Dr. Benjamin Franklin
shaped the American Revolution.
Puritan, diplomat,
philosopher, "The First American", Dr. Franklin stood true to his beliefs and devoted
to helping his fellow man.
Franklin urged that the Declaration
of Independence be adopted unanimously, saying "We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all
hang separately."
Asked what sort of Government he and
the others had created, "A republic", answered Franklin, " if you can keep it."
Dr. Franklin's
autobiography was the first work within the first volume of The Harvard Classics:
"And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility
to acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to His kind providence, which lead me to the means I used
and gave them success."
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Loyalty
This site is dedicated to the honor of our beloved
Forefathers on behalf of all who are, yet, devoted to the literal ( = ) parameters
of the Constitution of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence, as defined, solely, by the full and
literal definitions, word for word, to the maximum value of each word, punctuation included, of the Unabridged English Dictionary
of 1776 (the common lexicon of the day) which was used by Dr. Benjamin Franklin [Library of Congress], who signed, both, the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Thus, all American citizens who are devotees
of the literal parameters of the Constitution of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence are the
only TRUE AMERICANS who are, yet, living ...and we will protect America, to the best of our ability, with this resounding
truth.
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Dignity
..John Adams and John Hancock
"We Recognize No
Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!"
[April 18, 1775]
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Reverence
"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important
and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed ... No truth is more evident
to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges
of a free people."
Preface
Unabridged Dictionary of 1828
Author: Noah Webster
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True Heroism
Nathan Hale, Yale Graduate
Long considered a hero among Americans for his stalwart
conviction to live and die for America, Nathan Hale proved to be a hero on many fronts.
During his commencement address at Yale College, as
one of the highest ranking among his class, Nathan Hale expounded upon the higher education of women. Thus, in an arrangement
of the Union School at New London for his new teaching position, it was determined that, between the hours of five and seven
in the morning, he should teach a class of “twenty young ladies”, prior to the regularly scheduled classes
of the young gentlemen.
When news of battles in Lexington and Concord arrived,
Nathan Hale, merely 20 years of age, spoke to our other Forefathers, saying, “Let us march immediately, and
never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.” The next morning, he assembled his school as usual,
yet, only to take leave of his scholars. “He gave them earnest counsel, prayed with them, shook each by hand,”
and bade them farewell.
He was tortured and hanged as a spy by the British.
His final statement was succinct:
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country!"
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We are men!
The Native American population has suffered such horrors
as to stupify. We, as honorary Americans, are morally obligated to be constantly mindful of their great sacrifices.
It was they who taught us, among many other blessings, of man's need to be one with unadulterated nature, of stealth,
and of stature in the face of every dissemblage. The following song, sung in Cherokee, was initially written by a former
slave owner who had been converted to Christianity; a more beautiful version of Amazing Grace, I have, yet,
to hear ...yet one more beautiful gift from our Native American brothers and sisters.
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The Constitution Of The United States Of America: What Does It Mean?
Despite the incessant undermining by liberal politicians
and judges since 1933, our Constitution can legally mean only that which our Forefathers intended for it to mean, including
all "legally"-tendered amendments, given that the nature of legality is, technically (=), ensconced within the literal parameters
of "the document" based upon the lexicon referenced at the time of the signing of "the documentation". It is this
basis which gives legality it's strength of conviction.
As such, the outer parameters of the Constitution
of the United States of America are technically (=) and, thus, legally (=) defined, solely, by the full literal (=) definitions,
word for word and punctuation included, within the Unabridged English Dictionary of 1776 which was used by Benjamin Franklin
[Library of Congress], who signed, both, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.
The Unabridged English Dictionary of 1776 was the common lexicon during the birth of our nation, therefore, all of our
Forefathers ascribed to the definitions, therein.
Accordingly, the period at the end of any sentence
literally (=) means:
", this statement
is complete, subject and predicate included."
As such, only the laws and edicts which are specified
within the literal parameters of the Constitution may be deemed legal by our Government. As an example, the Congress
may determine the value of gold and silver, yet, it may never establish a Federal Reserve System.
