The US was founded on principles that allowed citizens own land. The American colonists had migrated from Monarchies where the Royals owned the land. Colonists also wanted freedom of religion. Colonists wanted to choose their legislators and form governments that would allow citizens to prosper. As Colonists they were able to own land, elect representatives and prosper from 1600 to 1765. Colonists formed militias to defend against Indian attacks and fought along side of British soldiers to win the French Indian War in 1765. The British had overspent on wars and wanted Colonists to pay the war debt. Rather than allow the Colonial Governments to negotiate with the British Parliament, the British decided to force Colonists to pay with a series of taxes and became abusive. The British dispatched troops to enforce the taxes. This resulted in abuses that continued from 1765 to 1775. In 1776, the Continental Congress posted the Declaration of Independence and appointed George Washington to lead the Contntental Army.
The Revolutionary War began in 1775 and ended in 1783. The Continental Congress began work on a Constitution in 1783 and completed it in 1787. It was ratified by the States in 1788. They chose George Washington to be the first President of the United States of America in 1789 and he served 2 terms until 1797.
The Founders carefully established a Republic that insured citizen control and warned that citizens would need to protect it to preserve their freedom. The US Constitution was established with Amendments that could be established as Law, but required Ratification by the States.
The US prospered and grew from 1789 and functioned in compliance with the US Constitution. The Louisiana Purchase in 1802 allowed US expansion to the Mississippi River and the Northern territory to the Pacific Ocean. The Mexican American War in 1858 added the Western territory to expand to its current borders. The Civil War from 1860 to 1865 allowed slavery to be abolished. The Industrial Revolution prompted the inventions we rely on today.
In 2023, we find ourselves in a mess. Our government is abusive. I trace its origins to the Communist Manifesto published by Karl Marx in 1848 and the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, without amending the Constitution to allow it by expanding federal powers in Section 8. The Congress passed a law to allow it, the President signed it and the Supreme Court didn’t stop it. Now we have a government that ignores our laws and doesn’t enforce them. The Supreme Court has allowed the Constitution to drift.
My political conservative view is based on US Constitution Originalism. I support returning the US Constitution to its original meaning and enforcing its rules. This would require that Amendments be filed to allow the US Federal Government to keep the powers it has usurped since 1872. These Amendments should be passed in the House and Senate and sent to the States for ratification. These Amendments should include legally retaining the power for the Federal Government to own federal lands beyond what it needs to function.
I have not seen any amendment that allows the federal government the right to seize State land and make it a national park or federal land.
The original US Constitution limited federal land ownership to military bases and federal offices, courthouses, warehouses and office space needed to operate. It did not include national parks, federal forests or other properties.
If the Amendment is not ratified, then all federal lands and parks would be owned and maintained as State Parks and Lands by the States. If the Amendment does not pass, then States would be able to own the land, allow for mining and oil and gas drilling and would be able to sell the land to farmers. tree farmer and rancheers as family businesses. Park Rangers would become State employees.
Campaign
Finance Reform
My political world-view supports removing the oligarchs and outside contributions by returning control of government to the US citizen, registered voters they are elected to represent.
States need to change campaign finance laws to ban making campaign contributions to all except Registered Voters and limited to candidates who appear on their ballots. Candidates would be able to fund their own campaigns and receive campaign contributions from US Citizen Registered Voters to candidates who appear on their ballots. Contributions would be limited to $1000.
Candidates would be required to post their entire vetted resumes, positions on issues and priorities on their websites before they are allowed to file.
This would remove outside money from controlling US elections and base elections on qualifications. positions on issues and improve the quality of candidates.
Negative, slanderous TV ads would be eliminated because campaign contributions would be reduced to modest amounts for websites, travel and meetings with voters. All candidates in each State would be subject to the same rules. All States should be required to have all voting machines tested and counting is closely monitored to ensure that voter fraud is impossible.
I support retaining the original method of allocating votes for President and Vice President and would oppose elections by “popular vote”.
Our current voting laws encourage the election of bad candidates. We need a cleaner system to attract candidates who are actually qualified. We also need States to change City and County Charters to remove City Managers and return the authority to spend money to elected Mayors who live in their cities. We need to repeal all UN Agenda 21 laws that created “regionalism” that allowed for unelected governance.
We need to cut federal grants to States and Non-profits. Most of these funds are wasted and many of these non-profits are harmful, laundering Soros money to Marxist candidates. We need to remove grant money from the federal departments of Education, Energy, Transportation and others. We need to remove federal departments that States can replace, like the EPA and others whose existence violates the 10th Amendment.
We need to return manufacturing to rural cities in rural counties. US cities are overcrowded and need to let attrition reduce their populations. Big Cities need to eliminate their “development” costs and stop bribing companies to establish businesses in their cities. Small rural counties should continue to be allowed to bribe manufacturing companies to set up plants in or near their rural cities. Family farms need good jobs in town to continue to operate.
Large US companies need to return their engineering and manufacturing operations to the US with high speed, automated manufacturing using Lean manufacturing principles and employee teams to improve processes. The US Trade Deficit rose to over $1 trillion for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The
US needs to produce all that we consume. This includes energy, food, medicine,
appliances and electronics
We need to re-shore our manufacturing back to rural cities..
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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