10/21/14

Recently, while channel surfing on TV, I came upon the old sitcom, “The Wonder Years”, which dealt with the average American family living in the 1968-69 time period. It was a great weekly show that typified what life was like growing up in the suburbs. There was also some very good music which personified that era and always blended in great with the particular scene we were watching. I identified very closely with this show since naturally, those were my prime teenage years. It was a simpler lifestyle back then, gas was cheap, .25 cents to the gallon on average, and what I consider a much more wholesome family atmosphere than what we are accustomed to in present 2014.

The timely point I’m going to convey is the unwholesome current national debt this nation must eventually pay in more ways than one. During “The Wonder Years”, the national debt was $350 billion dollars as compared to $17.5 trillion dollars and growing in 2014. Since the current baby-boom generation cannot possibly pay off this debt, it will be passed off to each succeeding generation with dire consequences to our heirs; meaning our children and grand children. Simply put, debt is enslavement and it is just plain immoral to bind our progeny to the chains of financial servitude. Especially a debt they did not incur.

The root cause of this totally unfair and obscene debt is the exponential growth of the federal government that is beyond out of control. We seemed to have passed fair about $17 trillion dollars ago and the Founding Fathers would consider this nation totally alien to the one they created in 1787 when the federal Constitution was proposed. What is foreign to most Americans is the fact that the once sovereign States drafted and ratified this Constitution and it was this liberty based document that created the federal government which was supposed to be their agent and certainly not their lord and master.

Not only did the US Constitution keep the federal government in check by delegating limited and enumerated powers to it, the Bill of Rights was additionally ratified which placed more restraints on this federal government that was created by the several States. The chains that held the feds in check was totally broken in 1865 and this country has not since resembled what was designed by the Founding Fathers in 1787. The federal government is now the final arbiter of its powers which are now unlimited as proved by the $17.5 trillion dollar debt we are now currently witnessing.  Sooner or later, one or two things must happen. Either the powers of the federal government are going to have to be reined in by the State governments, which by the way they possess the power to do, or this nation will collapse under its own weight as did the former USSR.

Each year, certain politicians promise to not grow government and yet each passing year, it keeps growing and growing. This nation was founded on the precepts of liberty and its exact opposite is called bondage which definitely is linked to debt. Simply put, the more government you get, the less liberty you have. Do you prefer the “Wonder Years” or do you prefer life on the federal plantation which sooner or later will be foreclosed due to too much debt (socialism) and not enough income (capitalism). The national and State elections are two weeks away and your vote will determine which lifestyle you prefer.

Loy Mauch

10/14/14

After this country won its independence from England in 1781, one common denominator  was prevalent among the sovereign States and that was an abhorrence of a monarchial style of government. After these States individually seceded from the Articles of Confederation and ratified the federal Constitution, they immediately transformed from a Confederacy to a Republic. Their total disdain for a monarchy is reaffirmed in Article I, Section 9, clause 8 of the Constitution which states: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States.”

This is further reaffirmed in James Madison’s Federalist # 39 that clarifies the previous Article by which he declares: “Could any further proof be required of the republican complexion of this system, the most decisive one might be found in its absolute prohibition of titles of nobility, both under the federal and the State governments; and in its express guaranty of the republican form to each of the latter.”

In essence, the framers of the Constitution considered any title of nobility to be un-American and rightfully so. They knew that kings, queens, czars, potentates, dictators, etc. held absolute power which could not be checked by the citizenry that eventually led to despostism. They instead wielded power to the citizenry, to elect their representatives in order to check their legislative and executive powers.

Fast-forward to 2014 and I will prove how far this country has strayed from the political wisdom of the Founding Fathers. Last week, actress Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a fundraiser for the Democratic Party in Brentwood, California and stated : “It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man [Obama] all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass.” Bear in mind, Hollywood is saturated with ultra-liberal loons who are inculcated with leftist ideology and also extremely incongruous with the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. She may as well placed those documents in the nearest paper shredder and used the residue to light a fire.

The pitiful part of her un-American speech is the fact that she is not alone in her thoughts. There are representatives now who occupy the halls of Congress and strongly desire this Usurper-in-Chief to wield dictatorial powers as well. What is indeed frightful is the fact that our current elected federal officials sit in silence while allowing this former “community organizer” to make a mockery of the Constitution they were all sworn to defend and uphold. To put it plainly, Congress is aiding and abetting this crime against the Constitution and it is they who should be held in contempt before a true dictatorship comes to pass.

Loy Mauch

10/10/14

No one should be surprised about the recent US Supreme Court’s decision of rejecting to hear the appeals in the homosexual marriage cases which in all probability, cleared the way for the expansion of these once prohibited acts. In order to understand the underhanded way this court deviously decided to remain mum on this non-decision, a few facts should be made known.

First of all, the issue of marriage is not inserted into the federal Constitution. The ONLY powers the federal government are supposed to act upon are the ones delegated to it in Article I, Section 8. It was widely understood in 1787 that these were the only powers this entity was to have. However, the Anti-Federalists of that time demanded a Bill of Rights to be written out on white parchment paper in black ink which would further curtail federal powers in order to prevent any future malfeasance to the Constitution committed by the newly created federal government.

The 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Therefore, since the institution of marriage was not delegated to the federal government, it was reserved to the States since they clearly already possessed that power.