The term "literal definition" does not mathematically
equal (=) the term "liberal interpretation". As such, all legislated loopholes, bureaus, et alii, are, technically (=),
and, thus, actually unconstitutional.
According to our Forefathers' common
lexicon of their day, the word "amend", literally (=) solely means "to mend a flaw", rather than merely "to change or alter".
As such, the only legal method of changing Constitutional law is by passing an amendment precisely as specified within the Constitution,
and only if the Constitution is, technically ( = ), flawed ...which it is not.
For example, one common complaint of so-called
"progressives", liberals, moderates, and socialists is that of the second amendment's preclusion of infringing upon a citizen's
right to bear arms in this modern day of automatic weapons. Yet, our Forefathers understood that this law provided proper
protection from invasion (or subversion) whether one person used one gun or thousands of people in concert, each, used one
gun. As such, an automatic weapon is sufficiently covered within the Constitution. Moreover, the word "infringe"
means that one may not cut into the law bit by bit
(as fringe is created), as the United States Government was doing during these recent decades.
The so-called "Rule of Law", which, according to
Margaret Thatcher [C-Span], is an old English method of creating, passing, and enforcing a law, in times of crisis, prior
to determining whether or not it is constitutional, is not literally constitution and, in fact, is the antithesis of American
constitutional law. England's Rule of Law was another reason for which our Forefathers fought in the Revolutionary War
and carefully crafted our Constitution so that it was not in violation of The Golden Rule ...thereby, automatically addressing
any and all possible emergencies with, only, the most basic laws necessary to mankind, based upon their diligent study of
the ancient history of nations. They analyzed which laws had or had not worked for the nations and people through the
centuries, eliminating the problematic and useless laws, and incorporating the functional and humane laws into our Constitution,
in order to protect all future generations.
Today, however, we are experiencing a crisis within
America with regard to Constitutional Law, despite that a so-called Ivy League attorney, who claims to be an expert on "Constitutional"
Law, has run for the Presidency. Yet, he is not protesting the plethora of quasi-constitutional laws on the American
"books", proving that he knows far too little about "America" to heal this ailing nation.
Our states are functioning more as tiny nations
rather than as "united" states. The Constitution of the United States of America is the Constitution of ALL
of the United States of America. As such, all state constitutions are, technically (=), illegal; in fact, there
were no state constitutions until after the burial of Benjamin Franklin. Given that a number of state constitutions
undermine and over-ride the Constitution of the United States of America at, at least, one point, they are additionally in
violation of constitutional law.
Yet, do you even know that which the original Constitution
states? Good luck finding a genuinely original version on-line! Even the Government has officially published an
adulterated version (complete with alterations referencing amendments), yet, labeling it the "original" text. It is
not.
Be it, herein, known that the only legal
precedent to which the Supreme Court can legally refer is the literal (=) parameters of the Constitution of the United
States of America, legally-tendered amendments included, and all official documents in effect during the signing of the Constitution,
the meanings of which are legally based, solely, upon the full definitions within the lexicon used by our Forefathers.
Integrity
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Samuel Adams . Harvard College Graduate
Samuel Adams American
Patriot & Politician
1722 - 1803
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home
from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set
lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
DECLARATION OF COLONIAL RIGHTS: RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
[Following the Boston Tea Party and the adoption of the Intolerable Acts, delegates gathered on September
5, 1774, at Philadelphia, in what was to become the First Continental Congress. Every colony but Georgia was represented.
They voted on September 6 to appoint a committee "to state the rights of the Colonies in general, the several instances in
which these rights are violated or infringed, and the means most proper to be pursued for obtaining a restoration of them"
(Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Washington, 1904, I, 26).
