The Balance of Power

As with any adversary, there is no mutual respect without a proper balance of power. The Constitution grants its government the powers to establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. No more, no less.

To restrain that power, the Framers constituted a “separation of powers” between three branches of government to furnish the proper “checks and balances” necessary to ensure a rigorous accountability in accordance with the Constitution and its declared purpose to preserve freedom.

Still—democracy, special interests, and alleged national emergencies—invited unconstitutional laws, regulations, edicts, amendments, and alternate constitutions into public matter. Further, the Constitution’s commerce clause, Article I, Section 8, paragraph 3, was burdened with the Uniform Commercial Code which subverted the entire justice system by attaching corporate identities to everything, including Citizens. Presumed constitutional, it is largely responsible for the continuous loss of our individual freedom.

This corruption required a blatant disregard of the Constitution’s primary intent and was facilitated by relentless infringements on Article VI. Every branch methodically defied their Oath of Office. It continues today and demonstrates the true adversary to government power can only be the People.

The State’s pretentious disrespect for the U.S. Constitution and neglected constitutional responsibility to safeguard individual rights has given citizens the sense that balance is not in their favor. Government infringement on the Second Amendment further illustrates the ignored constitutional boundaries that lawfully restrain them. If tyranny hasn’t arrived, it’s surely on its way.

In 2017, civilians owned an estimated 393 million firearms in the United States. Still, that astonishing number provided no perceptible shift in the balance of power. In fact, private gun ownership alone does little except provoke political narratives ultimately meant to disarm citizens.

The Constitution was crafted not just to grant power to safeguard certain unalienable rights, but to restrain government from its predilection for expansion. Any growth beyond the powers delegated in the Constitution is at the expense of liberty and an unconstitutional affliction on the free state. It must therefore be challenged – not with the politics that placed it, nor through the courts that upheld it – but appropriately in a nonpartisan manner by “the militia of the several states” recognized today as the state unorganized constitutional militia.

This important institution is sanctioned by the United States Constitution, its charter The Declaration of Independence, and further detailed in the Bill of Rights as “being necessary to the security of a free state.”

For every state in the union, it is essential the militia exceed their state power — in arms, manpower, and quality of training. The arrival of those numbers demand a grassroots cultural change that encourage gun owner patriots to proactively train with their local militia; not just for the skills necessary to defend their own rights but to be effective in their commitment to the security of a free state.

This forgotten tradition passed on to us by our Forefathers reduces the prospect for a violent revolution. While that prospect will always exist, a simple cultural shift in power is the most prudent approach to see to it that fear alone shall result in liberty.

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