The Constitutional Republic of America (renamed to avoid confusion) is a peaceful and legal attempt to rediscover, reclaim, and revive the free country which America was before its founding libertarian principles were forgotten and sacrificed on the altar of political expediency and power. The CRA is the legitimate America as it was intended to be before it got "covered up" by the government which calls itself the UNITED STATES and pretends to be America while it has abandoned America's principles and Constitution and has illegally taken over the country. The CRA will be a member nation of the Association of Free Countries. By the way,
We are not terrorists, we are not some racist radical fringe wackos, we do not advocate the illegal violent overthrow or subversion of existing legitimate free governments. Even if you concede that there are probably very few or no truly free countries left today, we do not promote violent overthrow of even the non-free countries. As much as possible, we prefer to make arrangements with them (e.g. by treaty) so that those of their people that really want and are truly ready for freedom can have it and be left alone by those governments.
Even more than for the United Republic of Texas, for America we need lots of historical research done to identify the key points at which the government made major wrong turns, to put it nicely. Then, we can determine at which point(s) the US government became illegitimate and no longer the America that the Founders fought and died for. As with the URT, we can select the most appropriate point(s) at which to revive the correct form of the original American government and go from there. It may even be appropriate to do this at multiple points, reviving different historical American governments at their appropriate possibly legitimate stages, depending on different assumptions or approaches, and possibly also creating a secessionist government based on the present day, and then having each of these governments move in a common direction or to a common form, then recognize each other and merge, as we did for the URT.
First, it's even questionable whether the Constitution was legally adopted to replace the Articles of Confederation, since the Articles did provide a method for amending them but this method was not followed. Apparently, the Constitution was adopted and the Articles were simply ignored from then on. As far as we know, no official action under the Articles was taken to amend or deactivate the Articles or to terminate the Union created thereby. The original 13 States did not officially rescind their approval of the Articles and they did not remove their membership from or otherwise dismantle the American government created by the Articles, they simply adopted the Constitution as well. But the Articles provided that the Union they created was to be perpetual. Therefore, it could be argued that legally, the American government created by the Articles still exists but has simply been covered over by the American government created by the Constitution. But technically, since both were adopted, then both should apply. This could be tricky to apply but it would certainly be interesting to try. The Articles were adopted by the original 13 States. It could be argued whether it was the States or the people, or the individual signers at the Constitutional Convention, or the Convention itself as an implicit organization, or some combination of these, that adopted the Constitution.
Thus, if as postulated above, both the Articles and the Constitution are legally in force, all of the restrictions on government found in either document (explicitly or implicitly) should apply, and only the privileges and powers explicitly and specifically granted to government by both documents should apply, and all of the rights of the individual preserved by either document (explicitly or implicitly) should apply, and only the restrictions on the individual imposed explicitly by both documents should apply (and each such restriction applies only to each individual which consented specifically and explicitly to such restriction). Since the Articles were only adopted by the original 13 States, and no new States or territories were added thereunder, the Articles apply only to those 13 States. Since other States and territories were added via the Constitution (and some even unconstitutionally), and were not properly added under the provisions of the Articles, which are still in effect, they are not legally subject to US rule. And even in the original 13 States, any government privileges or powers granted by the Constitution but not also explicitly granted by the Articles (or vice versa) are null and void. This means that the US government, as it's currently set up and run, is illegal, and therefore null and void.
By reviving the original American government under the Articles of Confederation, we would probably avoid most or all of the problems with the Constitution, and we could simply follow the procedures in the Articles for amending the Articles and then eventually convert them into a more suitable new Constitution (only legally this time). It might be difficult and require reviving in some sense the original governments of each of the initial 13 States, or at least 9 of them or some other appropriate number, depending on the relevant provisions of the Articles. Research may be needed to determine how much each State will have to be organized and how, or whether we could simply have one citizen of each State to represent that State. It may be possible to have one citizen from each current de facto State (of the original 13) recognize the Articles and agree to be a citizen in that context (however we determine is the most appropriate method) and then certify that he represents the original State, whose other citizens have all died out and whose government has been abandoned, and that he on behalf of the original State authorizes the actions we'll need to revive the CRA. Among these actions, it might be prudent to add the URT as a member, since of all the AFC member nations, the URT is furthest along the process of liberation and could thus lead the way. That's why one proposed flag is a hybrid between the USA and URT flags (but for now, we prefer the 13 colonies flag with the circle of 13 stars). The States could then agree to consider the unorganized original 13 States to effectively be just territories until each State can properly be reorganized and revived as appropriate. The rest of the area occupied by the US could also be annexed (affecting only those people willing, of course) and included as our territory, to be organized into States as above. We might also want to call them something besides States, such as Republics, although it's possible that some of them might choose to organize as something other than a republic, for example if the legitimate government of the currently occupied Kingdom of Hawaii is revived and decides to join us.
