Constitution 101 | The Basics of our Basic Charter

Including an Introduction to the Duality of the Constitution

America is still startup phase. May sound counter-intuitive because our Constitution was ordained and established way longer than four score and seven years ago. Yet, in 2023, we are still left¹ of the chasm.

After interviewing and speaking with many people, law enforcement officers, candidates for office, and others, I was surprised² to find that the supermajority cannot properly answer two simple questions:

1. What is the Constitution?

2. What is the purpose of the United States of America?

How is this possible?

Substack says this article is a 17 minute read, and random People on the street who sorta know there’s this thing called a constitution or bill of rights or whatever pick it up in a shorter amount of time.

In late 2020, I started intense study³ of the Constitution. In mid-2021, I started teaching it. For 1.5 years, I taught the Constitution incorrectly, with the wrong ideas using anti-American principles, and I had no idea I was doing it. I wrote an apology and explanation⁴ to all those who had attended one of my classes, calling myself “unconscious controlled opposition” and a lot of people got mad. I felt the need to do it because it seemed like many people just took my word for what I was teaching, because I must have known what I was talking about since I was teaching.⁵ I simply taught based on the instruction I received. Same perspective. Same mindset.

Information Warfare is heavy in this realm as well. Extremely heavy. Just saying “I love the Constitution” is now enough to get a room full of people to clap and cheer. With what we have going on at present, I’m really truly not at all surprised that we are left of the chasm.⁶

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This article, now in it’s fifth major rewrite, is made possible by 3+ years of intense multidirectional study, lots of mistakes, unconsciously being controlled opposition working to build the tyranny I thought I was standing against, high school health class, and many, many amazing people who have aggregated and made consumable in a short period of time an incredible wealth of information, research, perspectives, history, and other data types on this topic. I have not created something out of nothing here. I simply formed a new shape from the existing terrain.

This article is my gift to you. It will never be put behind a paywall. My goal is to start this conversation amongst many people so that the number of people required to cross the chasm can be activated before it’s too late. I don’t believe it will ever be too late; the result of not crossing the chasm would simply be business as usual, with the old guard, or its mindset, running the show. It all depends on what kind of work we want to put in to build the world we want.

To make it easy to share, the URL HookedOnCivics.info links to this page. When I bought it, ‘.com’ was not available, but looking at it now it’s actually more suitable because of the information war we are in. One side is intent on turning the war to being massively kinetic. Our founders fought a long spiritual [at least ten years] followed by an eight year kinetic war when negotiations failed.

I want to keep it spiritual. Of course, be ready for the kinetic.⁷

The URL HookedOnCivics.info used to forward to a collection of the best resources I found during my education. I stopped updating it a while back, and at this point I should probably remove some things and add many others, but I don’t really need to because this article takes care of that.

The benefit you get from this short article is a distillation of thousands of hours of information, disinformation, and misinformation on the Constitution.

Enjoy!

That being said, don’t take my word for anything you’re about to read here.

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Our Constitution is very easy to understand. You need to know how to read and think about what you read. The benefit [not to us] of of making the Constitution complicated is keeping us left of the chasm.

To the right of the chasm is special occasions in low Earth orbit.

It is also a unifier. In the course of making a documentary on the purpose of Government, I’ve found that nearly everyone likes what our Constitution prescribes, and see that it operates ultimately directly on “We the People.” For us and by us. Of course, there are differing thoughts on the methods, and that’s what we fight about, but the principles are agreed upon.

Our Constitution

Put as simply as I can, our Constitution is a sacred Charter organizing a Trust that provides (1) a well established lawful remedy for the people to be their own rulers a/k/a self-government and (2) a definition of Government.

Legal Remedy for Self-Rule

At the time of the Declaration of Independence, all governments around the world were legally recognized as kingdoms, monarchies, empires— where one guy or a selected few ruled, all according to established law.

When the ruler(s) died, someone inherited ruler status. Could be the ruler’s son if it was a peaceful transition, or an enemy king if it was bloody. As a subject, you’d find yourself saying things like, “Alas, my king, my master, my lord hath returned to dust, I belong to his heir now, because the king so decreed.”

Why did the King rule?

The King ruled because he had the Divine Right to Rule.⁸ If you disagreed, you may challenge the Divide Word of his Excellency in his court. You had no right to your own court, again because the King said so.⁹

The legal remedy which is our Constitution is available because a group of people committed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to what they wrote on several sets of parchments over many years that put forth an explicit purpose of Government, and fought a bloody kinetic battle to make it legally recognized— The business enterprises chartered by King and his administration¹⁰ became sovereign, self-governing, independent states.

And at that time, that meant it was the only legally recognized government that was not an empire. BIG DEAL!

