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The illusion of democracy and the death of freedom · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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  Listen to the rhetoric, and you might think that democracy is the greatest thing man has ever created.
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  That's not what our founding fathers thought, and for very good reasons.
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  Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read and study the Constitution, teacherizing generation be free.
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  So glad you could join me today.
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  You know, when I hear people talk about democracy nowadays, all I could think of is that that line from Enigo Montoya.
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  I don't think it means what you think it misses.
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  I I don't think you know people use the word democracy.
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  I don't think they it means what they think it means, or or I should say leads to the outcome that uh I think they think it does.
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  You know, people talk about America being a democracy and saving Western democracies, and we have the foundation for the defense of democracies, and everyone sounds like, oh, this is really great.
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  This is really important.
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  This is the future of the world.
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  Except again, that's not what our founding fathers thought.
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  Take, for example, Noah Webster.
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  He wrote, many plausible things may be said in favor of pure democracy.
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  Many in favor of united, uniting the representatives of the people in a single house, but uniform experiences prove both to be inconsistent with the peace of society and the rights of free men.
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  See, the problem is we think that democracy is designed to protect our rights when it's not.
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  And again, Noel Webster, he wasn't the only person.
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  Uh John Adams wrote in a letter to John Taylor, he said, democracy, while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy.
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  Remember, democracy never lasts long.
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  It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
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  There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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  Does that sound like how we describe democracies today?
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  My personal favorite is actually Benjamin Franklin who says democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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  Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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  And of course, I can't talk about democracy without using this quote from Vladimir Lenin, who said, democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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  So if we have all of this evidence from our history that democracies are not good things, that they are, well, they lead to a lot of evil.
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  Why do we keep promoting them?
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  Why do we keep pushing for them?
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  Well, I think of it as a probably a really good propaganda campaign.
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  This idea that democracy is what made this country great.
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  When we are not a democracy, we're a republic.
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  And as you've read from the founding fathers, we are republic for a very good reason.
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  As Alexander Hamilton said on the floor of the Federal Convention in 1787, he says, we are now forming a republican government.
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  Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
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  So if that's the case, why are the American people so hell-bent on tossing aside the republic, a constitutional public no matter, in favor of democracy?
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  Look at the Constitution.
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  Article uh was it Article 4, Section 4.
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  The United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a Republican form of government.
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  Each of our states have to have a Republican form of government, and the United States is there to guarantee it.
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  The federal government, the the the is a republican form of government.
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  Now, for those of you who went to public school and don't know the difference, a democracy, what people tend today call direct democracy, which is redundant.
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  All right, but a direct democracy, a democracy is where the people legislate, where the people determine the laws, as opposed to a republic where they hire people to represent them.
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  Now, why is that important?
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  Well, the idea is the you know the people can really be riled up into a fervor, right?
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  It's it's the emotions can often take hold and can lead people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't do.
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  You know, they would they the the the passions run hot.
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  Now that can also happen in a representative democracy, what people like to call representative democracy, a republic, when the representatives are not bound by a higher authority.
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  In this case, in our case, it's the Constitution.
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  In our states, it's the Constitution of our state.
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  In the United States, it's the Constitution of the United States, that is a boundary placed on them in order to protect our rights.
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  Yet there are a lot of states that have direct democracies.
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  Even though the Constitution says that the United States is supposed to ensure they have a Republican form of government, they have a form of direct democracy.
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  This comes in the form of um ballot measures.
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  Probably best known as California, right?
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  They have their their different proposals and ballot measures where they literally modify their constitution by a vote of the people on absolutely everything.
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  You know, all it takes is 50% plus one, and and you can change pretty much anything you want, including the protections of people's rights.
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  Less well known is Florida.
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  Florida has a form of direct democracy where, again, if you get a bunch of enough signatures, you can put a uh a uh uh uh a notion on the ballot and a get people to vote on, which is why the Constitution of Florida protects the living rights of pigs.
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  That's what happens with these democracies.
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  Now, three states, North and South Dakota as well as Utah, are actually looking at rolling back some of these citizen initiatives, this experiment in direct democracy.
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  What they're doing is raising the threshold for amending the constitution by popular vote from 50% to 60%.
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  And that's important.
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  It really is important because again, the constitution of a state is supposed to be the paramount law of the state.
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  Yes, it is subject to the it is the Supreme, the study Supreme Law of the Lands, the Constitution of the United States, but within that area, within the stuff not regulated, but not delegated to the federal government, the Supreme Law and a state is its constitution, and being able to modify it simply by getting people riled up.
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  Constitution and being able to modify it simply by getting people riled up.
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  Missouri is trying something different.
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  Missouri is trying something different.
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  Uh they placed a measure on the ballot that would require any citizen sponsored amendments to the state constitution, would have to win each of the state's house districts.
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  Uh they placed a measure on the ballot that would require any citizen sponsored amendments to the state constitution would have to win each of the state's house districts.
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  Meaning not you couldn't simply go to the very populated area and blow out the election.
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  Meaning not you couldn't simply go to the very populated area and blow out the election.
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  You have to go to each of the
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  You have to go to each of the house districts and win each of those districts.
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  You'd have to, in effect, you'd have to get the approval of the entire state.
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  Now, interesting, in Florida, Governor DeSantis signed a bill imposing a bunch of new requirements, fees, penalties around the collecting of signatures for ballot measures.
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  So there's there's they made it making it harder.
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  Um the last uh the uh all 22 of the proposed amendments failed to qualify for the ballot this year.
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  Now, don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with with citizen sponsored amendments to the constitution.
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  It's what is this threshold?
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  For example, let's take the the federal constitution as an example, right?
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  Um, in order for the states, because remember, it's not the citizens, it's the states that propose amendments.
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  Congress can propose amendments and states can propose amendments, but first, before the states can even have a convention for proposing amendments, two-thirds of the states have to call for a convention, not a majority, two-thirds.
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  And then whether it's Congress or the states uh that that call that proposed the amendments, three fourths of the states have to ratify it before it becomes part of the constitution.
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  It's this idea that um, you know, if you're amending the paramount law of the land, it needs to be more than a simple majority.
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  There needs to be a protection of our rights, right?
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  You can't simply I'll give you first example.
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  I saw this poll uh that says nearly half of Americans oppose vaccine mandates, right?
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  It's a it's a poll from uh public first uh uh that they did it for politico, and 46 of the respondents said that they um they oppose vaccine mandates.
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  Now, here's the problem.
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  Okay, you have a right protected by the Constitution of the United States to both your liberty and your property.
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  Fifth Amendment, you cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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  14th Amendment, no state can pass a law that deprives you of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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  And here we have your liberty, do you get a vaccine or not?
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  Your property you have in your own body, that is yours.
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  Now, in a republic, a constitutional republic, those rights are protected.
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  And in order for government to get rid of those rights, you need two-thirds of the House or two thirds of the um states to propose an amendment, and you need three quarters of the states to approve it.
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  But yet in these states, you get a bunch, you get a certain number of ballot signatures, and 50% plus one can literally wipe out your right to liberty and property, the right you have to your own body.
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  And what we're seeing here is if if this were a democracy democratic vote, if only 46% of the of the people polled uh thought that you know vaccines might be a problem.
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  Now, the good news is you go down deeper in the poll, uh I'm sorry, different poll conducted by uh Zogby Strategies, found that 80% of Americans oppose mandates.
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  So I'm kind of confused here.
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  If in one poll, 54 uh 46% say the vaccines are still up for debate, but 80% uh another poll they say 80% opposed mandates, are you telling me that your right to control your own body could be voted away because a majority of people agree to it?
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  See, we're the United States is not just a republic.
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  Our states are not just republics, they are constitutional republics.
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  And the ability to modify the constitution is intentionally difficult.
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  Not because they want to deny people their rights, they want to make sure that people are not denied their rights.
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  So when I saw this article about states that are saying, hey, maybe we need to set the threshold higher.
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  That direct democracy, the majority rules, and and the majority can overrule your rights, not a good thing.
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  But yet here we have this idea that, oh, well, democracy is is wonderful.
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  Democracies, we need must do everything to protect democracies.
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  Sorry, democracies, as as uh Adam said, are they evil?
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  They commit suicide, they destroy people's rights because all it takes, look at perfect example, another per example, right?
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  Back to COVID.
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  Look at it this way.
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  Uh how many people were out there saying, uh, you know, you have to put a diaper on your face and stand six feet apart and put a shot in your in your arm, and and the majority of people said, we have to do this.
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  Was it because they had scientific evidence that it worked?
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  No, nobody had evidence that it worked.
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  What you had were people driven by fear.
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  You had a small group of people that were able to instill fear in others and use them to get the herd to follow them.
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  And our rights were trampled, well, the rights of most of us, because there were a few of us that refused to comply.
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  But the vast majority of Americans went along.
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  And if they're willing to go along with becoming medical guinea pigs, what about your right to freedom of speech?
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  Uh, you know, there's a there's a call I'm on, and it's funny because one of the topics we can, well, you're not allowed to say some certain things.
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  I have baloney, I can say whatever I want.
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  I have freedom of speech.
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  Now, I may be held accountable for my speech, but the whole idea is if if a group of people can tell me what I can and cannot say, I'm not free.
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  And if we allow people in government to say, well, that's disinformation and misinformation, or or maybe pundits or even media outlets to say you're not allowed to speak because we don't like what you're saying.
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  If all it takes is 50% plus one people to vote for that, our rights aren't our rights.
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  There are there are gifts, there are privileges bestowed on us by government and by our society.
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  There are gifts, there are privileges bestowed on us by government and by our society, but they're not our rights.
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  But they're not our rights.
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  And that to me is a large part of the problem.
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  And that to me is a large part of the problem.
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  We don't think about our rights.
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  We don't think about our rights.
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  We don't recognize when our rights are being violated.
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  We don't recognize when our rights are being violated.
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  And these direct democracies are a direct attack on our rights.
