The
formal surrender of the British at Yorktown on 19 October 1781 was preceded by
the adoption of the Articles of Confederation (AoC) March 31st of
that same year, creating a rough outline for a federal, centralized government
of the new Nation. During the post-war years, there were several “housekeeping”
items to attend to which included settling border disputes, reconstruction,
economic restructuring and generally growing into Nationhood. The AoC stood as
the law of the land and a rough guidance of governance during those 6 years:
American
Experiment in the Restoration of Individual Sovereignty:
The
Constitutional Convention convened on May 25 and concluded on September 17,
1787 with a first draft. For the next two years, disagreements were worked out
over issues including Slavery, Districting, Taxation, Separation of Power and
the Question of Rights. This last item, most agreed with although the full
extent of language used to identify, establish and then to protect those Rights
were not agreed upon until after Ratification in 1789.
The
concept of Individual Rights was undergirded by established philosophical
concepts including the most fundamental of which was the Sovereignty of the
Individual without which there cannot be any legitimate government; that all
government grows out of and is populated by the citizenry of Free Men who
choose from among their number those who will serve the purpose of the
Sovereign.
That
purpose, in the USA is first to Support and Defend the Constitution within
which is confirmation of the philosophically settled concept of the Sovereign
Individual. If then, the concept of the Sovereign Individual is established
(which it is), then it surely follows that the Individual’s Rights in this
regard are as absolute temporally as God’s are, supernaturally and temporally;
unquestioning, uninfringeable.
The
Founders were quite clear in their rendering in the Constitution that they were
speaking of their audience and those covered in the several Articles of the
Constitution in very specific terms:
1. The People were and remain,
a collection of Sovereign Individuals as a subset of humanity, i.e., American
Citizens. This is clearly explained in the Preamble although it is also common
sense.
(see: https://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2025/11/we-people-preamble-we-people-of-united.html)
2. That the Rights spelled out
in the Bill of Rights are specifically of the People who are Sovereign
Individuals and Citizens of the United States of America even while the concept
is considered universal. These Rights are as much an intrinsic element of the
Individual Sovereign’s being as are his Arms, Legs, Ears, Heart, Brain, Fingers,
Toes and as much as the air he breathes and the Lungs, he has that move the air
within his body.
3. That the Rights codified by
the Bill of Rights, are pre-existent and in common for any Sovereign anywhere
on earth, which cannot be ethically, morally or legally interfered with (shall
not be infringed) by fellow Sovereigns and certainly not by those servants the
Sovereign has elected from the citizenry to carry out his directives.
Establishing
the Bill of Rights was not a declaration of the beneficence of a higher
authority bestowing upon it’s vassals privileges, it was in fact a simply
stated listing and acknowledgement of the pre-existence of an established fact
and a warning to those who might seek to infringe upon the Sovereign Individual
Citizens of the USA to freely engage
their naturally occurring Rights/Philosophical Limbs and call back to the
events of April 19th, 1775.
The
importance of the influence of Biblical teachings on the Founders cannot be
overstated. The one side of the debate needs to expunge this element from the
history of the USA and body politic; removing it as a mighty legal tool to
delegitimize the rendering of the Constitution and specifically the Bill of
Rights to allow them to dilute the Nation into something the Founders would not
recognize. Until they win this fight and events in NYC as of November 4, 2025,
should give us pause in this regard, history remains intact.
The
Founders were not just Philosophes, they were Christians, Deists, Statesmen,
Businessmen, Intellectuals, Historians and generally well read. Their dedication
to the concept of Individual Sovereignty didn’t just come from the great
Philosophers of their time and in antiquity, those conclusions were bolstered
by Biblical Teachings, i.e., 1 Samuel 8, Gen 5:1,2, Gen 9:1 – 6 and at least 30
more verses in the Old and New Testaments which describe God as Sovereign over
the entire Universe, over Time, Eternity, Creatures, Mankind, Land, Sea, Air,
Space and beyond and his creating us in his image and giving us dominion over
the earth.
