We have “The United States of America” created by the Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union. And we have “United States of America” created by the Constitution. They have different names so must be different unions. Plus Articles of Confederation is still law.
Everyone keeps telling me the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation but the Constitution creates something different (noted above), and the Constitution does not state it that it replaces or supersedes the Articles of Confederation.
Maybe the Constitution just re-organized or changed the procedures of the management body created by the Articles of Confederation. Maybe the Constitution only applies to the government, not the people, as I’ve read from time to time.
The Constitution creates a Supreme Court: “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Note how it says the judicial power of the United States, not United States of America or The United States of America.
The most important court for state citizens in relation to the federal government is the Court of Claims. Richard: McDonald says that is the only court where a state citizen can triumph over the government. He says we can’t win in federal court, at least maybe in claims concerning our rights as state citizens.
I’m only pointing out that we’re taught to consider the Constitution as the paramount treatise for our civilization, but as for court claims, against the federal government, we’re better off in the state courts or the Court of Claims.
The Constitution does not even mention the Court of Claims, which I find odd.
- Review these slides
- Read this,
- review this diagram of US vs USofA,
- read these six PDFs,
- watch Richard McDonald's seminar intro
- learn to speak like a simple man
- If this site ever goes down, the archive is on the wayback machine.