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  And these direct democracies are a direct attack on our rights.
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  Because if you're telling me that, you know, out of three people.
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  Because if you're telling me that, you know, out of three people, two other people can convince can take away my rights because they vote for it.
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  Then we have two wolves in the lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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  And your rights are on the table.
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  And the only way we stop that is by understanding again what the Constitution, what was actually created, not the myth and the propaganda that has been put out.
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  Not the narrative as people like to put it, but by the facts and data and the reality of going back to the word, and this is what was created and why this is so important and why.
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  Every time you hear someone scream about democracy, ask yourself are they looking for the ability to take away your rights?
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  And I'm sorry, there are a lot of organizations with democracy in their name that are trying to do a lot of good things.
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  But if you're telling me you want to give people the ability to vote away my rights, that's evil.
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  That's exactly what democracy is.
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  And today we're talking about direct democracy and the death of freedom.
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  And I'm not being hyperbolic.
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  I don't believe so.
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  I've seen so many rights around the world destroyed by a 50% plus one majority.
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  Now I'm not saying that majority rules should never matter, but when it comes to protecting your rights, there needs to be something more.
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  And one of the beautiful things of the Republic that our founding fathers created was the idea of separation of powers.
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  You have legislative, executive, and judicial, and they are separate, and they're supposed to kind of counterbalance each other.
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  They're not equal.
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  By the way, they're separate, but they're not equal.
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  But um I want to take a look at some examples of this the separation of powers and it breaking down.
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  See, ever since Donald Trump took office for the second time, there have been a group of justices, members of the judicial branch that think they are the executive.
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  They act like they get to set policy.
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  Often, you know, that sometimes they're even blatant about it, right?
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  Often, you know, sometimes they're even blatant about it, right?
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  Sometimes they claim, well, you know, this violates this law, which says no such thing as what they say.
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  Sometimes they claim, well, you know, this violates this law, which says no such thing as what they say.
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  Or they say, well, this is just bad, this is wrong policy, and now I'm gonna find a way to justify it.
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  Or they say, well, this is just bad, this is wrong policy, and now I'm going to find a way to justify it.
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  Now, because of this attack on the separation of powers, where you have judges claiming to tell the executive what to do, right?
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  Now, because of this attack on the separation of powers, where you have judges claiming to tell the executive what to do, right?
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  It's not the way it works.
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  It's not the way it works.
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  Go back to Marbury versus Madison, right?
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  Go back to Marbury versus Madison, right?
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  The f the everyone talks about this is.
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  The everyone talks about this is when uh the the court, the Supreme Court gave itself um judicial review.
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  It's not true.
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  I've read the opinion.
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  Interestingly, they do use the term judicial review to say, hey, when we're looking at case, we must review the laws.
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  That's our job.
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  But they also said, listen, the constitution does not give the the courts the authority to order the president to do anything.
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  Right there, it's like they the Mr.
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  Marbury wanted a writ of mandamus and order to the executive branch to do something.
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  Congress had written the uh the judiciary code to say, yeah, the courts can can issue a writ of mandamus against the executive.
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  The courts looked at it and said there's just one problem.
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  The constitution doesn't say that.
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  The constitution doesn't give us that power.
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  So how are we supposed to do this if the constitution doesn't give us this power?
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  Yet you have, and that was a supreme court.
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  Now you have you have district numerous district court judges saying, Well, I get to tell the president what to do.
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  I can issue these nationwide injunctions, I can do all these things.
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  And of course, many of those have fallen, some of them at the appeals court level, some at the Supreme Court, which is where the story comes up.
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  Because uh Associate Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, um, she's not real happy.
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  She's uh she's happy that the Supreme Court has used their their emergency docket, the idea that something is an emergency, we need to deal with it now, because um, well, it kind of gets in the way.
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  Now, Justice Jackson was giving a speech at the Yale Law School, specifically about the court's uh emergency document docket, and uh she complained that uh the Supreme Court was granting emergency applications to request a stay of lower court injunctions with uh a lack of legal explanation that comes with such decisions.
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  Now we have to understand the the part of the legal process, right?
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  You often think of courts going to the Supreme Court, it's what's called the merit docket, meaning these are cases that pretty much have they've gone through, they've either gone through the appeals process, meaning there's a district court, then the circuit court, and now it's been appealed to the Supreme Court, uh, unless, of course, there are certain cases that go directly to the Supreme Court.
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  And these are meant to be fully thought out and litigated cases.
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  You go through all the stuff.
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  The emergency docket is just there for short-term temporary uh situations.
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  Like you have a judge that issues a you have a district court judge that tries to issue a nationwide injunction on something again the the that the courts look and say, you it you've gone beyond you you think you we think you've messed up.
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  Supreme Court says, you know what?
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  Um we think you've overstepped, we're gonna put a stay on it.
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  We're gonna pause this until the courts can actually go through the real process.
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  Now, I find it interesting that Jackson complains about this when it um it supports uh say uh uh the the Trump agenda, as she calls it, not so much when it supported uh the Biden agenda and scenarios like that.
