THE FORGOTTEN CONNECTION
If I were to ask, just about anyone, to tell me what is the basis of our Laws and government, there would not be many who would not, immediately, answer "the Constitution" (except, maybe, in Commiefornia). In giving me this answer, they would only be partially correct. In thinking that the Constitution is the sole basis of our laws and government we are taking the Constitution out of the flow of history that created it and, in doing so, isolating it from the principles, people, ideas, events and previous documents that brought it into being.
In trying to make the Constitution a "stand alone" document, we remove its history. If I were to have the ability to remove your personal history - that is, wipe your memory and any other evidence of your existence before today, what would be left? You got it, nothing but a blank mind, with no memory, purpose, ideas or future. I could then mold you into anything that I desired - servant, slave, you name it. As we will see, this is exactly what many have been striving to do to the constitution and to us, as a nation with the revisionist idea of a "living Constitution" they could "interpret" as they wished!
While the earliest ideas and principles, from which came our form of law and government, originated over 1500 years prior to American independence, the final "genesis" of our Constitution really begins with the Magna Carta(*), in 1215, and reaches its completion in two documents - The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution for the United States of America.
Neither of these two documents "stand alone". Rather, one is a declaration of principles and the other is the implementation of those principles. One way to look at this interdependence would be to use the analogy of a "corporation". When a corporation is created it is founded on two documents:
1. The Articles of Incorporation(*) which, generally, contain information such as the name,
basic purpose, incorporators and any special characteristics of the corporation.
2. The Bylaws(*) of the corporation are the rules that govern the internal functions of the
corporation - in accordance with the principles stated in the Articles of the corporation!
While you generally want to be careful using analogies, in this particular case, the comparison of Articles of Incorporation with the Declaration of Independence and of Bylaws and the Constitution is exceedingly good. All you need to do, to see that the Declaration of Independence is exactly a statement of name, basic purpose, incorporators and characteristics, is to read the words contained in it, (complete text here) such as:
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, ...they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident...:"
"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress
assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do,
in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish
and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and independent
States;..." (emphasis added)
Not only the writings and statements of our Founders support the connection between the Declaration and the Constitution. The constitution itself is clearly the rules that govern the internal functions of our nation. The constitution even contains direct linking back to the principles of the Declaration of Independence in the 10th Amendment (emphasis added):
"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."
Furthermore, many documents, of that time, date themselves from the Declaration of Independence. In fact, the Constitution acknowledges its relationship to the Declaration in just such a manner:
"Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of
September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the
Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth."
Even the Supreme Court (before it started abandoning the concept of Original Meaning) stated, in an 1897 decision:
"[the] Constitution is the body and letter of which the Declaration of Independence is the
thought and the spirit, and it is always safe to read the letter of the Constitution in the spirit of
the Declaration of Independence."
"Before the formation of this Constitution...this Declaration of Independence was received and
ratified by all the States in the Union and has NEVER been disannulled." (Samuel Adams)
By now, it should be clear to you why enemies, within government and from without, are trying so hard to declare the Declaration of Independence NOT a "legal document" (so-called "justice" Eleana Kagan is one of the worst examples of this) and why we must battle this treasonous revisionism.
In trying to make the Constitution a "stand alone" document, we remove its history. If I were to have the ability to remove your personal history - that is, wipe your memory and any other evidence of your existence before today, what would be left? You got it, nothing but a blank mind, with no memory, purpose, ideas or future. I could then mold you into anything that I desired - servant, slave, you name it. As we will see, this is exactly what many have been striving to do to the constitution and to us, as a nation with the revisionist idea of a "living Constitution" they could "interpret" as they wished!
While the earliest ideas and principles, from which came our form of law and government, originated over 1500 years prior to American independence, the final "genesis" of our Constitution really begins with the Magna Carta(*), in 1215, and reaches its completion in two documents - The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution for the United States of America.
Neither of these two documents "stand alone". Rather, one is a declaration of principles and the other is the implementation of those principles. One way to look at this interdependence would be to use the analogy of a "corporation". When a corporation is created it is founded on two documents:
1. The Articles of Incorporation(*) which, generally, contain information such as the name,
basic purpose, incorporators and any special characteristics of the corporation.
2. The Bylaws(*) of the corporation are the rules that govern the internal functions of the
corporation - in accordance with the principles stated in the Articles of the corporation!
While you generally want to be careful using analogies, in this particular case, the comparison of Articles of Incorporation with the Declaration of Independence and of Bylaws and the Constitution is exceedingly good. All you need to do, to see that the Declaration of Independence is exactly a statement of name, basic purpose, incorporators and characteristics, is to read the words contained in it, (complete text here) such as:
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, ...they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident...:"
"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress
assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do,
in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish
and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and independent
States;..." (emphasis added)
Not only the writings and statements of our Founders support the connection between the Declaration and the Constitution. The constitution itself is clearly the rules that govern the internal functions of our nation. The constitution even contains direct linking back to the principles of the Declaration of Independence in the 10th Amendment (emphasis added):
"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."
Furthermore, many documents, of that time, date themselves from the Declaration of Independence. In fact, the Constitution acknowledges its relationship to the Declaration in just such a manner:
"Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of
September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the
Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth."
Even the Supreme Court (before it started abandoning the concept of Original Meaning) stated, in an 1897 decision:
"[the] Constitution is the body and letter of which the Declaration of Independence is the
thought and the spirit, and it is always safe to read the letter of the Constitution in the spirit of
the Declaration of Independence."
"Before the formation of this Constitution...this Declaration of Independence was received and
ratified by all the States in the Union and has NEVER been disannulled." (Samuel Adams)
By now, it should be clear to you why enemies, within government and from without, are trying so hard to declare the Declaration of Independence NOT a "legal document" (so-called "justice" Eleana Kagan is one of the worst examples of this) and why we must battle this treasonous revisionism.
NEVER FORGET !
