. You picked the jury if you were brought into
court by the complaint of your neighbor. You could not stack the
jury because both sides could exclude men who were prejudiced or
you believed to be prejudiced or incompetent. Both sides would
have to agree upon the jury and then your peers would judge both
fact and the law of the case. Men were answerable to their
neighbors and community and the people who they worked and
lived with. The Norman king, William, believed he was the
fountainhead of justice and imposed his own courts upon the
people of England. Again justice filtered down through a ruler
who exercised authority and appointed judges, an office not
allowed in England since the last of the Roman legions.
“Before the Norman conquest of England in 1066 the people were
the fountainhead of justice. The Anglo-Saxon courts of those days
were composed of large numbers of freemen and the law which they
administered, was that which had been handed down by oral
tradition from generation to generation. In competition with these
non professional courts the Norman king, who insisted that he was
the fountainhead of justice, set up his own tribunals. The judges who
presided over these royal courts were agents or representatives of
the king, not of the people; but they were professional lawyers
who... gradually all but displaced the popular, nonprofessional
courts.”172
The idea of having a king displeased Samuel the prophet when
the people asked for such a king in 1 Samuel 8, where he warns
the people of what would come from turning away from God and
calling upon a ruler or central government.
170 Black’s 3rd Ed. Page 1105.
171 Ld. Raym. 417; Kebl. 563
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 Any opposition to William the Conqueror or his successors was
quickly stamped out. Survivors were required to take oaths of
fealty just to get back a “legal title” to their property. A legal title
did not include the beneficial interest which was now held by the
King. Taxes could now be imposed on that land. With the loss of
clear and good titles to land, through the encroaching registration
in the Doomsday Book, “competent” jurors were hard to find and
the top down courts of the king became prominent. They were
relatively just at first and when they weren’t the strong arm of the
king muffled the dissent.
Under the feudal system he required fealty and allegiance.
FEALTY. Fidelity, allegiance.
“Under the feudal system, every owner of lands held them of some
superior lord, from whom or from whose ancestors, the tenant had
received them. By this connexion the lord became bound to protect
the tenant in the enjoyment of the land granted to him; and, on the
other hand, the tenant was bound to be faithful to his lord, and
defend him against all his enemies. This obligation was called
fidelitas, or fealty.”173
Can men return to the state of liberty under which God has
wished us to be from the beginning? What does it mean repent and
how deep in our own souls must we go to find the answer?
The Church that should have led men to freedom crowned
kings over men and made them subjects. This fornication of
Church and state drove man from a state of righteousness into
bondage again.
The twisting of the word of God allowed men to justify murder
and division, oppression and tyranny. This was a return to
Babylon. Love of neighbor waned in the hearts of men and the
beast in the pit of every man’s heart was unchained. Each
oppressed his neighbor overtly or by the neglect of love.
A New Place to Stand
By 1500 there were no more Freemen in England, but there
173 1 Bl. Com. 366; 2 Bl. Com. 86; Co. Litt. 67, b; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1566. Bouvier’s Law
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were men and women who wished to be free. Now there was new
land in America. Men wished to stand again on their own soil,
ruling over their own lives. Those who truly wished it were willing
to take a great risk in America to obtain that goal. “Our
forefathers, inhabitants of the island of Great Britain, left their
native land, to seek on these shores a residence for civil and
religious freedom.”174
Civil and religious freedom had become elusive in Great
Britain. The people were willing to brave tremendous hardships
and even death by the thousands in order to find that freedom.
“All men are freemen or slaves.”175
Those people felt that there was civil and religious freedom to
be found here in the Americas. Their new freedom was not
comfort and it was not always safe. Their desire for freedom was
not the same as a desire for riches. It came from deep within their
hearts, minds and souls. Like Abraham, Moses and the Israelites
they were willing to set out into the unknown in hopes of
possessing their own land and to be freemen again under God
alone with no other gods ruling over them.
“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on
possession and use of land.”176
Did the king of England set his foot on American soil?
The king sent his representatives with their “subject feet”. Like
Armstrong on the Moon they claimed the land for others. He not
only allowed His Representatives to come, but others as well. Did
some others come to claim some land in their own interest or
God’s?
“We are not contending that our rabble, or all unqualified persons,
shall have the right of voting, or not be taxed; but that the
freeholders and electors, whose right accrues to them from the
common law, or from charter, shall not be deprived of that right.” 177

174 Representatives of the united colonies on July 6, 1775,

175 Omnes homines aut liberi sunt aut servi. Inst. 1.3. pr; Fleta. 1.1,c.1,§2.
176 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and
poet.
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 A “legal title” allowed the land to be taxed. A freehold title to
land accrued rights not available to serfs and transients. With
ownership of land you were a freeman, without it you were not.
“Many small farmers, traders, liberated servants, and newly arrived
immigrants agreed... landholding became in practice (and in settler
expectations) ever less tenurial, slowly more allodial.”178
Without the “ownership” of land there could be no civil
freedom. Earlier Americans knew this and they also knew that
“legal title” did not include the ownership of that land as an estate.
Americans understood this so well that men like Ethan Allen and
the Green Mountain Boys were willing to burn any business or
home where the people were willing to settle for a mere “legal
title” to property.179
“Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest
be made free, use [it] rather.” (1Co 7:21)
Are men free in America today? Have they lost sight of the
mission and purpose of early Americans? Have they slumbered
and neglected the weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy and
faith? Does any one own land in America today?
A “legal title” is “one cognizable... in a court of law.”180
Legal title is “one which is complete and perfect so far as regards
the apparent right of ownership and possession, but which carries no
beneficial interest in the property, another person being equitably
entitled thereto; in either case, the antithesis of ‘equitable title’.”181
First, we see that a legal title, although it may appear to be a
“right of ownership”, “carries no beneficial interest.” 182 If a legal
title does not include a right to the beneficial interest then it does

9 Ibid., March 31, 1768.

178 Imperia in Imperio: The Multiple Constitutions of Empire in New York, 1750-1777
Daniel J. Hulsebosch.
179 Chapter 2. of the book The Covenants of the gods
Law vs Legal http://www.hisholychurch.info/study/gods/cog2lvl.php
180 Black’s 3rd “cognizance” p 346.
181 Black’s 3rd “legal title” p 1734.
182 Beneficial Interest is the “Profit, benefit, or advantage resulting from a contract, or
the ownership of an estate as distinct from the legal ownership or control.” Black’s
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not include a right to the “profit, benefit, or advantage resulting
from a contract,” nor does it include “the ownership of an estate”.
After all, a beneficial interest is “distinct from the legal
ownership”.183 This means that the beneficial use, which is “the
right to use and enjoy property according to one’s own liking or so
as to derive a profit or benefit from it...” 184 belongs to another and
must be paid for annually like rent.
In the simplest of terms a legal title only appears as a right to
ownership but it is not the “ownership of an estate”. By definition,
a legal title is the opposite - or at least the antithesis - of an
“equitable title”. An equitable title as opposed to a legal title “is a
right in the party”. More important it is “the beneficial interest of
one person whom equity regards as the real owner, although the
legal title is vested in another”.185
This is why “The ultimate ownership of all property is in the
State: individual so-called ‘ownership’ is only by virtue of
Government, i.e. law amounting to mere user; and use must be in
accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the
State”.186 People have lost their right to own the land and the
beneficial interest of the land because they have neglected their
responsibility to acquire a clear and good title.
“The Principle distinction between the terms ‘lawful’ and
‘legal’ is that the former contemplates the substance of the law, the
latter the form of law.... A contract... might be said to be ... Illegal,
but would not be described as unlawful... A further distinction is
that the word ‘legal’ is used as the synonym of ‘constructive’
which ‘lawful’ is not... Again, ‘legal’ is used as the antithesis of
‘equitable’. Thus we speak of ‘legal assets,’ or ‘lawful estate’.”187
How did this happen? 188 This division of true title into a legal

183 Black’s 3rd “beneficial Interest” p 206.

184 Beneficial Use Black’s 3rd p 206
185 Black’s 3rd “Equitable Title” p 1734.
186 Senate Document No. 43 73rd Congress 1st Session. Brown v. Welch supra. Isaiah
5:8 “Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there be] no
place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!”
187 Black’s 3rd p 1079
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title on one hand verses an equitable title on the other is called
equitable conversion. Equitable conversion is a “Constructive
conversion”. Conversion is an, “alteration, interchange,
metamorphosis, passage, reconstruction...”. 189
Clear and good titles “are synonymous; ‘clear title’ meaning
that the land is free from incumbrances, ‘good title’ being one free
from litigation, palpable defects, and grave doubts, comprising
both legal and equitable titles and fairly deducible of record”.190
People are required to get a permit to build on what they think
is their land. They have to get permission, a license, to operate
what they believe is their car. If they do not pay the use, tribute or
excise tax on land, auto, or labor they will pay dearly. A home can
be taken for taxes and sold with only a fraction of the value of the
property owed in taxes. When it is sold all the money may go to
the county. A car can be taken because the use fee is not paid.
We do not own what we think we own. What we have a legal
right to is not our lawful possession or lawful estate. The milk and
honey belong to another. We have returned to Egypt. There has
been a return to feudalism in the form of federalism. It is hard for
some to accept we have gone so far astray, but facts are evident at
every level to dispel any hope or doubt.
Can we own land as an estate with clear and good title? Can we
be freemen again under the perfect law of liberty with honor and
grace, without violation of the law of God or man? Is there a way
to return to the dominion of God? Did Christ show us the way?
Did Christ give us a place to stand?
Bought and Sold
There are so many levels upon which changes have taken place
since the early days of man’s quest for freedom in America. It
would take volumes to describe the snare in detail. But men are
again snared and entangled in the elements of the world, body and
soul. There is a simple reason for this journey back into bondage.
We have abandoned the path of the Lord and the ways of Christ.
189 LEGAL THESAURUS by William C. Burton second edition
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 In Proverbs 1:10 we are warned “if sinners entice thee, consent
thou not”. It speaks of “one purse” and lurking for gain in some
dishonest fashion that will trap you in the very net you set and take
your blood.
“We shall have world government... by conquest or consent.”191
In Ezekiel 11:3192 the Bible talks about building a city which is
a cauldron and the citizens be the flesh. Micah 3:3 193 also talks
about this precept and warns us not to take a bite out of our
neighbor with these civil systems created by men because God will
not hear your cries.
“But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not
consumed one of another.” Galatians 5:15
The snares and traps of these systems are dependent upon on
our consent at one point and our willingness to covet the goods
and service of others. We have seen that the offer of benefits may
come in several forms. They may require applications, oaths,
affirmations. They may dependent on centralization of authority
and power. They also are dependent upon natural and artificial
circumstances constructed in society.
We are warned to have no divers weights.194 No one who loved
their neighbor would offer them a snake when they ask for bread,
or offer a lie when they ask for payment. Yet everyman through
sloth and avarice has taken the easy road to perdition. The snare is
real. The foolish beget the foolish and blame their folly on others.
“This (Federal Reserve) Act establishes the most gigantic trust on
earth. When the president signs this bill, the invisible government by
the Monetary Power will be legalized. The people may not know it
immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed.
The trust will soon realize that they have gone too far even for their
191 James Warburg to U.S. Senate, February 17, 1950.
192 Ezekiel 11:3-11 “Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the
caldron, and we [be] the flesh. ... This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye
be the flesh in the midst thereof...”
193 Micah 3:3 “Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them;
and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh
within the caldron. Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them:...”
194 Proverbs 20:10 “Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
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 own good....” 195
The operation of legal systems is dependent upon constructions
of law by word and deed. The issuance of notes requires collateral
or a pledge of value. Everything pledged is hypothecated for the
future payment and becomes a part of that gigantic trust.
Has all the gold and silver, precious things from the land and
livestock upon it become possessed by another 196 and what of the
people themselves? Have they to returned to Egypt?
If Christian and Jew, Muslim and Hindu understood the
repercussions of debt notes circulating as legal tender they could
not have participated in their use and remained faithful to God.
A famine is shortage. And there was a shortage of credit in
1929 that crashed the economy of the United States. Until more
collateral was added to secure the debt the shortage would remain.
“American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.”197
The word “employ” is defined, “To make use of, to convert to
ones service...”.198 A “use” is further described as a “A right in a
person....”.199 A use, by nature, is a trust. “Uses and trusts are not
so much different things as different aspects of the same
subject.”200 An occupation is a “use”, which is a “trust”, where the
beneficial interest (rights to the profits or gain) is regarded.
“One could look into a caldron in which the Government and the
people of the United States were moving around in response to a
new idea… This was a new type of legislation - nothing of the sort
had ever come before the congress of the United States before, it
took much explaining and much patience.” 201
Has the United States created a cauldron in which the people
have become the flesh. Have they become a pot a flesh where

195 Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., December 22, 1913.

