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		<title>By: Jury Nullification &#8211; The Absolute Power of the People&#160;&#124;&#160;Wolves of Liberty</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jury Nullification &#8211; The Absolute Power of the People&#160;&#124;&#160;Wolves of Liberty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 16:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] of what I just read. Such is the case with a Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) article by Steve Palmer: The Consent of the Governed. For many readers, the article elucidates concepts foreign to many of us such as the fact the [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] of what I just read. Such is the case with a Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) article by Steve Palmer: The Consent of the Governed. For many readers, the article elucidates concepts foreign to many of us such as the fact the [...]</p>
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		<title>By: As Rome Burns &#124; RedState</title>
		<link>http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/05/10/the-consent-of-the-governed/comment-page-1/#comment-319386</link>
		<dc:creator>As Rome Burns &#124; RedState</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] The Consent of the Governed. A very timely piece.     Sphere: Related Content Share on: Facebook &#124;  digg_url = &#039;http://www.redstate.com/gman2008/2010/05/18/as-rome-burns/&#039;; digg_title = &#039;As Rome Burns&#039;; digg_skin = &#039;compact&#039;;   &#124; Reddit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By: Civil Disobedience Part 2 &#8211; As Rome Burns&#160;&#124;&#160;Wolves of Liberty</title>
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		<dc:creator>Civil Disobedience Part 2 &#8211; As Rome Burns&#160;&#124;&#160;Wolves of Liberty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] The Consent of the Governed. A very timely piece.    Share            Civil Disobedience, Nullification, Strategies  Civil Disobedience, Featured, Gandhi, Henry Thoreau, Larry Hunter, Martin Luther King, Obama, ObamaCare, Socialism     Civil Disobedience Part 1 &#8211; Why Current Strategies Are Not Working     Trackback URL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By: gjmerits</title>
		<link>http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/05/10/the-consent-of-the-governed/comment-page-1/#comment-319376</link>
		<dc:creator>gjmerits</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do have a link, but I will take your advice and make it more prominent.  This site deserves to stand out amongst the long list of sites I list. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do have a link, but I will take your advice and make it more prominent.  This site deserves to stand out amongst the long list of sites I list. </p>
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		<title>By: gjmerits</title>
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		<dc:creator>gjmerits</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I am really humbled and thank you for your praise.  This site is a beacon of hope in a sea of hopelessness for me.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, I am really humbled and thank you for your praise.  This site is a beacon of hope in a sea of hopelessness for me.   </p>
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		<title>By: Tenth Amendment center &#124; The Ruthless Truth blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tenth Amendment center &#124; The Ruthless Truth blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Republicae</title>
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		<dc:creator>Republicae</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 22:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must all come to understand that as long as anyone depends on their minority status to determine their rights then the majority will only recognize a degree of rights based solely upon a specified set of what the majority considers allowable and therefore, contingent freedoms. In other words, the majority will always restrict the rights of the minority unless the minority can base their rights upon something other than the specific attributes and or definitions of that minority.  
 
The government is not inclined to, nor does it obligate itself to ensure the Rights of any person in this country although it was created to protect the Rights of every individual. It is up to the individual to combatively insist and aggressively pursue his or her Rights before the government. It is People, first and foremost, that form the State Republics through acting on a cooperative and voluntary basis, but with an extreme prejudice toward their Rights. It has been said that the majority opinion is the true ruler; if that is the case then perhaps it is time for us all to become the majority and not base our Rights upon a specific status as a minority. This does not preclude any attributes that a person has who is a member of a minority or their identity, but in the eyes of the majority and therefore the law, a minority is only a minority and will remain as such as long as they base their Rights solely upon their minority status.  
 
The problem with every democracy is that the majority always rule to the exclusion of the minority. The reason the Founders purposed a Republic instead of a democracy was to blunt the force and power of the majority through layers of checks and balances to equal out the playing field. The more democratic a political system becomes the more the majority &#8220;lords over&#8221; the minority.  It is strange that people are all for democracy until it actually rules against them and in a democracy, since the majority always rules, the minority will always suffer under the prejudices of the majority. There is a defined tyranny within a democracy and yet so many clamor for such a system because they feel that it will provide them with more voice while just the opposite is true. In every democracy the government system appeals to the material interests of the majority&#8217;s large voting block, in turn the government will then merely placate the minority with a degree of rights and yet never &#8220;grant&#8221; them the same degree of rights as the majority. 
 
The established elite ruling class, the governing &#8220;gentry&#8221; fears nothing more than a unified People. As long as sectionalism can be promoted and therefore pseudo-legalized, then this nation will remain divided and that is exactly what the &#8220;State&#8221; desires: a house divided. Until We take the stance that the only status that is legally meaningful and powerful is that of the Individual Citizen, then We will remain a conquered People subject to the will of majoritarianism and their preferred democratic tyranny. The majorities will always, whether by vote, referendum or even by a form of legal or judicial enforcement, secure their perceived rights over the rights of a defined minority. Majoritarian democracy desires the artificial designation of minorities, it keeps the &#8220;majority&#8221; holding the reigns of power while providing the minority with a degree of satisfaction based upon their struggle to gain or retain a certain allowance of rights, but such a system will never provide equality because it inherently promotes and maintains social, racial, religious, ethnic or sexual divisions among the People. 
 
The &#8220;State&#8221; readily supports the idea that a particular class or group requires or is entitled to recognition based upon that class or group or category, because segmentation will continue to allow its decisions to be based upon the majority and keeps the perceived minority, of which ever particular group, in check or within a majority defined scope of &#8220;civil rights&#8221;. In such a &#8220;democratic&#8221; system the minority will always yield to the will and power of the majority. The majority will always enact policies which ensure that the minority is not strengthened and will never allow the total empowerment of the minority. The &#8220;State&#8221; will always seek to breed social divisions in order the restrict minority power or empowerment. The solution therefore, must be found through a very powerful and very different view: that of the Majority of Citizenship. 
 
