Note: I was late to the session, I got a message this morning from one of my constituents asking me to bring a certain idea forth here at CC2009. I decided that I would be late to the session to give me time to write a Resolution that effect. I'll put that Resolution in the Comments section for you to look at. As of now, it has not made it into a Committee to be brought to the floor, but if it doesn't I will bring it forward Thursday.
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- [10:05] Open Debate Period
- [11:00] Old Business, 2A Sub-Committee Report Amendments
---- Credentials Report: 47 States represented
------- Seconded.
------- No Debate
------- Vote: WV- Y, Motions Carries
---- Summery: Inserting a section on Open and Concealed Carry
---- Debate on the Amendment to the Civic Action section on the 2A Committee Report
---- President Ends Debate by Executive Prerogative
---- Vote on Amendment:
------- WV- Y (26 Yeas/14 Nays),
------- Motion Carries
*** Editorial: We Did it!
---- Vote on Acceptance of the Committee Report as Amended
------- WV-Y, (39 Yeas/ 2Nays),
------- Motion Carries! [11:40]
*** Editorial: Finally! This was a lot of hard work, this is something to be proud of.
- Motion to Reconsider the Instructions to the several States
---- Seconded.
---- No Debate
---- Vote to Reconsider:
------- WV- Y
------- Motion Carries
---- Debate on the reconsideration and additions to Instructions
---- Call to Question
-------- Vote to End to Debate (WV-Y, Carries)
---- Vote to include Revision
------- WV- Y
------- Motion Carries to include provisions on State Constitutional Restricts on 2A
---- Vote to Accept the Instructions
------- WV- Y
------- Motion Carries [11:57]
- Report from the Sub-Committee on The Accountability Clause
---- Back-Patting
---- Summery of Document
---- Seconded
---- Motion to Divide (break it into chunks and vote on each piece)
------- WV-A
------- Motion Carries [12:07]
*** Recess for Lunch and Presentations
- [15:02] Call to Order
- Announcement from Sub-Committee on Citizenship
---- Meeting at 1515-1600h, and 1700-1900h.
---- On Article II Eligibility
---- Currently have 4 working documents
- Open Discussion
- Announcement of Committee Meetings
- Formation of Sub-Committees
- [1830]
*** Editorial: I just got out of the Sub-Committee on Sovereignty. I wrote a document called the Declaration of Sovereignty, and the Committee voted to adopt is as their official report. We'll introduce it on the floor, and it will probably get sent back to the Committee. It doesn't mince words, and it's a little bit feisty. But we think it's very good. More to come later.
Good Night,
---KP
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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009
ReplyDeleteOFFICIAL MOTION
I move that the following be adopted by the Continental Congress 2009:
RESOLUTION:
WHEREAS The Concept of Judicial Review (of Constitutionality) is not to be found anywhere in the Federal Constitution, but simply a tradition since the ruling of Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803), and
WHEREAS The 9th and 10th Amendments to the Federal Constitution clearly indicated that since this Power is not given to any branch of the Federal Government, it is reserved to the States and the People; so it is a Right of the People, to decide on what is or is not Constitutional, and
WHEREAS The Concept of Corporate Personhood originated in American Jurisprudence in the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. 394 (1886) , and
WHEREAS That Court did fail in their fiduciary responsibility to hear arguments on these matters as per this quote from the above case from Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite:
"The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does.
WHEREAS Corporate Personhood is not codified in the US Constitution nor the Bill of Rights (not even the 14th Amendment), and
WHEREAS It is enforced from the color of law statute, USC Section 1:
"In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise— the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;"
WHEREAS It has been used as a tool to deny Natural Persons their rights, and an instrument of corruption in government and business, and
WHEREAS The Rights of Natural Persons are inalienable, and any violation of those rights should be cause for remuneration and/or punishment, and
WHEREAS The purpose of government, as per our Founding Document the Declaration of Independence is, "to secure these rights,"
THEREFORE, Be it Resolved that it is this body's determination that the concept of Corporate Personhood is unconstitutional and immoral.
Be It Further Resolved, That The Continental Congress 2009 does hereby instruct and demand that any and all statutes which protect "corporate personhood,” Federal or State, be rescinded and that notice be served on every member of the Federal and State Judiciaries, and the Governors of the several States of this determination; and that any who afford non-Humans (i.e. corporations, etc) the same Natural Rights, are acting in their professional capacity outside the Constitution, and subject to the consequences of those actions.
MAKER: Kevin Patrick (WV)