Joseph Galloway (173l -1803), a Philadelphia merchant and lawyer, led a conservative attempt to unite the
colonies within the Empire. He had served as speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly from 1776 to 1774. In the war Galloway supported
the British cause and after 1778 became spokesman for the Loyalists in England. In the First Continental Congress the more
radical delegates thrust aside Galloway's proposal and on October 14 adopted instead, by unanimous action, the Declaration
of Colonial Rights reproduced here. The first draft of these resolutions was written by Major John Sullivan (1740-95 ), delegate
from New Hampshire, lawyer, major of the New Hampshire militia, major general in the Continental Army, judge, and eventually
governor of his state.
Before they dissolved, on October 26, the members voted to meet again in the same city on May 10, 1775, "unless
the redress of grievances ... be obtained before that time" (ibid., p. 102).]
The Congress met according to adjournment, and resuming the consideration of the subject under debate --
came into the following resolutions:
SULLIVAN'S DRAUGHT
... Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British Parliament, claiming a power of right to bind the
people of America, by statute in all cases whatsoever, hath in some acts expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under
various pretenses, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies,
established a board of commissioners, with unconstitutional powers, and extended the jurisdiction of courts of admiralty,
not only for collecting the said duties, but for the trial of causes merely arising within the body of a county.
And whereas, in consequence of other statutes, judges, who before held only estates at will in their offices,
have been made dependent upon the crown alone for their salaries, and standing armies kept in times of peace:
And it has lately been resolved in Parliament, that by force of a statute, made in the thirty-fifth year
of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, colonists may be transported to England, and tried there upon accusations for treasons,
and misprisions, or concealments of treasons committed in the colonies; and by a late statute, such trials have been directed
in cases therein mentioned.
And whereas, in the last session of Parliament, three statutes were made; one, entitled "An act to discontinue,
in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading, or shipping of goods, wares
and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America"; another,
entitled "An act for the better regulating the government of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England"; and another,
entitled "An act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them
in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New
England." And another statute was then made, "for making more effectual provision for the government of the province of Quebec,
etc." All which statutes are impolitic, unjust, and cruel, as well as unconstitutional, and most dangerous and destructive
of American rights.
And whereas, assemblies have been frequently dissolved, contrary to the rights of the people, when they attempted
to deliberate on grievances; and their dutiful, humble, loyal, and reasonable petitions to the crown for redress have been
repeatedly treated with contempt by His Majesty's ministers of state:
The good people of the several colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, and South Carolina, justly alarmed at these arbitrary proceedings of Parliament and administration, have severally
elected, constituted, and appointed deputies to meet and sit in General Congress, in the city of Philadelphia, in order to
obtain such establishment, as that their religion, laws, and liberties may not be subverted:
Whereupon the deputies so appointed being now assembled, in a full and free representation of these colonies,
taking into their most serious consideration, the best means of attaining the ends aforesaid, do, in the first place, as Englishmen,
their ancestors in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties, declare,
That the inhabitants of the English Colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles
of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights:
Resolved, N.C.D. 2 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever,
a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Resolved, N.C.D. 2. That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were, at the time of their
emigration from the mother-country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects,
within the realm of England.
Resolved, N.C.D. 3. That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of
those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and en joyment of all such of them,
as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Resolved, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the
people to participate in their legislative council: and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local
and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive
power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved,
in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been
heretofore used and accustomed. But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries,
we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British Parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation
of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother-country,
and the commercial benefits of its respective members; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising
a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Resolved, N.C.D. 5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more
especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of
that law.
Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the
time of their colonization; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local
and other circumstances.
Resolved, N.C.D. 7. That these His Majesty's colonies, are likewise entitled to all the immunities
and privileges granted and confirmed to them by royal charters, or secured by their several codes of provincial laws.
Resolved, N.C.D. 8. That they have a right peaceably to assemble, consider of their grievances, and
petition the king; and that all prosecutions, prohibitory proclamations, and commitments for the same are illegal.
Resolved, N.C.D. 9. That the keeping a standing army in these colonies, in times of peace, without
the consent of the legislature of that colony, in which such army is kept, is against law.
Resolved, N.C.D. 10. It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the
English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the
exercise of the legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional,
dangerous, and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.
