Power to change
Most of the power exercised by government today especially the Federal government is based on contracts with government and the people. There are both the executed contracts through agreements and applications actually signed by you or your legal guardians as you were growing up and then there are constructive contracts through participation and hypothecation. All these come in a variety of forms and from numerous sources most people are completely unaware of or do not understand.
Many people think the contract between the citizens and the government is the constitution which created the United States. That constitution was not between the people but between the states which created an additional and external government. The people were not a party to it. The people have become a part of the programs and agencies and even some of the corporations of the United States. The people have changed in their relationship to the United States. They have changed by their own actions or in actions the nature of their citizenship. While the constitution has been altered through amendment the real increase in government control and power has come through the constitution's guarantee of your right to make agreements and a system of courts to enforce those agreements with corporate entities and agencies in or on the behave of the United States.
"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." Article I, section 10, clause 1.
Most Americans lived under common law back in 1798 and there were very few benefits of or from the US government but all the people have access to a plethora of benefits are heavily regulated today in equity and through that commerce clause. How did this come about?
The government is not violating the constitutional prohibitions as much as people think or would like to think.
Through their application for benefits they have failed to "retain" their rights because they failed to retain their responsibilities. They have clearly failed to provide for themselves and their posterity but accepted the idea that they can enrich themselves at the expense of their neighbor with impunity and have become little more than human resources in the process. Bible warnings say they would be trapped, snared and become merchandise.
It is very convenient to blame all of what is happening today concerning rights on the government but the truth is we have made serious errors in our own thinking, activities and relationship with government because of a lack of consideration of our neighbor, which despite what we say in our churches and religious faith we simply do not love as much as ourselves or the benefits we are obtaining at our neighbor's expense.
There is a maxim of law:
Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio protectionem. Coke, Littl. 65.
“As long as we look to government to solve our problems we will always suffer tyranny.” William Pitt.You have asked the government to protect your family from ignorance, health costs, disability, old age, unemployment, destitution and a thousand other things. You have given the government the power to guarantee all these things by taking from your neighbor and you think you should not be subject????
Your applications for benefits are contracts with the state and the institutions it creates and the motivating spirit to all this is covetousness...
Consesus facit legem. Consent makes the law… Branch. Prine. Black’s
There is a lot to learn and not much time to do it in... lots to do too.
Most people seem woefully ignorant of how the law works, the different forms of law like natural law, common law, equity etc.
What the constitution was supposed to do and the fear of what it might be able to do along with what you need to do to maintain your rights has long been outside of the conscience of Americans.
Their present state of bondage is the result of hundreds of contracts they and their parents have been signing for more than a century. This present status as subjects rather than free people has been a long time in coming and it required that their perception of history had to change. And they needed a moral shift in their thinking to allow them to overlook their failure to be righteous and their personal indulgence in vice with some justification for what used to be called iniquity, vice or sin.
Some who would desire to bring the whole world back into bondage have relied on two institutions more than any other, public education and the modern Church.
The Reese Commission uncovered a plan to change "the way Americans viewed history" that began back in 1908 by altering history books and making them available in public and private education at a reduced cost.
At first the changes were subtle but the distraction of two world wars were very useful in this reeducation process.
The acceptance of public education itself was very much a part of that plan too and it was at that time that Americans went from being mostly educated privately to the majority being educated at public expense. Religions that have clearly prohibited the coveting of any thing that was your neighbors turned a blind eye to this moral infraction when it came to education. They idea of taxing your neighbor to provide education become morally accepted and common place despite the repeated warnings
Once they altered your view of history and social norms they could steadily get you to waive your rights. Some knew this was happening and warned you but most people did not want to see their fault in the whole matter.
This process and the ignorance of the American people is why US vs. Minker. 350 US,179 p187. states: “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.” They still don't want to see their errors and mistakes and even their failings and shortcomings. They always want to blame some other group which o course is part of the dialectic that moves people more and more into bondage.
I go through process of enslaving the whole nation and even the whole world level by level in a book I wrote you can read free online called The Covenants of the gods. There are numerous layers to that bondage, and I use the word bondage because that is what you are presently in and you cannot get out of that bondage with the waive of a pen like those "sovereign citizens" that some mentioned often try.
I do mention the Bible but the clear details and references to the law, the steady progression into serfdom and bondage is documented step by step in the law. Some of the top attorneys in the United States have read some of my books and pamphlets and agreed with the conclusions.
Just as an example you can read the first chapter o the book that shows you that your marriage contract is a three party contract with the state giving them jurisdiction over your marriage, the property you accumulate and the children your produce.
Again a top attorney who graduated Summa Cum Laude, highest scorer ever on his Bar exam, practiced law in several states and handled international law cases and also taught law and wrote law books, agreed with everything in that first chapter although he warned that they are not going to like me. Why? because I reveal how the law works. How they get power over you. I am not offering any quick fix. It took a long time to get here and it will take a long time and a lot of effort to get back but you are not going to get anywhere with the dialectic arguments I normally see going back and forth on these groups.
You can read that first chapter here: Chapter 1. of the book The Covenants of the gods Holy Matrimony vs Marriage
Text http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog1mvm.php Audio [2 hours] http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-01.mp3