I want my readers to understand that I am fundamentally non-political. I take neither the democrats’ nor republicans’ side.
I care only to bring to light the law that will save the world. That law has nothing to do with political parties.
So please go through my message knowing that political parties tend to tear a country apart, as we witness today, and that one law will fix all that. As you now know, the founding fathers were on the verge of making that final integration that would have saved our republic from eventual despotism, as our founders feared. We would have been able to keep our republic as our founders hoped for. But our founding fathers, for political survival, rushed into the ten specific Bill of Rights and fell short of integrating one generalized Individual Rights Amendment. Without that solo generalized Individual Rights Amendment, the disease of mankind — rule of man — could gradually mutate, adapt, attack and weaken our Constitution, as happening today.
Below are our very specific Bill of Rights — the first Ten Amendments of our U.S. Constitution. Our founders reluctantly added those ten amendments to protect individual liberties from the new overarching federal government. Even the Bill of Rights’ strongest advocate, Thomas Jefferson, had reservations. It’s author, James Madison was himself initially against a Bill of Rights.
Read through those ten amendments and notice how specific they are, and contrast them to the generalized Prime Law that protects ALL individual liberties. As I wrote earlier, I believe the founding fathers would have put together this fundamental natural-law protecting ALL possible individual rights, if the founders were not under such political pressure to quickly satisfy the anti-federalists’ and the states’ concerns about the powers of the federal government.
Our country today would not, COULD NOT drift toward socialism with the Prime Law as part of our Constitution. (Again, I believe the founders would have presented the Prime Law as The Individual Rights Amendment.) Instead of ten very specific individual-liberty amendments, they needed only one general amendment. And had that happened, we would be a much freer, much more prosperous country today.
If an amendment to our Constitution today, the Prime Law would save the country and then the world. The Prime Law is the only law civilization really ever needs. So if we were to ratify the Prime Law as the generalized Individual Rights Amendment, it would be our Constitution’s last amendment. You need nothing more. Our Constitution would be complete. The multi-generational expansion of our Constitution through the amendment process, amendments mostly to protect rights, will have come full circle, back to the original drive for full protection of our individual liberties…our individual rights. The Prime Law as our 28th Amendment would complete our U.S. Constitution — our freedom and prosperity forever preserved. Our founding fathers could finally rest in peace.
Read through the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments) below followed by the Prime Law. Compare and contrast. Notice the specific versus the universal. The Bill of Rights more or less are “man’s law.” The Prime Law is “God’s law.”
The Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
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.
Try to imagine the founders’ frame of mind when sitting down for the Constitutional Convention in the spring of 1787. The young country had lost approximately twenty-five thousand able bodied men during the Revolutionary War and was buried in debt. The Articles of Confederation no longer sufficed to properly hold together and govern the Union. The United States needed a constitution to hold us together — the U.S. needed a centralized federal government with some power over the states — but not too much power. This challenge became history’s greatest experiment — a powerful country with a limited government run by the people, for the people.
The federalists wanted a strong, centralized federal government. The anti-federalists wanted the power to remain in the states and in local government. The anti-federalists are the reason we have the Bill of Rights. They feared a strong centralized federal government gaining and abusing its power over the states and the people. Thomas Jefferson who pushed for the Bill of Rights knew problems came with enumerating specific rights, but he said to James Madison that half a loaf is better than no bread. He also said, in that same exchange with James Madison, “A brace the more will often keep up the building which would have fallen with that brace the less.”
The young Union, under enormous pressures to synthesize, had no choice but to add the Bill of Rights to keep from falling apart. But imagine for a moment, had Thomas Jefferson been shown the Prime Law. He would have then had his full loaf of bread!
Man’s Law vs. God’s Law
Now when you study the Bill of Rights above, notice just how specific those Ten Amendments are. When getting so specific, stating what specific actions man can and cannot do, the laws become directives of man and eventually devolve into losing battles against man’s law … as opposed to inalienable natural law one is born with, as in the Prime Law. Indeed, to protect our individual freedom, the Prime Law rises above all that as natural law or God’s law. One is born with God’s law, born equal to all others with the natural inborn, inalienable right to live free and independent…with no one having the right to initiate force over any other such equal being. Born as equal beings, we have the natural right to live in peace, free from attack from any other being or group of beings, including government. Natural rights, God’s law, forever remain above man’s law. Therefore, the Prime Law is supreme and incorruptible. The Bill of Rights pull our Constitutional protection down into a battle of man’s law, as we recently witnessed during the impeachment process of Donald Trump. Therefore, the Bill of Rights is vulnerable and corruptible, as time has proven.
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