“At the Revolution, the Sovereignty devolved on the People.” —Chisholm v. Georgia

An even bigger deal was the purpose our Constitution created for that government. An 1862 editorial in the Times of London reads:

“If this mischievous financial policy [created in our Constitution], which has its’ origins in North America, shall be endured down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debt and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedence in the history of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”

The legal remedy can be used whenever some person tries to claim ownership over you. The legal remedy is maintained only if enough people are aware of the legal remedy. The usefulness of the legal remedy can be lost if we ignore, or never learn the legal remedy, because the ultimate deciding factor in any case is public opinion.¹¹

Definition of Government

If we start by looking in the Declaration, it is stated that “Governments are instituted among Men [to secure their endowed rights to] Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, [among others,] deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

This definition of Government is amplified in the enacting clause to the Constitution, which is what we will go on to cover now.

By the way, congratulations! You have incremented the count required to cross the chasm. Took a little less than 17 minutes, didn’t it?

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Hooray, here’s the content:

Constitution 101

Contents

• Constitution: History, Standing, and Doctype

• The purpose of the United States of America

• Banana

Constitution: History, Standing, and Doctype

At the end of intense deliberation, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a Committee of Style and Arrangement to arrange the whole messy bunch of approved clauses into a sensical final form, the form we see today.

Gouverneur Morris is said to have added a preamble that was shipped in the committee’s final document. Some complained about it because it wasn’t requested, but nobody cared enough to move to remove it, though one word — “to”— was deleted.

I think he did a pretty great job.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

This Law was promulgated in 1787 as a preamble and seven articles, and ratified by the free and independent states in 1789. At that moment, “the United States of America” was created¹² and this Constitution was the only law for it, excluding the several parts of the Constitution that were immediately made null and void by the administrative provisions in Article VI. Genius! Why so? That’s a conversation better suited for another time.¹³

The Constitution is a Trust [Doctype]

Reformatting the preamble makes it easy to see:

We the People of the United States [Trustors; those with the Rights],¹⁴

in Order to [accomplish the following objectives:]

1. form a more perfect Union,

2. establish Justice,

3. insure domestic Tranquility,

4. provide for the common defence,

5. promote the general Welfare, and

6. secure the Blessings of Liberty [purpose statements, intent, mandates]

to ourselves and our Posterity, [Beneficiaries; the ones for whom the Trust exists]

do ordain and establish [make law and write down]

this Constitution [Articles of incorporation]

for “the United States of America” [Trustee; entity entrusted to do the objectives].

When We elect someone to office, we are putting our trust in them.

The United States of America is staffed by Persons a/k/a Trustees. Some are elected, most are hired into a larger bureaucracy. Different positions have different eligibility requirements. For example, we have in Article I Section II the eligibility requirements for Representatives in Congress, written in classic administrative jibber jabber:

“No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”

All Trustee actions and decisions are to be in alignment with the above objectives.

If it is found that an act of the Trustee does not conform— perhaps it creates a more divided Union— then it is notwithstanding, improper use of trust, per Article VI—

ARTICLE VI SECTION 2
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

and “repugnant and void” per William Cranch, Chief Judge of the United States during Jefferson’s Presidency.¹⁵

Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
—Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 1 Cranch 137 137 (1803)

The 16th Volume of American Jurisprudence Constitutional Law 2nd Edition clarifies when a repugnant law become ineffective and what it means for the future:

“The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, thought having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it, an unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed.” (§177 pp 402-403)

The Trusteeship consists of all Persons who are bound:

ARTICLE VI SECTION 3
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

“No religious test shall ever be required” means You should never ever have to believe anything you don’t want to in order to qualify for Office or public Trust. (Did this happen recently?)

The Constitution’s Validity [Standing]

First, let us quickly review the meaning of the Doctype:

What is a Trust?

A definition in Blacks Law Dictionary 4th Ed. says “[Trust] may be defined to be an obligation upon a person, arising out of a confidence reposed in him, to apply property faithfully, and according to such confidence.”

From Google search, the LAW definition:

From Webster’s 1828 Dictionary:

TRUST, noun

1. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
— He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Proverbs 29:25.
2. He or that which is the ground of confidence.
— O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Psalms 71:1.
3. Charge received in confidence.
— Reward them well, if they observe their trust
4. That which is committed to one's care. Never violate a sacred trust
5. Confident opinion of any event.
… and so on and so forth.

From Wikipedia:

A trust is a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another's benefit. In the Anglo-American common law, the party who entrusts the right is known as the "settlor", the party to whom the right is entrusted is known as the "trustee", the party for whose benefit the property is entrusted is known as the "beneficiary", and the entrusted property itself is known as the "corpus" or "trust property".^[1][2]

Basically, “Hey, I Trust you to do certain stuff” is what it all boils down to. Simple.