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  So it's this understanding that courts, I go back to Alexander Hamilton and Federal 78.
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  Courts have neither force nor will, only judgment.
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  And uh it's this separation of powers that is um it we it's it's been lost.
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  When courts think they can order the rest of government around, when you have a Supreme Court justice saying that uh, hey, you know, the the the executive branch, they must follow what we say.
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  No, that's not a republic, ladies and gentlemen.
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  That's a dictatorship.
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  Where mark it, it's a it's a uh, well, I call it a kleptocracy, but it's the uh it's an oligarchy.
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  It's when a small group of people get to rule.
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  Ever notice how often court decisions are referred to as rulings?
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  They're not.
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  Courts do not rule.
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  Monarchs rule, oligarchs rule.
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  Courts in this country do not rule.
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  That is a violation of the separation of powers.
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  They offer decisions.
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  They may issue orders, some of them may be legal, some not, but they they offer opinions, but they do not rule.
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  Again, Alexander Hamilton of a federal 78.
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  Courts have not have neither force nor will, but merely judgment and must ultimately depend on the executive arm for the efficacy of their decisions.
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  It's this violation of separation of powers that is leading us not just to a, in this case, not necessarily a direct democracy, but to an oligarchy.
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  Because if in this scenario, no matter what laws are passed, you have a group of of nine uh high priests in black robes that people expect to eventually either say, okay, you can go ahead, or no, we don't like that, you can't.
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  And people claim that there's nothing you can do about it, except that's not true, because nothing the court says is law.
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  That's a lie.
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  For 50 years, I heard people say that Roe v.
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  Way was the law of the land.
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  It is not, it never has been, it never was.
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  It was the opinion of a judge of a group of judges, a bad one.
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  It's understanding this separation that's part of the problem.
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  And when we, you know, part of this democracy movement, I think it's what has led to this this power in the courts, because let's face it, um, if if the people get whatever they want, regardless of the rules, all they need is a court to say, yeah, you can violate someone else's rights.
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  Don't believe me.
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  Ask uh, I forget the guy's name, the the uh the Baker in uh in Colorado, who for 10 years has been trying to exercise his right to not be forced to promote something he just vehemently disagrees with, to not be forced to create custom cakes in celebration of something he disagrees with.
• 27:46
  And if you followed the democracy, then well, Colorado voted for this.
• 27:51
  So, hey, you know, Colorado elected people, they voted for this, they created these these these uh, you know, star chambers of human rights commissions, and and well, why can't the people get what they want?
• 28:00
  And well, why can't the people get what they want?
• 28:02
  Because it infringes on this guy's rights.
• 28:02
  Because it infringes on this guy's rights.
• 28:05
  Well, the court should take care of that.
• 28:05
  Well, the court should take care of that, except they didn't until it got to the Supreme Court.
• 28:07
  Except they didn't until it got to the Supreme Court.
• 28:10
  And it's even though the court said Colorado, no, as soon as they went back to Colorado, they kept doing it again.
• 28:10
  And it's even though the court said Colorado, no, as soon as they went back to Colorado, they kept doing it again.
• 28:16
  They went right after them again.
• 28:16
  They went right after him again.
• 28:18
  This is what happens in these in these quote unquote democracies is that it no longer your rights are no longer protected unless the majority agree with you.
• 28:18
  This is what happens in these in these quote unquote democracies, is that it no longer your rights are no longer protected unless the majority agree with you, which is
• 28:29
  Which is it's destructive.
• 28:31
  Think of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
• 28:34
  What if that guy were reduced to, well, you could say anything you want, anything you want as long as the majority of people agree with you?
• 28:42
  I.e., remember political correctness, this communist tool to regulate freedom of speech, this communist tool to control what people thought by controlling what people said.
• 28:55
  This idea we had a uh uh what we we were calling it the Ministry of Truth.
• 29:01
  The previous administration wanted to actually say we are going to define what true is.
• 29:06
  Well, democracies as you can't do, why not?
• 29:09
  If democracy says the government can decide what is and isn't true, where's your rights?
• 29:17
  This this you know again, we've been duped into thinking that democracy is a good thing.
• 29:24
  Well, guess what?
• 29:26
  It's not.
• 29:28
  And the separation of powers is one of the things that helps protect the republic from the passions of democracy.
• 29:35
  The other is federalism.
• 29:37
  Now, federalism is a very important part.
• 29:39
  Federal, as in federation, as in taking a group of states and recognizing what each one can do for itself and what needs to be done collectively.
• 29:49
  So federalism recognizes that there are powers delegated to the United States, just like the 10th Amendment says, if it's not delegated to the United States, it doesn't belong to the states.
• 29:59
  Now, why is this important?
• 30:02
  Well, I was reading an article on the Federalists just the other day, where they they the title of it is a tale is two states.
• 30:08
  Why national voter ID is critical to U.S.
• 30:11
  elections.
• 30:13
  Ooh.
• 30:14
  First of all, national voter ID, absolutely unconstitutional.
• 30:19
  What do you think, Bob Paul?
