wtp case for continental congress 2009

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Welcome andPledge of Allegiance

We The People Foundation

Continental Congress 2009

Part 1

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of

government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slowoperations, perverted it into tyranny.

-Thomas Jefferson


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Bob Schulz, ChairmanBiography

EDUCATION: Engineering Degree from the United States Merchant Marine Academy

Masters Degree in Business Administration from Xavier University

Ph. D. Coursework in Public Administration, Graduate School of Public

Affairs, SUNY, Albany

CAREER: Key leadership positions at General Electric

New York and Connecticut State Government

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Wall Street Prudential-Bache

CEO management consulting group

Talk Show Host at WROW in Albany, New YorkFreedom KeeperOver 30 Years, Litigation Re Unconstitutional ActsPERSONAL: Wife, Four Children, Nine Grandchildren, Lake George, NY 40 Years


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Introduction and HistoryWe The People Foundation

HISTORY:We The People Foundation was incorporated in 1997 in New York

501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization

Provides Constitutional Education to the General Public

Protects and Defends Americas Federal and State Constitutions

Not concerned with Politics or Personalities in Public OfficeObjective is to return America to its Founding Principles

RECENT INITIATIVES:Questioning the Federal Governments Abuse of its Constitutional Powers

Debt Based, Fiat Currency

Taxing Labor Private Bailouts

Undeclared Wars

Election Integrity

Police State


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Introduction and HistoryWe The People Congress

HISTORY:We The People Congress was incorporated in 1997 in New York

501(c)4 Non-Profit Organization

Based on Lifes Work ofThomas Jefferson Nationwide, Non-Partisan Membership Organization

Organized into State and County Ward Republics

RECENT INITIATIVES: Constitutional Activists Committed to Institutionalizing" Citizen Vigilance

Civic Education

Government Monitoring

Organizing Grassroots Movements Demonstrating Peaceful Civic Resistance

Resurrecting the 1st Amend Capstone Right to Petition For RedressContinental Congress 2009


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Introduction and History

Continental Congress

HISTORY:The first Continental Congress which was convened in PhiladelphiasCarpenters Hall on September 5, 1774 sought to right the wrongs that had

been inflicted upon the Colonies by Britain. Comprised of delegates elected

by the people and colonial parliament, the delegates debated and discussed

their respective states interests and developed a statement ofprinciples that were common to all Colonies.The Second Continental Congress followed in May 10, 1775, shortlyafter the start of the American Revolutionary War. The majority of the

delegates who attended the first meeting, also attended the second.

In July, 1776, the Resolution of Independence was drafted and wasfollowed by the United States Declaration of Independence. In theyears that followed, the Colonies agreed on the Articles ofConfederation, held a Constitutional Convention and ratified theUnited States Constitution.


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Introduction and History

Continental Congress 2009

REPEATING HISTORY:The 2009 Continental Congress is being organized to allow

delegates, three from each state, to represent their states

interests and to discuss the Constitutional violations and the

Peoples repeated attempts to Petition for Redress.

Comprised of 150 elected citizen representatives, the delegates

will agree upon a peaceful course of action that will put the power

back into the hands of We The People, restore our freedoms and

preserve our Constitutional Republic.

More details relating to the Continental Congress and how itwill advance the causes ofother like-minded, PatrioticGroups and Organizations will be discussed in Part 2 and inthe Citizen Networking Session in Part 3.


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Question for The Audience

What Motivated You To Attend This Meeting?

GENERAL CONCERNS:Recent Job Loss and/or Rising Unemployment

Loss of Home Value

Credit Crisis and/or the Ability to Qualify for a Home Loan

Crippling Tax Increases

Rising Costs of Operating a Small Business Instability of the Stock Market

Losses to 401K and Other Investments

Expanding Role of Federal Government

Risks to State Sovereignty

Taxpayer-Funded Loans and Bailouts to Private Industries

Pork-Filled Legislation Disguised as Economic Stimulus

Federal Reserve, Fiat Currency and a Central Banking System

Amnesty Proposals and Federally Funded Programs for Illegal Aliens

Presidential Eligibility Natural Born Citizen

Infringement of Right to Bear Arms

Fear of Martial Law


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Explanation

Unconstitutional Conduct and

Lack of Governmental Accountability

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONDUCT: Federal Income Tax

Federal Reserve and Bailouts

Iraq Resolution

Patriot Act

North American Union

Illegal Immigration

Gun Control Laws

Computerized Vote Counting

LACK OF GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTABLITY: Repeated Failure to Respond to the Peoples Petitions for Redress

Failure to Account for and Appropriately Use Taxpayer Funds

Failure to Honor Freedom of Information Requests

Failure to Verify the Presidential Eligibility of Candidates


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Citizenship

Duties and Responsibilities

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES: We must Exercise our Duties as Citizens

Understanding our Duty is as Important as Comprehending our Rights

Citizenship allows us to be Part of a Society

We exist for the good of Ourselves and our Society as a Whole

Citizenship requires the execution of our Responsibilities

Citizenship requires adherence to our Constitution

It shall be the duty of every citizen of the United States of

America to abide by, protect and preserve our Constitution, torespect the ideals of our Founding Fathers and to create

institutions that provide law and order in our society in

preservation of our Constitutional Republic.


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A Call to ActionRestore Our Constitutional Republic

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the

government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas JeffersonFellow Citizens,

If you are ready to perform yourduties and

responsibilities as Citizens of our Great Country, please

STAND UP


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Citizen Action Form

For those of you STANDING, thank you for making a commitment to takethe action that is needed to preserve Our Constitutional Republic.

We realize everyone of you standing has limited time due to outside

obligations, however, we believe you are here today because you realizethat if we dont start working together, we wont have a ConstitutionalRepublic or a United States of America to stand up for in the future.Please be seated and take the next 5 minutes to complete the CitizenAction Formthat we have included in your information packet. This formwill help us determine how much time you have available, and what type of

action you are committed to taking. We need both leaders and people towork behind the scenes, so please commit to doing what you can.Please bring your completed CITIZEN ACTION FORM up to the frontbefore you leave forBREAK. Thank you for your cooperation.


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We The People FoundationContinental Congress 2009

Part 2Peoples Right To

Petition For Redress


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History and Background

Peoples Right To Petition For RedressTHE MAGNA CARTA - ENGLISH COMMON LAW:If we, our chief justice, our officials, or any of our servants offend in any

respect against any man, or transgress any of the articles of the peace or of

this security, and the offence is made known to four of the said twenty-five

barons, they shall come to us - or in our absence from the kingdom to thechief justice - to declare it and claim immediate redress.

If we, or in our absence abroad the chief justice, make no redress within forty

days, reckoning from the day on which the offence was declared to us or to

him, the four barons shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five

barons, who may distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, with the

support of the whole community of the land, by seizing our castles, lands,possessions, or anything else saving only our own person and those of the

queen and our children, until they have secured such redress as they have

determined upon. Having secured the redress, they may then resume their

normal obedience to us.


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1774 Act, Journals of the Continental Congress(unanimously passed)


Peoples Right To Petition

If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any

manner oppressed the People, they may retain ituntil their grievances are redressed, and thus

peaceably procure relief, without trusting todespised petitions or disturbing the publictranquility."

- Journals of the Continental Congress, 1:105-113


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Peoples Right To Petition

The privilege of giving or withholding our money is an

important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative

which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our

great oppression; and all history shows how efficacious its

intercession forredress of grievances and establishment of

rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of sopowerful a mediator."

-Thomas Jefferson

Reply to Lord North, 1775. Papers 1:225.


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Peoples Right to PetitionREPEATED INJURY:In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned

for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated

Petitions have been answered only by with repeatedinjury.

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act

which may define a Tyrant, is thus unfit to be the ruler of

a free people.

-Declaration of Independence 1776


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New Hampshire Constitution

Peoples Right To Revolution

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.]Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection,

and security, of the whole community, and not for the private

interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men;therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and

public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress

are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old,

or establish a new government.

The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, andoppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and

happiness of mankind.

June 2, 1784


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Explanation

Peoples Right to Petition

RIGHT TO PETITION :Congress shall make no law respecting the

establishment of religion, or prohibiting the freeexercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,

freedom of the press; or the Right of the People

peaceably to assemble, and toPetition the government

for a redress of grievances.- FIRST AMENDMENT, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION-1791


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Explanation

Peoples Right to PetitionThe Right to Petition is a distinctive, substantive Right, from

which other substantive First Amendment Rights were

derived. The Rights to free speech, pressand assemblyoriginated as derivative Rights insofar as they werenecessary to protect the preexistingRight to Petition. Free speech Rights first developed because members of Parliament

needed to discuss freely the Petitions they received.

