Posted by
J Albert on Saturday, August 01, 2009 7:39:21 AM
Today, I have gladly joined the site, The Texas Nationalist Movement, for the simple reason, I support the Constitution of the United States of America.
I believe that we each have been given the right under that constitution to speak and believe as we choose, freely, openly , and with out fear of reprisal as long as it is not in done in such a way as to cause harm to others and diminish and/or impinge on the Constitution of the United States of America which recognizes our inalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I don't agree with seceding from the union, at this time, but do believe that the option to do so, that was laid out by The Great State of Texas Constitution, should be for reasons, not of to create a country independent of the United States, but of conscience support of and in the very Constitution we have agreed to defend and support with our lives, so help me God.Only if there is adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America; where any state can rejoin back into the Constitutional United States of America, in FULL Support of the Constitution of the United States of America, and not to Join or Create an independent country of Texas. The goal should always be a unification of the whole, based on the Constitution of the United States of America, not each piece being divided into independent nations. The entire premise of the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America was simple, individually, each state individually, could not be in existence with out the whole of the United States of America existing.
Does the Great State of Texas have:
Q. The right to secede from the United States of America?
A. Absolutely Yes!
Q. The right to close its international (non United States of America) border with Mexico to stop the flood of illegal immigrants into and through Texas?
A. Sorry to say, NO, That belongs to the Federal/National Government, per the Constitution of the United States, Article IV, Section 4, which States:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion: and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.”
That sounds like a problem for every border state, not just with Mexico, but Canada, which is where most, if not all of the Hijackers that participated in the 9/11 attacks came through. The Federal/National Government is not fulfilling its guarantee to the States, thus the People.
Most 0f you are probably reading this for the first time, which is a sad statement against our educators and a lack of responsibility of us, as parents, to ensure our children, our legacy for liberty and freedom, have the knowledge that was given to us by a group of men, not in quick strokes of pens, but in careful open deliberations, recognizing the rights of the individual first, then the states and independent in their rights, and then to the United States of America as a whole, one Nation, Under GOD, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all. Surprising out the creators of the Pledge of Allegiance made sure that was written in such a way as to focus on One Nation, Under GOD, Indivisible (you can not divide the whole without destroying the whole) with LIBERTY and JUSTICE for all.
I will always stand for, support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. I believe it was brought forth through divine providence and written by men of diverse faiths and beliefs, so that with this document, any country could pick it up and use it to support their desires for Liberty and Freedom. The very freedoms, that we as Texans, Oklahomans, Washingtonians, Californians, Ohioans, Kansans, New Mexicans, and so on for each of the fifty states, have given our blood, our youth, our very best to defend and promote Justice, Liberty, and Freedom to countries all around the globe. Why? Because it was our destiny to be the voice of Freedom, Liberty, and Justice.
Has the Federal/National Government lost view of the Constitution? absolutely YES! Has the Federal/National Government Step on states rights? No, they have walked all over them. The framers of our country were very cautious when documenting the constitution to put in special checks and balances, which have been lost in the “divine manifest destiny of the the Federalist” with in the various branches of our government who pick and choose special pieces and parts, but refuse to accept the Constitution of the United States of America as a WHOLE.
I am a very simple man. The Constitution of the United States of America was written for us and through us, not to or at us. It establishes the very foundation of our States to exist, not out of need for the National Government, but for "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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.” They did not leave the states out, or the people out, they left out the National/Federal Government out. Why? Because the Constitution of the Unites States of America was not written to empower the National/Federal Government, it exist to give WE THE PEOPLE the rights FIRST and then the States Second. So I would take it that the Federal/National Government would fall in after, since it was not mentioned intentionally.
I am going to close out this blog with words written by President Obama’s favorite President, Abraham Lincoln, in his short, beautifully written speech given at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave all the very essence of what our country was about and is about today. We just need to reach out and grab it with both hands.
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Please view a copy of the original Transcript as inscribed on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial. Additional Information on the Gettysburg Address is provided on the Library of Congress web site.
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