Aside from whether the Articles should still be in force or whether the Constitution was legally adopted, there's a more obvious problem, even if one assumes that the Constitution is in effect and the Articles are not. Over the years, the Constitution has been amended, misinterpreted, twisted, circumvented, and then ignored, yielding to the inevitable tendency of governments to grow at the expense of the people and their rights. This process began long before it finally caused the War of Northern Aggression, but the War solidified the Federal government's power and accelerated the process. Certainly by the time of the War, but very likely even sooner, there had been so many key points in American history at which Congress passed laws, Presidents signed them, the Supreme Court made decisions, Constitutional Amendments were made, etc. which violated the Constitution or at least the principles that America was founded upon. These key points need to be researched and indentified, although several are already apparent. Each such unconstitutional action was illegal and immediately null and void. Each President or member of Congress or the Court that supported or otherwise participated or acquiesced in these unconstitutional actions violated his oath of office to obey the Constitution, and thereby immediately forfeited his office and authority. Each such person then presuming to continue performing his previous government function under such authority became an imposter and thus a criminal. Even if these people cannot all be identified and prosecuted, none of their subsequent actions can be counted as legitimate, even those which otherwise would have been constitutional and valid, because they would no longer have legitimately been in office. Eventually enough of them lost their offices (and were not replaced) that very likely at some point the House, Senate, and Supreme Court each no longer had a quorum, and the Presidency also became vacant.
At any rate, this surely happened with the illegal actions of Lincoln and others to ignore the 10th Amendment and create a strong national government more powerful than the States and able to rule over the States and the people far beyond the limited Federal authority intended by the Constitution and the Founders. When Federal troops invaded the Maryland legislature and at gunpoint prevented them from voting to secede, and when the US government effectively substituted their own cronies for the Senators and Representatives from the seceding States, these actions comprised an illegal and unconstitutional coup, a takeover of what little was left of the original, legitimate American government. The number of positions stolen this way, when added to the number of positions already lost due to unconstitutional actions before the War, very likely caused most if not all of Congress and the Supreme Court to be subverted, joining President Lincoln in the illegal conspiracy. All acts of Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court from that point on (if not sooner) were illegal and therefore immediately null and void, because by then, the government calling itself the UNITED STATES was no longer the original America that the Founders fought and died for; it was a rogue government which had taken over and occupied the legitimate America, initially by attrition and trickery, and finally by force, and then maintained by fraud. Under the domination of this illegitimate government, the corruption spread to the States and local governments, because government automatically tends to exceed its authorized powers unless it is constantly restrained.
As a result of all this, the US government has been operating America illegally for probably 150 years or more, and is legally null and void. While all of these issues raised above should be fully investigated, we do not have the resources to do so, nor to mount the appropriate legal challenges (such as civil and criminal action under RICO, breach of contract, etc. against the entire US government and all state and local governments combined), and of course the illegal de facto government would not seriously consider them anyway. That's why we have to re-create the original America created by the Founders and operate it as a virtual country for our own members only, until we have enough people and political clout to negotiate a suitable treaty with the US and get them to actually honor it and basically leave us alone, just as the URT plans to do.
To revive each different possible legitimate American government from its appropriate historical context, we would most likely go through similar steps as described in the approach above described under the Articles of Confederation context. We would also most likely use the court system of the Common Law Institute as needed until we can organize our own. What we need now is a volunteer from each of the original 13 States. Please take the World's Smallest Political Quiz and this other quiz and email your scores and indicate which State you live in (and whether you live in the URT area if you know). Thanks.
We have received enough volunteers from the original 13 Colonies to hold our first convention to reorganize and revive the original legitimate American republic. The convention chose to restore it at 3 different points - right after the Constitution and Bill of Rights, right after the Articles of Confederation, and right after the Declaration of Independence. This way, we're guaranteed at least 1 valid restarting point, probably at least 2, and possibly all 3, and certainly we've picked the cleanest and most recognizable 3 points. We selected a committee to draft appropriate documents to supplement the original founding documents of each of these 3 governments. These new documents will remove any doubts or ambiguities about the intent of the founding documents and the principles that America was founded upon, and will govern their proper interpretation accordingly. A summary document will then describe how each of these 3 legitimate versions of the original American government can be merged while preserving their best features and eliminating the problems. A future convention will then review and approve these documents (and any changes needed) and then will put the resulting combined government into effect (which may require more committees and one more convention at most). Then we will have legally restored the original legitimate government of America under its founding principles but also with the knowledge of how it went wrong and how to prevent that.
Then more people will be able to join and become true American citizens if they wish. When we have enough popular support, we should be able to negotiate a treaty by which the de facto usurper government calling itself the USA will just leave us alone. And when it collapses, as history suggests that it will, then we hope to be ready to provide a seamless transition to help maintain order and restore continuity and peace and freedom once again. Meanwhile, this restored America is somewhat functional in an interim mode, so highly qualified new citizens could possibly join without waiting for the entire convention process to finish.
An important feature is that, building upon the virtual country approach used by the URT, we will treat citizenship in the CRA as separate from citizenship in its member States (Republics), so that a person could join either one, or both, or neither. Although America was primarily intended as a very loose confederation of independent Republics, some people might want to become citizens of the CRA itself, especially those living in unorganized territories while waiting for their respective State/Republic to be revived.
(to be continued...)
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