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REDISTRICTING:

A BRIEF HISTORY

A. JUDICIAL SUPREMACY BY FIAT

For nearly a century, SCOTUS nibbled at the corners of the 14th Amendment with contrived interpretations unrelated to the history of its passage, while searching for a stranglehold to choke-off constitutionally protected States' Rights, via legislative and congressional apportionment.

Left Center Right?

Then, in 1962, SCOTUS introduced a Hegelian Dielectric Trap, Left Center Right? , that has ensnared the States for 60 years: Baker v. Carr/Harlan Dissent Excerpt.

The Warren Court's Philosopher-Kings seized the equivalent of plenary power by usurping the authority of States to self-determine apportionment, with or without establishing legislative and congressional representation districts. [See, also: Philosopher-Kings/Reynolds v. Sims] The federal Judiciary effected a coup d’etat against these United States of America, arbitrarily and capriciously, with intent and design to overthrow the several States’ Republican Form of Government, guaranteed under Art.IV.Sec.4 of the Constitution!

Thus began an all-out assault on a number of the States' established apportionment laws, to subvert our Constitutional Representative Republic, through the legitimate State and U.S. Constitutions.

The Constitutions of several of the later States to join the Union were deliberately perverted by their Progressive Framers & Citizenry, and unconstitutionally accepted by the federal Government--in blatant contravention of Article IV.Sec.4--with democratic devices, including "initiative, referendum & recall." Arizona has one of these perverted Constitutions! Our State is in dire straits largely because of the Progressive elements of our Constitution. SCOTUS has largely colluded with this subversion by upholding the Progressive Constitutions, and by "interpreting" the U.S. Constitution fraudulently! [3]

We the People have done NOTHING to resist the Court's usurpation! We just acquiesce and comply. . . . So far!!!

Thereby, Evil Tyrants have deliberately perverted and weaponized the 14th Amendment against We the People, by false interpretation and inversion, with collusion by the Congress and Executive, and acquiescence of the States. Attempts to fight back are swatted-down like flies, as the States comply with judicial decrees.

To this day, the Philosopher-Kings Court has been running rough-shod over valiant resistance to its Tyranny of Judicial Supremacy. Although, there have been notable Outliers, especially: Justice John Marshall Harlan II's excellent Opinions! beginning with his Dissents in Baker v. Carr (1962), Page 287, Reynolds v. Sims (1964) Page 589, and Oregon v. Mitchell (1970), Page 154 [Click on "Case" to find the complete case & Harlan's Opinion]. Then, the masterful, Justice Clarence Thomas' Concurrence in Holder v. Hall/Thomas Concurrence (1994), and related, excellent Analysis thereof, which also included Justice Harlan's work, by Judge Edith Jones, (1999/2000).

B. CONGRESS DOUBLES-DOWN

As unconstitutional "cover" for the Court's usurpations, and expansion thereof, Congress also usurped power, by enacting The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) [Scroll to the image, click the link, scroll to "Transcript"], and subsequent Amendments.

Another egregious Congressional usurpation is the National Voter Registration Act, (NVRA). Enacted in 1993, among other features, its effect opened the door to States extending voter registration to illegal aliens. . . .

In 2013 (Shelby County v. Holder), SCOTUS actually struck-down a particularly restrictive section of the Voting Rights Act, relieving Arizona and certain other States; after decades of unconstitutional oppression under the congressional mandate to seek federal preclearance for ANY change to election laws. Regarding the details of the VRA and its effects, see, Justice Thomas, Holder v. Hall/Thomas Concurrence (1994), and the Judge Jones Analysis.

Why does it matter if there are districts,
and who is in what district?

It only matters to those who are trying to get something, rather than protect Rights! Because, the only way it matters if there are districts and who is in a particular district is if the people aggregate themselves into special-interest groups according to their particular lust for unearned gain. If everyone was just interested in protecting Individual Rights, it wouldn’t matter where the district lines were drawn!

By catering to demands for drawing lines to appease the negative desires of the people, we are feeding the monsters, rather than protecting ourselves and our posterity.

The fundamental God-given Rights recognized by the Founding Fathers, and their definitions of the terms, are:

Life—my life;

Liberty—my Liberty to move about freely; and,

the pursuit of Property—my right to acquire, keep and control property.

Government’s duty to protect My Rights presupposes the protection of Everyone’s Rights. Given this fact, the state in which we find our governments acting as our feudal masters has come-about by our ignorance and dereliction of our own responsibility to hold our governments chained to their delegated duties! prohibiting them from heeding the siren calls of special interest groups demanding preferential treatment at the expense of others.

Ways to Remove the Problem

Given the above, it is clear that the way off the destructive path we are following is to forsake with anathema the devices that have brought us to these dire straits. See, also, the Call To Action Section of Redistricting OVERVIEW.

1. We must reject the false mechanism of districting by usurpation by activist judges decreeing rulings according to false interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, other relevant clauses, and Congressional Acts cut from whole cloth!

They have no authority nor power to demand that the States draw lines to create equal-population voting districts, for the purpose of manipulating special interest groups! [See, also, the asterisk at the end of Paragraph 5, and, the "Hindsight Illumines the Commission," section, below.]

