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President taking the wrong Oath of Office |
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Written by Steve Sanson
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 |
I don't know if you have seen this article by Dr. Edwin Vieira but we may have a situation of the President taking the wrong Oath of Office!
Article VI states in part:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution
The office of President is the Executive Office, however, the Oath he takes makes no mention of supporting the Constitution. The Oath the President currently takes only states that he will "protect and defend to the best of his ability". The last six words are important as it is the "out" that anyone would love to have. The President can trash the Constitution all he wants and he has a built in excuse. It was the best he could do.
It seems that, during the election of a President, we are electing a President of the United States of America (The president of the corporate, federal government) who is to appoint a President of the United States (the President of the States and We The People). Why else would there be two different Oaths of Office?
When elected, George Washington was not qualified to be the corporate president due to the 14 year residency requirement. The Constitution was only 13 years old at the time. George knew this which is why he did not receive any compensation for his first four years. George took the Oath of the corporate president, but since he was not qualified to take this position, he appointed himself as the President of the United States.
Every President since has followed this loophole of the Constitution. They take the Oath of Office as corporate president but appoint themselves as the other President.
We need to make sure that the next President we elect takes the proper Oath for the position he is taking. If the President does not take the Article VI Oath, we need to make sure that he only does the duties of the corporate, federal, president.
Dr. Vieira's report is a tough read. I have included it in this email. If he is incorrect one has to ask himself; why do we have two different, separate Oaths of Office if the office of the President of the United States of America and the office of President of the United States are the same?
Leonard Foster
Vote Leonard Foster for Nevada State Assembly District 13.
www.leonardfoster.com
By Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera,
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL RECIPIENTS:
PERSONALLY CONFIRM DELIVERY OF and RE-DISTRIBUTE
TO ALL AMERICANS
A MESSAGE TO BARACK OBAMA and JOHN McCAIN:
Please Lead The American People To Restore The Constitution
Re: Restoration of the Constitution the Change We Can All Believe In
As the general elections near and Americans yearn for better futures promised by these times of political change, it is crucial that all Americans grasp the facts provided in this reportThe American Peoples Appeal to Restore the Constitution!
The Constitution contains two safety mechanisms that are supposed to secure the faith and fidelity of all the Officers, who serve in all American governments. This reporter has discovered the smoking gun evidence of so treacherous an act at the highest level of government that it immediately began the dismantling of the government of the people, by the people and for the people the Declaration of Independence had begun. The safety on a gun prevents its operation while its on. The safety of the Constitution is the two oaths of Office. There is one oath of Office for the one person who will be the chief administrator of the Government of the United States and the territory and property under its management. The other oath to support this Constitution is so simple and correct it has never been uttered by a single soul in any American government. The two oaths were swapped one for the other and the American People have been made to suffer at the hands of their own Constitution.
George Washington sabotaged the effectiveness of the Constitutional oaths of Office by taking the oath of the chief administrator rather than the oath to support this Constitution, after he was elected to the Office of President. For 219 it has been assumed that all Constitutional Officers are bound by a solemn oath to support this Constitutionnot so. The oaths, which we thought had been in full effect since 1789 to secure the American people against governmental infidelity and treason, have not worked at all. Sure, you have seen the President take, what you thought was the oath of Office of Presidentit was not. When the President Elect takes the oath of Office of President of the United States he is transformed into the President of the United States though he does remain President of the United States of America. In the Constitution the person elected to the Office of President becomes the President of the United States of America and gets to appoint the President of the United States. Since George Washington every President has done the same thingrefused to be President and appointed himself to be President of the United States. This report will prove to you why the oath of Office of President of the United States has always been the wrong oath. George W. Bush is the extreme example of what can happen when the wrong oath is taken.
When it was first conceived, our revered Constitution presented the people with a simple choice: support the President chosen by the Electors, because the President will take an oath to be restrained by the Constitution and to follow the law made pursuant to the Constitution. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin, a veritable Federal Reserve Note rogues gallery, and the rest of the Constitutional Convention did not disclose the many loopholes they wrote into the Constitution. All the limitations placed on government by the Constitution are destroyed when the very President is subverted by the lust for power and riches. You will learn in this report that since the ratification of the Constitution we have supported Presidents who have followed the flawed precedent set by George Washington of taking the wrong presidential oath. Blind obedience to this tradition has permitted the continuous degradation of the quality of political life in America by allowing Presidents to make the law as they rule against the best interests of the people.
