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Every word and every number in the Constitution of September 17, 1787 is a clue to understanding that

The Constitution of September 17, 1787 required of the first Members of the House of Representatives that: “No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”

 The Constitution of September 17, 1787 required this of Senators: “No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.”

The Constitution of September 17, 1787 required this of persons who would fill the Office of President:     “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

These three clauses intended the creation of a republic out of the Confederacy, the United States of America, by requiring the candidates to these Offices to declare themselves to be Citizens of the United States of America.   The first Citizens of the United States of America would be the members of the First Congress and the first person elected to the office of President of the United States of America, who would take the Article VI oath “to support this Constitution.”

The Confederacy, to be known as the United States of America, begins on March 1, 1781, when Maryland becomes the thirteenth State to ratify the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777.  The United States of America never becomes a republic, because no Senator would qualify to be a Senator under the Constitution of September 17, 1787 until after March 1, 1790.  The First Congress is elected too early for any of the Senators to qualify to take the Article VI oath, so a legislative oath is created in its place.

The Constitution of September 17, 1787 is a complex concoction of inconsistencies that has taken a lifetime to unravel.  Fortunately, by enrolling in my Basic Course in Law and Government you can begin to truly understand “this Constitution” and much more in just a few hours.  To enroll, contact me at edrivera@edrivera.com

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera     

“This Constitution” is the Constitution of September 17, 1787, which was produced in secret sessions in Philadelphia beginning on May 25, 1787.

The Preamble, which is not an official part of “this Constitution” states that “this Constitution” is for the United States of America.  There are two United States of America: one of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 and the other of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777.

Incompetent historians and an unscrupulous legal profession have perpetuated government propaganda that alleges the Constitution of September 17, 1787 replaced the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, the second of the Organic Laws of the United States of America, which established the perpetual Union of the thirteen States that had signed the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, the first Organic Law.

Proof that the Constitution of September 17, 1787 neither replaced nor repealed the Articles of Confederation is found at the conclusion of the third Organic Law, the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787.  At the end of the Ordinance, can be found the language of repeal, nullity and the voiding of the prior ordinance, the Resolution of April 23, 1784.  The absence of similar language in the Constitution of September 17, 1787 proves the Constitutional Convention consisting of many men trained in law never considered repeal of the Articles of Confederation.

The Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 established a temporary government for the Northwest Territory, which was replaced by a permanent one to be found in Article I of the Constitution of September 17, 1787. On April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oral oath of office of the President of the United States making him both President of the United States of America and President of the United States.

The secrecy by which the Constitution of September 17, 1787 was created permitted Washington to pretend the office of President of the United States was bound by law “to support this Constitution.”  The only oath of office Washington ever took was to “”preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” which would only apply to the Northwest Territory and any others lands and property belonging to the United States of America.

The Constitution of September 17, 1787 became the Constitution for the United States of America, when nine States ratified “this Constitution.”  When George Washington took the oral oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” he accepted the employment of  administering the lands and other property belonging to the United States of America.

 To learn all the details of how the Constitution of the United States became the gospel of George Washington, you must enroll in the Basic Course in Law and Government, to do that contact me at edrivera@edrivera.com

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera    

According to Glenn Beck, he never met a Founding Father he didn’t like.  Beck gushes over these men like school girls swoon over the latest music celebrity.  Beck may never end his love affair with these bewigged silk stockinged part time citizen statesmen. We, however, can take them exactly for what they were savvy men of business.

As leaders of American commerce, the so-called Founding Fathers hitched or rigged what passed for government in America to the rising star of American business enterprise, by taking the United States of America public.   The assets of the United States of America were incorporated in the United States Inc.  All went well until government started to be the rising star and that proved to be quite a drag, since it is a dead or dying star going nowhere but down.

The Constitution of September 17, 1787 was hyped to Americans as a panacea for the kind of economic downturn we would call a recession.   Such recessions are part of the business cycle, but now they are the basis for governmental intervention.  Up to the time of the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787, the government of the United States of America was as close as any government has come to being libertarian then George Washington found himself leading the secret Constitutional Convention of May 25, 1787.    

The official story of the historians who work at the Library built by Congress is that the Constitution of the United States replaced the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777 on March 4, 1789, the date the Congress of the United States first convened.  No other historian disagrees with the historians at the Library of Congress.  No attorney I know has ever read the Articles of Confederation, so they would not know why the Articles of Confederation were replaced and not repealed.

The hype has always been that the Articles of Confederation were repealed, but that lie had to be modified because the Articles are still part of the four Organic Laws.  The Articles formed a Confederacy of sovereign, free and independent States so the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777 wouldn’t do for the United States, which were not sovereign, free or independent. 

The Articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constitution of the United States, because the Union of United States is much less than the United States of America and that’s not hype. 

Veneration of the Founding Fathers violates the principle of not elevating men above law.  With the Founding Fathers out of the way of our research and investigation, we can reconstruct the crime scene, when the smartest men in the Constitutional Convention ended freedom in America.   Glenn Beck can’t teach you what he doesn’t know.  This is the only place in the world where you can learn  the truth about law and government came to be what they are.  To become a Student contact me, for a good laugh watch or listen to Glenn Beck.

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera              

    

The delegates to the May 25, 1787 Constitutional Convention were able to concoct a Constitution within a Constitution with such skill that their work would continue to deceive for more than two centuries and do so with such finesse as to be hailed as the greatest document of its kind.   The Framers of the Constitution were not taught law as it is taught in today’s law schools they learned law the old fashioned way they read the king’s law written in the king’s English and you can learn law the same way.

You can learn to think like the original Framers of the Constitution by unraveling with me and first hand their diabolical handiwork known worldwide as the Constitution of the United States.  If you will continue to read these Posts and the four Organic Laws of the United States of America: Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 and Constitution of September 17, 1787, you will ready to enroll in my Basic Course in Law and Government and get to the truth about both these subjects sooner than you thought possible.

Laws are of value only when they are true and correct for their purpose.   All written laws in America are known to be based on the authority of the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land.   These Posts have shown the Constitution of September 17, 1787 to have been ratified and established between those States so ratifying, however, no evidence of an adoption of that Constitution by the government of the Confederacy exists.  Instead, the Constitution of the United States was adopted by George Washington, the first person elected President of the United States of America, when he took the oral oath of Office of President of the United States.

Washington’s adoption of the Constitution of the United States, by verbal oath, refers not to the written Constitution, but to the inventory of land assets assigned to the Confederacy, the United States of America, and his acknowledgment to be bound by the explicit employment contract contained within the Constitution of September 17, 1787 that was created when nine States ratified that Constitution.

You cannot possibly learn correct written law in any conventional way with every law school in the country teaching the Constitution is the supreme law of all the lands.  Read my Posts and prove to yourself that the Constitution of the United States is only the supreme law of the land owned by the United States of America then contact me at edrivera@edrivera.com to enroll as one of my Students.  

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera

          

 

Wherever, under any law of the United States or under any rule, regulation, order, or requirement made pursuant to law, any matter is required or permitted to be supported, evidenced, established, or proved by the sworn declaration, verification, certificate, statement, oath, or affidavit, in writing of the person making the same (other than a deposition, or an oath of office, or an oath required to be taken before a specified official other than a notary public), such matter may, with like force and effect, be supported, evidenced, established, or proved by the unsworn declaration, certificate, verification, or statement, in writing of such person which is subscribed by him, as true under penalty of perjury, and dated, in substantially the following form:

(1) If executed without the United States: “I declare (or certify, verify, or state) under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on (date). (Signature)”.

(2) If executed within the United States, its territories, possessions, or commonwealths: “I declare (or certify, verify, or state) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on (date). (Signature)”.

COMMENTARY BY Dr. EDUARDO M. RIVERA

The Organic Laws of the United States of America: Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 and the Constitution of September 17, 1787 establish that the place name “United States” refers to all the land owned by the United States of America, the Confederacy, or subject to power and jurisdiction of the United States of America.    

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A document is executed when it is subscribed by the person who is to be bound by the contents of the document.  Section 1746 demonstrates why the oral oath required of the person who is to fill the Office of President of the United States is non-binding.

Enrolled Students get full versions of all Post.   To become a Student, contact me at edrivera@edrivera.com   

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera    

By the time a Student completes the Basic Course in Law and Government, that Student  will be able to prove that all written law is law for government.  Once people are recognized to be free, as happens in the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, written laws have no power over them.  Recall the line from the Declaration of Independence: “WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness—”

As even slaves are potentially endowed with the gift of freedom, it only takes the right circumstances for any human creature to be set totally and completely free.  However, just as soon as Americans freed themselves from the British monarchy, domestic political forces within America began to plot their new enslavement under constitutional law.

Legal enslavement of an entire nation was made possible by the public federal education put forward in Article 3 of the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787.  The poor quality of both general and legal education placed the public at a significant disadvantage with respect to the so-called Founding Fathers.  A cleverly worded constitution written in secret caused all Americans to believe that a bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives could legislate for the entire nation, if the subjects of that legislation were enumerated and general in scope.

All the members of all American State legislatures quickly took the oath to support this Constitution of the United States enacted by the First Congress, when they realized their State’s former legislative power had been tied completely to the English monarchy, so George Washington’s new regime offered the only viable alternative to a reversion of all political power to the people and a return to the English common law.

Great Britain survives as a modern nation because it is unapologetically a monarchy that is responsible for enacting all written laws.  The English monarchy supplies the executive power and procedural laws needed to administer the unwritten English common law.  In America, executive power is supplied by the myth that some of the American people, who claim to be Citizens of the United States have the power to make laws even for those who wish to rule themselves as free inhabitants of the United States of America.

The Declaration of Independence is the first of the Organic Laws of the United States of America, which is binding on all the governments of the United States of America, however, as governments necessarily make laws for citizens, a person must cease being a citizen, if he or she is to be free.

The second Organic Law of the United States of America binds the States to recognize the rights of free inhabitants of each of the States to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States.  This provision makes temporary citizenship not only possible but a real necessity for individual freedom in the United States of America.

The four Organic Laws of the United States of America: Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 and Constitution of September 17, 1787 were all signed by men in their capacities of delegates or representatives of governments.  None of these signatories were representative of individuals at the time they signed nor could they bind persons other than themselves, therefore, the Organic Laws of the United States of America can only be binding on governments.

As the Organic Laws are the fundamental laws of the government of the United States of America, the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is limited to the United States and government of the United States. 

This is why all written law is exclusively law for government.                  

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera

        

Title 4 of Volume 1 of the 2000 edition of the United States Code is only 19 pages.  If you understand that the States of Title 4 originated in the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 and were concluded in the Constitution of September 17, 1787, you know the secrets of the United States Code.

If you are unsure of which Union these States belong, check out how the Code transforms the flag of the United States into the flag of the United States of America.

If you are still unsure of what the United States Code is all about, look into becoming one of my Students.  Contact me at edrivera@edrivera.com

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera

    

Before George Washington could become the first President of the United States, there had to be a United States he could preside over. 

The Declaration of Independence created a United States of America on July 4, 1776, but King George III was not sufficiently impressed to let the thirteen American colonies go free.   Great Britain would not let go of the Americans until the Treaty of Paris of 1783.  In the mean time, the thirteen States began organizing around the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777 and by March 1, 1781 all those States were perpetually bound into the Confederacy known to this day as the United States of America.

The Americans, of course, won the War of Independence and lands south of Canada once claimed by the British, the Northwest Territory.  The Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 made this former British territory permanently part of the United States of America Confederacy.  These United States, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota were the first States of a new Union of States, which belonged to the United States of America and were, also, of the United States of America.

The Constitution of September 17, 1787 that comes out of a secret session of the Constitutional Convention of May 25, 1787 was part of the plan for there to be a “United States” for George Washington to be President of the United States of.  Before Washington can become President of the United States he has to be first elected to the Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 office of President of the United States of America on February 4, 1789, so he can appoint himself to the office of President of the United States.

As President of the Constitutional Convention, Washington knows that he must first be elected President of the United States of America by the State’s Presidential Electors before he can take the oral oath of office of President of the United States.  Those famous Framers of the Constitution have concocted an elaborate oral employment oath grander than the Article VI oath and almost poetic in its tone for the person, who is to fill the office of President of the United States. 

Only Washington and his confederates know that neither he nor anyone else will be eligible to the Article II Section 1 Clause 5 Office of President until July 4, 1790.  Anyone with any political influence is in on the conspiracy to take over the Confederacy and replace it with a Roman Republic.

Many of these confederates have been elected to the first Congress, which will meet for the first time on March 4, 1789 in New York City.  It will be the responsibility of this Congress that all Americans know that this Congress is preparing the new oath of office for the new government and the oath will be the first Bill Congress passes and the first one George Washington signs as President of the United States.         

George Washington has made it possible for anyone to be President of the United States.  Thanks to George there are no age, citizenship or residency requirements for the office of President of the United States.  To be a President of the United States all you have to have is a voice.  You can even whisper the oath as George Washington did the first time he took the oath.