196 Revelation 18:11 “And the merchants of the earth shall... [possess] gold, and silver...
and all manner [of things ] and slaves, and souls of men.”
197 Grover Cleveland Annual Message Dec., 1885.
198 Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p1787.
199 Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p1787. Bouvier’s Law Dictionary.
200 Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p1787p.Mozele and Whitely.
201 Forward by Frank Perkins, Sec of Labor 1933-45. The Development of the Social
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neighbor takes a bite out of neighbor with every benefit they
receive? Will God hear our cries in the day of reckoning when we
will have gone “too far even for their own good”?
There are those who argue that income tax is unconstitutional,
or that only federal employees are required to pay. Again, “The
contract makes the law”.202
“No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;
grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of
Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in
Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or
Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of
Nobility.”203
Federal government has an interest in every federal employee
and every Social Security Number is a Federal Employee
Identification number. Both serve as the taxpayer identification
number but are issued by permission from different agencies.
“The man who gives me employment, which I must have... that man
is my master, let me call him what I will.”204
If Edward is hired by Willard, we call Ed an “employee” and
Willard an “employer”. Ed has gone to his local Social Security
Administration office and obtained an SSN or “Employee
Identification Number”.205 Willard has obtained an “Employer
Identification Number” or EIN. Ed stands ready to serve Willard,
but Ed and Will have undergone conversions.
A portion everyday of both Ed’s and Will’s labor without pay is
for their new taskmaster.
206
“Whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.”
Men and women who must “...perform work of national
importance under civilian direction when required by the law” 207

202 Legem enim contractus dat. 22 Wend. N.Y. 215,223.

203 United States Constitution, Article I, section 10, clause 1.
204 Henry George - Social Problems, Ch. V.
205 Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), Social Security Number.
206 Homer - Odyssey. Bk.XVII. L.392. Pope’s trans.
207 Oath of Allegiance for Naturalized Citizens, U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
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live under a dominion, whether they call themselves free or bound,
of the Pharaoh, whether they call him prime minister, president or
potentate.
“Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! Said I, still thou art a
bitter draught.”208
In ancient Egypt they labored for 1/5th of every year209 for the
government and they called it bondage, servitude. God delivered
the people from such civil and statutory bondage and told them to
never return that way again.210 In the world today we call a more
burdensome condition freedom.
The people of America have become residents of the states and
servants of the federal government. They have taken “this
obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of
evasion; so help me God”.211 But God has said that he would not
hear them in that day.212
The people have contracted and are bound by that contract as
surety for their own debt. They and their children would be bound
forever in this unrighteous mammon 213 this “most gigantic trust on
earth”.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and

208 Laurence Sterne - Sentimental Journey. The Passport. The Hotel Paris.
209 Genesis 47:24 “And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth
[part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for
your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”
210 Deuteronomy 17:16 “But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the
LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”
211 Oath of Allegiance for Naturalized Citizens, U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
retrieved 2008-11-07
212 Micah 3:3-4 “...Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them:...”
Judges 10:14 “Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you
in the time of your tribulation.”
Jeremiah 11:12 “...cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not
save them at all in the time of their trouble.”
213 “Mammon, an Aramaic word mamon meaning ‘wealth’ … It is probably derived
from Ma’amon, something entrusted to safe keeping. In any case there was
apparently a threefold play on this meaning in Lk. xvi. II: ‘If therefore ye have not
been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true
[riches]?’ the word italicized representing forms of the Semitic root word ‘men.”
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 love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24)
The parallels between the struggles in the Bible for liberty and
freedom and modern history are acute in their similarity. It is only
vanity and foolishness that keeps men and women form seeing the
truth.
“Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities...”
(Ex 1:11)
The truth is that the people have given their consent in word or
deed. The Church has not warned the people but lulled them in to a
state of euphoric doctrines. The people may belong to Churches
but they also belong to Pharaoh and are again entangled in the
rudiments of this world.214
“All government without the consent of the governed is the
very definition of slavery!” 215
We were told by the prophets of God and Christ to consent not,
swear not, covet not and pray not to the gods of this world.
“For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure
through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that
were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they
promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter
end is worse with them than the beginning.” 2 Peter 2:18-20
Americans are serfs and slaves in the land their forefathers
sought freedom. While you can take the man out of Egypt, you
cannot take Egypt out of the man. Everyman must repent and be
changed from above. “...ye shall return every man unto his

214 Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world,
why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
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possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” 216
“And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves
this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers
served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

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The Constitutions Part Vlll
Part I: The people were “not a party” to the Constitution.
Part II: There are two forms of government - free and not free.
Part III: The people opposed the Constitution for good cause.
Part IV: Consolidation of power by men is a rejection of God.
Part V: To retain rights you must accept responsibility.
Part VI: Applications, oaths and affirmations lead to bondage.
Part VII: God gave man dominion over himself and the land
and man gave that dominion and responsibility to other men
through avarice and sloth.

Charters and Choices

What drew men and women to cross an ocean in leaky boats,
facing untold hardships and risking their lives and the lives of their
families, to settle in an untamed wilderness? What call were they
answering? What destination did they seek? What means did they
use? What purpose could pull them and what of that courage and
motivation remains in us today?
At first, it was well-nigh impossible to find settlers to colonize
this new land called America, until the signing of the colonial
charters by Charles I, and eventually, Charles II.
Those Charters were unique amongst the colonies. They were
fashioned after the Bishopric of Durham and waived certain
privileges of the kings of England. Their error, as seen by the
ruling elite, needed fixing and were not to be repeated again.
Since William of Normandy took Harold’s lands and chattels
and choses in action by right of “judgment in arms” in 1066 with
his success at Hastings, the natural civil liberties of freemen had
been constantly under attack.
Except for the occasional revolt, there was no real progress
back toward the natural liberty enjoyed by men living in a a free
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Book”. With that book of estate registration he established his
systems of “legal titles” to land and levies of tribute called
property tax.
Recalling Liberty Under God
The memory of a system of government often more effective in
the securing of liberty and justice, once enjoyed by freemen who
required no central government, was all but stamped out and
forgotten. No real hope for freedom arose in that land until the
translation of the Bible into English in 1382, awakening the
precepts of the “perfect law of liberty” and the possibility of a
“government of the People, by the People and for the People”.217
Men again began to understand the plan of God for man and the
government preached by Christ. With new found knowledge and
the memory of the not too distant past, some men began to preach
and work for a system of self government available to the virtuous
and brave of heart.
Both the system they found themselves laboring for and under,
the Kings men and the “Legal” Church, were a clear contradiction
of what they read for themselves without the filtering of an
orthodox interpretation. They still had some remembrance of how
they had governed themselves without kings and rulers for
hundreds of years with the assistance of a servant Church.218
Now they read for themselves how the ancients of Israel lived
free from kings and parliaments, tithing to ministers only
“according to their service”219 and granting freewill offerings. The
head of each house was prince on his own land, having been
delivered from bondage in Egypt by Moses and Rome by Christ.
They read about the sin of the people calling for a king to judge
217 The introduction to a 1382 John Wycliffe’s translation Bible.
218 Luke 22:25-27 “And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship
over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye
shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he
that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he
that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.”
219 Numbers 7:5 “Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle
of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man
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them like the other nations,220 and if they did fall prey to such
ruling elite that they should do nothing to return them to that
bondage in Egypt221 where the people labored for the governing
powers several months of every year.
Christ had preached a kingdom that was at hand and appointed
men to serve it. It operated by faith, hope and charity as opposed
to contract, force and exercising authority.222
The first century Church serving the congregations of the
people did the same as those ancient public servants of Israel and
prospered while under Roman persecution and through a great
dearth223 in their world. The early Church thrived, the
congregations prospered, in the heart of the Roman Empire. Their
system of self governance had been forgotten by the people but
now recalled under the fresh and independent examination of
scriptures. The people had to change and become doers of the
word again before the blessings could be realized.
The people longed again for that freedom. That longing was a
prayer but repentance would be required and the seeking of the
Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
From Runnymede to the Roundheads and Whigs rebellions
against tyranny became a costly affair for kings and the people
alike. Only the bravest of men, with virtue and dedication, dared to
preach the true Gospel of the Kingdom of God at hand, as opposed
to the kingdoms of elite men. In the face of the authoritarian
Church, they often suffered the pains of the burning stake for their
efforts. Even the dead were not immune from the vengeance of
orthodox religions. Fear of the truth exhumed their bodies to bring
their corpses to face their fires of their wrath posthumously. Only

220 1 Samuel 8:19 “Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and
they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;”
221 Deuteronomy 17:16 “But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the
LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”
222 Polity of the Church, ARTICLE X - The prime directive of the Church
223 Acts 11:28 “And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the
Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass
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the stoutest of hearts and the most dedicated of souls could see any
hope in the wilderness of the Americas where savages and the
elements brought hardship and often death.
Christ and Kingdoms
The seventeenth century Americans came here looking for the
freedoms that were all but totally gone from Europe and the land
of the Anglo-Saxon. They did not gain their freedom by the so-
called revolution, but had earned it by perseverance, hard work
and the grace of God. When they spoke of “religious freedom” and
“civil freedoms” it meant more than most pew warmers and flag
wavers think today.
They began to understand just how deep Christ’s teachings
went and what responsibilities accompanied a free society. They
began to understand the practicalities of the Kingdom of God.
They traded dogmatic philosophy for loving philanthropy, loving
their neighbor as themselves or dying.
Millions came here risking all to obtain those freedoms, God-
given rights and the personal responsibilities that accompany
them. While most of Europe remained complacent, content, or too
timid to reach out for such liberty and freedom they stood and
stepped forward.
Those freedoms, once so well understood, so cherished and
purchased at such great prices, are all but gone from the lives and
minds of most Americans. All that is left is the illusion of
affluence, blurred memories of past heroism, withered laurels and
vain holidays.
The spirit that loves rights and responsibility, and that cherishes
freedom and liberty, is still alive in America and the world today,
and is buried in the hearts, minds and souls of many, yet, as
always, appears only in a minority of the people.
Those who will seek the hidden and suppressed knowledge,
make the commitment and do the deeds required of a free society
shall again restore a nation to the perfect law of liberty. It will not
be a nation dominant but a nation within a nation, like a rock
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 From its earliest preaching the kingdom of God brought with it
social upheaval, fundamental political change and social and
political persecution.
“In no relation can the religious motive in English expansion be
neglected without doing violence to the record… Still more
significant in English expansion than the work of preachers in quest
of souls to save, were the labors of laymen from the religious sects
of every variety who fled to the wilderness in search of a haven all
their own.”224
Our view of their hearts cannot be seen through books and
reports of modern historians. Most would not reveal the failure of
our modern systems and societies because it would reveal the error
of that which they are a part. It is a conspiracy of pride that keeps
the truth from each generation. When there is fundamental error in
the nature of society who of society could afford the courage of
exposing it.
“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are
taught falsehoods in school. And the one man that dares to tell the
truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.” 225
What is our history as a people and what part of it may teach us
the truth that will set us free? 226 What could set us free and why
would we want that freedom? Or do we?
“…Faith in Christ inspired the missionaries… and... colonists who
subdued the waste places of the new world…”227
But what is faith in Christ? What was the first Century Church
really doing? Why did Jesus preach a kingdom at hand, 228 and not
a Church on the corner? Why did He tell us to do the same 229 and
appoint a kingdom?230 What kind of government was this kingdom
224 Chapt I p10, Chapter II p36, The Rise of the American Civilation by Charles A.
Beard & Mary R. Beard.
225 Plato
226 “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
227 Chapt I p10, Chapter II p36, The Rise of the American Civilation by Charles A.
Beard & Mary R. Beard.
228 Matthew 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
229 Matthew 10:7 “And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
230 Luke 12:32 “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the