All Americans must now make a commitment to arm themselves with a knowledge and understanding of that safeguard of our liberty within the written Constitutionthe oath of Office. Americans, armed with this knowledge, can bring a mighty change overnight in our national and state governments just by demanding the oaths of Office actually taken by government officials. Without this knowledge and without a unified demand from the people to the President Elect, there is absolutely no way we will see anything but business as usual from the beltway politicians.
This report provides all the facts you need to know as an American to immediately restore the Constitution. You can make the effort, because it is not that much work to use a computer to see for yourself. There is an Office of President of the United States and it is different from the Office of President that actually has requirements for that Office. You can discover on your own that the Office of President of the United States has no definite term and absolutely no qualifications. Yes, anyone one can be President of the United States, but you have to be elected by the Electoral College to be President. Hillary still has chance to be President of the United States.
Once you make this report your own, you will join the growing number of Americans, who have learned how easily the Constitution can be restored. Once restored it can become the chain with which the people can bind the once reckless politicians of this land, provided you start sharing this report with others. The choice will soon become yours as you read and re-read this report to grasp the power that is uniquely yours, fellow free American!
The wrong oath for the Office of President is the right oath for the Office of President of the United States. If the President Elect refuses to take the proper oath for the Office of President, the American people must hold him to the limitations of the Office of President of the United States. Switching oaths fraudulently obtains your consent to be ruled, as if you were resident on federal territory. If you can understand why George Washington took the oath to be President of the United States on his second term as President of the United States of America, you can learn to just say no, when your consent to be ruled, as if you were a resident of federal territory, is sought.
Theres a plus side to switching oaths. There are two forms of impeachmentone for the President of the United States and another for President and Vice President, if there were such Officers. The President of the United States is subject to an Article I impeachment, where the only requirement for impeachment is that the Chief Justice presides. If there were someone in the Office of President that person would have to commit Treason, Bribery or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, in order to be subjected to impeachment. Yes, there is time and good reason to impeach George W. Bush, President of the United States.
The First President Takes The Wrong Path
The Wrong Oath For The People
Americans thought the Electors had chosen the right man, when by a unanimous vote on February 4, 1789, Revolutionary War hero, George Washington was elected to the Office of President. The oath of Office taken by the first President of the United States proved they had picked the wrong man at the wrong time. Article II Section 1 Clause 5 required the President to be 14 Years a resident within the United States. Counting from July 4, 1776, the first President couldnt be elected until after July 4, 1790. Washington had his excuse for not taking the right oathhe wasnt qualified to be President, which he never admitted.
Hamiltons creation of a fancy oath for the Office of President of the United States, which had no qualifications and a plain and simple oath of four words for all other Officers was a stroke of devious genius. The oath of the President of the United States looks and sounds presidential, while the real oath for the Office of President is pedestrian by comparison. By taking that oath, George Washington had sprung Hamiltons corporate take-over of the federal government and Washington became the first CEO of a quasi-governmental corporation endowed with the power to tax, just the thing a start-up business needed to grow into a modern corporate super power. Sure, the power to tax was tied to the power of the Congress of the United States to make laws in federal territory, but that didnt stop Washington and Hamilton. Washington used nearly 13,000 militia to put down the Whiskey Rebellion. Territorial boundaries have never stopped a corporation from expansion into new markets, especially a corporation with an army and navy. The History Channel reports Washington became the biggest whiskey distiller in America.
The Office and oath of office of the President of the United States was the brainchild of the great legal and financial genius, Alexander Hamilton, who would become the first Secretary of the Treasury. The President of the United States is an appointive Office, just as any CEO is appointed by the corporations board of directors, but, in the case of the first President of the United States, it is the man elected to the Office of President that does the appointing. Hamiltons plan all along was to have George Washington, the shoo-in for President, appoint himself President of the United States and together they would fabricate their own personal version of the Government of the United States, which is still in business. There are plenty of people who want a change in management especially everyone who found themselves in United States district court with a federal judge appointed by a President of the United States instead of a President, who took the oath to support this Constitution.