• 30:20
  Well, let's go back to the Constitution of the United States.
• 30:24
  Article one, section four.
• 30:26
  The time, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.
• 30:33
  But Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except to the place of choosing senators.
• 30:39
  We do not have national elections.
• 30:42
  Why do we need a national voter ID?
• 30:46
  Let me say this again.
• 30:48
  We do not have national elections.
• 30:52
  There's not a single election in the United States where the we the people are all voting for the same thing.
• 30:59
  It does not exist.
• 31:01
  When you vote for House and Senate, those are state seats.
• 31:05
  Remember, the seats in the House are apportioned to the states based on their uh their representative their population.
• 31:14
  Each state gets two senators.
• 31:17
  They belong to the state.
• 31:18
  Those are state elections you vote for.
• 31:20
  Well, what about the president, Paul?
• 31:22
  The people don't vote for president of the United States.
• 31:25
  The states appoint electors who vote for president of the United States.
• 31:28
  Now, most of them do it based on a statewide election, but we aren't voting for president.
• 31:35
  We're telling our states who to vote for.
• 31:38
  So this idea that we need a national, we we need to destroy federalism because we don't like the way some states are fulfilling their duty.
• 31:50
  But what really started this discussion, at least with the Federalists, is um the Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simpson is scheduled to appear before the House administration committee, actually probably has by now, um, and will be asked to explain how a 39-year-old non-citizen in Minnesota registered to vote in the 2024 election.
• 32:10
  That's none of Congress's issue.
• 32:14
  Remember, this is a state election.
• 32:17
  This is a problem in Minnesota.
• 32:18
  Minnesota has a problem.
• 32:22
  You had a non-citizen vote in violation of Minnesota Constitution.
• 32:26
  The Minnesota Constitution, uh, Article 7, Section 1.
• 32:32
  Every person, 18 years of age or more, who has been a citizen of the United States for three months and who has resided in the precinct for 30 days next preceding an election, shall be entitled to vote in that precinct.
• 32:45
  The Minnesota State Constitution requires someone be a citizen of the United States in order to vote.
• 32:51
  Minnesota has a problem.
• 32:53
  That's a problem for Minnesota.
• 32:55
  Why is it suddenly a federal issue?
• 32:57
  Why is it a why is the House, which has no jurisdiction over voter registration?
• 33:05
  Why are they involved?
• 33:08
  Because this democratic push, and I don't mean by party, I mean this idea of promoting democracies that are trying to destroy federalism is saying, no, no, no, we we need to control all the states.
• 33:23
  We need to federal government to rule over everything.
• 33:26
  And we think if we can get a majority of people to agree with us, we should be able to let Congress do whatever the heck it wants.
• 33:33
  So I keep pointing out they keep one of the Save Act.
• 33:36
  Well, the problem with the Save Act is this voter ID for the citizenship proof for registration is unconstitutional.
• 33:43
  It's not a power delegated to the United States.
• 33:46
  Congress can require a photo ID, but only to vote in U.S.
• 33:52
  House and Senate elections.
• 33:54
  Period.
• 33:55
  Not the president, not state and local elections.
• 33:58
  But you see, now we want this democratic push.
• 34:01
  We got to get everybody to go along.
• 34:03
  We got to get rip up all this fervor.
• 34:05
  It's what the Federalists is doing.
• 34:07
  The Federalist is literally whipping up a fervor to destroy federalism by making voting a national question, not a state question.
• 34:18
  Why?
• 34:19
  Well, we're pushing democracy, and we just we get enough people excited, we get enough people to agree with us, we can do whatever we want, even if it violates the Constitution of the United States, even if it deprives people of their rights.
• 34:32
  I agree, there are a lot of states that need a lot of work on their voting problems.
• 34:36
  But that's their state's problem.
• 34:38
  That's not a federal problem.
• 34:41
  And if we let the federal government suddenly become the arbiter of all things election, guess what?
• 34:48
  Our freedoms will disappear.
• 34:51
  How do I know this?
• 34:52
  Because Congress has been infringing on our rights for decades.
• 34:56
  Fully 90% of the federal agencies created by Congress are unconstitutional.
• 35:00
  Congress are unconstitutional, an infringement on our right to have a government uh created by with its powers from our consent.
• 35:02
  An infringement on our right to have a government uh created by with its powers from our consent.
• 35:09
  We did not consent to these powers, but they exercise these powers, and most people go ahead with it because they don't know any better better.
• 35:09
  We did not consent to these powers, but they exercise these powers, and most people go ahead with it because they don't know any better better.
• 35:17
  That's what democracies lead to.
• 35:17
  That's what democracies lead to.
• 35:19
  Now, let's I have another break coming up before I go.
• 35:19
  Now, let's I have another break coming up before I go.
• 35:22
  You know, a lot of these ideas, they're being promoted.
• 35:22
  You know, a lot of these ideas, they're being promoted.
• 35:24
  They're being lobbied by organizations that are using your money to do it.
• 35:24
  They're being lobbied by organizations that are using your money to do it.