I remember vividly the debate held in Arkansas during 2004 between US Senator Blanche and State Senator Jim Holt concerning homosexual marriage. At the time, there was a proposal to define marriage as one man and one woman on the federal level. When asked her opinion of this issue, Sen. Lincoln emphatically proclaimed that this was a State issue and NOT a federal one and she was exactly right on this matter. Even though she was correct, my second thought was this will hold water only until federal judges become involved and deny the States jurisdiction on what legally constitutes a marriage. This is exactly what has come to pass. I’ve never considered myself a prophet, but this was a no-brainer considering all the other usurpations this court has foisted upon the American public.

Thomas Jefferson was fearful of a Supreme Court and rightfully foretold the consequences of this court being the final arbiter of the Constitution by stating: “To cede such authority to the Supreme Court would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” He was exactly right! Both he and James Madison stated that the several States were the final arbiters of the US Constitution since it was these sovereignties who created the federal government by ratifying this legal document. This is why the federal government was delegated only certain and enumerated powers and the rest were to be reserved by the several States.

What the Supreme Court should have opined is the constitutional fact that the federal government has absolutely no jurisdiction pertaining to the institution of marriage and therefore send it back to the State governments. On a final note, no judge or court in the US makes rulings. They instead are supposed to make opinions on how a law or act applies to the Constitution. What actually rules is the US Constitution and certainly not unelected federal judges. The Supreme Court is one of the chapters in my soon to be published book, “This Constitution…Shall Be the Supreme Law of the Land” and exposes how this court has acted independently of the US Constitution since 1865.

 

Loy Mauch

10-4/14

As I have proved on this blog before, the several States were in fact sovereign nations. These nations created the federal government when the federal Constitution was proposed by them in 1787 and then eventually ratified in 1788. Upon ratification, these States retained their complete sovereignty and only relinquished certain powers that were delegated to the federal government. I will illustrate two facts that further reaffirms the States were indeed the master and the newly created federal government was their agent.

The Father of the Constitution, James Madison, stated precisely in Federalist # 45 which entity is superior and which is inferior. “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” Mr. Madison wrote this in plain and intelligible language which leaves no doubt about the original intent of the Founding Fathers.

Further proof is illustrated in Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist # 78 in which he states: “There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that very act of delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”

These two facts further reaffirms that the several States delegate power to the federal government and the federal government cannot act independently of the Constitution. It has only delegated powers and they are “few and defined.” It takes a delusional mind to believe otherwise and I additionally reaffirm these facts and more in my soon to be published book, This Constitution…Shall Be the Supreme Law of the Land.

Loy Mauch

 

9/4/14

One etched in stone fact that has been lost upon the American populace is that each state began as nations when we declared our independence from the British crown in 1776. This was reinforced in the US Supreme Court decision, The Bank of Augusta v. Earl, in 1839:

“The States between each other are sovereign and independent. They are distinct separate sovereignties, except so far as they have parted with some of the attributes of sovereignty by the Constitution. They continue to be nations, with all their rights, and under all their national obligations, and with all the rights of nations in every particular; except in the surrender by each to the common purposes and objects of the Union, under the Constitution. The rights of each State, when not so yielded up, remain absolute.”

When then did these nations consensually agree to be vassals to the federal government which they created to be their agent in 1787? They never did! These sovereign states went into the so-called Civil War as nations and came out as subjugated states to the federal government they in fact created. The Constitution of 1787 and Bill of Rights as they were originally written died at Appomattox on 4/9/1865.

 

Loy Mauch

8/25/14

The U.S. Constitution of 1787, which was proposed and ratified by the several States (nations), placed limited powers on the newly created federal government by the language of this document. To further ensure stricter limitations on the federal government, the anti-Federalists demanded a Bill of Rights to guarantee the liberties of the private citizen against federal encroachment. Virginians George Mason and Richard Henry Lee thus crafted these rights which were amended into the Constitution in 1791 by these sovereign States. The First Amendment was written in plain language that was completely understood by each and every Statesman which proves the limitations placed on this newly created federal government with the following words: “Congress shall make no law…” The final Amendments, Ninth and Tenth, wrapped the final chains to the federal government with additional precise and clear language to further limit this entity. Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” In other words, the powers of the States are too many to list. Amendment X: “The powers not delegated to the United States (federal government) by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This clearly illustrates that the several States delegate power to the federal government which was their creation and again proves the limited powers of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches of government operating in Washington, D.C. Fast forward to the year of 2014 and it is plainly clear the chains that held the federal government in check have long been broken and now the sovereign States are dictated to by the entity which they created. The question that begs to be asked is “when did these sovereign States consensually yield their indefinite powers to the federal government which was plainly limited as the Founding Fathers oringinally intended?” The answer of course is that they, the several States, never yielded their powers in a consensual manner. This was accomplished through unconstitutional means beginning in 1861 and ending in 1865 by military force which destroyed the concept of government bequeathed to America in 1787.

Loy Mauch

 

Loy Mauch – Introduction

I have just written a book entitled: This Constitution…shall be the supreme Law of the Land. The book is slated to be published by mid-October for distribution. The subject matter of the book is the fact that the Constitution is supreme and not the federal government as so many people mistakenly believe. I will be updating you regularly here on my blog.

 

Loy Mauch

8/19/14