Day: May 16, 2025

Considering the recent implementation and passage of statutory laws that are solely infringements against the natural, God-given, and constitutionally secured rights of the people, as well as events nationally and here locally, I would like to remind the American reader of their true significance and power. We are not a nation of tyrants and their endless regulations and usurpations. We are a constitutional Republic founded on natural rights and common-law, though we have strayed very far from the fundamental principles and vision of our Republic’s founders.As was stated by them, a Republic is the best form of government for an intelligent and knowledgeable populace but the worst for an ignorant one. Is it any wonder that our government-ran schools no longer teach the civics and hierarchy of law that was established by the wise and courageous founders? Article VI, Clause 2 of the constitution for the United States of America, known as the supremacy clause, ordains that: “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.”If our public servant legislatures, executives, or judges who are sworn in under oath to be “bound thereby” violate the supreme law instead of upholding it, who then will maintain the highest law clearly intended to supersede all others? Ultimately, this is the duty and responsibility of the people, who are the true sovereignty of our once great Republic that has fallen far from the wayside of true progress and freedom. This is succinctly defined in our law as follows: “SOVEREIGN POWER. See SOVEREIGNTY.The sovereign or supreme power in every state resides in the people. Blackstone supposes the jura summi imperii, or the right of sovereignty, to reside in those hands in which the exercise of the power of making laws is placed. Our simple and more reasonable idea is that the government is a mere agency established by the people for the exercise of those powers which reside in them. The powers of government are not, in strictness, granted, but delegated powers.They are then trust powers and may be revoked. It results that no portion of sovereignty resides in government.” Anderson ;1 Sharsw. Bl. Com. 49. (Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 1928, Page 1121). Consequently, we should never accept being a commercial nation, state, or county comprised of subjects and their public masters, but a Republic of we the People with our public servants bound by oath to sustain our will; the latter who currently necessitate being duly reminded of their subordinance and subservience to the former. ~ JT Stratton, one of the People of Colorado domiciled on the county of Hinsdale