• 35:29
  Now you
• 35:29
  Now, you may not have donated donated to these organizations, but you do business with companies that are donating to those organizations.
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  Isn't it time we stop it?
• 35:37
  Isn't time we stop destroying paying for our own rights to be destroyed based on who we do business with?
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• 40:19
  Today we're talking about, well, direct democracy and the destruction of our freedom.
• 40:23
  And uh we've looked at both uh direct democracies.
• 40:27
  We've looked at at states that are looking to push back a little bit from direct democracies.
• 40:32
  We've also looked at the destruction of federalism, and we're also right now looking at, well, at first we did separation of powers, now we're actually looking at federalism and understanding that the federal government has limited and enumerated powers, and um when they exceed those powers, that destroys our rights, our liberties, our freedoms.
• 40:51
  The latest one is the Department of Justice is suing the state of Connecticut and the city of New Haven over its policies, limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
• 41:05
  Specifically, the DOJ is challenging the Connecticut's Trust Act, which is an executive order issued by the mayor of New Haven, arguing that they conflict with federal immigration laws and the Constitution.
• 41:17
  Well, once again, the DOJ has been proven to be the DO stupid.
• 41:22
  Um, first of all, all right, let's say let's start with that first question.
• 41:25
  Does it violate federal immigration law?
• 41:27
  Well, yes and no.
• 41:29
  See, it violates federal immigration law, but federal immigration law violates the Constitution.
• 41:33
  There's therefore null and void.
• 41:35
  Remember, 10th Amendment, a power not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, remains either with the states or with the people.
• 41:43
  Immigration is not a power vested in the government of the United States.
• 41:47
  They can Congress can set rules for naturalization, but not immigration.
• 41:54
  Does it violate the Constitution?
• 41:56
  No, because there's nothing in the Constitution of the United States that says states cannot regulate their own immigration.
• 42:00
  States cannot regulate their own immigration.
• 42:03
  So if the federal government isn't authorized to it and it's not denied to the states, that power belongs to the states.
• 42:03
  So if the federal government isn't authorized to it, and it's not denied to the states, that power belongs to the states.
• 42:09
  This federal immigration law is not the supreme law of the land because it's not made pursuant to the Constitution.
• 42:09
  This federal immigration law is not the supreme law of the land because it's not made pursuant to the Constitution.
• 42:14
  Article 6, Clause 2.
• 42:14
  Article 6, Clause 2.
• 42:16
  This Constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof.
• 42:16
  This Constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof.
• 42:21
  And the treaties made which shall be made under the authority of the United States shall be the Supreme Law of the Land.
• 42:21
  And the treaties made which shall be made under the authority of the United States shall be the Supreme Law of the Land.
• 42:25
  So the DOJ is challenging something, and again, they're
• 42:25
  So the DOJ is challenging something, and again, their argument is ridiculous.
• 42:32
  It's it anybody that actually read the Constitution enough to understand it, understands it.
• 42:37
  They say, well, you know, federal law takes president over state and local laws.
• 42:40
  Only if that federal law is made pursuant to the Constitution.
• 42:44
  This law was not because Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate immigration, only to set rules for naturalization.
• 42:53
  But here's how we see demo democracies destroying our freedom.
• 42:58
  So the Constitution says Congress can't do this.
• 43:01
  Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18.
• 43:04
  Congress has the power to uh put into effect all laws necessary that are necessary and proper for putting into effect the powers vested in the government of the United States.
• 43:15
  This is not a power vested in the government of the United States.
• 43:17
  Congress has no authority to pass this law.
• 43:19
  But democratically, we elected representatives and those representatives decided democratically they're going to act in power contrary to the Constitution.
• 43:31
  And now they're the that's a legislative branch.
• 43:35
  The executive branch, the Department of Justice, is asking the judicial branch if it is legal for Congress to violate the Constitution.
• 43:45
  That's effectively what they're saying.
• 43:47
  When they say, well, the federal immigration law, which is not made pursuant of the Constitution, takes precedence over the Constitution itself.
• 43:54
  This is what happens.
• 43:56
  We can get enough people to vote for it, that's where the things fall apart.
• 43:59
  That's why we're not just a republic, we're a constitutional republic.
• 44:03
  Which literally means no matter what the DOJ says, no matter what Congress says, no matter what the Supreme Court says, Connecticut has the legal authority to regulate their own immigration.
• 44:16
  And here's the other thing.
• 44:18
  So the problem they say is, well, you're not cooperating with federal law enforcement.
• 44:22
  Well, the Supreme Court has already said states don't have to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
• 44:27
  They don't?
• 44:28
  No.
• 44:28
  Prince versus United States.
• 44:30
  The United States cannot order a state actor to do something.
• 44:35
  So this whole thing is a vi is using this idea of, well, a majority of people believe, guess what?
• 44:42
  I think immigration should be done at the federal level.
• 44:46
  I think policy was that's the way it should be.
• 44:49
  The problem is it's not the way it legally is, which means what we need to do is we need to pass a constitutional amendment delegating the power to regulate immigration to the federal government and then put boundaries around it and limited enumerated powers for that, saying, okay, you get to regulate immigration, but here's your limitations.
• 45:12
  But even if this was a constitutional power delegated to the United States, the United States can't, you know, force states to assist them in law enforcement and federal law enforcement.
• 45:25
  They can't.
• 45:26
  But here we are.
• 45:28
  This attempt to through uh a public um uh you know through public service campaigns, through trying to intimidate people, they're trying to get the people to go along with this violation of their rights.
• 45:44
  Because you're telling me the people of Connecticut don't have the right to follow the Constitution of the United States, the right to exercise the powers not denied to them by that constitution.
• 45:55
  Simply since it's not participate in a program that they believe whether they do it because they don't think it's right or because they think it's unconstitutional, they have that right.
• 46:06
  This is how freedom dies.
• 46:10
  Meanwhile, over in Mississippi, uh Senate Bill 2114 has been sent to Governor Reeves to see if he'll sign it.
• 46:18
  What does this bill do?
• 46:20
  Well, this bill basically makes illegal immigration a state offense.
• 46:26
  If signed into law, uh this would allow state actors to pursue their own criminal charges with illegal immigrants.
• 46:36
  It establishes criminal penalties for individuals who enter or attempt to enter the state directly from a foreign country or locations other than lawful ports of entry.
• 46:46
  Right?
• 46:47
  This offense we classified as a misdemeanor carrying a six months minimum, six months sentence.
• 46:52
  It could escalate to a felony with sentences up to two years or more for additional offenses.
• 47:00
  This law also includes revisions that would require state and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
• 47:09
  Again, this is the state saying this is how we're going to deal with it.
• 47:12
  If you enter this state from something other than a legal port of entry, that's a state crime.
• 47:18
  We can catch you, we can arrest you, we can try you, and if you're found guilty, we can put you in jail.
• 47:24
  The state has decided, you know what, we're going to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
• 47:29
  Now, agree or not, this is Mississippi's right.
• 47:33
  This is a state.
• 47:34
  They are, they have the right to do this.
• 47:37
  This is again, this is the way the republic works.
• 47:42
  And the entities can exercise those powers.
• 47:46
  And if we turn this into a direct democracy where we can say, well, you know what?
• 47:50
  In California and New York and Illinois, we all think that uh borders should be open and we should not enforce any sort of immigration law, and we expect all the other states to go along because well, a majority of the people have voted for it.
• 48:04
  Look at Connecticut, right?
• 48:06
  You can do what you can want to do in Connecticut, but it's not uh what you're gonna do in uh Mississippi.
• 48:13
  Now, along the lines of immigration, I want to read this, and again, this comes from the federalists.
• 48:17
  I don't know why the federals came up a lot today, but did.
• 48:21
  But it shows me a more serious, another serious problem with our understanding of how this country is run.
• 48:29
  Right.
• 48:30
  The uh the title of the article is six House Republicans vote to block Trump from enforcing immigration law.
• 48:36
  Now, listen to the first paragraph, right?
• 48:39
  Six so-called Republicans voted Wednesday alongside Democrats to advance legislation that would extend temporary protective status for Haitian migrants, despite the Trump administration's efforts to end the widely exploited program.
• 48:54
  Do you see how the media manipulates you?
• 48:58
  Right?
• 48:58
  First of all, they start out with the title.
• 49:00
  Out with the title.
• 49:02
  They're trying to get to block.
• 49:02
  They're trying to get to block you have you have six Republicans.
• 49:04
  You have you have six Republicans.
• 49:06
  I'll deal with that in a minute, but they're blowing to block enforcement of immigration law.
• 49:06
  I'll deal with that in a minute, but they're blowing the block enforcement of immigration law.
• 49:11
  Uh they did no such thing.
• 49:12
  They did no such thing.
• 49:15
  They they voted um legit, they voted legislation that said, yes, we're going to extend temporary protection status for Haitians.
• 49:15
  They they voted um legit, they voted legislation that said, yes, we're going to extend temporary protection status for Haitians.
• 49:23
  We are making law to extend protected status.
• 49:23
  We are making law to extend protected status.
• 49:28
  So the title.
• 49:28
  So the title is a lie.
• 49:31
  But what really caught my attention is six so-called republicans.
• 49:37
  This to me is the most offensive part.
• 49:39
  And this is why democracies are so dangerous.
• 49:41
  You look at most of the Western democracies, they are not based on individual votes.
• 49:46
  They're based on party votes.
• 49:48
  And here's what we had the Federalists saying.
• 49:50
  The Federalist saying, if you don't go in lockstep with the with your the president, you're not part of the party.
• 50:00
  The Federalist just placed itself as the all-powerful diviner of who is part of what party.
• 50:12
  Now, the the author of this, a uh uh Brianna Lyman basically said, if you're not with us on this, you're not a Republican.
• 50:20
  That's baloney.
• 50:22
  Because Republicans are not based on their immigration policy.
• 50:28
  Republicans want Republicans elected.
• 50:31
  Democrats want Democrats elected.
• 50:34
  If these six Republicans think that this legislation will get them and fellow Republicans elected, they are acting as Republicans because the donkeys and the elephants have nothing to do with policy.
• 50:47
  Their primary focus is getting more of them elected.
• 50:51
  Now, why is this more?
• 50:52
  Let's look at this.
• 50:53
  Uh, we're looking at um, let's see, Mike Lawler of New York State.
• 50:58
  We're looking at uh Nicole Malatakas, New York State.
• 51:02
  Ooh.
• 51:04
  You mean places where this type of policy is considered uh um is supported by people?
• 51:12
  You've got Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Carlos Jimenez of Florida.
• 51:20
  Um, sorry, uh yeah, Carlos Jimenez of Florida, and uh Maria Elvira Salazar, also of Florida.
• 51:26
  In other words, if you look at these six states, these are representatives.
• 51:31
  They are uh Nebraska, I'm not entirely sure about, but most of these states, I believe are supportive of this type of temporary protected status for certain migrants.
• 51:42
  So you're saying they shouldn't represent the people, they should represent the party.
• 51:48
  That's how democratic governments work, right?
• 51:52
  Because it's not simply the people, the people are gathered together in parties and they're expected to support the party.
• 51:58
  And here you have a website called the Federalist, which you would think would be based on the Federalist Papers or or support federalism with a story that is about uh basically party rule, democracy and and and party rule.
• 52:17
  Now, listen, you may think uh TPS for Haitians is a good thing, you may think it's a bad thing.
• 52:23
  The point is are these representatives representing the people in their district within the confines of the constitution.
• 52:34
  Now, the constitution says that um Congress makes the law.
• 52:41
  So this is not about you know blocking law enforcement, this is about making law.
• 52:48
  And of course, it's it's they're not Republicans, they're rhinos.
• 52:52
  That's nonsense.
• 52:53
  Again, that's turning this not into a republic, but into a variation of a democracy where you pick your party, and that party gets to dictate the rules.
• 53:06
  That's what they're talking about.
• 53:08
  Is that the way you want it run?
• 53:10
  So the United States is not a democracy.
• 53:12
  We're a constitutional republic, which means we the people hire people to represent us.
• 53:19
  We do that via elections.
• 53:21
  We hire them.
• 53:23
  We we make them take a solemn promise by oath or affirmation to do to represent the the people within the sphere of powers delegated to the to the United States by the Constitution.
• 53:37
  We the people don't vote.
• 53:40
  We hire people to vote for us.
• 53:43
  We actually we don't we don't make law, we hire people to make laws for us, and that's a republic, and that's important for a lot of reasons.
• 53:51
  Not the least of which is if you left it up to the mob, they could easily vote away your right to freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom is secure from unreasonable searches and seizures.
• 54:02
  They could simply vote that out of existence by a simple majority plus one, and that's all it would really take.
• 54:09
  And I don't know about you, but that's not the country that I inherited from my family from my parents, and it's not the one I want to pass on to my children.
• 54:18
  Now, if you'd like to read and study more, and I always encourage people to read and study the constitution, do it diligently.
• 54:23
  Well, where do you start?
• 54:24
  Where do you go next?
• 54:26
  And sadly, the answer is usually well, it kind of depends.
• 54:30
  You know, what have you done so far?
• 54:31
  What are your goals?
• 54:32
  What are you looking out for the future?
• 54:34
  Now, I guess I get asked this question all the time.
• 54:37
  So what I did is I built a wizard into the Constitution Study.
• 54:40
  It's called the Constitution Study Wizard.
• 54:42
  You find it at constitution study.com/slash wizard.
• 54:45
  Kind of makes sense.
• 54:46
  And it's designed to ask you the questions to help give you suggestions of what you may want to try next.
• 54:53
  I ask for your name and email address because I'm going to email you a response.
• 54:56
  And I'm at questions like when did you last read the Constitution?
• 55:00
  Did you read any of the documents like the Federalist or Anti-Federalist papers?
• 55:03
  Um, you know, what are your goals?
• 55:05
  Are you part of a group?
• 55:07
  And then based on those answers, well, the system will start generating you suggestions.
• 55:12
  You know, maybe take a look at this book, or maybe take a look at this website, or or maybe have you considered something here over there.
• 55:18
  And then I'm going to look at it as a human being, and I may add some more suggestions for it.
• 55:25
  The point is it's designed to give you suggestions.
• 55:28
  All right, it's not designed to tell you what to do.
• 55:31
  It's giant designed to give you ideas, something you may not have thought of.
• 55:35
  Now, the wizard is free, the suggestions, a lot of them have free options.
• 55:39
  And let's face it, if you don't like them, don't follow them.
• 55:42
  But if you want to give it a try, go to constitutionstudy.com/slash wizard, run through the wizard, see what ideas you said.
• 55:49
  And if you find one or two that you like, hey, let me know, and uh, I'll be sure to uh to you know encourage that in future iterations.
• 55:58
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• 56:00
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