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and if it was for the living how does it work? If God is the same
then was it a government like Israel in its early uncorrupted days
when the people possessed the land wherever they went, and there
was no king or parliament, prince or potentate, president or prime
minister to make laws and rule over the people? Did Jesus want us
to exercise authority one over the other with our democratic vote
or elect men to make laws, treaties, or covenants for us, exercise
authority over us, be our benefactors231 like Egypt?232
The answer is, No! Whether you admit it or not.
He preached a government, Yes! But it was not like the
governments of the Gentiles or other nations. It was a government
that was at hand and could be operated in both the midst of the
Roman Empire or the wilderness. It was not a part of the Roman
world and practiced a system where the persona jurisdiction
remained free in the status of the people as individuals. It was a
government as old as Man himself but often forgotten or
overlooked, neglected or abandoned by men from generation to
generation. It was the kingdom of God on earth.233
The Dominion of Man
The concerns of men and women and their pitfalls have not
changed from the beginning of man’s walk on earth. How he lives
and by whom he lives are his constant choice. By which
government he may live remains his choice, the centralized civil
powers devised by men, or by God’s kingdom at hand?
Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man ... and let them have
dominion ...”
Numbers 14:24 “But my servant ... hath followed me fully, him will
I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess
it.”
kingdom.”
Luke 22:29 “And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;”
231 Matthew 20:25 -27, Mark 10:42-44, Luke 22:25-29
232 The Covenants of the gods, the Chapter Employ vs. Enslave.
233 Daniel 4:34 “And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto
heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I
praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting
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 This is our choice, follow after God and his prophets and Christ
and His way or follow after other gods. God gave dominion to
men and those who serve Him must possess the land. 234 As the
King of England sent his subjects to possess the land on his behalf
so also God sent his subjects to posses the land on His behalf. The
question will always remain as to who God’s people are.
No one actually owns the land or wilderness, for God made the
land and it is His. But upon improving land it becomes proper that
the use of the land and the benefits produced by that sweat should
become the rightful possession of the one who invested his life and
labor in the endeavor of dressing and keeping it. Another question
does arise. Who owns the labor of the man upon the land?235
“Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty
years through the wilderness, to possess the land ...” Amos 2:10
What is the concern here is the dominion of God on earth as
represented by those who remain faithful children and servants to
the Father who created them. His kingdom has stood upon the
earth from the beginning and has been passed down from
generation to generation by His obedient servants.
The Corporate Kingdom
“... mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most
High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose
dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from
generation to generation:” Daniel 4:34
The modern Corporation Sole is an emulation of the concept of
the divine institution of the Family. It is the corpus of God passed
down through the faithful sons of that heavenly Father.
234 Deuteronomy 1:8 “Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the
land...” Deuteronomy 1:21 “Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee:
go up [and] possess [it], as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
neither be discouraged.” Deuteronomy 30:17 “But if thine heart turn away, so that
thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong
your days upon the land, ...” Joshua 18:3 “And Joshua said unto the children of Israel,
How long [are] ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your
fathers hath given you?” These are just a few of the dozens of quotes in the Bible
concerning the importance of possessing land.
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 The one generation that breaks this chain would place every
generation thereafter in the condemnation of bondage throughout
eternity without redemption. But the family of Christ lives on by
the blood of Christ, his redemption236 and adoption.237
How does His kingdom work? How can we implement it? Does
it have structure? Can it be a system based on freedom?
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” Exodus 20:12
Governments are the product of the invested interest and rights
of those who participate in their creation and maintenance. All
governments are forms of corporations and/or systems of trust and
faith. Even civil rights are the rights originally vested in the
individual but vested in corporate governments and exercised as
privileges by its members.
The covenants, contracts and constitutions of the people may
form a government easier than they may sever the ties of that
government. The conditions of membership, surety for debt,
timing for departure and what you may take with you may vary.
There are two choices in the formation of governments that
should always be considered before any authority is established.
The people may form a government by giving it the right to choose
for the people about what shall be given or done or not done. Or,
the people may only give some thing to the government over
which it may choose to act.
In the former the whole body of people as members of a
political society form a corporate society. In the latter a small
corporate titular body exists but the families of the people remain
autonomous.
In the former the government as corporate head has power to
236 “Redemption is deliverance from the power of an alien dominion and the enjoyment
of the resulting freedom. It involves the idea of restoration to one who possesses a
more fundamental right or interest. The best example of redemption in the Old
Testament was the deliverance of the children of Israel from bondage, from the
dominion of the alien power in Egypt.” Zondervan’s Pictorial Encyclopedia of the
Bible, the word “redemption”
237 Romans 8:15 “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye
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exercise authority one over the other, and the members are subject
to that power. In the latter the government only represents the
interest of the people in what was given. The people remain free,
only what was given is under the control of government.
In the former the bureaucracy of government is the state and the
people end up serving it. In the latter the state is the people and the
government is the servant.
In the former the people may need a contract with the state and
do not need a great deal of virtue such as charity and love but in
the latter it is essential but the contract is with an unseen God and
the people.
How these distinctions play out in a working government
should be second nature to every member of any Church,
Synagogue, or Mosque. Abraham, Moses and Christ understood
this mystery of self government. Modern educational institutions
have no interest in teaching it and modern tyrants have every
interest in keeping it secret.
Colonists, Crowns and Contracts
Even the colonists were altering the contract by permission:
“Now the commercial corporation for colonization,… was in reality
a kind of autonomous state. Like the state, it had a constitution, a
superior law binding constituents and officers.”
“The colonies were ‘companies’. The legal instrument for
realization of that design was a charter granted by ‘the
dominionitive authority of the king’ uniting the sponsors of the
enterprise in ‘one body politic and corporate,’ known as the
Trustees for establishing the colony…”
“Thus every essential element long afterward found in the
government of the American state appeared in the chartered
corporation that started English civilization in America.”238
England was plagued with civil war and the prospect of
removing large groups of dissenters and settling the wilderness

238 Chapt I p10, Chapter II p36, The Rise of the American Civilation by Charles A.
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with someone of the lineal consanguinity of England seemed to be
a practical move for any king. The Charters were uniquely liberal.
Charter. “An instrument emanating from the sovereign power, in the
nature of a grant, either to the whole nation, or to a class or portion
of the people, to a corporation, or to a colony or a dependency,
assuring them of certain rights, liberties, or powers… is granted by
the sovereign…”239
While these charters were not perfect or ideal they left a gaping
hole through which those willing to make the sacrifices for
freedom might travel.
“All corporations, of whatever kind, are molded and controlled,
both as to what they may do and the manner in which they may do
it, by their charters or acts of incorporation, which to them are the
laws of their being, which they can neither dispense with nor
alter.”240
As we have seen the term republic “signifies the state
independently of its form of government”.241 But it was the Natural
Law which “was the first defense of colonial liberty”.
Also, “There was a secondary line upon which much
skirmishing took place and which some Americans regarded as the
main field of battle. The colonial charters seemed to offer an
impregnable defense against abuses of parliamentary power
because they were supposed to be compacts between the king and
people of the colonies; which, while confirming royal authority in
America, denied by implication the right of Parliament to
intervene in colonial affairs. Charters were grants of the king and
made no mention of the parliament. They were even thought to
hold good against the King, for it was believed that the King
derived all the power he enjoyed in the colonies from the compacts
he had made with the settlers. Some colonists went so far to claim
that they were granted by the ‘King of Kings’- and therefore ‘no
earthly Potentate can take them away.’” 242

239 Black’s Law Dictionary 6th ed.

240 Bovier’s Law Dictionary.
241 Bouvier’s Vol.1. page 13 (1870).
242 The Other Side of the Question, by a Citizen, New York, 1774, 16.

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 To change the perception of American history243 in the minds
of the people information concerning the Charters would need to
be one of the first concepts to go.
George Washington, in his General Order of July 9, 1776
speaks of rights and liberties already possessed and to be defended
as Christians when he said:
“The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will
endeavor so to live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier
defending the dearest Rights and Liberties of his country.”
Rights and Liberties are attached to the land and the men who
stand upon it. Freedom was not granted by the Charters but the
opportunity to obtain freedom was. A door was left open for those
who had the courage to go through it. This was a vast unclaimed
land. Neither paper proclamations in parliament nor boasting in the
taverns could subdue it. Men and women came here by the
thousands seeking civil and religious freedom.
They did not seek the comfort, entitlements, protections and
restrictions of a feudal or federal state but the responsibility,
burdens and rights of the state of freedom under the perfect law of
liberty. Some were backed by Companies who were compelled to
allow them the chance to obtain an allodial title in land of their
own after proving up land for those investors.
Some independently set out to establish their own autonomous
community plantations or “Hundreds”. The ruling elite would
spend the next 400 years gathering in their lost chicks.
The colonies of America were Republics long before the
Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Cromwell as the
Lord High Protector of England’s own short lived republic in
Great Britain sent troops to the colonies when the rights of
individual freemen were threatened by the usurpation of ambitious
men who were not willing to give up the ideas and precepts of
royal elitism despite the fact that Charles I had already done so in
America in hopes of diluting the resistance in England to his own
exercising authority.

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 Until the colonial charters were signed, ridding that kingdom of
troublesome rebels, there seemed to be no relief for the king from
the people’s desire to control the tyranny of government. In those
charters the individual colonies were called “a republic.” But what
kind of republics were they? They were not utopias but refuges of
individual responsibility where no law could be made “except by
the consent of the freeman”.
Those early Separatist and members of the “Ancient Church”
worked for these colonial companies but “were given land grants
after their seven years servitude to the ‘Merchants Adventurer’s’
was over”.244 They labored for seven years, risked death and
suffered great hardships so that they could become “lawful
freemen” living on untaxable land.
This was their prayer, their hope, their goal.
“The oath of fealty and homage necessarily accompanied the
numerous grants of land” by the kings since the arrival of the
Normans but this was neglected and overlooked in the Americas
for these Separatists and Bible readers would have refused, if it
had been required.
The powers that be knew of that large number of “ordinary
citizen, living on his farm, owned in fee simple, untroubled by any
relics of feudalism, untaxed save by himself... had a new self-
reliance”.245 They knew they were slipping through their tyrannical
fingers and needed to insure their loyalty.
Remember that neither the Americans nor the kings were
homogeneous groups. Charles I’s reign ended with the plop of his
head in a basket. Charles II, known as ‘Good Time Charley’, was
the son of a Catholic and the head of the Church of England.
Charles II granted the Pennsylvania Charter in payment of debt to
William Penn(ington), a debt he could not have paid otherwise.
When William went to collect the debt he refused to take off his
hat in the presence of the king, which could have lost him his head
with other kings. The king said that one of them should remove his

244 Plymouth Colony Record Misc 7 NOV 1639

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hat, so the king obliged with the doffing of his own bonnet and
agreed to the Charter.
“Accordingly, when Americans were told that they had no
constitutional basis for their claim of execution from parliamentary
authority, they answered, ‘Our Charters have done it absolutely.’
‘And if one protests,’ remarked a Tory, ‘the answer is, You are an
Enemy to America, and ought to have your brains beat out.’” 246 247
At times the kings of England spoke only French or German
and queens were drawn from other nations in search of a healthy
heir. When we speak of Americans they too were not a singular
uniform group. Language, blood and belief varied, but also status
for some were landed and felt no allegiance to German speaking
kings or pompous Parliaments and little protection was offered.
Charles II and others new a natural and lawful breach was
coming and attempted to provide for it by means of voluntary
compliance of those who would not willingly conform:
“And because it may happen that some of the people and inhabitants
of the said Province, cannot in their private opinions, conform to the
publick exercise of religion, according to the liturgy form and
ceremonies of the Church of England, or take and subscribe the oath
and articles, made and established in that behalf, and for that the
same, by reason of the remote distances of these places, will, we
hope, be no breach of the unity and uniformity established in this
nation; ...” 248
Who were these non-conforming people who would not
subscribe to oaths and articles and why did the king only “hope for
no breach”. Those are not the words of a lord in a contract where
he holds all the cards. There was authority slipping from these
Kings. These Charters did not grant freedom but they allowed for
the opportunity to obtain free dominion, e.g. freedom. This was a
period of great unrest in the world and England had proposed the
Oath of Supremacy in order to insure loyalty. Catholics were
required to take it before entering Virginia according to the
Charter of Virginia in 1606.
246 Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, September 4, 1766, Suppl.
247 Origins of the American Revolution: By John Chester Miller
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 There were many who would not take oaths including Quakers
and Separatists.
Why?
It was simple and obvious. They had read the Bible as we have
explained in Part VI.
The King did not own America or its land. What his Charters
did was allow his once subject citizenry to own land in a brave
new world. Some would claim land for themselves which by the
Law would make them free again. Or they could have continued to
settle for a “legal title” that would be registered in his Doomsday
book of the king. Many of those early American pilgrims knew
better than Americans do today.
Good-bye Bondage, Hello Freedom
When the Separatists or Pilgrims departed from the shores of
England they said, “Good-bye Babylon. Good-bye Rome.” The
Common Law and the Holy Bible was the foundation of this
Republic in the 1600’s. The government’s authority was
insignificant although it arose from the Common Law of the Land.
While those men bravely walked toward liberty under God at a
great personal sacrifice, modern Christians have slothfully slid into
greater bondage than that of Egypt.
It is now Roman Law that dominates the legal system and the
courts of much of the world. In Black’s law dictionary, found in
every law office of the US democracy, there is hardly a page that
does not make reference to its Latin origins or its legal principles.
“‘Civil Law’, ‘Roman Law’ and ‘Roman Civil Law’ are
convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence.”249
John Adams said that when the grantees of the “Massachusetts
Bay Charter carried it to America they ‘got out of the English
realm, dominions, state, empire, call it by what name you will, and
out of the legal jurisdiction of the Parliament. The king might, by
his writ or proclamation, have commanded him to return; but he

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did not’”.250 Had he called them back his foothold in America
would have been gone.
America was not the earliest Christian Republic. Christianity as
taught by Christ and practiced by the early Church, was a republic.
In Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “the Christian
republic... gradually formed an independent and increasing state in
the heart of the Roman Empire”.251
It was the true Christians struggling to follow the ordinances of
Jesus Christ that created an impenetrable barrier to the tyranny of
George III. “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new
George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do
not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also
revolution… the truth is that the vast bureaucracy now runs this
country, irrespective of what party is in power.”252
That vast bureaucracy was created by the people’s own desires,
sloth and indulgence. If they want their rights back they must first
take their responsibilities back. They must do it individually and,
and collectively. This was the plan and purpose of Abraham’s and
Moses’ altars and Christ’s Church.
How is this done with a world so immersed in the baptism of
power, control and regulations, to say nothing of debt and
bankruptcy? What does a government look like that is “not like the
gentiles who exercise authority one over the other”? How can it
work? What is the system that operates on the “perfect law of
Liberty”?
Is it a gathering of people whose interest is in being of service
rather than being served, who are concerned about their neighbor’s
rights and welfare as much as they are about their own, e.g. love
their neighbors as themselves and who “seek first the kingdom of
Heaven and its righteousness” which Jesus said was at hand???
Can it work as a viable state in the heart of the American
empire or the proverbial new world order?

250 Principles and Acts of the Revolution, edited by H. Niles, 16

251 Rousseau and Revolution, Will et Ariel Durant p.801. fn 83 Heiseler, 85.
252 William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, 1969 (page 95, page 54).

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 The answer is surprisingly simple but one of the best kept
secrets of our time.
You must let God open your eyes, heart and your mind. You
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The Constitutions Part IX
Part I: The people were “not a party” to the Constitution.
Part II: There are two forms of government - free and not free.
Part III: The people opposed the Constitution for good cause.
Part IV: Consolidation of power by men is a rejection of God.
Part V: To retain rights you must accept responsibility.
Part VI: Applications, oaths and affirmations lead to bondage.
Part VII: Man gave his birth right for a bowl of benefits.
Part VIII: Man created corporation by vesting part of his own
life into a creature of his own making which now devours him
daily as a vast corporate mechanical monster.

