Refreshing Jefferson's "Tree of Liberty"
The "Way It Works" versus Traitors to the Constitution
The “Way It Works.”
The People vote for Congressmen, Senators, and the President.
Congress debates issues.
Congress passes Federal laws.
The President nominates Supreme Court justices and Federal judges.
The Senate confirms Supreme Court justices and Federal judges.
The President and Federal departments and agencies execute Federal laws.
The Federal courts ensure that Congress’s laws and the President’s execution of Federal laws do not violate the Constitution.
If the People do not like what Congress and the President are doing, they vote them out of office at the next election.
This is the way Our Federal Government is designed to work.
The President must execute and enforce Federal laws, whether or not he agrees with them. The Founders did not intend for a President to unilaterally “ignore” Federal laws or “dismantle” federal government institutions created by Congress’s laws.
If a President “ignores” Federal laws or “dismantles” legally constituted Federal agencies and institutions, he is acting in defiance of the Constitution.
Those who defy the Constitution, or attempt to do so, are by definition, “Traitors” and must be removed from power by the People.
In extreme situations, like our current situation, We the People cannot wait for the next election cycle. None of us voted in the recent Federal elections for what is now happening to America.
It is time to fight for the Rule of Law and the Constitution — if not for ourselves, then for our grandchildren.
In each of our lives, there may come a time when we are called upon to stand and fight for principles and beliefs for the greater good. It is a blessing to have that opportunity. We must seize that opportunity and fight until we prevail over those who would pervert the Constitution and destroy what Our Forefathers created for Us.
Thomas Jefferson said, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”1
Now, is such a time! And let the blood spilled be the tyrant’s.
Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787.