It is interesting to note that you rarely hear the word Republic, but democracy is tossed out by most politicians and for good reason: a democracy will always protect the majority first and keep any minority under the thumb of the ruling powers. Minorities are not only required, but desired within democratic majoritarian system of government because it will always demand that all minorities yield to the will and allowances of the majority. A Republic is anathema to democratic majoritarianism because it equalizes the power and force of government among all People of the Land when the People press their Sovereignty, based solely upon their Natural Rights of Citizenship, over the &#8220;State&#8221;.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We must all come to understand that as long as anyone depends on their minority status to determine their rights then the majority will only recognize a degree of rights based solely upon a specified set of what the majority considers allowable and therefore, contingent freedoms. In other words, the majority will always restrict the rights of the minority unless the minority can base their rights upon something other than the specific attributes and or definitions of that minority.  </p>
<p>The government is not inclined to, nor does it obligate itself to ensure the Rights of any person in this country although it was created to protect the Rights of every individual. It is up to the individual to combatively insist and aggressively pursue his or her Rights before the government. It is People, first and foremost, that form the State Republics through acting on a cooperative and voluntary basis, but with an extreme prejudice toward their Rights. It has been said that the majority opinion is the true ruler; if that is the case then perhaps it is time for us all to become the majority and not base our Rights upon a specific status as a minority. This does not preclude any attributes that a person has who is a member of a minority or their identity, but in the eyes of the majority and therefore the law, a minority is only a minority and will remain as such as long as they base their Rights solely upon their minority status.  </p>
<p>The problem with every democracy is that the majority always rule to the exclusion of the minority. The reason the Founders purposed a Republic instead of a democracy was to blunt the force and power of the majority through layers of checks and balances to equal out the playing field. The more democratic a political system becomes the more the majority &ldquo;lords over&rdquo; the minority.  It is strange that people are all for democracy until it actually rules against them and in a democracy, since the majority always rules, the minority will always suffer under the prejudices of the majority. There is a defined tyranny within a democracy and yet so many clamor for such a system because they feel that it will provide them with more voice while just the opposite is true. In every democracy the government system appeals to the material interests of the majority&rsquo;s large voting block, in turn the government will then merely placate the minority with a degree of rights and yet never &ldquo;grant&rdquo; them the same degree of rights as the majority. </p>
<p>The established elite ruling class, the governing &ldquo;gentry&rdquo; fears nothing more than a unified People. As long as sectionalism can be promoted and therefore pseudo-legalized, then this nation will remain divided and that is exactly what the &ldquo;State&rdquo; desires: a house divided. Until We take the stance that the only status that is legally meaningful and powerful is that of the Individual Citizen, then We will remain a conquered People subject to the will of majoritarianism and their preferred democratic tyranny. The majorities will always, whether by vote, referendum or even by a form of legal or judicial enforcement, secure their perceived rights over the rights of a defined minority. Majoritarian democracy desires the artificial designation of minorities, it keeps the &ldquo;majority&rdquo; holding the reigns of power while providing the minority with a degree of satisfaction based upon their struggle to gain or retain a certain allowance of rights, but such a system will never provide equality because it inherently promotes and maintains social, racial, religious, ethnic or sexual divisions among the People. </p>
<p>The &ldquo;State&rdquo; readily supports the idea that a particular class or group requires or is entitled to recognition based upon that class or group or category, because segmentation will continue to allow its decisions to be based upon the majority and keeps the perceived minority, of which ever particular group, in check or within a majority defined scope of &ldquo;civil rights&rdquo;. In such a &ldquo;democratic&rdquo; system the minority will always yield to the will and power of the majority. The majority will always enact policies which ensure that the minority is not strengthened and will never allow the total empowerment of the minority. The &ldquo;State&rdquo; will always seek to breed social divisions in order the restrict minority power or empowerment. The solution therefore, must be found through a very powerful and very different view: that of the Majority of Citizenship. </p>
<p>It is interesting to note that you rarely hear the word Republic, but democracy is tossed out by most politicians and for good reason: a democracy will always protect the majority first and keep any minority under the thumb of the ruling powers. Minorities are not only required, but desired within democratic majoritarian system of government because it will always demand that all minorities yield to the will and allowances of the majority. A Republic is anathema to democratic majoritarianism because it equalizes the power and force of government among all People of the Land when the People press their Sovereignty, based solely upon their Natural Rights of Citizenship, over the &ldquo;State&rdquo;.  </p>
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		<title>By: Guest</title>
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		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Merits&#039; web site, Wolves of Liberty, is full of EXCELLENT material and I&#039;m hoping that everyone here will head over there for more education: 
 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolvesofliberty.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.wolvesofliberty.com/&lt;/a&gt; 
 
I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s possible, but it would be helpful if there were a prominent link to his site from here (and vice versa). ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Merits&#039; web site, Wolves of Liberty, is full of EXCELLENT material and I&#039;m hoping that everyone here will head over there for more education:<br />
 <a href="http://www.wolvesofliberty.com/" target="_blank">http://www.wolvesofliberty.com/</a> </p>
<p>I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s possible, but it would be helpful if there were a prominent link to his site from here (and vice versa). </p>
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		<title>By: MichaelBoldin</title>
		<link>http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/05/10/the-consent-of-the-governed/comment-page-1/#comment-318730</link>
		<dc:creator>MichaelBoldin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 22:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GJ - thanks for the feedback - you&#039;ve been doing great work to get the word out at redstate and elsewhere.  Keep at it with the blog, I&#039;ve been reading it regularly! ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GJ &#8211; thanks for the feedback &#8211; you&#039;ve been doing great work to get the word out at redstate and elsewhere.  Keep at it with the blog, I&#039;ve been reading it regularly! </p>
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		<title>By: @TdashPaine</title>
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		<dc:creator>@TdashPaine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 21:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree with this sentiment.  I think things are going to change radically in the favor of state power over federal power very quickly in the next ten years.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with this sentiment.  I think things are going to change radically in the favor of state power over federal power very quickly in the next ten years.  </p>
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