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CITIZENS PETITION FOR A
REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES
We citizens of the several States of the Union of the United States
of America, representing ourselves, and other citizens of similar
and sound mind, do hereby submit this petition for a redress of
grievances to the federal government of the United States of
America.
Herein we respectfully ask that duly sworn officials within the
legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal
government make, and effect, a hearing, review, and answer to the
following enumerated grievances.
We further ask that such a hearing, review, and answer be
expedited, and made a matter of immediate public record, in such a
manner as heretofore prescribed by law under the authority of the
Constitution of the United States of America.
We hereby attest, and affirm, our continual loyalty, and allegiance,
to the Constitutional Republic of the United States; and we further
attest, and affirm, that honest, and open, answers to the questions
of these grievances (such answers being made by the government)
are essential to the common good of the peoples of the several
states; to the intent, and purposes, of reaffirming, and securing, the
legally held rights, liberties, and constitutional guaranties,
heretofore enjoyed by said peoples.
First Grievance: Whereas ARTICLE IV, Section 4. Of the
Constitution states; "The United States shall guarantee to every
State in this Union a Republican Form of Government", such
guarantee has, in effect, been greatly subverted. Numerous
executive orders, bills of legislation, and judicial opinions of
precedence, in effect as federal law to date, are to all intent and
purposes anti-republican and unconstitutional. Any such federal law
which supersedes the enumerated, written and expressed powers
contained within the text of the Constitution of United States is, in
effect, subversive, and causative of irrefutable harm to the rights,
liberties, and freedoms of the peoples of the several States.
Witness to wit, AMENDMENT X of the Constitution states; "The
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people."
Any accepted legal definition of what constitutes a Republican
Form of Government must be ascertained by an honest,
conservative reading, and interpretation, of the actual text of the
Constitution. However, other essential documents, written and
attested to by the framers of the Constitution, such as the
Federalist Papers and Declaration of Independence, should be
considered.
A careful study of the Constitution, and the essential
documentation's of the founders and framers will revel that
unlimited federal powers, undue regulations and government
interventions, and oppressive bureaucracies of waste,
mismanagement, and corruption are not what our forbears
intended. Such a government as we now have cannot, in anyway, be
considered a healthy Constitutional Republic; and such a
government cannot, and will not, "Secure the Blessings of Liberty
to ourselves and our Posterity".
Second Grievance: Knowingly, and willingly, preventing
viable, infant human beings from being born by any means and
methods agreeable to the federal government is nothing more than
state sanctioned murder. Any viable human child who can be born,
by natural, or accepted medical means, who is prevented from birth
by abortion, or any act of killing, has in effect been deprived of life
and liberty without due process of law. No rational, civilized human
being would kill a child one minute after the time of its birth, nor
one minute before; and no rational, civilized government would
allow, as a legal procedure, to partially deliver, in birth, a viable
human child for the purpose of killing that child.
The concept that any citizen of the United States should have the
absolute power of will, to deprive any viable human being the right
to life and liberty with out any due process of law, is a concept
allowing slavery and involuntary servitude; which are unlawful
under AMENDMENT XIII of the Constitution. Any State which
fails to protect the weakest, most vulnerable of humanity under its
law is a State of treachery, and tyranny.
Third Grievance: The failed social policies, physical
irresponsibility, and continual waste, mismanagement, and
corruption of the multiple federal bureaucracies are a violation of
the public trust, and constitute a deplorable misuse of public funds;
the result of which is the levying of a heavy, and oppressive
taxation. This heavy tax burden stifles the initiative, and destroys
the incentive of the private sector to grow the nations economy;
which further worsens the economic, and social ills of the nation.
The continual disparagement of the public trust by the misuse of
public funds, and the resulting ever increasing tax burden, is an
indictment, in fact, of the present federal system of anti-republican,
anti-liberty, anti-freedom government - a government which must
be reformed in adherence to the logical principles, and precepts, of
a healthy, Republican Form.
Any government which takes from its citizens, individually or
collectively, more than twenty percent of their yearly increase
(profits) is, with out a doubt, a government of tyranny. The people
of this nation, individuals and companies, should be allowed to keep
and enjoy, at the least, eighty percent of their own hard earned
moneys. At present, taxes, federal, state, and local require about
half of everything everyone makes. We are then, half way to
totalitarian socialism. It is imperative that we reform, and reaffirm
ourselves, as a healthy Constitutional Republic - if we do not we
shall inherit the wind, and our Republic shall not stand.
We submit this petition with all due respect to the Congress of the
United States of America. A true copy of this document having
been sent by way of the United States Mail Services on Monday
the fifth day of August two thousand and two, to Congressman
Ander Crenshaw of the fourth congressional district of the State of
Florida, U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC.
We shall also publish true copies of this petition for the benefit of
the peoples of the several States of this Union; and ask all citizens
of like mind to make and send signed copies of this document to
their respective congressmen.
Written, attested, and signed by Stephen Wayne Hampton Sr. On
this fourth day of August in the Year of our Lord two thousand and
two, in the County of Nassau, the town of Bryceville, in the State of
Florida.
God Bless America, may He grant us His Grace, so
that we will govern ourselves in Truth, Liberty and
Justice, may the will of His Divine Providence fall
upon us as Righteous Rain… that we will grow and
prosper a True Nation… “of the people… by the
people… for the people". Amen.