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Sunday, December 27, 2020

States as Independent Nations

 

 by Chuck McGlawn 10/24/2019

[See definition of State at the bottom.]

In the normal process of things when the former ruling body (In this case it was Great Britain.) is deposed a new ruling body is established to fill the void. The American War for Independence against Great Britain lasted from 1775 to 1783. At the beginning of the war, the governments of the 13 colonies were faced with a dilemma. America was striving for independence from the administration of the British but America had not separated from Great Britain and therefore an American government had not been established. During the early stages of the conflict, it was not then supposed that the quarrel with the 'Mother Country' would end in separation.

The existing Colonial governments represented an extension of the British government with a Governor, governor's court, and legal system. In 1773 the Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, disbanded the Virginia House of Burgesses for insubordination to Great Britain. This led to the creation of the Continental Congress. The role of the First Continental Congress was to set forth the views of the people and remonstrate against the conduct of the King and Parliament.

The First Continental Congress (Still an extension of British rule.) petitioned the King and fixed May 10, 1775, as the date on which a second Continental Congress would meet to consider the response to their petition. They didn’t have to wait till May. The response came in January 1775. Britain sent orders prohibiting another meeting of the Congress and sent additional troops to America. In February 1775 Parliament declared that Massachusetts was in a state of rebellion. Matters quickly escalated and on April 18, 1775, the American War of Independence began. The 13 Colonies asked Congress to adopt the American army that had gathered around Boston, and direct the war. Through this chain of events Congress, unexpectedly, became an informal governing body, and began to act as an advisor to each of the colonies.

When the Continental Congress met at Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, The Boston based British government was out and the government of the Massachusetts colony was in their own hands. The Continental Congress advised that no obedience was due to the governor and advised the people to make a temporary government until the King should restore the old charter. Later in 1775, the Continental Congress gave similar advice to New Hampshire and South Carolina.

By the spring of 1776 all of the British Governors of the 13 colonies had either fled or been thrown into prison. The demise of the royal governors had effectively put an end to the colonial government. Continental Congress realized that reconciliation with Great Britain was impossible. On May 15, 1776, Congress advised all the colonies to form their own separate governments. [Note, this is pre-Declaration of Independence.] All but two made new constitutions, but Connecticut and Rhode Island used their old charters. They ALL adopted constitutions, and by doing so turned themselves from British colonies into sovereign and independent States.

 

Here are the dates that the separate colonies became sovereign Nations, by adopting their own National Constitutions. 

Before Independence was Declared, and long before the adoption of the Articles of Confederation, even longer before the Adoption of the Constitution, and with no clear evidence that there would ever be a separation from mother England, New Hampshire's was the first American colony to adopt a constitution of its own, formally replacing British rule on January 5, 1776. 

The Provincial Congress of South Carolina approves a new constitution and government on March 26, 1776. The legislature renames itself the General Assembly of South Carolina and elects John Rutledge as President, Henry Laurens as Vice President and William Henry Drayton as Chief Justice. 

South Carolina took this action towards independence from Great Britain four months before the Continental Congress declared independence and five months before South Carolina learned of the Declaration. 

Georgia's first attempt at constitutional government was initiated in April 1776 by the Provincial Congress called by the Georgia Trustees in response to a series of mass meetings held throughout the colony. This document provided a framework for the transition from colony to State. 

New Jersey’s first Constitution was adopted on July 2, 1776, shortly before New Jersey ratified the American Declaration of Independence  

The Virginia Convention met in Williamsburg from May 6 through July 5, 1776, unanimously adopted a Declaration of Rights. Then on June 12 and about two weeks later, on June 29, unanimously adopted the first Constitution of the independent State of Virginia.

 

This constitution was framed by a Convention which assembled at New Castle Delaware, August 27, 1776, in accordance with the recommendation of the Continental Congress that the people of the colonies should form independent State Governments. It was not submitted to the people but was proclaimed September 21, 1776. 

 The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (ratified September 28, 1776) was the State's first Constitution following the Declaration of Independence. 

As a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1779, John Adams was the document's principal author. Voters approved the document on June 15, 1780. It became effective on October 25, 1780, and remains the oldest functioning written constitution in continuous effect in the world.  

Maryland’s first constitution was written in 1776 and adopted by the Ninth Provincial Convention meeting at Annapolis in November. Out of all of the documents adopted during the revolution, it was the least revolutionary. Its frame of government was designed to perpetuate the current government and social order minus the crown. The constitution gave its citizens certain rights and freedom that had not been expressed before the revolution took place. 

The first North Carolina Constitution was adopted on December 18, 1776, after the American Declaration of Independence. 

The first New York state constitution is formally adopted by the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York, meeting in the upstate town of Kingston, on April 20, 1777. 

 

Rhode Island finally approved its State Constitution with provisional amendments. On August 31, 1790, three months after May 29, 1790, when Rhode Island became the 13th state to enter the Union after ratifying the Constitution.

 

Connecticut was the last State to draft a State constitution, In 1662, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by King Charles II of England and royal charter. These two documents laid the groundwork for the state’s government but lacked characteristics of what is generally thought of as a constitution.[1] Separate branches of government did not exist during this period, and the General Assembly acted as the supreme authority.[1] A true constitution was not adopted in Connecticut until 1818.  

After most of the Constitutions were written and debated, and finally adopted The Constitutional Convention was ready to submit the US Constitution to the full delegation, but there was just one more choice to make would the Preamble read:  

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.  

Or would they use the original version? 