Allegiance and Faith

“Man’s primary allegiance is to his vision of truth,
And he is under obligation to affirm it.”253
The concept of allegiance is defined in Black’s as, “The
obligation of fidelity and obedience which the individual owes to
the government under which he lives, or to his sovereign in return
for the protection he receives. It may be an absolute and permanent
obligation, or it may be a qualified and temporary one.”254
This of course only refers to a citizen that is a member as
opposed to one that is a mere inhabitant. 255 As an example a
“Natural Allegiance,” as stated in English law, “is due from all
men born within the king’s dominions, immediately upon their
birth, which is intrinsic and perpetual, which cannot be divested by
any act of their own.”
This Natural Allegiance of course refers to a time when the free
dominion of the land was no longer held by the people
individually. They had lost that position of “freemen” upon the

253 J. Addams
254 Black’s 3rd Ed. p. 95.
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land created by God and had become subjects under oaths of fealty
or acts and applications under the dominion of kings. Such
allegiance is a form of worship and a rejection of God but once
owed it may not be disregarded by a whim.
In principle, the Declaration of Independence and the so called
“American Revolution” could not divest that obligation on its own.
It was the freemen, domiciled upon their own land, that had
already removed themselves from that particular binding dominion
and obligation to the king after many years of self reliance, and
with the manumitting charters of Charles I and II.
The Charters did not set men free. Freedom does not come so
easy. They allowed men the opportunity to seek, struggle and
strive to eventually be born on their own land, within their own
free dominion in the new world of the Americas.
As we saw in Part V “The civil law reduces the unwilling
freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of the Angloes judge
once manumitted as ever after free.”256
This Maxim of English law was either forgotten or ignored by
George III, although proclaimed by many men of England like
William Pitt and Parliament itself. And it was the usurpation, by
George, of the rights of the freeman living in the American
republics which gave lawfulness to the Declaration of
Independence. In actuality it was the King who did the revolting
not Americans.
“I desire what is good. Therefore, everyone who does not agree with
me is a traitor.” -- King George III of England
The only real freemen in America were those who made the
effort to establish the ownership of land as an estate, a free
dominion as a free individual. Hamilton did not include the non-
landed populace called “our rabble, or all unqualified persons”.
He did not intend that they even should “have the right of
voting, or not be taxed; but that the freeholders and electors,
whose right accrues to them from the common law, or from

256 Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinalm servitutem redigulnt; sed leges angiae
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charter, shall not be deprived of that right.”257
Very few Americans today can claim accrued rights of the
Common law because they have not accepted the responsibilities
of that law for themselves much less for their neighbor. Most
Americans do not even educate their own children.
The principle upon which Natural Allegiance stands, although
presented under other names, is the basis of the obedience owed a
Father by his Children, Parens Patriae,258 the State as Father.
State of Fidelity
The original powers of State governments, as individual
Republics of America before and after the adoption of The
Constitution of the United States,259 rested not in the hands of the
State governments but in the hands and hearts of the individual
freeman living on his own land, an estate in fee simple as an
allodium.
The state governments had no real sovereign authority to make
the United States a sovereign nation with dominion over the
general inhabitants of America any more than George III. The
States knowing they had only a “titular” authority, adopted the
Constitution, creating the United States in the name of “We the
People”. The individual people would need to take some overt
action or contiguous acquiescence to express consent to such
incorporation and subjugation because “The enumeration in the
Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or
disparage others retained by the people”.260
Even Alexander Hamilton wrote against the Bill of Rights:
“Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing; and as they retain
everything they have no need of particular reservations....”
257 The Works of Alexander Hamilton, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, N Y, 1904, I, 172.
9 Ibid., March 31, 1768.
258 USC TITLE 15, Sec. 15h. Applicability of Parens Patriae actions: STATUTE-
Sections 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, and 15g of this title shall apply in any State, unless such
State provides by law for its non-applicability in such State.] See HHC booklet Call
no man Father
259 States, before and after the Constitution, were “as foreign to each other as Mexico is
to Canada” Clark’s Summary of American Law, Constitutional Law.
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 “But a minute detail of particular rights is certainly far less
applicable to a constitution like that under consideration, which is
merely intended to regulate the general political interests of a nation,
than a constitution which has regulation of every species of personal
and private concerns.”
He went on to say that the Bill of Rights were “unnecessary”
and even “dangerous” because:
“They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and,
on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more
than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done
which there is no power to do?” 261
The once colonial - and now state - administrative government
and other equitable and economic interests wanted a Constitution.
The State or status of the sovereign people was independent of the
administrating government in the republics.262
In those days of individual sovereignty, each household was a
state “independent of their form of government”. They learned to
come together in groups called hundreds. But their loving alliances
often failed and faltered from neglect under the burden and
temptations of affluence and abundance.
Men forgot that their neighbor’s rights are as important as their
own and instead of loving their neighbor as themselves they began
to covet their neighbor’s goods in social democracies and are more
content to live by the sweat of others than by that of their own
brow, which is a sorry state of affairs.
Today rights are debated in the solemn halls of Washington to
determine the rights of individuals and the people cry
“usurpation”. But is it usurpation on their part or neglect on the
part of the people. They are no longer individuals but individual
persons and the layers of that membership are many.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”263

261 Federalist 84 Alexander Hamilton.

262 The Covenants of the gods, the Chapter Republic vs. Democracy
263 Amendment 10 Bill of Rights.

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 Over the years the relationship of a free people and a subject
government has been turned upside down. That the people
complain about assumed usurpation of the Bill of Rights seem a
moot point under the rampant neglect of the ninth and tenth
amendments of that same document. Their cries seem hypocritical
considering the the pervasive sloth of the last century allowing
government to meddle in every aspect of people’s lives, the
extreme disregard of the law against coveting by rampant
socialism, the consistent rejecting of God by the election of strings
of men calling themselves benefactors, and having strange gods
and benefactors before Him.
If the people will not maintain the responsibility of the state by
faith, hope and charity that responsibility will be seized by another
who will soon turn their rights into privileges. The kingdom John
the Baptist preached operated by charity264 not by force.265 Without
true commitment to the simple charity and love of neighbor
preached by Jesus, Moses and Abraham no society will remain
free.
Status of a Republic and Democracy
Today, the government is referenced as the United States
Federal Democracy even though at the beginnings of government
in the Americas the word Republic was the title most sought and
most used. Is there a difference?
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican Form of Government…”266
“Republic. A commonwealth; that form of government in which the
administration of affairs is open to all the citizens. In another sense,
it signifies the state, independently of its government.” 267
We see here that there may be more than one sense to the word
republic. First, the “administration of affairs” is open to citizens

264 Luke 3:11 “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart
to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.”
265 Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
266 Constitution of the United States, Section 4.
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and it can be referred to as a commonwealth, which denotes the
general welfare of the people or the public. In the other sense, a
republic “signifies the state independent of its government”.
What does that mean? The state should be independent from the
government. The word state has almost twenty different
definitions. A state is a status or an estate or a condition of life,
which, in the case of a republic can be independent of its
government.
In another place we find the word republic defined, “A state or
nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens… A
state or nation with a president as its titular head; distinguished
from monarchy”.
In this definition we see again that the supreme power is in the
hands of the citizen who is entitled to vote to choose the titular 268
ministers of government not a leader who can rule over his
neighbor and himself. The government leaders were not like
elected kings and law makers who exercise authority, and can take
everything from the first fruits to your sons and daughters.
A leader of a true republic does not rule the people nor do the
people rule over each other as in a democracy where the majority
rule over the minority. In a republic people are free to rule
themselves, “free from things public”. In a republic of noble and
virtuous souls there are few affairs of the people that are not taken
care of by the people for the people.
The United States Federal government was to guarantee to
every State, status or condition of life a Republican form of
government, a government where men are free from things public.
Why then does the government of the corporate States and the
United States seem to have such a supreme authority over almost
every aspect of its citizenry and their lives? Whose fault is this,
who is to blame? Is it the usurpation of government or the
ignorant, greedy and covetous and slothful applications of men?
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is
268 Titular is defined as, “existing in title or name only; nominal…” while a monarch is
“a single or sole ruler of a state… a person or a thing that suppresses others of the
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 before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to
appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.”
Proverbs 23:1-3
What is the true nature of the kingdom of God at hand? What
should be the true nature of a pure Republic? Plato’s Republic was
very much contrary to those early Republics where kings and
central governments were ousted or rejected or exited.
Today, there are many nations calling themselves republics but
they are very different from each other and many are also different
than they were in their beginnings.
Some may assume that the United States of America and the
original Republic are one and the same thing but you have to look
no farther than April 3, 1918, when the new American Creed was
read in Congress beginning with the words, “I believe in the
United States of America as a government… whose just powers
are derived from the consent of the governed: a democracy in a
republic”. In other words, the U.S. Federal democracy is a
corporate political society that exists within the Original Republic,
a Republic that predates the United States’ Constitution.
The United States was not a continuation of the Government of
the people, but a departure by certain select people and
institutions. Some may ask why the United States needed a Creed,
but the fact is that all governments are systems of faith. Fidelity is
from the word “fides”, meaning “confidence, faith, trust”.
The creation of the United States could not subject an entire
nation of free people to the will of that corporate body to make law
by the signatures of a few men, by the adoption of representative
forms of government that were not given such power to begin
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 What You Bind on Earth
How does a government get its power and authority?
“Good government is no substitute for self-government.”
Gandhi, Mahatma
Some take the belief too far that the “The State ... is a social
institution forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group
... [for] no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the
vanquished by the victors. No primitive State known to history
originated in any other manner”.269
But no such government would bind man because “Those
captured by pirates and robbers remain free”.270 For the simple
reason that “Things captured by pirates and robbers do not change
ownership”.271 Governments obtain power and men become bound
to obey those institutions on earth, for numerous reasons, which
are almost all based on consent in one form or another.
It would be binding for those who “take any oath of allegiance
to the Government thereof”.272 It would be binding for those who
sign a social compact. It would also be binding if people apply and
receive benefits because “He who receives the benefit should also
bear the disadvantage”.273 The binding is even more complete if
the people take the benefit at the expense of others, including your
children’s future.
People may desire to claim usurpation or fraud, or failure of full
disclosure but these self serving mantras will likely fall on deaf
ears with volumes of public records to the contrary. This binding is
based on constructive social contracts, well publicized and no one
who takes a benefit can deny the reciprocating obligations.
The “social contract, agreement, or covenant by which men are

269 Cf Franz Oppenheimer, Origins of the State, (San Francisco: Fox and Wilkes, 1997),
p.15.
270 A pirates et latronibus capti libera permanent.Dig.49. 15. 19. 2.
271 A piratis et latronibus capta dominium non mutant.1 Kent, Comm. 108, 184; 2
Wooddesen, Lect. 258,259.
272 Article II The Jay Treaty, Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation Concluded
November 19, 1794
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said to have abandoned the ‘state of nature’ to form the society in
which they now live.... Assumes that men at first lived in a state of
anarchy where there was no society, no government, and no
organized coercion of the individual by the group… by the social
contract men had surrendered their natural liberties in order to
enjoy the order and safety of the organized state”. 274 This is done
at the cost of liberty.
The Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven was the right
to be ruled by God. It was not a new government but the original
state of nature with no civil or social contract.
Moses had created a nation of people to bring them back to the
dominion of God. The people were bound together with a common
faith in a supreme being and creator of the world, a common law
and a literature that attempted to explain the precepts of that law
and its common faith and religion.
Their religion included a means of freewill sacrifice that
sustained the needs of their society through that common faith, in
the hope for and by the charity of the people. They elected titular
leaders to minister that government of God without relinquishing
any rights granted by God. This peculiar government of the
people, served God by the people’s love for one another and no
other social contract. The ministers were separate from the people
who maintained their status as free souls under God. The people
were the state and the Levites, without authority, held all things in
common so that the people might be free.
As a people they continuously turned back to those elements
and rudiments of the world that had brought them into bondage.
The voice of the people elected a king to rule over them, forming a
social contract that abandoned the precepts of their faith. He was
soon able to take by force their sacrifices, take the first fruits of
their labor, the best of their fields, their sons and daughters, make
his instruments of war, and bring them back into the bondage of
the world.
When the Pharisees elected to invite Rome to secure their

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government they continued that journey away from God toward
Babylon. Upon “... the death of Caesar the Jews of Rome gathered
for many nights, waking strange feelings of awe in the city, as they
chanted in mournful melodies their Psalms around the pyre on
which the body of their benefactor had been burnt, and raised their
pathetic dirges”.275
Jesus came preaching a kingdom, appointed it and told his
titular ministers and ambassadors to not be like the governments of
the world that called themselves benefactors but exercised
authority one over the other. They were to be that one form of
government that led the people back to God.
Just as there are forms of government, there are forms of
citizenship. Whether a citizen is still a natural inhabitant or has
obtained membership in a political society, he has certain rights,
although, those rights may differ. The natural inhabitant may be a
member of a society or civitas,276 but he remains an individual
with civil rights within that general body. Those “Civil rights are
such as belong to every citizen of the state or country, or, in a
wider sense to all its inhabitants, and are not connected with the
organization or the administration of government. They include
the rights of property, marriage, protection by laws, freedom of
contract, trial by jury, etc.”277 An individual, who becomes a
member or person in a political society, also has civil rights, but
the origin of those rights, being political, are rights “pertaining or
relating to the policy or administration of government”. 278 So, “as
otherwise defined, civil rights are rights appertaining to a person in
virtue of his citizenship in a state or community. Rights capable of
being enforced or redressed in civil action. Also a term applied to
certain rights secured to citizens of the United States by the
thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution, and by
various acts of Congress made in pursuance thereof.”279

275 Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Chapt. V

276Civitas. Any body of people living under the same laws. Black’s 3rd.
277Right. In Constitutional Law. Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p. 1559.
278Political. Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p. 1375.
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 The essential difference would seem to be that the former “are
not connected with the organization or the administration of
government”, while the latter are “subject”.
“It is quite clear then that there is a citizenship of the United
States and a citizenship of a State, which are distinct from each
other and which depend upon different characteristics or
circumstances in the Individual.” 280 “The rights of a citizen under
one (state or United States citizenship) may be quite different from
those which he has under the other…”281
If the benefit of the latter citizenship includes the duty of
subjection, then the assent must require a voluntary consent, or
else such citizenship would be nothing more than involuntary
servitude. There are countless ways of demonstrating the
consummation of a voluntary consent.
“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads
among them bounties, donations and benefits.”282

Loosening
Free republics were “composed of large numbers of freemen
and the law which they administered, was that which had been
handed down by oral tradition from generation to generation”. 283
The virtue of the people was the original “fountainhead of justice”
which provided their own common welfare, ministers and
tribunals to which every freeman could appeal for aid, mercy and
justice.
To seek the kingdom of God you need to turn around and go
another way. This is an individual journey but a kingdom is not a
man. Men still need to come together as a community or society,
two or more gathered together. What will bind them as a society
cannot be a social compact that diminishes their natural right to
choose. Their conversation in that society is not without
reservation for they remain free. Their contributions and

280 Slaughter House Cases, 83 US 395, 407 (1873)

281 Colgate v. Harvey, 296 US 404, 429. (1935)
282 Plutarch.
283 Clark’s Summary of American law. Common Law Chat 1 pp.530.