The apologists will claim that the Senate had to advise and consent to all appointments, but they miss the fact that the entire system was fabricated by statute law and the American people were left out of decision making for more than 200 years. The astute reader will see Hamiltons elitists guiding hand behind these multiple Presidents, multiple United States and devious oaths. If you are now having flashes of insight you will in time know the mind of Hamilton. He wove all this together just so that George Washington could come forward on April 30, 1789 and before all assembled swear an oath to safeguard the territory and property of the United States of America. To what end did Washington, Hamilton and Franklin gut the Constitution? Power, tax revenues and their own self-interests were there motives. Being Secretary of the Treasury with little money is no fun. Hamilton knew he had to trick Americans to pay taxes. He knew he had to make George Washington a democratic king and he did just that.
The Original Meaning of the Constitution
Hamiltons brilliant maneuvering has remained hidden for two centuries, which is an unfortunate testament to his political cunning. This is how, I believe, the Constitution was supposed to work: The Constitution does not replace the Articles of Confederation, as the Articles required unanimous ratification by the thirteen States to amend them and the Constitution specifically provided that nine States would be sufficient for establishment between the nine States so ratifying. Ratification of the Constitution by nine States is equivalent to an action pursuant to Article IX of the Articles of Confederation to appoint A Committee of the States, which will become the Senate of the United States. The president of the Committee of the States becomes the President of the United States of America, who in Article II Section 1 Clause 1, is vested with the executive power of United States of America. When the presidential Electors on February 4, 1789 unanimously elect George Washington to the Office of President, that vote is sufficient to make him President of the United States of America even though he cannot qualify to be President, which becomes moot when he takes the oath of Office of President of the United States. The 14 Years residency requirement is imposed on the Office of President not on the President of the United States of America. The Articles of Confederation places a limitation of the term of President of the Committee of States, which is repealed, when the Constitution is ratified by all thirteen States.
When the ninth State, New Hampshire, ratifies the Constitution on June 21, 1788, the States ratifying may begin the election of Representatives by the People of the several States, meaning those persons who declare them selves to be citizens of the United States, a new form of citizenship created when the Constitution is ratified. The Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 in Article 4 made the Northwest Territory a part of this Confederacy of the United States of America, subject to the Articles of Confederation, and to such alterations therein as shall be constitutionally made. The balance of Article 4 states flatly that:
[t]he inhabitants and settlers shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States; and the taxes for paying their proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the district or districts, or new States, as in the original States, within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
The more perfect Union referred to in the Preamble to the Constitution means the joining of the original thirteen states with the new States of the type that would be produced by the Northwest Territory. What was the difference between the original thirteen states and all the States that were going to begin with number fourteen? The original thirteen did not contain any federal territory that would be subject to the exclusive legislative power of Congress under the authority of Article I Section 8 Clause 17. The Government of the United States would waste no time acquiring such territory in every State, once nine States had ratified the Constitution.
Representation in the House of Representatives would be mixed. The representatives of the territorial States would be elected pursuant to Article I under the Constitution for the United States of America, which in the case of the Northwest Territory States are comprised of territory subject to the exclusive legislative power of Congress under the new Constitution. The Representatives in Congress of the territorial federal States sit and debate but do not vote. The Congress of the United States together with the President and Vice President of the United States will exercise the legislative power of Article I, where Congress has granted legislative power to territorial legislatures.
It is one thing to join the Northwest Territory and similar territory to the Confederacy of the United States of America. It is quite another to subject the original states of the Union to regulation and taxation applicable only to territory belonging to the United States of America. Washington and Hamilton know they can impose taxation on distilled alcohol so they do and enforce taxation with military force. So-called judicial enforcement is made by the federal district courts which routinely operate outside their lawful federal territorial jurisdiction. There are no Article III judicial federal courts. All the federal courts are legislatively created including the United States Supreme Court, which is obviously legislative since there are Justices appointed by the President of the United States instead of Judges appointed by the President.