We the people of the States of New -Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New -York, New -Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following Constitution for the Government of Ourselves and our Posterity.

 

***States as Independent Nations here is the Google Dictionary delimitation of State as a noun: 

1.     the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time. "the state of the company's finances"

synonyms: condition, shape, situation,

2          a nation or the territory considered as an organized political community under one government. Germany, Italy and other European states

Synonyms: country, nation, land, sovereign state, nation-state, kingdom, realm,

       power republic, confederation, federation "an autonomous state"      (emphasis added)

Usage: (Declaration of Independence) “That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the  British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which the Independent States may of right do”... (All emphasis added)

United Nations = Nations united  United States = States united or a union of States.

Thursday, December 3, 2020

 

Introduction: Recapturing the Single Plane Left/Right Political Spectrum

by Chuck McGlawn 12/03/2020

The Most Powerful Tool and the Roadmap to Liberty

The one thing on which almost everyone agrees; Is that the DC Government is too big. Almost all, of the problems faced by the American people can be traced back to the DC Government overstepping its constitutionally delegated powers. Source Debate.org reported recently that 83% of the American People say The government is too big. (https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-the-u-s-government-too-big.

First, the DC Government Growers discredited the SIMPLE left/right political spectrum. Tell me what could be more descriptive than 100% government [Communist & totalitarian] is the extreme left end of the spectrum. The communist Karl Marx said so. And 0% government [anarchy no government] is the extreme right end of that same spectrum. The Greeks said so. [Anarchy is Greek for no-government.]

 

Therefore, if your candidate or your issue calls for an increase in governmental power, it does not mean that you are a communist, but you are advocating a move TOWARD 100% GOVERNMENT ON THE LEFT. Conversely, if your candidate or your issue is calling for less governmental power, That does not make you an anarchist, but you are advocating a move TOWARD 0% DC GOVERNMENT ON THE RIGHT.

 

Things Get Confused

Liberals advocate programs that call for more government most of the time. However, when it comes to personal liberties like cutting the DC Government's power over marijuana use, prostitution, censorship, sex between consenting adults, same-sex marriage, and especially the military draft liberals are decidedly anti-big government. 

 

Confusion continues; Conservatives advocate programs that call for more government some of the time. However, when it comes to  economic liberties like reducing corporate welfare [that is financial aid to corporations and corporate agriculture], reducing Social Welfare by weeding out fraud and corruption, and advocating free-market principled that generate jobs for all economic levels, reducing foreign aid, getting the DC Government out of Health Care, and Public Education, and local policing Conservatives are mostly anti-big-government. 

 

 Murray Rothbard was not confused 51 years ago when he referred to himself as an “extreme right-winger” in “Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal” published in 1969 and the author of the first political Platform for the Libertarian Party. Additionally, different segments of the Libertarian Movement was not confused when some dubbed themselves “Minarchist” advocates of minimum DC Government, “Anarcho-Capitalists”, advocating no DC Government in the economic and free-market systems. and “Anarchist”, advocates of no DC government at all.  All of the names have a historical and linguistic connection to the right end of the Single-Plane Left-Right Political Spectrum

 

To end this confusion we need to, Recapture The Single-Plane Left/Right Political Spectrum that being a spectrum where 100 percent government is the extreme left, and 0% government is the extreme right. See below.

100% government--------------------------------------------------------------------------0% government

                                          Left                                                                                                                        Right                                                                                            

Editor’s note: Your screen should show “left” directly under 100% and “Right directly under 0%s.


 The Single-Plane left/Right Political Spectrum will end the confusion that has labeled Conservatives “right, rightist and right-wing” when some of their agendas call for more government This will end the confusion that has labeled Liberals “left, leftist and left-wing” when some of their agendas call for less government.  

 

The Single-Plane Left/Right Political Spectrum clears up all the confusion. It will end the marriage of “liberal and left”, and it will end the marriage of “conservative and right”.

 

The following is very important, read carefully, The Single-Plane Left/Right Political Spectrum will 

divide the small-government conservatives, the ones that are more concerned with  Economic liberties, from the big-government conservatives that are trying to dictate the lifestyles of everyone else. This will unite the small-government conservatives and the libertarians in the mutual-quest to reduce the power of the DC Government

 

The Single-Plane Left/Right Political Spectrum  will divide the small-government liberals the ones that are more concerned with personal liberties, from the big-government liberals the ones concerned with fixing the disparity between the rich and the poor. This will unite the small-government liberals and the libertarians in the mutual-quest to reduce the power of the DC Government.

For the first time in history “divide and conquer” will be on the side of liberty.  

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And gentle reader, the timing could not be more perfect. There is so much confusion surrounding “Right, Rightist, and Right-Wing, that it literally has no real functional meaning at all. This is a perfect time to recapture its real functional meaning (That being right, rightist, and right-wing means an advocate of less government.) A survey about the meaning of “right, rightist and right-wing” would yield a spectrum of answers spanning from White Supremacist”, “isolation"  "Nationalist”, evangelical and Christian rightist, conservative rightist and arch-conservatives, and libertarians". A survey about the meaning of “left, leftist, and left-wing” would not be as broad but it would still be confusing.

 

  Here it is in one place: Left, Leftist, and Left-Wing is an advocacy of more government

                                  Right, Rightist and Right-Wing is an Advocacy of Less government

 

PS If you can make it more descriptive and or more instructive and or more SIMPLE then post it quick Liberty needs the help in reducing the source of all of our problems, the power of the DC Government.