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communion with that society must be freely given and without
reservation.
A free individual in the state of nature is not a kingdom except
to himself. To be a citizen of the Kingdom of God he needs a body
or civitas to form the asylum state. 284 The asylum state is a city of
refuge from local and foreign abuses of justice. To form a civitas
or body politic some men must give up their liberty so that others
may be free.
By this act of sacrifice an entrance to the Kingdom of God at
hand, the right to be ruled by God, may be maintained. This is
what Abraham, Moses, and Jesus were doing with their called out
ministers, their living stones who belonged to God and were bond
servants of Christ, living in the world but not of it, to set the
captive free and return everyman to his family and to his
possessions.
The Invidious Assembly
“If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will
never be enslaved. This will be their great Security” 285
In a free society the entire social welfare provided by the
government is the result of freewill contribution called charity. It
will only be provided amongst a people who love one another as
much as they love themselves. Societies that force the
contributions of the people by their nature covet their neighbor’s
goods. Lacking virtue and knowledge they are soon caught in a net
of their own making.
The institutions they create will eventually take on the nature of
a beast and like the monster of Dr. Frankenstein they will become
the victim of their own creation. No reigning by oath or
affirmation will chain the monsters, or alter their destiny.

284 “Two factors limit the asylum State’s legal obligation. First, international law
predicates State responsibility for the acts of private persons, such as foreign exiles,
upon the existence of fault. The asylum State must either contribute to the forbidden
conduct, or possess the knowledge, opportunity and capacity to prevent it and fail to
do so.” International Journal of Refugee Law 1990 2(2):181-210;
doi:10.1093/ijrl/2.2.181 © 1990 by Oxford University Press
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 When people talk about law and the constitution they often
forget to examine things in the context of history. In 1776 many
families in America had been here for centuries, struggling,
sacrificing to establish a free republic with Cromwell seeking its
protection in the 1600’s.
A republic is not dependent upon who its leaders are but upon
the willingness by the people, as a society, to accept their personal
and natural obligations to and for one another freely without
hesitation or selfishness solely on the basis of virtue.
In early America, the success and prosperity of the people was
due in part to “The churches in New England” which “were so
many nurseries of freemen, training them in the principles of self-
government and accustoming them to the feeling of independence.
In these petty organizations were developed, in practice, the
principles of individual and national freedom. Each church was a
republic in embryo. The fiction became a fact, the abstraction a
reality...”286
The modern Churches have simply become nurseries which
have turned the people into children of the State. The people apply
to benefactors who exercise authority one over the other contrary
to the teachings of Christ. These, often incorporated entities of the
state, provide little more than token charity amongst their
congregations. The practices and doctrines, rituals and ceremonies,
of those state instituted religious organizations today are much
different than the early Church. Instead of freeing the people they
placate the people, making them comfortable in the beggarly
elements of bondage.287
Men are fond of proclaiming over 200 years of freedom in
America, yet the people have not been free for a long time. They
have been comfortable but most of that comfort and euphoria is
based on debt and ignorance.

286 Lives of Issac Heath and John Bowles, Elders of the Church and of John Eliot, Jr.,
preacher in the mid 1600’, written by J, Wingate Thorton. 1850
287 Galatians 4:9 “But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,
how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to
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 For over the last hundred years the people of America have
become more and more dependent upon a system of debt created
“legal tender” notes which have altered their relationship to what
they own and how they own it, to their labor and whom they serve,
to their neighbor now and in the future.
Few people understand what this means in law and society or
why Israel, early Christians, and Americans avoided such
dishonest currencies. They fail to understand for several reasons.
At least one of those reasons is because they have availed
themselves of free education which has been worth what they paid
for it. And their personal comfort is more important than others.
Free education is socialism. It was not free but others were
forced to pay for it. All social welfare or health care is covetous
means and is received at the expense of others and the expense of
their children.
The Alien State
States were once National states. They were republics which
adopted the original constitution establishing the federal corporate
United States of America.288 Just reading the elements of the
constitution we can see that it is an indirect democracy, with
constitutional guidelines, which is supposed to guarantee a
republican form of government for the states, if the people were to
“retain” their rights. They have not done so.
The constitution also guarantees our right to contract and the
right to be held to contracts both written and constructive. It also
guarantees our right to assemble. That assembly may be free or
corporate and bound by contract, oath, or debt.
One of the first acts of the Congress created by the United
States Constitution was to establish a federal court system in the
architectonic Judiciary Act of 1789.
In Sec. 16., it states, “That suits in equity shall not be sustained
in either of the courts of the United States, in any case where plain,
288 “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The United States of America are a corporation
endowed with the capacity to sue and be sued, to convey and receive property.” 1
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adequate and complete remedy may be had at law”.
For the citizens of the United States today there is little remedy
but in equity because the common law is not competent to give
remedy when we establish equitable relationships.289
In Samuel 8:19 the “voice of the people” “rejected” God saying
“Nay; but we will have a king over us”. It would be convenient for
our pride and the comfort of our conscience to blame the assumed
or supposed acts of tyranny by government and its bureaucracies
totally on their usurpation of the law, but would that be true?
Would that be honest? Would that be just? After all, if it is lawful
to do with our own what we will, then is it not lawful for
government to do with its own what it wills?
We know that “If we will not be ruled by God, then we will be
ruled by tyrants”.290 In far less than two hundred years “We the
People” have gone from a free republic to a social democracy,
from a government of for and by the people to a government of the
politicians, by the bureaucrats, and for the special interests.
As we have seen earlier in the Slaughter House Case the United
States and State citizenship are “distinct from each other” and
“depend upon different characteristics or circumstances in the
Individual” where the rights are “quite different”. 291
“Constantly bearing in mind that in entering into society individuals
must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest… 292
Almost all governments are corporations in one form or
another.293 After the Civil War there was a decided change in the
relationship of State and Federal government and subsequently in
the natural citizens or inhabitants in the states and citizens of the
289 Judiciary Act of 1789, Section 9
290 William Penn.
291 Colgate v. Harvey, 296 US 404, 429. (1935)
292 Andrew Jackson, March 4, 1833.
293 “members of a corporation” are defined as: “Body Politic, government, corporations.
When applied to the government this phrase signifies the state. As to the persons who
compose the body politic, they take collectively the name, of people, or nation; and
individually they are citizens, when considered in relation to their political rights, and
subjects as being submitted to the laws of the state. When it refers to corporations, the
term body politic means that the members of such corporations shall be considered as
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Federal Government.
Citizenship is: “The status of being a citizen” and may include, a
“Membership in a political society, implying a duty of allegiance on
the part of the member and a duty of protection on the part of
society”.294
“A citizen is a member of the nation. A citizen of the United States
is a member of the large society which we call the United States of
America.”
“In the United States citizenship is defined in the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution as: ‘All persons born or naturalized
in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are
citizens of the United States and the States wherein they reside.’” 295
When people speak of “State”, are they referring to the
corporate “State of ---” existing under the Authority of the United
States, or do they mean one of the National states296 which, in
those early days, adopted the original constitution establishing the
corporate United States of America?297
“The term ‘citizen’ is distinguishable from ‘resident’ or ‘inhabitant.’
One may be a citizen of a state without being an inhabitant, or an
inhabitant without being a citizen.” “Word ‘resident’ has many
meanings in law, largely determined by statutory context in which it
is used.”298 “Residents, as distinguished from citizens, are aliens
who are permitted to take up a permanent abode in the country.
Being bound to the society by reason of their dwelling in it, they are
subject to its laws so long as they remain there, and, being protected
by it, they must defend it, although they do not enjoy all the rights of
citizens. They have only certain privileges which the law, or
custom, gives them.”299
If residents are “aliens who are permitted to take up a
permanent abode in the country” and they are a resident of a State,
294 Luria v. U.S., 231 U.S.9,34 S.Ct.10,13,58 l.ed.101.(Black’s3rd.p.330)
295 Quincy v. Duncan. 4Har. (Del.) 383; etc. (see Black’s 3rd.)
296 States were “as foreign to each other as Mexico is to Canada” Clark’s Summary of
American Law, Constitutional Law.
297 “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The United States of America are a corporation
endowed with the capacity to sue and be sued, to convey and receive property.” 1
Marsh. Dec. 177, 181. Opinion of first Supreme Court Justice Marshall.
298 Kelm v. Carlson, C.A.Ohio, 473, F2d 1267, 1271
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then their citizenship originates somewhere else other than the
State in which they live. “A citizen of the United States is a citizen
of the federal government ...”300 who resides in one of the States.
“A person may be at the same time a citizen of the United States
and a citizen of a State, but his rights of citizenship under one of
these governments will be different from those he has under the
other.”301
To be a citizen of the United states and a resident of a state
should not be confused with a resident alien, “One, not yet a
citizen of this country, who has come into the country from
another with the intent to abandon his former citizenship and to
reside here”.302
This may seem confusing but the complexity of the change, the
relationships wrought from those changes explain a great deal of
the confusion about what are rights and what are privileges. The
interchangeability of many words and their casual misuse create a
great deal of confusion rather quickly if terms are not properly
defined in the sense and context of their use.
“Civil rights”, for example, “are such as belong to every citizen
of the state or country, or, in a wider sense to all its inhabitants,
and are not connected with the organization or the administration
of government. They include the rights of property, marriage,
protection by laws, freedom of contract, trial by jury, etc.”303
An individual, who becomes a member or person in a political
society, also has civil rights, but the origin of those rights, being
political, are rights “pertaining or relating to the policy or
administration of government”.304
Both are civil rights but are absolutely different in nature and in
their regulatory subjection. We see in the same definition of Civil
Rights it is stated, “as otherwise defined, civil rights are rights

300 Kitchens v. Steele 112 F.Supp 383

301 U.S. Supreme Court in US v. Cruikshank, 92 US 542. Black’s Law Dictionary 6th
edition, page 1309.
302 Black’s Law Dictionary 6th edition, page 1309.
303 Right. In Constitutional Law. Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p. 1559.
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appertaining to a person in virtue of his citizenship in a state or
community. Rights capable of being enforced or redressed in civil
action. Also a term applied to certain rights secured to citizens of
the United States by the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to
the Constitution, and by various acts of Congress made in
pursuance thereof.”305
While there at least three definitions of civil rights there is at
least one essential difference between the first and the last. In the
first those rights “are not connected with the organization or the
administration of government”. This is easier to understand if we
realize God endowed men with rights, not governments. So all
civil rights originated in the individual man and are not lawfully
subject to governments or our neighbors. The last definition of
civil rights are rights secured to citizens by government. That
would be rights endowed by government gods of other inhabitants.
You obtained those rights and benefits by contracting as a member
with the other inhabitants who are also contracted. 306 This latter
citizenship is “subject to the jurisdiction” of the institution of men.
Are we aliens in the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Have we traded our birthright of liberty for a cauldron of benefits
at the expense of our neighbor and been snared in a trap of our
own making? Have we gone against the will of God and now
suffer from a strong delusion?
“No one is obliged to accept a benefit against his consent. But if he
does not dissent, he will be considered as assenting.”307
“It is immaterial whether a man gives his assent by words or by acts
and deeds.”308
The Citizenship by “membership” also includes a “duty of
305 Right. In Constitutional Law. Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p. 1559.
306 Exodus 34:12-15 “Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee...
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring
after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of
his sacrifice;”
307 Invitio benificium non datur. Dig. 50. 17.69; broom, Max.3d Lond ed. 625. Bouvier’s Law
Dictionary.
308 Non refert an quis assensum suum præfert verbis, an rebus ipsis et factis. 10 Coke,
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allegiance on the part of the member”. 309 Man’s primary allegiance
was to his vision of truth until he binds himself to the obedience of
another. Then he is under obligation to affirm this new contract,
covenant, or constitution.
Our present state of bondage rests upon our own heads and 100
years of sloth and avarice. We have failed to affirm the freedom
and liberty won by 200 years of self reliance and struggle by our
forefathers before the revolution. The road back cannot begin on
paper with declarations and proclamations but where it began with
early Americans, in the hearts and minds that led us from God.
Pitfalls, Traps and Snares
We are warned of all the pitfalls, traps and snares where men
are mired in bondage in the Bible and by the teachings of Jesus
Christ. We are not always warned by those who profess to know
Christ.
One thing common to Republics is the remaining power of the
people to contract for, apply to, and receive gifts, gratuities, and
benefits. Such contracts or applications steadily erode access to
freedom common to a responsible, self-reliant and free people.
“The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be
under tribute.” Proverbs 12:24
Anglican ordination in England required an oath of allegiance
to the British crown which had ordered the oaths of allegiance and
supremacy, and the “Test Act” again required all civil office
holders to take oaths of supremacy and allegiance.
A 1393 “Statute of Praemunire” stipulated that “lands,
tenements, goods, and chattels are to be forfeit to our lord the
king” for showing disrespect and contempt for the crown by
asserting superiority of any legal authority outside the kingdom.
There was a great pressure to compel these oaths and there was a
great movement to avoid them based on a Biblical faith in Christ

309 “Citizenship is membership in a political society and implies a duty of allegiance on

the part of the member and a duty of protection on the part of the society. These are
reciprocal obligations, one being a compensation for the other.” Luria v. U.S., 231
U.S. 9, 34 S. Ct. 10,13, 58 L.Ed. 101.(see Black’s 3rd.)