Who can establish a Trust? Can you? What do you require? What gives you the ability?

In order for you to put your Trust in someone to do certain stuff on your behalf, you must be able to do that stuff yourself. It is not lawful to authorize someone to do stuff you cannot do yourself.

Article I Section 8, copied here, has a list of powers entrusted to Congress:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings;-And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

All of these powers that were given to Congress the had Trustors themselves. They could, on their own or jointly with others, declare War, raise and support Armies, maintain a Navy, coin Money and regulate its value, collect Taxes, and so on.

The Trustors had lots of power.¹⁶

How the Trustors got so much power [History]

Before their Declaration of Independence, the Trustors were not Trustors, but Colonists, and did not legally have the power to do all [or any] of those things listed. Legally, they were subjects of the King of England, and all their base are belong to the crown. Even being within the colony required royal permission.

—National Geographic

As a Colonist, you had whatever rights the King gave you. Even to stay in a conquered area, you needed permission. Certainly, you could not declare War, collect Taxes, coin Money, or any of those things we just read in Section 8.

The Declaration of Independence changed, legally, the status of the signers from “subjects of the Sovereign” to “Sovereign” and the status of the land from colonies [business enterprises] to States [independent countries]. The conclusion of the war established the validity of the document to the rest of the world.

The Empire really did not like that. Since that Declaration, they have tried many times to repossess their former possessions. They have tried things like Direct Attack, Indirect Attack, starting World Wars, instigation of multiple Economic Collapses, Subversion, Monetary System Takeover, Culture Destruction, “Deadly” Virus— seems like no technique is off limits for them to regain control.

Here is an excerpt from an opinion piece on the Declaration’s effect at the Revolution:

“at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people, and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects…, and have none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty. Sovereignty is the right to govern; a nation or State sovereign is the person or persons in whom that resides.”
—Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793) pp471-472

Another:

"The people of this State, as the successors of its former sovereign, are entitled to all the rights which formerly belonged to the King by his prerogative."
—Lansing v. Smith, 4 Wend. 9 (N.Y.) (1829), 21 Am.Dec. 89 10C Const. Law Sec. 298; 18 C Em.Dom. Sec. 3, 228; 37 C Nav.Wat. Sec. 219; Nuls 8.

So basically, we went from having to ask Bob’s King what Bob’s rights are to asking Bob directly. 1776 was the year People became legally¹⁷ self-governing.

Now, the self-governing People of the United States realized they had to institute some form of Government. They first adopted the Articles of Confederation, which did not work out very well. Repossession seemed imminent, and reverting back to British Empire business enterprise would render that whole bloody battle pointless.

A handful of people realized this and had a meeting known as the Annapolis Convention, out of which came a resolution to remedy the defects of the Articles of Confederation that made the national government weak and unable to perform its duties. Out of that came the Constitutional Convention.

And out of that, our Constitution.

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Responsibility

Notice that the responsibility of Trustee performance lies on the Trustors and the Beneficiary.

Yes, of course, the responsibility is first with the Trustee, but if the Trustees decides to take advantage of trust, then it is up to the Trustor and Beneficiary to hold Trustee to account. Trustee works for Trustor and Beneficiary, and fraud vitiates everything.

We can see this in the construction of the Preamble:

We the People of the United States,

in Order to [We want some things achieved]

1. form a more perfect Union,

2. … [The things we want achieved]

If you want something done, you are responsible for seeing to it. If you see something not being done, the Person in the position of trust may be unaware of his blunder, or is serving another master.

The Purpose of the United States of America

This part is easy. The purpose is found in the objectives list in the preamble

1. form a more perfect Union,

2. establish Justice,

3. insure domestic Tranquility,

4. provide for the common defence,

5. promote the general Welfare, and

6. secure the Blessings of Liberty

Word is hyperlinked if its definition is contained in Websters Dictionary 1828.

It is up to you to make sense of these objectives. After all, aren’t you a People?

Here is what people have come up with: The Preamble according to the People.

Easy, right?

Workshop

Randomly make six groups. Each group gets one phrase from the purpose statement.

The challenge is

1. to unanimously ratify a definition of their phrase, then

2. try to obtain ratification from all present on their definition.

The winning group is the one who gets most ratifications.

House rules.

What’s it got to do with Banana?

There exists inherent confusion with certain words. A word is a representation. The same word can represent different things to different people because of past experiences and current associations.

Imagine you want BANANA. You ask me to get you BANANA. As long I’m able to find one, the chance that you get a long slender yellow fruit is 100%. We know BANANA. There’s no accidental miscommunication with BANANA today.