Publications reporting Petitions were the first to receive protection from

the frequent prosecutions against the press for seditious libel.

Public meetings to prepare Petitions led to recognition of the Right of

Public Assembly.


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Timeline

Peoples Petitions For Redress

PETITION 1 (1995): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to theBailout of the Mexican Peso in violation of the Money Clauses

PETITION 2(1999): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to theBombing of Kosovo Without a Congressional Declaration of War

PETITION 3(July 1999): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating tothe Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on LaborPETITION 4 (April 2000): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relatingto the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor

PETITION 5 (July 2001): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating tothe Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor

PETITION 6(Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating toIraq ResolutionPETITION 7 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating tothe USA Patriot Act and the War on Terrorism

PETITION 8(Nov 2002):Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating tothe Federal Reserve System


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Timeline

Peoples Petitions For Redress

PETITION 9(Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating tothe Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor

PETITION 10(March 2003): Petition for Redress of GrievancesRelating to Forced Withholding of Pay

PETITION 11(July 2004): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relatingto abuse of Accountability (Redress) Clause of the 1

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Amend.PETITION 12(2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating toComputerized Vote Counting

PETITION 13 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of GrievancesRegarding Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms

PETITION 14 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of GrievancesRegarding the North American UnionPETITION 15 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of GrievancesRegarding the failure of the President to enforce the Immigration Laws.

Read More About the Petitions Served On The Governmentwww.GiveMeLiberty.org/Revolution


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Overview

Supreme Court ActionIn July 2004 almost two thousand ordinary Americans filed suit in

federal court asking the judiciary to declare - for the first time in

history- the constitutional meaning of the First AmendmentPetition clause.Why won't the U.S. Supreme Court tell us whatthe last ten words of the First Amendment reallymean?. and to Petition the government for a redress ofgrievances.


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Purpose and Overview

Continental Congress 2009Mission:The Mission of the Continental Congress is to end and reverseviolations of the Constitution of the United States of America byeducating Americans on the issue of petitions for redress. We willdo this by acting in a proactive, non-violent, constitutionallybased course of action to restore the original intent of ourFounding Fathers for the free people of ourConstitutionalRepublic.Who? The Peoples Representatives (3 Delegates Elected from Each State)What? End and Reverse Constitutional ViolationsWhen? 2009Where?TBDHow? Proactive, Non-Violent, Constitutionally Based Course of ActionWhy? Restore the Original Intent of Our Founding Fathers


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Purpose and Overview

Continental Congress 2009Vision:The ultimate Vision is to create a platform in whichrepresentatives from each of the United States can progressthrough a course of deliberations and discussions and developa renewed commitment to our Constitution and Declaration ofIndependence.Delegates will determine and acknowledgementthe repeated violations against the Constitution which threatenour Republic. Delegates will review the Peoples repeatedefforts to petition the Government for a Redress of Grievanceand determine the most appropriate, non-violent,constitutionally based course of action to address and resolvethe peoples concerns.The Continental Congress will become amajor catalyst through which the people of America will seekConstitutional obedience from elected officials, create greatergovernmental accountability and a complete restoration of ourConstitutional Republic.


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Q & AContinental Congress

2009


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A Call for LEADERS to Help

Restore Our Constitutional RepublicFellow Citizens,

If weve learned anything from the Nov 4, 2008 election, weve learned how

a coordinated grassroots movement can effectivelychange thecourse of a Nation.If you are concerned about where our Nation is heading, and you have

an interest in taking the LEAD to organize volunteers in yourSTATE orCOUNTY in an effort to take back our Country, please

Stand Up and Step ForwardPlease take 5 minutes to complete the Meeting Evaluation Formin your information packet and bring the completed form to the front

before you leave for theBREAK


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We The People FoundationContinental Congress 2009

Part 3CitizenNetworking Session

Please Learn More:We The People Foundation www.wethepeoplefoundation.org

We The People Congress www.wethepeoplecongress.org

Petition For Redress of Grievances www.givemeliberty.org

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