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the King and Lord of a kingdom which was at hand.
To avoid such oaths of allegiance men fled with their families
to the Americas in hope. To be freemen under God instead of
subjects serving governments by the sweat of their brow and
bowing down to law makers who exercise authority required
change. To be a Christian required repentance and seeking a
kingdom of God and His righteousness. To say we believe in
Christ and not do what he said is to take His name in vain.310
Religions and the World
All governments have elements of religion in them including
faith. “Religion” only appears five times in the Bible and is only
used once in a good sense. Pure religion311 is the gathering together
in the name of Christ for the purposes of caring for one another by
faith, hope and charity which is love “unspotted by the world”.
Every time you read the word “world” in the Bible you need to
know which Greek term was used to produce that word because
there were more than five in the New Testament alone.
The Greek word kosmos actually meant the state and is recently
defined as “an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution,
order, government”.312 The Greeks produced other forms, such as
the Homeric kosmeo, used in reference to the act of “marshaling
troops”.313 From the Greek and Roman point of view, the “... word
kosmos ... meant originally the discipline of an army, and next the
ordered constitution of a state”.314
Today’s Churches practice and preach religion very much
spotted by the world. They completely care for their needy by the
benefaction of the world and not charity.
There are many ideas that have crept into the thinking of the
310 John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. Exodus 23:32; Exodus 34:12-
15; Isaiah 24:5; John 14:23; Matthew 7:21-22; Matthew 25:11; Luke 6:46; Luke
13:25
311 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
James 1:27
312 Strong’s # 2889 Online Bible Concordance, Winterbourne, Ontario.
313 Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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modern Church that needs to be brought to light so that we may
repent and seek the kingdom and the righteousness of God.
Christ appointed a government to His apostles 315 but did not
allow His government to exercise authority. 316 You may call that
government of God the Church, the ekklesia, the called out. They
were to feed His sheep.317
The ministers of the Church are to be the ministers to the
people for God to keep them free souls under Him and not under
the Pharaohs and Nimrods of the “world”.
They do this by the charity of the people, for the people and by
the people freely giving and receiving in God’s name. The
ministers are separate from the world and are servants of the
people. The ministers are separate from the people but work
together as a body so that neither the ministers nor the people will
be snared by the gods of the world.
Which Church provides all the social welfare for the people by
faith, hope and charity? Which Church does not send the people to
men called benefactors but who exercise authority? Which Church
is faithful to the word and ways of God?
How can so many people call themselves Christians today, read
the Bible - and take so much of it literally - but cannot see that
Christ was preaching a form of government which operated on
faith, hope, charity, and the perfect law of liberty? Abraham left
the men that devised civil government with codified laws and
compulsory taxes in Ur and Haran. Moses brought the people out
of a government of Egypt where the people had a tax liability
equal to several months of labor each year, the gold and silver was
in the treasuries of the government, the people only had a legal
title to land and the banks charged interest on anything you
borrowed. So was Christ doing something all that different by
setting the captive free?
Moses gave the people a government where they only paid
315 Daniel 7:18; Matthew 11:12; Matthew 21:43; Luke 12:32; Luke 22:29 “And I appoint
unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;”
316 Matthew 20:25... Mark 10:42... Luke 22:25... Acts 5:29 ; 2 Corinthians 6:16.
317 John 21:16-17 ; Acts 2:46; Acts 2:46; 5:42; 16:17; 7:18; Acts 17:7; Luke 14:31;

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taxes to support the ministers “according to their service”.
Charitable contributions were given as “freewill offerings” or self
inflicted “sin offerings”; all the gold and silver was in the hands of
the people and interest was almost completely forbidden. There
was no king in Israel or need for one as long as the people
remained faithful to God.
Jesus did much the same as Moses, Abraham and many other
free governments. The first century Church was a well organized
and self disciplined republican system of self governance. It was
not like the kingdoms of the other nations where men ruled over
other men.318
Christ preached a kingdom of service and charity sacrifice, not
entitlements, benefits, and forced taxation. He told us to apply to
His Father in Heaven. It is because men apply to Caesar and eat at
his table that men owe Caesar what should be God’s alone.
You may have to pay Caesar what you owe him. You may have
to be friends with the “unrighteous mammon”. 319 But you should
repent and begin to go the other way. If your Church will not
conform to the message of Christ and perform the services of the
first century Church stop tithing to it. Seek a faithful minister who
will lead you to the kingdom and in the ways of righteousness.
The Church - as we have come to call it - had a particular
structure and was composed of particular kind of men, ordained
under particular conditions specified by Christ to do particular
tasks for the people who sought the kingdom of God on earth.
“Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto
them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the
Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter
318 “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but
now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling.” Php 2:12
319 “And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness;
that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is
faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least
is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous
mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been
faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? ”
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into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will
bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in
you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezekiel 37:4
“... and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose
dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from
generation to generation:” Daniel 4:34

Letters from the Earth

“But it was impossible to save the Great Republic. She was rotten to
the heart. Lust of conquest had long ago done its work; trampling
upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to
endure with apathy the like at home; multitudes who had applauded
the crushing of other people’s liberties, lived to suffer for their
mistake in their own persons. The government was irrevocably in
the hands of the prodigiously rich and their hangers-on; the suffrage
was become a mere machine, which they used as they chose. There
was no principle but commercialism, no patriotism but of the
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The Constitutions Part X
Part I: The people were “not a party” to the Constitution.
Part II: There are two forms of government - free and not free.
Part III: The people opposed the Constitution for good cause.
Part IV: Consolidation of power by men is a rejection of God.
Part V: To retain rights you must accept responsibility.
Part VI: Applications, oaths and affirmations lead to bondage.
Part VII: Man gave his birth right for a bowl of benefits.
Part VIII: A corporate creation becomes a ravenous beast.
Part IX: The unwise and wicked are snared in a religion of the
state where the idle serve idols created by their own hands unto
their condemnation.

For the people?

“If a man shall begin with certainties,
he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties.”320
Patrick Henry began to argue against the Constitution because
he had doubts about its wisdom. “What right had they (the group
that wrote the Constitution) to say ‘We the People,’ instead ‘We,
the States’.”
“The people, to be sure”, said Madison, were parties to the
compact, but “not the people as composing one great body”.
Rather, it is the “people as composing thirteen sovereignties.”
Madison added, “Were it… a consolidated government, the assent
of a majority of the people would be sufficient for its
establishment: and, as a majority have adopted it already, the
remaining States would be bound by the act of the majority, even
if they unanimously reprobated it…. But, sir, no state is bound by

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it, as it is, without its own consent”.
In the course of these pages we have seen that the majority of
people in those days rejected the Constitution of the United States
including many of the renowned early American “Patriots”. The
people would not have ratified it by states or as a whole nation.
The state’s authority to ratify was seriously in question. They
were not democracies but republics in a pure sense. Their
sovereignty rested independent of its form of government, which
rested with the people individually and not as composing one
great body.
One of the great frauds of modern education is that the nature
of a pure republic is the same as an indirect democracy. By even
modern accounts the constitution was “illegally ratified”, as it
violated the prior unanimous compacts among the states. 321 It was
adopted by the states but was a departure from the lawful
government. Because of its lack of popularity - it was itself a
revolution against the governing by the people.
Those early Republics as we have also seen had no authority to
subjugate the free people to the will of this new government
without their individual consent. Such consent could not come
from the legislated congresses with only a titular authority as long
as the people retained their endowed rights in word and deed.
History shows us that once governments are given an exercising
authority that there will be a steady gleaning of more power from
people who depend upon, apply to, and participate in the offered
benefits, gifts, and gratuities of the new corporate State.
Patrick Henry’s opening speech of June 4, 1788, in opposition
to the unapproved Constitution, warned: “A Wrong Step Now and
the Republic Will Be Lost Forever”. Clearly he believed the
Republic predated the constitution and he prophetically was
concerned about what the Constitution would provide.
He continued to warn, “If this new Government will not come
up to the expectation of the people, and they should be
disappointed - their liberty will be lost, and tyranny must and will
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arise. I repeat it again, and I beg Gentlemen to consider, that a
wrong step made now will plunge us into misery, and our
Republic will be lost.”
Men imagine themselves free in democracies because they are
comfortable - but in a democracy, no one is free from their
neighbor. Even after its creation the warnings continued to flow
from men like John Marshall, who wrote:
“The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public
welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be
thought of as a general haven for reform movements.”
“No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking
down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the
American people into one common mass.”
“Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become
worthless if the government possessed power over the private
fortune of every citizen.”
Even though many noble sentiments were incorporated within
its pages, the Constitution violated not only the wisdom, but also
the precepts of God that have come down to us through the ages
and some of the most basic tenets of Christ’s teachings.
Constitutional limitations have been overcome by the greed and
avarice of the people through contracts, application and
participation. The corporate creature constituted by writ and act
has become the monster through its vast bureaucracy, myriad of
laws, special interest, industrial and commercial influence till the
people are little more than merchandise.
The Democracy Cult
The temptation to rule our neighbors and be corrupted by that
power, devours the soul of good men. Only Jesus passed the test.
“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the
people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good
men without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that
dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every
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 The constitution created an indirect democracy in the heart of
the republic and attempted to chain and control it by the virtue and
wisdom of the people. The people have created a common mass.
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon
constitutions, upon laws and courts. These are false hopes, believe
me; these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and
women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no law, no court can
save it.”322
Democracy is no answer, indirect or pure. All have a hand in
the covetous collection of our “neighbor’s goods”. The soiled sin
of plundering our neighbors through taxation and usury is a cancer
of the soul from which no society may recover.
A democracy is a government of the people - or at least 51% of
them - but it is not necessarily a government “for the people”. It is
a collective government, composing one great body. Instead of the
individual freeman the mob is King.
In order to gain from the gifts, gratuities, and benefits of a
Democracy, one must be willing to take something from his
neighbor. Dependence on those benefits graced by the benefactors
of the state, automatically brings about a new state of mind in the
people - and a new corporate state is born out of their collective
dependence. “Dependence begets subservience and venality,323
suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs
of ambition.”324
Covetous ambition changes men. Their own greed and sloth in
turn changes the world in which they live. When they have power
over their neighbor, though that power be small, it corrupts them,
it tempts and taints their souls. They become addicted to their own
desires, sloth, avarice, and self indulgence until they equate
freedom with comfort, liberty with affluence, and the
responsibility bestowed on them by God as an intolerable burden.
In a Democracy the voice of the people elect men who call

322 Judge Learned Hand, Spirit of Liberty 189

323 The condition of being susceptible to bribery or corruption. The use of a position of
trust for dishonest gain. The American Heritage® Dictionary.
324 Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787. Thomas Jefferson

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themselves benefactors and guarantee certain advantages and
blessings to the people. They swear to provide them but in return,
demand allegiance. These Benefactors take on the responsibility of
care and provide but obtain a corresponding power to exercise
authority, demand compliance, and extract support.
“Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare
your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights
of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and
become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among
you.” Abraham Lincoln
When we were convinced that it was no longer a sin to desire
benefits at the expense of our neighbor “Faith, Hope, and Charity
began for to flee out of our Church”.325 It is this custom and sin of
coveting our neighbor’s goods, even a buckle, that separates us
from the order of Melchizedek and the inheritance of the kingdom
- each man becomes a new George III and a traitor to freedom and
liberty, “rejecting” God, “crucifying” Christ and by the ensuing
debt cursing our children “with covetous practices”. 326
“He who can alter my state of mind, is my master.”327
The Kingdom of God has always relied upon the freewill
offerings of the people to fill its treasuries, for love is the treasure
we seek. In the Kingdom it is better to give than receive. The
Church was appointed a kingdom to serve and feed Christ’s flock.
Their titular leaders were the best servants who gave to others
rather than keep for themselves. The Church was the last servant
government. When our minds were changed, the Church changed.
Cults of the Governed
A cult is often “an instance of great veneration of a person,
ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers”. We see
reference to movie stars and musicians having cult followers.
There are many “patriots” who could be said to belong to the