The President of the United States has the power of a Roman republic dictator, but that power is and must be limited to federal territory for that power is derived from land and property ownership of the United States of America. A landowner, such as the United States of America, has the right and power to charge rents for the use of his lands and to license certain activities on those lands because it has the primary right to the land. Of course, the United States of America is not your usual landlord, it is also a confederacy of many States made up of lands and people, the American people.
Restoration of the Constitution for the United States of America
Combining the Office of President with the Office of President of the United States made it appear as if Washington could make laws for non-federal territory and for the people outside the jurisdiction of the Congress of the United States. Legislative power over and within the states of the Articles of Confederation was not part of the Constitution and could not be part of the Articles of Confederation. All modern government rise and fall on the written word. The people, on the contrary, rule themselves or did, until the governments started to replace unwritten law systems with democratic government dictatorships
The only way the United States can become a great government is for its leader to take the right oath. Only an oath or affirmation to support this Constitution, will bring the change we can all believe in.
You have the message that contains the facts that can change America and the world. If you make sure that the message gets out to everyone, it will get to Obama and McCain. On January 20, 2009 the President Elect must swear or affirm that he will, as President, support this Constitution. If he doesnt, its business as usual and your freedoms will again be for sale by the President of the United States. Dont hang your hopes on a presidential reformation. The Presidents of the United States have been in power for over 219 years. It will take more than the truth to make them obey the Constitution. You will have to stand behind the truth, so know the facts beginning with these:
Facts of the Constitution for the United States of America
George Washington, was elected unanimously, on February 4, 1789 to the Office of President, by the Electors appointed by each State, according to Article II Section 1 Clauses 2 & 3 of the Constitution. The first popular election to fill the Office of President would not occur until Andrew Jackson was picked by the Electors, so you see nothing has changed the presidential Elector still fill the Office of President. Jackson refused the Office of President and like the Presidents before him took the oath of Office of President of the United States. All the Presidents since Andrew Jackson have silently refused the Office of President, have become President of the United States of America pursuant to Article IX of the Articles of Confederation and President of the United States by taking the wrong oath.
Despite the unanimity of support by the Electors, Washington refused to take this oath of Office required of all executive and judicial Officers by the Constitution:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. Article VI
There is no written record of Washingtons reasons for refusing the Office of President, today a written resignation of the Office of President is required by statute. Examination of the record shows that the election was held too soon. Ratification of the Constitution by nine States was sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same, but it was insufficient to fully amend the Articles of Confederation to provide for both a President of the United States of America and a President under the Constitution. Nine States could elect a President of the United States of America, but they could not elect anyone to the Office of President.
Washington, also, knew that no one in America would be eligible to the Office of President, until after July 4, 1790. The Constitution requires 14 Years residency within the United States:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. Article II Section 1 Clause 5
Ever the Commander in Chief, George Washington, apparently without consulting anyone, appointed himself to the Office of President of the United States, by taking the oath of Office of President of the United States on April 30, 1789:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Article II Section 1 Clause 8
The Constitution makes provision for the appointment of the President of the United States by the President:
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law; but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. Article II Section 2 Clause 2
George Washington was duly elected President of the United States of America, an Office under the Articles of Confederation, by the Electors of the States that had ratified the Constitution, but it was not possible for him to be eligible to the Office of President, because he did not meet the 14 Years residency requirement and two of the thirteen States had not ratified the Constitution at the time he took the oath of Office of President of the United States.
Washington could not be eligible to the Office of President after becoming President of the United States; the Constitution prohibits receiving the benefits from two Offices:
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period and other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. Article II Section 1 Clause 7
In the first inaugural address, Washington refused any compensation for his Services, so that refusal would be evidence of the rejection of the Office of President. Having refused the Office of President by not taking the oath and compensation, Washington was in a position of legislative authority to create a government of the United States that could also claim authority over territory not considered to be the United States.
As President of the United States of America, Washington presided over no one and no territory, during his four-year term. The United States of America is a confederacy of sovereign, free and independent states established pursuant to the authority of the Articles of Confederation. Ratification of the Articles, which occurred from 1777 to 1781, did not include the transfer of any jurisdiction over territory within the states. The cession of jurisdiction to territory like the Northwest Territory made necessary a government for such territory to be administered pursuant to the legislative power of the Congress of the United States, upon the ratification of the Constitution by nine States.
It should be well known by now that the Constitutional Convention met in secret so they could arrange a non-violent take-over of the American. The history of the time reports apprehensions about the security of the country. Apparently, those responsible for the coup felt justified in what they did.
New Union, new Constitution new President
The Constitution does not set a definite term for the Office of President of the United States, leaving to the Congress of the United States the removal by impeachment of any incumbent who refuses to leave Office. The Washington set precedent of two four-year terms, apparently, applied to the Office of President of the United States of America and only indirectly to the Office of President of the United States. The indefinite term of Office and the combination of legislative and executive duties confirms the limitation of the powers of that Office to territory like that of the District of Columbia and the Northwest Territory.
George Washington erected a more stable term limitation to the Office of President of the United States, an Office with no term limitations and, therefore, an official dictatorship, by setting the cornerstone to the Executive Mansion, the White House, on October 13, 1792. Henceforth, each incumbent of the Office of President of the United States will publicly announce his resignation by vacating the White House. Occupation of the White House by the President Elect who has taken the oath of Office of President of the United States marks the beginning of a new administration of the territory and other property belonging to the United States of America. The extension of what should be limited territorially to federal land is the result of legislation, which is constitutionally, also, limited to federal territory.
What Has To Be Done Now
The entire world labors under the misapprehension that the oath of Office of President of the United States is that of the Office of President. Even the cursory examination of the facts presented in this message is sufficient to dispel the thought that the two Offices can be held by the same person. The change promised by Barack Obama must begin by the taking of the proper oath regardless of who is elected to the Office of President by the Electoral College.
The preparation of this message has taken years of research and the advocacy of the principles underlying the conclusions has subjected me to the worse kind of professional discipline and disapproval that any attorney and counselor at law can suffer. The administration of George W. Bush has tried to ruin me personally and financially. I have been unjustly accused and falsely imprisoned and subjected to harsh economic hardship after imprisonment. What I have suffered is trivial compared to what others are suffering right now. What I and others have suffered, will be insignificant compared to continual daily injuries that result from a broken Presidency operating within a broken government, if this message does not reach Barack Obama and John McCain, before one of them has to take the right oath.
This message is as much for you, American reader, as it is for Barack Obama and John McCain. As the date of the presidential election approaches, if neither candidate has acknowledged the need to take the oath to support this Constitution, upon your shoulders now falls the duty to comprehend the ways and means to achieve the required changes to government, so it will not be business as usual in American politics and public policy.
These facts belong to everyone and are useless unless they are available to everyone. Take your own personal responsibility that the laws for the government be faithfully executed. You may not be the leader upon whose shoulders the full burden of this message will be brought. If you are not a leader, find one and support that leader. It was a mistake to trust our senses alone in evaluating our leaders. We saw them take oaths and assumed they were taking the right oaths. We made the same mistake over and over again for 219 years. Take this message to all Americans and with them restore the Constitutional commitment to govern by Constitutional limits. This is your moment in time and history. If Obama or McCain refuses to take the executive oath to support this Constitution, the Declaration of Independence confirms your right and duty to begin altering or abolishing the government. Its your right and it is the law.
I can no longer try to teach the prosecutors and judges in the courts of injustice, so I teach my students to make the law and facts their own by putting them together in their own words. I invite you to do the same. We live in a connected universeso everyone should get the conspicuously ignored Constitution on to their hard drive. Now gladly put upon your shoulders the blessed burden of telling everyone that you want to know more about the Constitution.
Americans must demand all future Presidents to take the Article VI oath to support this (written) Constitution! Our course is clear, our work is simple, our success is sure: Tell everyone to demand our return to glorious liberty by the sworn Presidents executive oath contained in Article VI! This is our American Peoples Call to Arms to Restore the Constitution! You have been personally called to stand for our mutual liberty by this Call to Arms! Stand up and be counted! Speak out and be heard! To those beyond your voice, send e-mails of this great news and means of reclaiming Americas Liberty once again!
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