All and each of which the aforesaid deputies, in behalf of themselves and their constituents, do claim, demand,
and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by
any power whatever, without their own consent, by their representatives in their several provincial legislatures.
In the course of our inquiry, we find many infringements and violations of the foregoing rights, which, from
an ardent desire, that harmony and mutual intercourse of affection and interest may be restored, we pass over for the present,
and proceed to state such acts and measures as have been adopted since the last war, which demonstrate a system formed to
enslave America.
Resolved, N.C.D. That the following acts of Parliament are infringements and violations of the rights
of the colonists; and that the repeal of them is essentially necessary in order to restore harmony between Great Britain and
the American colonies, viz.:
The several acts of 4 Geo. 3, ch. 15, and ch. 34. -- 5 Geo. 3, ch. 25. -- 6 Geo. 3, ch. 52. -- 7 Geo. 3,
ch. 41, and ch. 46. -- 8 Geo. 3, ch. 22, which impose duties for the purpose of raising a revenue in America, extend the powers
of the admiralty courts beyond their ancient limits, deprive the American subject of trial by jury, authorize the judges'
certificate to indemnify the prosecutor from damages, that he might otherwise be liable to, requiring oppressive security
from a claimant of ships and goods seized, before he shall be allowed to defend his property, and are subversive of American
rights.
Also the 12 Geo. 3, ch. 24, entitled "An act for the better securing His Majesty's dockyards, magazines,
ships, ammunition, and stores," which declares a new offense in America, and deprives the American subject of a constitutional
trial by a jury of the vicinage, by authorizing the trial of any person, charged with the committing any offense described
in the said act, out of the realm, to be indicted and tried for the same in any shire or county within the realm.
Also the three acts passed in the last session of Parliament, for stopping the port and blocking up the harbor
of Boston, for altering the charter and government of the Massachusetts Bay, and that which is entitled "An act for the better
administration of justice," etc.
Also the act passed in the same session for establishing the Roman Catholic religion in the Province of Quebec,
abolishing the equitable system of English laws, and erecting a tyranny there, to the great danger, from so total a dissimilarity
of religion, law, and government of the neighboring British colonies, by the assistance of whose blood and treasure the said
country was conquered from France.
Also the act passed in the same session for the better providing suitable quarters for officers and soldiers
in His Majesty's service in North America.
Also, that the keeping a standing army in several of these colonies, in time of peace, without the consent
of the legislature of that colony in which such army is kept, is against law.
To these grievous acts and measures, Americans cannot submit, but in hopes that their fellow-subjects in
Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity,
we have for the present only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures:
Resolved, unanimously, That from and after the first day of December next, there be no importation
into British America, from Great Britain or Ireland of any goods, wares or merchandise whatsoever, or from any other place
of any such goods, wares or merchandise. 3
1st. To enter into a nonimportation, nonconsumption, and nonexportation agreement or association.
2. To prepare an address to the people of Great Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of British America,
and
3. To prepare a loyal address to His Majesty; agreeable to resolutions already entered into.
1. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 (Washington, 1904), I, 63-73.
2. I.e., nemine contradicente, meaning without a dissenting vote or unanimously. Commenting on these proceedings before
a committee of the British House of Commons, in June, 1779, Galloway stated that, although the resolutions were recorded as
having been passed unanimously, this meant not that they were approved by every member present but by a majority of each delegation
(The Examination of Joseph Galloway ... before the House of Commons ... , 2d ed.; London, 1780, p. 61).
Native Americans, the American "Indian" (of Neanderthal
descent and so named because the American coast was, initially, thought to be the coast of India [the people of
whom are of Cro Magnon descent, as are the majority of Africans and Orientals]), greeted the early American settlers warmly,
befriending their Caucasian brethren (of Homo Sapiens descent). In large measure due to the respect granted to Dr.
Benjamin Franklin by the American Indians, the new nation of America was granted the lands of the thirteen colonies by
the American Indians of the eastern regions...
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home
from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set
lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.