This is an extreme example to drive a point.

Ponder this: Is it possible that at some point an altercation could start over BANANA, if, for whatever reason you dream up for this example, understandings are different?

Imagine what could happen if, in my language, I defined BANANA as {verb} a request that you sleep with my spouse.

You>Hey. I want BANANA. Can you make that happen?
...Wat

>What?
Are you sure?

>Yes.
Are you really sure?

>Why do you keep asking? I love BANANA. Don’t you?
No, no, not really into that to be honest.

>I can't believe you've never tried. Well you should try. Very tasty! You won’t believe it, but one time I had a BANANA party! I’m like monkey, I’m bananas for BANANAS!
Uhhhh. Ok then, when?

>Now. When else?
Oh boy. Are... Do you want to come?

>What? Think you can’t handle it by yourself? C’mon man. You’ll be fine...
Ok, then. I’m off. I’ll go to the store where your wife works. I’ll pick up some groceries for myself while I’m at it, why not.

>Great. If you go now you should catch her just before her shift ends. Tell her hi from me. And hey, ask her what she thinks of BANANA. She might just convince you to give it a try yourself.

I’d say the result of this are anywhere between and including “misunderstanding resolved, nothing notable to report” and “three found dead in apartment bedroom in apparent murder-suicide.”

Our collective understanding of BANANA has reduced to zero the chance of us having a misunderstanding over its association to a physical object. It has become single in our minds.

This has not yet happened with our Constitution. Meaning, there are at least two Constitutions in existence. The duality (or more) is contained within the text itself, a reflection of the minds that produced it. Luckily, the genius way that the Constitution in constructed, only one Constitution is legal.

Luckily, it’s the good one.

Unluckily, it’s not the one that is predominantly operational today.

Until we cross the chasm.

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Here’s a little something relevant to this discussion:

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Note to co-tenants

Remember that our Constitution is what you say it is.

You have the Right to Free Speech.¹⁸

If you say the Constitution is toilet paper, that’s what it is. Others may disagree, but I’m confident you could demonstrate that the document can in fact be used to wipe your ass.

1. It’s both a joke and true.

2. Well, maybe not really. I’ll explain in a sec.

3. Previous studies were sporadic. In 5th grade, Mrs. Ames made us memorize the Preamble and recite it over and over until we got it right. I had a really hard time remembering the order of the objectives.

4. If you read this footnote, comment below to remind me to post what I wrote.

5. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

6. For example, Heart Disease was the #1 killer in these United States in 2021, killing 695,547 people, or 0.2% of the population. Yea, that’s one of the things we have going on. Are not the people teaching you how to avoid a heart attack simply re-teaching what they have learned?
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

7. I highly doubt it will become kinetic. But, I’ve been dead wrong about many things in my life, so think for yourself

8. The King also said that

9. You could attempt to challenge his divinity by throwing your spear at him to show that he does, in fact, bleed.

10. a/k/a “colonies”

11. What is a court? Read the story of how the King protects himself when punishing apple thieves.

12. The Stile of the Confederation was the United States of America.

13. Leave a comment so I get a notification at another time.

14. James Iredell on the case Chisholm v. Georgia:

“at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people, and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects…, and have none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty. Sovereignty is the right to govern; a nation or State sovereign is the person or persons in whom that resides. In Europe, the sovereignty is generally ascribed to the Prince; here, it rests with the people; there, the sovereign actually administers the government; here, never in a single instance; our Governors are the agents of the people, and, at most, stand in the same relation to their sovereign in which regents in Europe stand to their sovereigns. Their Princes have personal powers, dignities, and preeminences; our rulers have none but official; nor do they partake in the sovereignty otherwise, or in any other capacity, than as private citizens.” (2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793) pp471-472)

15. The case was brought by commissioned judge William Marbury against the incoming president’s Secretary of State James Madison, where it was decided that William Marbury was not entitled to his commission just because his commission was left on James Madison’s desk, and because the Supreme Court did not have the jurisdiction to hear the case, Remember, this was long time ago. It took a long time for information to be transmitted. They found out who was going to win the night before the new administration was to move in.

16. Section 9 lists powers explicitly denied to Congress. It does not mean that the Trustors have those powers as well.

17. This happened Lawfully 17 centuries earlier.

18. Chancellor of the New York Court for the Correction of Errors on the case Lasing v. Smith:

"The people of this State, as the successors of its former sovereign, are entitled to all the rights which formerly belonged to the King by his prerogative." (4 Wend. 9 (N.Y.) (1829), 21 Am.Dec. 89 10C Const. Law Sec. 298; 18 C Em.Dom. Sec. 3, 228; 37 C Nav.Wat. Sec. 219; Nuls 8.)