Dear Sir or Madam: Please Restore Freedom in America For Us!
With God’s help you could restore freedom to America. Justices and judges and government agencies with their own agendas have been misconstruing or ignoring the Constitution and eradicating many freedoms that Americans once had. Congress could bring back those freedoms but is blind to that possibility and needs you to write and propose a Bill that would do it. If this were properly prepared, sponsored and advertised, you and all its Congressional supporters would become American heroes when the public learns how this will retrieve the religious freedoms we lost and case-by-case could defend the whole Bill of Rights and the right to life itself against tyranny. How many Congressmen would dare argue against this?
Justice William O. Douglas in the 1960’s bragged to the American Bar Association that he and the Court had turned our Constitution on its head! Congress could have prohibited that by using its power to “Regulate” the proceedings of the Court and make “Exceptions” to its jurisdiction. Congress can do that now and force the Supreme Court and the Federal Courts to stop twisting the original meaning of the Constitution.
Oliver Ellsworth, Supreme Court Chief Justice in 1796, speaking of Congress providing a “rule to regulate our proceedings” told the Court “we cannot depart from it.” The present Congress can provide such a “rule” and enforce it by taking away court jurisdiction in every future case where it is broken. This action would be irrefutable. (Article III Section 2 paragraph 2 of the Constitution, supported by many authoritative opinions.)
John Marshall (later Chief Justice) said this power was granted to Congress “for the interest and liberty of the people.” (Italics mine.) If Congress had ever used this power in order to keep Justices honest, our liberties would be safe. Congress has simply assumed that Justices are honest men who keep their sworn oath. Congress did remove the Court’s jurisdiction in certain emergency situations but has never made a “Regulation” to force the Justices to save the Constitution by honestly upholding its original meaning.
1. To uphold the Constitution in the future will mean that all Court decisions must sustain the original intent of the Founding Fathers in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Any breach of this Rule will cause Congress to remove the court’s jurisdiction.
2. Original intent in the future can only be determined and supported by: (a) The Federalist Papers and other confirmed statements and actions of the Founders and the signers of founding documents; and (b) only legal precedents and American traditions existing: (1) prior to the date of the Court’s first evident misinterpretation of original intent (date to be determined at least as early as Everson 1947 when it first used the “separation of church and state” concept); and/or (2) subsequent to the date when this new “Regulatory Act” becomes law. During the 55 or more years between those TBD dates, failure to preserve “original intent” plagued many decisions, which would necessitate validation of every precedent selected from that time period, so their use to establish original intent must be prohibited to prevent future legal chaos.
3. Congress will establish a Committee that will always be ready to investigate future decisions that appear discrepant. This committee will use expert historical opinion and quickly report a breach of the rule to Congress for immediate action to remove jurisdiction.
4. Justices who obstinately ignore or disobey the rule will be subject to impeachment because this will be considered dishonest and a violation of their sworn oath. A lower Federal court will be closed until a recalcitrant judge is replaced.
After the above Regulation has become law, an attorney (perhaps you) in the next case involving “separation of church and state” could use an available well-documented video by historian Dr. David Barton to prove that the First Amendment was “turned upside down” and this would restore its original meaning. This single court victory, a precedent for all future cases, would allow everyone the freedom to pray, read scriptures, and share his/her beliefs anywhere decently and in order. Churches could again fight for Christian morality and God would remain on our money, in our flag salute and in America!
This new Regulation could eventually save the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land. I pray that it might also help save America from the judgment that we deserve because most Christians let our government abandon God and also let every sin become rampant without any protest. Four Masonic Justices (Douglas, Clark, Black and Warren) utilized a Russian and German lie about “church and state” to transform America into a secular (and sinful) nation. Church leaders accepted Satan’s lie (like Eve!) and let everything bad happen to God and to America - to save their precious tax exemption!
It will require an exceptional attorney to want to challenge the legal precedents of the last sixty years and return the judicial modus operandi back to the way decisions were made when we had honest judges. Most attorneys believe we must keep the current system and defensively keep on treating new symptoms of the disease caused by a runaway court system. But I believe that attacking the cause by regulating the judicial procedure could stop the runaway and cure the disease. And Congress has the uncontestable right and power to do it.
Some attorneys have a vested interest in keeping the status quo. Many have nice challenging jobs forever trying to salvage some of our rights from the tentacles of the courts. But no attorney would be needed to help the Congressional Committee evaluate a future “original intent” violation. The historical research video approach should convince the Committee and the full Congress of a violation beyond any shadow of doubt! This would greatly restrain debate and make the removal of jurisdiction easy to achieve - especially if the video and foolhardy debaters were televised! This simple process would also diminish the need for costly and often unproductive grass roots petitioning of Congress in all such future cases.
May God again bless America and you! Yours truly, Richard H. Strand, Ed.D.
(Authoritative opinions and other materials are available upon request.)
Dr. Richard H. Strand, 8924 Camino Real, San Gabriel, CA 91775, September 4, 2002