{"id":29318,"date":"2025-03-07T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=29318"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T21:54:48","slug":"constitution-enforcement-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/constitution-enforcement-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution-Enforcement Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Constitution requires state-government people to protect residents from national-government people\u2019s tyranny. It\u2019s high time that state-government people step up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Total USA national, state, and local government spending consumes 38% of GDP<\/a>. Regulations consume another 7% of GDP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The USA national debt exceeds 123% of GDP. Total USA national-government promises exceed 753% of GDP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop<\/a>. The faster, the better<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Limiting Themselves<\/strong><\/p>\n

The current congressmen and president should enact a limited overall appropriation\u2014a continuing resolution consisting of just a single total amount<\/a>\u2014to cover up to the start of the next congress.<\/p>\n

As vice president and therefore president of his upcoming senates, J.D. Vance\u2019s oath will make it his power and duty to interpret<\/a> the filibuster cloture rule as unconstitutional<\/a> and to enforce simple-majority voting<\/a>. The incoming congressmen and president should pass a new limited overall appropriation consisting of just a single total amount that\u2019s declining<\/a>, to cover the first calendar year.<\/p>\n

As president, Donald Trump\u2019s oath will make it his power and duty to close every department, agency, chartered organization, subdivision, and scope area that he independently interprets is unconstitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n

State and local officials should provide their jurisdictions with a republican form of government\u2014the only indisputable example of which is the national government under the Constitution<\/a>. These officials, under their oaths to support the Constitution, likewise have in their own jurisdictions the power and duty to enforce simple-majority voting, pass limited overall appropriations consisting of just a single total amount that\u2019s declining, and close every unconstitutional operation.<\/p>\n

Human nature<\/a> and all experience<\/a> have shown, though, that enough of these people won\u2019t limit themselves fully. This is incentivized by quid pro quo arrangements by politicians to help each other<\/a> to our stuff, arrangements sanitized by pretending they demonstrate admirable party loyalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Limiting Others<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fortunately, it\u2019s central to the Constitution\u2019s design to instead depend on people to limit others<\/a>. Such a use of constitutional power has lately been called constitutional hardball.<\/p>\n

To the founding generation, though\u2014to people who declared independence and fought a war to protect our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and secure property<\/a>\u2014such a civil rather than military use of constitutional power would have clearly been constitutional softball<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Constitutional softball is of first importance. As I point out in The Constitution Needs a Good Party<\/a><\/em>, from 1774 to 1860 the fraction of total personal income in all thirteen colonies or states that was earned in the slavery-is-legal region declined from a controlling 57% to a superminority-weak 31%. The Fifth Amendment\u2019s rule that protects all persons\u2019 liberty (the so-called the Due Process Clause<\/a>) should have been civilly enforced by the small-government Democrats<\/a>, as constitutional softball.<\/p>\n

Instead, secession was not responded to by simply letting slavery ebb away across an unenforceable porous border and otherwise die off from abhorrence and wastefulness. Instead, the big-government Republicans escalated to industrial-scale Civil War, as unrelenting hardball.<\/p>\n

From there, government people kept ratcheting up USA governments in scale and tyranny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To shut down the national-government people\u2019s tyranny, we need enough state-government people to step up to protect their state residents.<\/p>\n

Escrow of national-government taxes by state governments has been introduced in bills as a way to protect state residents from having massive taxes<\/a> taken and used for unconstitutional current spending<\/a>, including spending on servicing unconstitutional national debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

State gold depositories, which will offer modern digital savings and checking accounts<\/a> that are fully backed not by paper dollars but instead by gold, are being developed in Texas, Tennessee, Idaho, Florida, and Kentucky<\/a>. These and other states continue to clear the way to bypassing the inflationary Fed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are good developments, but they are limited and slow. We need stronger protections, and now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fortunately, stronger help is emerging. Freedom caucuses, for instance, are developing alternative norms of behavior<\/a>. The politicians in freedom caucuses limit themselves and, crucially, also collaborate to limit others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And appropriately, local, county, and state law-enforcement officers already outnumber national law-enforcement officers 5.3 to 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Agency<\/th>\nFull-time officers<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNumber<\/strong><\/td>\nPercent<\/strong><\/td>\nRatio to federal<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Local police<\/td>\n465,891<\/td>\n54%<\/td>\n3.4 to 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sheriff’s office<\/td>\n192,380<\/td>\n22%<\/td>\n1.4 to 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary state<\/td>\n60,451<\/td>\n7%<\/td>\n0.4 to 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federal<\/td>\n136,815<\/td>\n16%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\n855,537<\/th>\n100%<\/th>\n5.3 to 1<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

(Sources: 2018 state and local census, 2020 federal census)<\/small><\/p>\n

Such powers must get used to secure our unalienable rights.<\/p>\n

Constitution-Enforcement Laws<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through their oaths to support the Constitution, the state-government people have the power and the duty to protect state residents from national-government tyranny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

State legislators and governors need to protect state residents comprehensively, by enacting state statutes that define necessary, fundamental rules and sanctions:<\/p>\n