2. The Census [Enumeration] was never authorized under the Constitution to collect data on the populace beyond our numbers! All other data gathered under the auspices of the decennial census, or any other method, must be purged with prejudice!

3. Likewise, the Judiciary and Congress were never authorized to issue decrees to the States demanding apportionment according to any special-interest group; all rulings rising from the Root of that Poisonous Tree must be nullified and voided post-haste!

Further Elemental Actions to End the Current False Dilemma:

The Commission is an instrument for entrenching the statist/collectivist, Progressive Court's anti-Liberty, fake equal-population districts! Which are created according to SCOTUS-decreed:

• • Arbitrary high-percentage tolerances to accommodate the built-in bias of the redistricting authority,
• • Arbitrary minimum number of so-called "ability to elect," Majority-minority districts [districts deliberately drawn with a majority of racial or ethnic minorities to assure a minimum number of minorities in the U.S. and State Houses of Representatives; the presumption being that the Dems will receive their votes as a group. The flawed philosophical presumption is that all Americans of ethnic or racial groups will automatically vote for Dems! This concept is applied to other special interest groups according to their group interests.]
• • Two-party "competitive" districts; assures the two major parties dominate all districts according to the Game Plan, toward the shared End Goal of enslaving We the People. They alternate, or may be drawn as toss-ups, in some areas.
• • Other special interest groups.

All are always controlled by the Commission.

[See Holder v. Hall/Thomas Concurrence and Analysis.]

All are deliberately aligned to perpetuate the existing, two-party competitive system throughout all State Election levels, and compliance with judicial and congressional mandates requiring creation of artificial, so-called, "ability to elect" "Majority-minority districts!"

The whole concept of creating equal-population ["one person, one vote" doctrine** conjured by Chief Justice Warren, in 1964], "ability to elect" Majority-minority, [party] competitive, and other special interest districts is repulsive to the concept of our Constitutional, Representative, Republic!

See a profoundly revealing letter, written by an American Woman using simple logic to explain why equal-population districts, "one person, one vote," and "ability to elect" goals do not reflect equality, but, discrimination: A Voice of Reason!

**Warren's brain child does NOT mean what logic conjures in one's mind, as a simple principle that one man has one vote for a single issue. Even if Warren did intend it to mean what it says, the concept is certainly a democratic idea that has no place in our representative republic! For a comparison of definitions of the term's usage, see the Home Page, at the One Man, One Vote Section. Also, see the following quotes:

"The principle of one man, one vote . . . runs counter to the text of the fourteenth amendment, the history surrounding its adoption and ratification and the political practice of Americans from Colonial times up to the day the Court invented the new formula.” Professor/Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, quoted at “Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems,” 47 Ind. L.J. 1, 18 (1971). Also:

". . . in Reynolds v. Sims (19[64]), the Court fabricated a “fundamental principle of ‘one person, one vote’ that was exactly the reverse of text and stated intent of the equal protection clause.” Elliott, supra note 1 at 129, 71 377 U.S. at 565.

See Harris v. AZIRC, an Arizona case from the 2012 Redistricting Cycle, for an example of a unanimous SCOTUS ruling upholding the District Court's decision against a challenge to the AIRC's redistricting results, exposing the courts' aberrant application of its 10% deviation tolerance applied to its otherwise "required" equal-population districts, in order to benefit Democrats and at least 10 [of 30!] Majority-minority districts, some of which were artificially created.

Which means that, in spite of even Justice Thomas' doubts expressed in Holder v. Hall about the courts' interpretation of the Voting Rights Act requiring States to ensure a minimum number of Majority-minority districts, the blatant injustice of the Harris v. AIRC decision was upheld by all of the "justices!" This is also an example of the litigants and the AZ SoS, arguing the action within the courts' erroneous interpretations of the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.

One important stated goal of manipulating the varied special interest group numbers in districts, is a competitive system to ensure competition between the two parties!

"Competitive system" sounds "fair." But, "competition" and "fair" belong in sports and other social pursuits! They have no place in the governance of human endeavor intended to peaceably secure our unalienable God-given Rights, "with Liberty and Justice for All!"

". . . That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." [The Declaration of Independence]

The actual political system created by the Organic Law of the United States of America is unique in the history of Mankind. [2] It is a Constitutional, Representative, Republican political system, built upon the Rule of Law, not Men; operating in Justice, tempered with Mercy. It is not "fair!" It is a skeletal-like structure designed to protect its members from the evil that Men do, by the Rule of Law founded in the righteous Moral Absolutes created by a Just and Righteous God [Also, see the blog post: WHO IS Obama Part 2 Foundation].

Our system is not a playing field laid-out for teams playing games. The Founding Fathers knew the danger of factions forming political parties and gaining a foothold against the Minority to pervert and undermine the Organic Law they had forged. The nature of this danger is the propensity of Man to abandon Individual Responsibility and band together in gangs, or, more politically correct: teams.