Adam
given all authority:
As
we are made in his Image, and based on decrees in these verses, he has made us
also Sovereigns over the Earth and surely over ourselves having created us with
Free Will, Intellect and a mandate to subdue the earth. Logically, only a
Sovereign could wield that kind of power. This begins with God’s command to
Adam, Gen 1:26 – 28. While Adam’s sin lost him the luxury of Eden, his
responsibilities to God, his family, the earth and creatures, remained along with a newly
“inherited” list of sin-born toil and hardships. Those responsibilities were
passed down through his lineage until this very day and are laid upon all of
us.
By whatever
means a government assumes power, we are also bound to obey that government per
Romans 13. However, the catch for us in the United States, is that the
Constitution identifies us as the Sovereign having delegated certain authority
to the several individuals, we vote for to carry out our desires. As such we
have the responsibility of Supervision and Stewardship. That generally comes to
us in the form of the Vote. Leaning on the submissive parts of Romans 13
exclusively will not save us from divine chastisement when this government
eventually seeks to overstep its authority and to enslave us. We will be held
accountable as the Sovereign as well.
Whether
someone thinks this is right or wrong is not an issue when you understand that
as American Citizens, we have inherited not only the milk and honey but the
responsibilities of husbandry as well. The only legitimate way to get released
from it is to renounce our citizenship and to seek domicile in a nation more
suited to our personal vision of the government/subject contract as did the
Israelites when they demanded a King.
Israelites
demand a King:
The
Bible provides us with many things not the least of which are examples of how
to fail. The Old Testament/Tanakh is replete with examples of failure and the
cost of failure and none more striking than the story in 1 Samuel 8 where the
Israelites demand of Samuel in his old age to choose someone to be their King
and to lord over them. Until that moment they had enjoyed autonomy and a direct
relationship with God. But now, fear, slothfulness, lack of industriousness,
lack of faith set them on a path for the first time, to be subjects of a King
who would stand between them and God and at whose feet they would lay their
autonomy, tribute, freedom and Individual Sovereignty.
The
Israelites never recovered from that decision. They suffered at the hands of
ruthless leaders, godless men, incursions, slavery, punishment, hardship, the
loss of two Temples, enslavement to the Pharisees, Sanhedrin, Romans,
Byzantines. From the 7th century to the 11th, the Moslem
horde had control with a bit of a respite because of the efforts of the first
Crusade, from 1099 – 1187 after which Saladin mounted an assault and reclaimed
the land for Islam. It remained in Moslem control until WW I with the defeat of
the Ottomans (Turkish Muslim Empire) and control was handed to Britain which
they maintained until 14 May 1948 when the UN agreed to establish a sovereign
Jewish state of Israel. Since that time, they have been under siege both
diplomatically and kinetically and I suspect will remain so.
None
of this was lost on the well educated Founders who along with the
aforementioned Philosophers hypothesized a correct return to the divinely
decreed, natural order of authority and the responsibility it demands, ie, God,
Man, Family, Society, Self – in that order but with one acknowledgment of
something that had been abandoned all of those millennia before, that God gave
dominion to and sovereignty over to Man, the Earth and all that man would grow,
cultivate, build, rear, create, including family. Government was an
inevitability at this point but not in the vision of kingdoms and religious
centric principalities. Government is made possible even essential by the Will
of those Sovereign Individuals to do that which they demand and with the
limited authority delegated to it, by them.
Delegation
versus Surrender:
When
you couple that with the conclusions of the great Philosophers, it is clear why
the Founders drew up the Bill of Rights with no ambiguity and with such forceful
language. It’s because they were convinced and duty bound to ensure their
future generations could not have their Freedom and their Sovereignty taken
away. The only way their autonomy and inherent Sovereign characteristics could
be curtailed or expunged is by willful surrender or failure to remain vigilant
or to engage proper custodial stewardship. The entire Constitution delineates
the Power of the Sovereign Citizen, the duties and responsibilities of
chosen/elected Representatives of and by the Sovereign in this regard and
especially their limitations.
The
intent of the Constitution is to describe the enactment of efficacious Legislation,
to protect the Nation and the Sovereign Citizen from external and internal
threats all while defending, upholding and keeping within the parameters of the
Constitution which includes, firstly, the Bill of Rights/the Sovereign’s
philosophical limbs because it is ludicrous to envision any Sovereign as being
denied those appendages which make him whole and allow him at the very least to
engage his Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (see: https://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-immutable-right-left-has-challenged.html)
Private
Property Ownership:
Another
Right that convinced the Founders to separate over was the concept of private
property ownership. Up until that point, every bit of land was property of the
Crown and no one was secure in their homes as the Crown could take their homes
at will. Since that time we have crept rapidly back to that time before with
the adoption of Eminent Domain, Property Taxes, Inheritance Taxes all for the
benefit of the “collective” which are ways of saying; “You don’t own that – we
do.”.
How
this happened is exactly how the Israelites lost their autonomy, freedom and
Individual Sovereignty, succumbing to base urges; fear, slothfulness, greed,
jealousy, covetousness, lack of industriousness. They see others having
something they want and spend their valuable, fleeting time trying to steal it
under the guise of human rights or equitable redistribution.
Mamdani,
Omar, AOC, Sanders, Pressly, Tlaib, Omar Fateh, Katie Wilson are not
harbingers, they are inevitabilities in a United States Society which eagerly sold
its collective soul in the name of inclusiveness and fairness preceded by the
shaming of children into seeking the fast food style indoctrination disguised
as universally necessary education complete with it’s wall-hanging participation
trophy, the Parchment.
These
Marxists weren’t miracled into office, they were eagerly sought after by three
generations of people eager to make the Israelite’s deal with the Devil;
swapping Sovereignty for the promise of a government hovel and three daily bowls
of gruel. Mamdani was caught musing the elimination of private property
ownership which Katie Wilson in Seattle also champions.
Mamdani,
the Shiite, Twelver (in the image of the Iranian Mullahs), Marxist whose chosen
religious sect and political ideology are in direct conflict with
Constitutional philosophy was voted in by three Leftist, spoiled,
self-interested, jealous, hate-filled generations; trained in Marxist
infiltrated schools where equitable redistribution/theft is taught instead of
mathematics and reading, divisive parsing of society into subsets rather than
history, slothful entitlement rather than helping them discover their unique
personal strengths, gifting and talents and how to nurture and exploit them for
personal gain and societal benefit not to mention personal satisfaction, sense
of accomplishment and completion.
Sovereign
Responsibility:
One
of the very few truisms in the Marvel series comes from the Spiderman movies; “with great power comes great responsibility”.
We simply cannot separate our Divinely bestowed gift of Sovereignty from the
responsibility of Delegation, Supervision, Stewardship, Training our children
in the same, Willingness to defend it, Seeking our natural talents and those of
our children and guiding them in that specific direction rather than abdicating
in favor of those whose intent is indoctrination rather than education; to
simply dictate to them what they should believe as opposed to fostering
critical thinking, questioning, and independent decision-making skills.
Demanding
unsupervised independence with a government supplied safety net isn't an
expression of mature Sovereignty, it's the very definition of an irresponsible,
petulant child; demanding autonomy and undivided attention while shirking all
responsibility for themselves or the fallout from their decisions.
Whether or not we can find our way back to our Founding vision is
uncertain. At the very least it will be painful and may well see a prelude of
our own wilderness experience, filled with deprivation, hunger, sickness, heavy
handed government and a bloody fight to regain what these generations and three
generations of slothful parenting, Marxist insinuation in schools and a stewardship failure of the Sovereigns have wrought.
Semper
Fidelis;
John
Bernard
