Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox, "Our Constitution Is The Answer, Which is precisely why it is under attack!"
‘Happy Constitution Day!
September 17th is the day that we reserve for honoring our Constitution. Did you know that? I’m afraid not many people do. This is surely not something that is taught in schools today. Just like civics classes have long been absent from our nation’s schools, education about our Constitution is also sorely lacking. Yet, it should be the paramount thing that we are teaching our youth! Why? Because it is the key to a free and happy life.
I explain…
We first need to step back in time. About 250 years ago. A much simpler time in many ways. There were no cars, no paved roads, no computers, no internet, certainly no cell phones - in fact there were no telephones at all. Communication mainly happened by people meeting face-to-face and talking to one another. Imagine that?!
Some people say that our Founding Fathers predicted it all... that they knew the government would one day spin out of control and become dictatorial. I say, it wasn’t a prediction, but a result of infliction.
Think about it, our Founding Fathers came from tyranny. They knew exactly what it was like to suffer under a monarch, one-man rule with an obedient, aristocratic Parliament, where edicts and whims of one person or a select few would upturn lives, cause pain and suffering, and in some cases, result in death. They knew what it was like to petition the King, and have their requests fall on deaf ears. They knew what it was like to work hard to provide for their families, have to pay taxes on their goods and lands, and then watch the “authorities” squander their hard-earned tax dollars on things that would never benefit them, and in some cases would outright hurt them. Their famous cry became, “No taxation without representation!”
And so, they broke free. They fought a bloody revolutionary war, it was gruesome and all-encompassing. Ultimately, they won their freedom, and their historic stand against tyranny was enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. They also crafted our Constitution, and they structured it such that, if followed, it would protect generations to come from authoritarian rule.
The Constitution was Written to Keep the GOVERNMENT in Check. It was Not Written to Keep the People in Check!
Something that I often explain when I am giving a speech or a presentation is that our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution to enshrine our rights, and then they built the government to protect those rights. The government is not supposed to control us. We are supposed to control the government. We do that through suffrage (ie voting). Here in New York, suffrage is so sacred, our state constitution lists it second only to our Bill of Rights.
There are a couple of other key points to recognize:
The states created the federal government. The federal government did not create the states.
Any power not specifically endowed upon the federal government in the Constitution is reserved for the people or the states.
The Constitution lays out our 3 co-equal branches of government and their enumerated powers (Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Executive Branch). The checks and balances set forth in our Constitution are there to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful. This is the Separation of Powers doctrine. When one branch goes astray, it’s up to the other branches to put that branch back in its place.
That is exactly what we did with our recent win in our quarantine camp lawsuit here in New York! The Executive Branch (Governor Hochul and her Department of Health) severely breached the Separation of Powers doctrine and made a regulation that conflicted with a New York State law, and with the constitution. So I sued Governor Hochul and her DOH for their unconstitutional Isolation and Quarantine Procedures regulation which allowed the DOH lock up or lock down New Yorkers for an indefinite amount of time, without any proof you were actually sick, with no way to get out once they locked you up! You can get more information about that case HERE
Our Founding Fathers’ grievances against the tyrannical King in England sound eerily familiar to what we are dealing with today.
Surely you have heard the adage, “History repeats itself.” And so, here we are, almost 250 years later, and in many ways we are living under tyranny. We have Executive branches across the nation (and at the federal level) consistently breaching separation of powers (the cornerstone of our free society). When one branch of government usurps the power of the other branch(es), that is tyranny. And it is We the People who suffer under tyranny.
I call it usurpation of power. Also known as breach of separation of powers. Some call it government overreach. Whichever tag you use, it gets us to the same place: our Constitution is under attack! As a result, attorneys like me have to then bring lawsuits against the Executive branches to get the Judicial branches to put the Executives back into their lane.
A few examples of late:
Our quarantine camp lawsuit victory against Governor Hochul’s illegal quarantine regulation which was struck down as unconstitutional… www.UnitingNYS.com/lawsuit
Biden’s EPA (power plant emissions limitations) regulation struck down as unconstitutional…
Biden’s OSHA (vaxx or mask/test) regulation struck down as unconstitutional…
Biden’s CDC (eviction moratorium) struck down as unconstitutional…
The list goes on. These are cases where the Constitution won; which is wonderful of course. However, this model is not sustainable. Meaning, we can’t just keep bringing lawsuits to put the overreaching, totalitarian Executives back in their lanes. Lawsuits take time. They take money. They take resources. They require lawyers willing to go against the grain to take up the fight. The lawsuits aren’t easy because all of the above-noted ingredients are rare commodities, especially funding. I am handling our quarantine camp lawsuit (which Governor Hochul plans to appeal) pro bono, which means I am doing it for free. But that is not sustainable either! (If you’d like to support our legal fund, please do so HERE)
Our Constitution is only as good as the people it protects
If the politicians don’t uphold the Constitution, then it becomes uselss. If the people don’t require the politicians follow the Constitution, it is useless.
The Constitution must be upheld. Public servants are supposed to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution when they take office. Ask yourself this: “Are my representatives (State and federal), upholding the Constitution? Or are they violating my rights and freedoms, and making my life more difficult and less pleasurable?”
To that I say, election day is November 8th.
Governor Hochul is running for election. Attorney General Letitia James is up for election. Every NYS Senator and Assembly member is up for election. Congressional seats are up for election.
GO VOTE on November 8th. And bring your friends and family to vote too!’
What exactly is she saying when she states that civics and constitutional education is lacking?
-Whenever someone references the three branches of government as "the executive, the legislative, and the judicial"....they are referring to the corporate government services agencies that have been masquerading as "our governments" for generations. Because these entities are corporations, this is indeed their structure, with their legislative branches operating in the model called a democracy. This, presented as factual history of government, aka "civics" is in and of itself false.
- The true three branches of government here in America are the Union, the Federation, and the Confederation. The three constitutions are codes of conduct which apply to the agents, employees, and representatives of the contractors who are supposed to be providing essential services for we-the-people. However, children who are products of the public education system of the last five decades (at least) have no idea, and ongoing use of deceptive language perpetuates the lack of understanding that has contributed to the victimization that the collective is experiencing at this time. Do attorneys and judges even realize that as BAR members, they are agents for undeclared foreign interests (look up the Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA) ....or is the superficiality of all levels of the education system so pervasive that even the people earning their living in this field are completely ignorant of who and what they are actually working for?
- Damn right that public education does little to benefit the public....and it surely does benefit those parties who are best served by a populace that has been indoctrinated in false history and taught obedience to "authority" and what to think, rather than the trivium. We are seeing it everywhere, and it continues to be perpetuated. Read Mel Stamper's Fruit From a Poisonous Tree.....and You Know Something is Wrong When (pdf).
And wish those who took our rights and power they should not ever have taken could be fired from their jobs and arrested and punished!