325 The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards, The First Conclusion.

326 “Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable
souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:” 2 Peter
2:14
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constitutional cult. There are also religious cults defined as a
“particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its
rites and ceremonies”.328
The term “cult” has taken on a derogatory sense. The negative
idea of a cult usually stems from the belief that a given religion is
“false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living
outside of conventional society under the direction of a
charismatic leader”. I have no doubt Moses and Christ were
considered cult leaders by those who opposed them.
The Bible tells us of the inherited flaws in man’s nature. From
Cain to Pharaoh and from Caesar to the present day, the folly of
giving men power over society to secure it or obtain the feeling of
security has been well documented - though often blurred by our
own pride and vanity.
When the voice of the people chose leaders to do what they
failed to do, despite the warnings of Samuel, they became
members of a cult. They were following a false, unorthodox, and
extremist, with members moving outside of conventional society
under the direction of a charismatic leader, Saul. A new
orthodoxy was born, what was false was now true, what was
extreme became acceptable.
The Kings of Israel exercised authority under certain
constitutional limitations, but drove a wedge in the hearts of the
republic under the direction of a charismatic leader. Augustus
Caesar was elected by an electoral college, strangling the republic.
George Washington enjoyed a similar popularity and became the
first President of the United States under the constitution, an
indirect federal democracy within the republic. To George III,
Washington was not only a rebel and traitor, but a cult leader.
The power these charismatic leaders received from the people
often corrupted them, consistently corrupted their office of
authority and eventually made a beast of the governments they led.
Central power always contributes to the sloth of the people.
This story repeats itself age upon age. Nothing can stop the

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unrepentant man from returning to the same state of subjection.
“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other
gods before me.” Ex 20:1-2.
We imagine that God is only concerned about our attention or
worship of dead stone idols, but it is the spirit of what they
represent. We see idolatry everywhere we place a man or idea
upon a pedestal of power. This is idolatry. The civic institutions
where men offer their own blood sacrifices, the flesh and freedom
of generations to come, and pray for the gratuitous grace of men
who are no gods, are the altars of the heathen.
The stone monuments of the past represent the authority and
jurisdiction of rulers. When the weak or the wicked elevate
princes, potentates, presidents, prime ministers and priests to rule
in ranks329 upon pedestals of power or pomp, they oppress330 the
virtue of mankind and betray God, Christ and the prophets.
“And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship
over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called
benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among
you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth
serve.” Luke 22:25331
The United States Constitution was designed according to
Roman precepts, not Christ’s. The good intentions of the men
involved in its creation does not relieve the error. What the people
have done since was predicted and warned by men and history.
“Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in
proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his
neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to
the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you
to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.” Jer 34:17
329 Exodus 20:26 “Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness
be not discovered thereon.”
330 Ex 22:21 “Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in
the land of Egypt...” Jas 2:6 “But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress
you, and draw you before the judgment seats?”
331 Mark 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man
desire to be first, [the same] shall be last of all, and servant of all.
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 The Culture of the Kingdom
Religion was the way society cared for its needy. Corban,
Qurban or Korban was the sacrifice by the people of society, for
the people of society who needed charitable assistance. It’s the
system that received the substance of their sacrifice on their
instituted civic altars. Then men who managed those altars were
called priests, minsters, living stones etc...
A society may have numerous ways in which they bind
themselves together. The nature of those bonds are fused in the
virtue or lack of virtue in their own hearts. Pure religion was
caring for the needy of their society without the power of the
State.332 The Pharisees tried an enforced form of social welfare
they had seen in Rome. It made the governing authorities more
powerful and weakened the people.
The Bible is a book about government. It is about governments
that make merchandise and subjects of men and about
governments that allow men to be free souls under God.
Cain started the first civil government recorded in the Bible.
Nimrod was a mighty provider instead of the LORD. Abraham
departed from the city states and set up an alternative system.
Pharaoh ruled over the people who sinned against their brother.
Moses led millions in a free government of the people.333
John the Baptist and Christ came preaching a kingdom of
charity. The Apostles chosen by Christ and ministers chosen by
the people were the government that blotted out the law of the
Pharisees334 that brought the people into bondage.335

332 See Constitutions Part IX, Religions and the World.

333 Numbers 1:16 “These [were] the renowned [call out] of the congregation, princes of
the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.”
334 Colossians 2:14 “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;”
335 Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay [them]
on men’s shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them with one of their
fingers.
Luke 11:46 “And he said, Woe unto you also, [ye] lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens
grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your
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 The Kingdom Annotated
Christ’s Kingdom was not a part of Rome 336 or its harsh
ways.337
The Kingdom of God is a form of government based on free
will, virtue, faith, liberty, 338 and love.339
The Kingdom of God requires its citizens 340 to tend to the
weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy and faith.341
In the Kingdom of God “the administration of civil affairs” 342
was according to the ways of Christ and Heaven.
The Kingdom of God is at hand343 and it was appointed.344

336 John 18:36 “Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were
of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the
Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”
337 Matthew 11:30 “For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.”
Luke 16:8 “And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for
the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.”
338 “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being
not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
Jas 1:25
339 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are]
bound;” Isa 61:1
“The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to
the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”
Lu 4:18
340 “For our conversation [politeuomai] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:” Philippians 3:20
“And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have
lived[politeuomai] in all good conscience before God until this day.” Ac. 23:1
341 Matthew 23:23 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of
mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
undone.” Isaiah 5:8; 5:20-25;10:1 ; 30:1; 31:1; Jeremiah 22:13; 23:1; Micah 2:1-3;
Habakkuk 2:9-17; Zephaniah 3:1; 11:17; Matthew 18:7; 23:13-23; Luke 6:24-26;
11:42-54; Jude 1:11.
342 politeuomai means 1) to be a citizen 2) to administer civil affairs, manage the state 3)
to make or create a citizen
343 Mt 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand.”
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 The Kingdom of God was not to be like the other nations 345
including Rome - and therefore also the United States.
Israel was a government and nation without a king.346
Samuel warned the people about returning to central ruling
power.347
Until John the Baptist the governments of the world followed
the way of force to maintain order.348
The kingdom had been from generation to generation.349
Jesus preached a kingdom that was at hand.350
He was hailed as a king.351
Did the acts of the king.352
Instructed men about a present kingdom.353
345 Lu 22:25 “And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over
them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall
not be so:”
Polity of the Church Article X - The prime directive of the Church
http://www.hisholychurch.net/study/polity/articlex.html
346 Jud 17:6 “In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which
was] right in his own eyes.”
347 1 Samuel 8:19 “Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and
they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; ”
348 Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
Luke 16:16 “The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of
God is preached, and every man presseth into it.” [biazo: to use force, to apply force]
349 Luke 1:50; Daniel 4:3; 4:34; 6:26 Exodus 17:16; Isaiah 34:17; Isaiah 51:8;
Lamentations 5:19; Joel 3:20;
350 Matthew 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
351 Mt 21:15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he
did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David;
they were sore displeased,
352 Mt 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and
bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of
them that sold doves,
John 2:15 “And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the
temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and
overthrew the tables;”
Mr 11:15 “And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast
out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the
moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; “
353 Matthew 3:2 “And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

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 Proclaimed king.354
Admitted that he was the king.355
Internationally accepted as king.356
He appointed that Kingdom as promised.357
Sent out His disciples as Ambassadors358 to that kingdom.
Told us to preach the kingdom.359
Whose ministers worked daily in the temple.360
Matt. 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.”
Matt. 10:7 “And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Mark 1:15 “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent
ye, and believe the gospel.”
Luke 21:31 “So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the
kingdom of God is nigh at hand.” Luke 9:27; Luke 9:60
Matthew 5:19 “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven.”
354 Mt 21:9 “And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying,
Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest.”
355 Joh 18:37 “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered,
Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into
the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth
heareth my voice.”
356 “Mt 2:2” Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star
in the east, and are come to worship him.” Mt. 27:11 [Mark 15:2;Luke 23:3;John
18:33 ]; 27:29; Mark 15:9-12-18; John 18:39
Joh 19:19 “And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS
OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.” John 19:21; Mt. 27:37; Mark
15:26;Luke 23:38
357 Lu 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
Matt. 21:43 “...The kingdom of God shall be taken from you...”
358 apostolos a delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders, Greek for ambassador
359 Luke 4:43 “And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities
also: for therefore am I sent.” Matthew 10:7
Luke 9:2 “And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.”
Luke 9:60 “Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the
kingdom of God.”
360 Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking
bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Matthew 26:55 “... I sat daily with you teaching in the temple...”
Mark 14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching,...”
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 The temple was a government building.361
Seek ye that Kingdom of God.362
Jesus was setting up a government Of the People, By the People
and For the People, just as Abraham and Moses had done.
It was a pure republic363 because the benefactors, ministers of
the Church, could not exercise authority one over the other. They
were to be servants of servants.
The power of state was retained in the estate of every family
and the government ministers were titular. They had no central
treasury but depended on a network of faith, hope and charity.
The ministers of that holy government could make no treaty for
the whole nation. They had no standing army nor cavalry but were
free souls under the God of heaven through Christ on Calvary.
Israel, with its Church in the wilderness, and the early Christian
community and Christ’s Church, His little flock, whom He
Luke 22:53 “When I was daily with you in the temple,...”
361 Mark 12:41 “And Jesus sat over against the treasury(gazophulakion), and beheld how
the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.” A
gazophulakion was a repository of treasure, especially of public treasure
Mark 12:43 “And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto
you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the
treasury(gazophulakion):”
Luke 21:1 “And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the
treasury(gazophulakion).”
John 8:20 “These words spake Jesus in the treasury(gazophulakion), as he taught in the
temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.”
362 Matt. 3:2; 4:17; 5:3; 5:10; 5:19-20; 6:33; 7:21; 8:11; 11:11-12; 12:28; 13:11-52;
16:19; 18:1-4; 18:23; 19:12-14; 19:23-24; 20:1; 21:43; 22:2; 23:13; 25:1; 25:14;
Mark 1:14-15; Mark 4:11; 4:26-30; 9:1; 9:47; Mark 10:14-15; 10:23-25; 11:10;
12:34; 14:25; 15:43; Luke 4:43; 6:20; 7:28; 8:1-10; 9:2-11; 9:27; 9:60-62; John 3:3-
5; Acts 1:3; 8:12; 14:22; 19:8; 20:25; 28:23-31; Ro. 14:17; 1 Corinthians 4:20; 6:9-
10; 15:50; Galatians 5:21; Eph. 5:5; Colos. 1:13; 4:11; 2 Thes. 1:5; 2 Peter 1:11.
Dan. 6:26; Luke 22:30; John 18:36; King of the Jews: Matt. 2:2; 27:11; 27:29; 27:37;
Mark 15:2; 15:9-12; 15:18; 15:26; Luke 23:3; 23:38; John 18:33; 18:39; 19:19-19:21
363 “Some scholars regard the ancient confederation of Hebrew tribes that endured in
Palestine from the 15th century BC until a monarchy was established about 1020 BC
as an embryonic republic. That would make the ancient Israelite commonwealth the
earliest republic in history...” “Republic”, Microsoft ® Encarta. © 1994 Ms. Corp.
and F & W Corp.
In Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he praised “the union and discipline
of the Christian republic.” He also pointed out that “it gradually formed an
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appointed “a kingdom”, served one another in the Kingdom of
God from generation to generation.
Matthew called it the “Kingdom of Heaven”.364 The people who
sought to be a part of that form of government lived by faith, hope
and charity. Many of them became free from things public, living
under the perfect law of liberty. 365 As the world decayed under its
own corruption the table of the Lord sustained the faithful who
increasingly came to the fullness of that liberty in Christ.
Israel had been kicked out of Egypt and Christian who received
the Baptism of Christ were kicked out of the bondage of the
Pharisees that made the word of God to none effect.366
Christians made no agreements with other men or governments
that might keep them from obeying the commandments of God. 367
364 Matthew wrote in Aramaic. Heaven is translated from ouranos. Like most words the
Greek word ouranos can have several senses and meanings, “...indeed we have no
suitable word to express what the Greeks at first called an ouranos. It will be
convenient to use the term “world” for it; but then we must remember that it does not
refer solely, or even chiefly, to the earth, though it includes that along with the
heavenly bodies.” PLATO’S DIALOGUES, Early Greek Philosophy, Introduction ,
John Burnet.
The land owned with a true and actual title by an individual was his realm, his kingdom.
In the Aramaic, the word malkuthach is translated into kingdom of heaven. It actually
means a realm on the earth.
The word Ouranos which is used in the translation of the kingdom of Heaven actually
means the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things with in it. The heavens
surrounded the earth and contained it. The word Ouranos can include the atmosphere
and the earth all the way to its center.
Ouranos, comes from a root that means “to cover, encompass.” The meaning of ouranos
includes “the upper regions, the vaulted expanse of the sky.“ It includes the outer
edge of our sky and everything contained therein all the way to the center of the
earth. The phrase kingdom of heaven means the Kingdom of the world, the actual
Kingdom of the earth or the Kingdom covering the entire planet.
365 1 Corinthians 7:21 Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou
mayest be made free, use [it] rather.
366 John 9:22 “These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the
Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be
put out of the synagogue.” John 16:2 “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea,
the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.”
367 Acts 5:29 “Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey
God rather than men.”
Matthew 19:17 “And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but
one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Mark 7:9 “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye

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It was a government where the people needed to learn to govern
themselves, where they were to come together in virtue being as
concerned about their neighbor’s rights, as much as they were
concerned about their own.368
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you.” Mt 6:33
May we all seek the kingdom and its righteousness, may we
receive it in our hearts and minds and may we manifest that
kingdom in our words and deeds, using our heads and our hands to
do the will of our Father in Heaven on earth from this day forward
unto the end of time.
“And the second [is] like, [namely] this, ‘Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.’ There is none other commandment greater
than these.” Mr 12:31
This Kingdom was a government where there was no earthly
Father or Patronus demanding your obedience other than your own
natural Father and your Father in Heaven. Family came first.
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” Exodus 20:12
If a government is truly a benefit to the people the leaders must
truly love the people more than they love themselves. Everything
they would do would strengthen the family. There could be no
replacement or usurpation of the responsibilities or the rights of
the family.
No natural choice would be compelled, no gratuity could be
granted or would be received accept in charity. Such systems of
liberty would require the diligent practice of virtue on every level
of society.
“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose; the right to create
for yourself the alternative of choice. Without the responsibility and
exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument,
may keep your own tradition.”
John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
John 15:10 “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have
kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”
368 1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as
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 a thing.”369
Every “right to choose” in the hand of the government is
evidence of the diminishing rights of man and an abdication of
rights granted by God to those who are no gods. Throughout
history there are stories of good men gone bad under the
temptation of power and authority granted by people who reject
God, elect leaders who can exercise authority and are corrupted,
both leader and people.
Leviticus 19:18 “ ... thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am]
the LORD.” See also, Zechariah 8:17. And James 2:8, “If ye fulfil
the royal [kings] law according to the scripture, ‘Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself, ye do well:’”
This was wise political advice from a Prince to His people. It
was also a warning to free people everywhere concerning the
mystery of God’s kingdom and how to remain a free nation.
“For this, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not
covet’; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly
comprehended in this saying, namely, ‘Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself’.” Ro 13:9
Peter, an Ambassador of Jesus The Christ, told us that many
would follow their perniciousness and speak evil.370 He warned
that people will be deceived by vain words, and because of their
covetous hearts would become members, merchandise, things.371
The people would deny the power and right of the Kingdom
appointed by Christ and sealed in His blood upon the cross and
make covenants with those who do not believe in love and charity,
faith or hope and go whoring after their gods.
He explained that though we had escaped the sins of these
systems of bondage because of our rejection of God that we would

369 Archibald Macleish (1882-1982) Assistant Secretary of State

370 2 Peter 2:2 “And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
371 2 Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their
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again be entangled again and it would be worse than before.372
We must first accept our own part before we point any finger,
but there can be no doubt the Church has failed to preach the
kingdom. The precepts of God and the ways of Christ have been
neglected for an easy and faltering salvation.
The people have worked iniquity373 under the license of the
church that preaches a damnable heresy. 374 Peter made it clear that
it was the duty of the Ministers of Christ to maintain an entrance to
the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.375
From Abraham to Moses to Jesus the people have been
entangled in the rudiments and elements of the world and the
prophets came to set the captives free so that they could live under
God the Father. This was the Gospel of the Kingdom.
“And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts...” Ps 119:45
God wants men to be free souls under Him and not under any
other authority. Nor does he want us to give power to men that will
corrupt them and us.
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
Galatians 5:1

372 2 Peter 2:20-22 “For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein,
and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have
known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is
happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own
vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”Galatians
4:3-9; Colossians 2:8-20; 2 Peter 3:10-12.
373 Matthew 7:23 “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity.” Luke 13:27; Psalms 6:8; Proverbs 16:6
374 2 Peter 2:1 “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall
be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even
denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
375 2 Peter 1:11 “For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
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 We are to repent.376
It is the spirit, nature, and righteousness of His kingdom that
leads us, guides us and grants us that freedom endowed by our
Father. Nothing less than the virtue, life and blood of Christ will
save us in this world or the next.
The Kingdom does not come through observation but in our
loving and striving to return to and do the will of our Father.
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness...”
Matthew 6:33 [Luke 12:31]
Seeking the Kingdom is to seek to love one another, care for
one another, provide for one another. If Christ is to be with us in
our midst, we must gather in His name and according to His
character of love and forgiveness, charity and sacrifice. If we love
Christ then we will not covet each others goods, labor, life for our
own benefit or security, but will take delight in His thanksgiving.
There is a way for societies to live together without force and
those who believe should and must come together and begin to set
the table of the LORD and seek His Kingdom first.
The end of lies, is the beginning of prayer.
“From the Cowardice that shrinks from new truth,
From the Laziness that is content with half-truths,
From the Arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Oh, God of Truth, deliver us.”
An ancient Hebrew prayer
FINIS.

376 Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand.
Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent
ye, and believe the gospel.
Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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 Alphabetical Index
AFFIRM................................72 corporation............................97
affirmation.............................72 Corporation Sole...................96
allegiance....................120, 123 corvee....................................40
Allegiance...........................105 covenant................................42
allodial..................................76 covet......................................28
ambuscade...............................7 Creed.....................................28
Anabaptists............................72 cry out...................................44
Anti-Federalist........................8 decemviri................................6
Apotheosis.............................68 Declaration............................21
assent...................................123 democracy...........................131
asylum.................................116 EIN........................................85
Balaam..................................63 Elohiym.................................67
Benefactor...........................132 Emperator..............................66
benefit..........................112, 123 employ..................................84
bureaucracy.........................103 Equitable title........................80
caldron..................................85 Essene...................................71
canon law..............................20 Ethan Allen...........................80
capitalism..............................50 FEALTY...............................78
Capitol Dome .......................68 Federal Reserve.....................84
cauldron................................83 Federalism.............................25
Charter................................102 Federalist.........................8, 108
churches..............................117 fee-simple................................4
citizenship...................115, 120 feed......................................125
Citizenship..........................120 Fidelity..........................78, 111
civil law...........................20, 47 foreign law............................20
Civil Law’...........................103 freedom...............................142
Civil rights..........................121 Freeman.............................5, 76
Civitas.................................114 George III......................25, 103
colonies.................................98 gods.......................................67
colonists................................48 Gordian Knot.........................52
common law..........................20 homage..................................66
consent..................................87 Irenaeus.................................71
constitution....................32, 131 John Marshall......................130
Constitution.....................3, 130 Judiciary Act of 1789..........119
Constructive..........................82 Jury.......................................77
contract..................................20 Justice....................................56
conversion.............................82 Justin Martyr.........................71
Corban.................................135 king.......................................37
Korban................................135 Republic......................103, 110
kosmos................................124 Republican Form.................109
Lansing vs Smith.....................5 res publica.............................28
law merchant.........................20 Resident...............................120
league..............................35, 42 resident alien.......................121
Legal title..............................80 responsibility.........................46
levy.......................................39 Rhode Island.........................21
Liber homo............................77 Right....................................114
Liberty...................................46 sacred cow...............................1
Mammon...............................87 Sales tax................................64
martial law............................20 selfish....................................49
membership.........................123 social contract.....................113
Mennonite.............................72 Socialism...............................50
municipal law........................20 SSN.......................................85
National states.............118, 120 Statute of Praemunire..........124
Nicolaitans............................63 stranger..................................37
Norman conquest..................16 supreme power......................23
oath..................................71, 73 Swear....................................71
Oath.......................................73 SWEAR................................72
offer.......................................38 Taxpayer...............................85
Parens Patriae .....................107 The Enterprise of Law...........13
party........................................3 theos......................................67
Patrick Henry..................7, 129 tithe.......................................65
Patronus................................60 trap........................................83
perjury...................................69 tributary.................................39
person..................................121 trust.......................................84
pirates..................................112 United States of America. .118,
Plato’s Republic..................111 120
Political...............................114 US vs. Minker.......................26
Princeps.................................66 venality................................131
protection..............................26 virtue.....................................15
purpose..................................48 Washington...........................23
Qurban................................135 We the People.....................3, 9
Raca......................................71 wives.....................................41
ratify......................................19 Woe.....................................136
Redemption...........................96 Zondervan.............................96
republic..........................55, 117
 About the Author
Brother Gregory was born in
America in 1948. His father was a
practicing attorney, and his
mother the daughter of Norwegian
immigrants.
During the 60’s he attended
seminary where he studied Latin,
Greek, and theology. In the course
of his studies he began to
understand the forgotten truth of
the Gospel of the Kingdom of God at hand.
That quest for truth has given him an iconoclastic
perception of law, history, language, and our modern
opinion of ancient prophets. In tearing down the altars of
fallacies and falsehoods of a fatuous faith, the fullness of the
Gospels of the Kingdom is uncovered in an examination of
rituals, rites, and religions.
Gregory is the author of several books, dozens of
pamphlets, audio and video recordings. He has appeared on
radio and television preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of
God at hand, and the perfect law of liberty within our reach.
His controversial books include The Covenants of the gods,
Thy Kingdom Comes, The Free Church Report, and The
Higher Liberty which gives a new perspective on the gods
many of the “world”.
Married in 1973, he is the Father of six children with a
growing number of grandchildren. He can be contacted
through His Church at Summer Lake, Oregon, where he
continues to care for his family, overseeing the formation
and edification of The Living Network of the Church
established by Christ in the hearts and minds of those who
will preach that the Kingdom of God and His righteousness
is at hand for those who will seek it.
 About this Book
Contract, Covenants, and Constitutions is a look at
man’s relationship with God, gods, and governments.
How popular was the constitution with the people or
were the people even a party to it? Did the constitution
create a republic or grant unalienable rights?
Was the Constitution of the United States divinely
inspired by God? What must the people do to retain their
rights and what must they avoid to lose access to those
rights?
Is America a free nation? Have the people been wise or
wicked, are they free or snared?
Is there hope for Americans? Is there a solution we never
suspected?
There is no question left unanswered and no subject
concerning the rights and follies of mankind that are exempt
in this iconoclastic examination of the social compacts that
bind men together as nations and governments. Where
rights come from for individuals and governments, how
these institutions are created, evolve and become monsters
and how men may remains free souls under God with no
other gods before Him.
Contract, Covenants, and Constitutions shares an eye-
opening perspective of the mandate by God of what should
be in or excluded from constitutions. With an unorthodox
view backed by the historical record, legal precepts, and
biblical exegesis a unique path toward freedom under God
is revealed from the beginning of man’s history. This book
may offer aid and insight for any individual or group who
are willing to seek the righteousness of God in His liberty,
law, justice and mercy in the world but not of it.
 Publications Available:
The Covenants of the gods
The Covenants of the gods iconoclastic expose
unveiling a unique apology of the prophets and their
purpose. It examines the contractual nature of the
governments of men through a progression of legal
precepts in their context of history, language, and law
within their relationship to the ancient Biblical texts.
Cecil B. DeMille asked in the movie “The Ten
Commandments, “Are men the property of the state? Or are they free
souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world.”
The vanity inclines man to blame others for his undesirable state, “but
the slothful shall be under tribute.” If you want to be set free then you
must want to know the whole truth and then, “Thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor with their gods.” Exodus 23:32
Thy Kingdom Comes
Thy Kingdom Comes is an examination of the
dominion of God from generation to generation,
Abraham through the early Church. It cleans a
window of history to reveal what Abraham, early
Israel and the early Christians were really doing and
how they began to go wrong.
Abraham, Moses, and Jesus promoted a system
of self government that set men free and kept them
free souls under God despite the plagues of Egypt, hardships in the
wilderness, the apostasy of the Pharisees, and the decline and fall of the
Roman Empire. The precepts of that faith, the spiritual self discipline of
the heart and mind of Christ guiding the people in the will of the Father
has protected and sustain faithful societies in freedom for those who truly
seeks the dominion of God and His righteousness. “Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven.” Mt 6:10

The Higher Liberty

The Higher Liberty is an iconoclastic examination of
Romans 13 and other specious teachings which are an
indicts the modern Church revealing a fuller gospel of
the Kingdom for this world and the next. The consistent
warnings of the prophets and the purpose of the Church
appointed by Christ as one form of government shines
new light on modern apostasy. The simple truth of how
God made you to be free souls, serving Him in Spirit and in Truth with a
comparison to those who do contrary to the ways of God and make His
word to none effect to bring you back into a bondage to the gods many of
the world through damnable heresies. Arm yourselves with His truth that
will set you free.

Contracts, Covenants and Constitutions

Contracts, Covenants, and Constitutions reveals the
contrasting nature of a free government and those
established by contract. It brings the original Constitution
of the United States into historical contexts and the
change in the modern American government into a unique
perspective. It also takes a detailed look at the prohibition
in the Bible concerning government by contract; the
Biblically delegated elements for constitutions; and the debt and bondage
that always results from the failure to adhere to Godly precepts.

The Free Church Report

The Free Church Report presents a unique path for
the modern Church according the nature of the first
century Church by explaining the duty and purposes
of that institution appointed by Christ. While Rome
declined under runaway inflation, corrupt government,
martial law, and endless threat of war the Christians
found an alternative to the men who “called
themselves benefactors but exercised authority one
over the other”.
The early Christian knew rights and responsibilities were indivisible.
They sought the right to be ruled by God, professing another king, one
Jesus by taking back their responsibility to govern themselves, through
the service of “called out” ministers who lived in the world, but not of
it.
Their rights were granted by God. Their government benefits came
through a divine network instituted in their hearts and minds by faith,
hope, and charity under the perfect law of liberty as their Qorban and the
unrighteous mammon failed the Roman society.