Don’t want to President of the United States?  You just want your freedom?  Then you have to become a Student.  Contact me at edrivera@edrivera.com

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera

You have an obligation to know the most complicated law in the world—the tax law of the United States.  All law begins as a thought that controls, seeks to control or to explain that which cannot be controlled.  Taxation in America is presented by government as enduring and inevitable.  It is not.

Law was brought from Great Britain, the mother country, in both a written and unwritten form .  Most ancient societies combine both written and unwritten law in the form of one sovereign ruler.  Britain’s monarchs granted certain adventurers charters to establish colonies in America and the unwritten common law came along for the ride. 

Great Britain is the ancient society from which the United States of America separated by the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776.  The United States of America recognizes written and unwritten law in the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 and that document describes, generally, where each form of law is to apply.  Every modern society recognizes the validity of its own concept of unwritten law in a formal written law document; modern America does it in the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777.

No one has ever claimed the Articles of Confederation attempts to tax anything but the States of that Union and that was unsuccessful.   After the Declaration of Independence, taxation was even less popular than before, because no one wanted to consent to be taxed and the equality of man made a legislated tax an impossibility. 

The settlers and inhabitants of the Northwest Territory were less equal than the people of the thirteen States of the Confederacy, so Article IV of the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787 made them subject to pay part of the federal debt and a proportional part of the expenses of the federal government. 

The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States; and the taxes for paying their proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the district or districts, or new States, as in the original States, within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.   

The delegates who began meeting in secret in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787, prohibited to the States of this Union only certain taxes, which by implication sanctioned all others:

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.  Article I Section 10 Clause 2   

 

The States of the second Union could only impose the taxation that seemed to be permitted by the Constitution of September 17, 1787.  The States of the Confederacy, the United States of America, were as anxious as George Washington and the Federalists to have the Constitution of September 17, 1787 ratified for without it the States would have neither the power to tax nor the power to legislate.

Parliament has the power to legislate and tax because over time the British sovereigns have conferred on the House of Commons and the House of Lords the powers of a king.  In America, the power of the English kings was lost when Great Britain was defeated at Yorktown.  George Washington regained those sovereign power s by taking control of  the United States of America on the strength of an oral oath.

My Students learn the fundamentals of law and government in my Basic Course in Law and Government.  My Advanced Students learn how to put what they have learned to personal practical advantage.

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera             

The legislative power in the first sentence of the  written Constitution: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives,”  Article I Section 1 Constitution of September 17, 1787, is then placed in the administrative  hands of the President of the United States, who is to  approve or make objections.

Section 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

    Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. Article I Section 7 Constitution of September 17, 1787

The President of the United States must approve or object to the Bills passed by the House of Representatives and Senate, if he does nothing it is more likely than not that the Bill will become a law.  The President of the United States is neither elected by the people nor appointed by an Officer elected by the people and he has no executive power or discretion; he is an employee.

All the granted legislative power vested in a Congress and limited administratively by a President of the United States is further limited by Article I Section 8 to legislate to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” in the United States “to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States,” meaning that the inhabitants and settlers of the lands belonging to the United States of America identified in Article IV of the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787  are now being made subject to pay taxes to pay for the federal debt and to pay for all the projects and procedures enumerated in Section 8.  

Section 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

    To borrow Money on the Credit of the United States;

    To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several

States, and with the Indian Tribes;

    To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on

the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and

fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

    To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and

current Coin of the United States;

    To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for          

limited Times to Authors and Inventors exclusive Right to their

respective Writings and Discoveries;

    To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

    To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high

Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

    To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules

concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that

Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

    To provide and maintain a Navy;

    To make rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

    To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

    To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square), as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

 

   Who granted all the legislative power to a Congress of the United States?  Article VII of the Constitution of September 17, 1787 provides for establishment of  that Constitution upon ratification by nine States: “The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.”  According to Article IX and X of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777 nine States could upon the recess of Congress  execute the powers of Congress.  The Article VII ratification by nine States acted as an appointment of “such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the united states.”  The answer to the question is the States that ratified the Constitution of September 17, 1787 beginning with the first nine granted all legislative power to a Congress of the United States.

Where did the States get “all the legislative Power herein granted?”  The States got it from the Treaty of Paris of 1783:

His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.

   King George III gave up the powers he had in America south of Canada to the thirteen States.  Those States gave up their powers over the Northwest Territory and other territory in America to the Confederacy of the United States of America and in the ratification of the Constitution of September 17, 1787 the States granted those powers back to Confederacy.

Dr. Eduardo M. Rivera

  

     

   

 

 

 

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