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Unalienable Rights

and the denial of the US Constitution

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The federal government was not designed to be a bureaucracy that had, for the most part, any effect on the populace of the country. In fact, the only power granted by the Constitution to the federal government lay in ensuring that government did not trespass against the citizens. It was the responsibility of the individual states to deal with the needs of the people. Federal legislative control was designed only to have jurisdiction within the District of Columbia and the areas ceded by the states to the federal government for forts, (and other federal sites as needed) or to make laws dealing with interstate commerce or dealing with foreign nations. Since the federal government was created, it has slowly and methodically grown in size and scope until it has permeated every aspect of our lives. Another quote from Thomas Jefferson, "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have .... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." I believe the current federal position towards its citizens has proven this axiom to be all too true.

The term Unalienable Rights, taken from the Declaration of Independence, is a term denoting rights not granted by government but derived from the creator. The term literally means "a right that cannot be transferred or surrendered; esp., a natural right such as the right to own property." (Blacks law Dict. 7th edition) And what does Blacks say about natural rights "A right that is conceived as part of natural law and that is therefore thought to exist independently of rights created by government or society, such as the right to life, liberty, and property."

If we have these rights before the creation of the government and they are not derived from government, then the government has no constitutional legal authority to regulate or deny those rights and to do so is a usurption of power from the people.

There seems to be a misunderstanding in America today about what roles the constitution and “Bill of rights” play in regard to the American Citizens. Many believe that this venerable document grants, or is a guarantor, of our individual freedoms. We often hear people talking about their “Constitutional Rights” or “rights guaranteed by the Constitution”; however, they are mistaken.

The Constitution has very little to do with the American citizen. It was written to establish a Federal Government and to place the boundaries by which that government would operate. The constitution was never designed to provide or enumerate the rights of the citizens but to restrain the federal government from meddling in state and ultimately citizen affairs.

The Supreme Court has stated that "the power to tax a thing is the power to destroy that thing." They have also stated that rights cannot be taxed because to tax it is to have the power to destroy. You have the right to property ownership, does that get taxed? You have the right to defend yourself, and to own the tools to do so, does that get taxed? You have the right to give of your treasures to whomever you wish, does that get taxed? You have the right to contract, does that get taxed? You have the right to land ownership, does that get taxed? The power to tax is the power to destroy and each and every right we have has a tax attached and has been destroyed to that degree of taxation.

This book shows the depth to which we have lost our unalienable rights and shows how we no longer have the land of the free, we are the land of the enslaved.