Their apprehensions were correct; such factions formed among the very men who warned against them; setting the new Nation on the track toward Home-Grown Tyranny. Almost as if--having forged a Nation in a bedrock of Moral Absolutes and Eternal Principles, naturally disposed to secure the Blessings of Liberty for each Individual Citizen, they reverted back to the Fallen Nature that seeks to hide from the responsibilities of life in the false security of "cliques" and gangs operating as cogs in the machinery of mob rule.

The resultant two party-dominant, competitive system that developed implies teams of individuals playing on sides, under the auspices of the same league, seeking a yearly prize. Only, in politics, the parties have manipulated the system into customized districts that ensure that one team wins for a time, and then, the other team wins for a time.

Meanwhile, as both "teams" metamorphose into two sides of the same coin, having abandoned the original goal of protecting the Citizenry from the Tyranny of the Majority, they now seek the same End; colluding together with their Oligarchic Ilk throughout the Nation.

[In speaking of the the two-party system as two sides of the same coin, I am NOT alluding-to abandoning our Constitutional, Representative, Republican Form of Government for a parliamentary system!]

We are still allowing the Tyrants to chip-away at the bedrock foundation of Organic Law characterized by Justice tempered with Mercy; ever-pushing themselves deeper into the Individual Lives of the Citizens toward the goal of inverting Our Liberty under God to Universal Enslavement, with them as our masters. As they promise to make for us, "heaven on Earth" in the name of a hypothetical "Collective-Hive." See WHO IS Obama 2 Foundation, and WHO IS Obama Part 4 Heaven On Earth? .

The price they are exacting, as they work to destroy our economy and plunge us into a New, Darker, Dark Ages, is a bloodthirsty demand for universal sacrifice, as they commit planetary genocide!

"The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."--Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"

How It Works

So, the Independent Redistricting Commission is "designed" to:

• • Promote a Decennial, Refereed Ping-Pong Game of alternating political influence among the special interests: surgically corralled every ten years within their customized districts.
• • Keep the districts artificially aligned--per Plan--toward one purpose (first paragraph):
• • Keep the two-party system in-control!
• • Dems political theory is openly statist/collectivist,
• • RINOS act as "place-holders" ready to tip the scales in the Dems' direction, as needed;
• • RINOs deceive and mislead Party Conservatives and Constitutionalists to keep us from breaking-through and restoring Our Liberty under GOD!

RINOs & Dems know the States are sovereigns under GOD! They must keep us from acting like it!*

The Game Plan imposes unconstitutional mandates based-in false interpretations of the 14th Amendment.

The Prop 106 Amendment [AZ Constitution, Art.4.Part 1], requires drawing voting district maps to the criteria enumerated at Paragraph 14. See Paragraph 14.A., for the driving force behind this weapon for transforming Arizona's quasi-Republican Form of Government from quasi-Liberty to Tyranny! [3] Paragraph 14.A, mandates priority compliance with the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. . . . The mandate is a contradiction in terms, because, the enumerated requirements of the Paragraph are unconstitutional!

THE PROBLEM:

The mandate invokes the Philosopher-Kings' systematic wielding of stolen plenary power, by claiming the 14th Amendment, Section 1. Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses, referencing civil rights and due process, extend to political voting rights:

". . . nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." [1A]

Analysis of the pertinent documents, along with Professor Berger's in-depth study of recorded history, confirm:

The Clauses do NOT extend to political voting rights!

If you have followed the Berger links, or the links that lead to Publius Huldah's Equal Protection Clause exposition, you have seen that the 14th Amendment was written and ratified specifically to:

"extend citizenship to the freed slaves, and to provide constitutional authority for the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which protected the freed slaves from the southern Black Codes which denied them their God given Rights." As stated by Publius Huldah.

Berger's historical analysis proves the conclusion beyond doubt!

The Equal Protection Clause ONLY extended protection to the civil rights named in the 1866 Act. [For the pertinent Text and further discussion, see Huldah, and Berger.] Neither the Act, nor the Amendment extended the Right to Vote to the freed slaves, nor to ANYONE ELSE! [4]

Hence, I must agree with Berger, Huldah and others, that "political voting rights" are NOT touched by the 14th Amendment.

HISTORICAL CONCLUSION:

The 14th Amendment does NOT touch political voting rights. The Judicial Supremacy we are suffering under the Courts' usurpation of plenary power and its application to our political voting rights, has no basis in our Rule of Law!

Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution have the States delegated to the federal Government power over the long-established Right of the People in their States to determine and control the political parameters of:

• • voting rights,
• • apportionment of the Electorate,
• • formation of districts--or not--
• • or distribution of Electors by districts, if such are drawn;
• • other than the limited powers delegated*** to ensure a reasonable likelihood that the goals would be met in ordaining and establishing the Organic Law.

From which the new Nation could survive and flourish as a Confederation of Constitutional, Representative, Republics; bound to each other for the purpose of protecting the unalienable, God-given Rights of All--by the Rule of Law--against the Tyranny of the Majority, the Tyranny of the Few, the Tyranny of Anarchy, the Tyranny of Technocracy from within; and against Foreign Enemies from without!

***Art.1.2.1, 1.2.3, 1.4.1, Art.II.1-4, 12th Amendment, Here.

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