"...Governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,"
- Declaration of Independence
Abundant Life Amendment™ Article – 1
The Will Of The People
P R E A M B L E
All Governmental Power is derived from and subject to the will of the People
for whose benefit Government is instituted and who have the right to
reform or change it whenever they deem it necessary.
James Madison, is looked upon for being the author of the Bill of Rights: One of his proposals that was rejected by the framers of the Constitution was - that there is prefixed to the Constitution a declaration that all (governmental) power is derived from the people, for whose benefit government is instituted, and who have the right to reform or change it whenever it is found inadequate to its purposes.
While it is inferred that the United States is a Government of the People, by the People, and for the People, there is no language in the text of the Constitution that states that.
I submit to you the following for your review, from John C. Calhoun's, Speech on the Compromise, written in 1850:
"That the (Federal) Government claims, and practically maintains, the right to decide in the last resort as to the extent of its powers, will scarcely be denied by anyone conversant with the political history of the country. That it claims the right to resort to force to maintain whatever power she claims, against all opposition, is equally certain. Indeed it is apparent, from what we daily hear, that this has become the prevailing and fixed opinion of a great majority of the community. Now, I ask what limitations can possibly be placed upon a Government claiming and exercising such rights? And, if none can be, how can the separate governments of the States maintain and protect the powers reserved to them by the Constitution, or the people of the several States maintain those which are reserved to them, and among others, the sovereign powers by which they ordained and established, not only their separate State constitutions and governments, but also the Constitution and Government of the United States? But, if they have no constitutional means of maintaining them against the right claimed by this Government, it necessarily follows that they hold them at its pleasure and discretion, and that all of the powers of the system are in reality concentrated in it. It also follows that the character of Government has changed, in consequence, from a Federal Republic, as it originally came from the hands of its framers, and that it has been changed into a great national consolidated democracy. It has indeed at present, all the characteristics of the latter, and not one of the former, although it still retains its outward form."
PART - 1 The People, whenever Ten-Percent of those eligible to vote deem it necessary, have the right to propose Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Article V of the Constitution reads, that the Congress, or the States' Legislators, whenever (they) shall deem it necessary, shall have the right to propose amendments. It does not say anything about allowing the People the right to make proposals; and unless a person, or group, is willing to submit their proposal and spirit to a political party, for its support in passage of it, its future is in doubt. The following is a warning given by George Washington to our forefathers, in his Farewell Address, in 1796, concerning the spirit of political parties:
"I have already intimated to you the dangers of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensible view and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments,