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The national disaster of 2001 comes vividly back to mind during the motion picture, United 93. The film gives a gripping account of how passengers rose to the occasion on September 11 as four hijackers flew a suicide mission against the US capitol. By analogy, furthermore, Flight 93 offers insight into the postmodernist takeover of our country.
Suppose that no one among the 40 passengers and crew on the fuel laden Flight 93 had fought the good fight to regain command? Suppose they had preferred compliance to heroic defiance? Surely then the hijackers would have killed and wounded more innocent people. Our national heritage would have been wounded too if the historic structures on Capitol Hill had been hit. The chambers that echoed Daniel Webster’s stirring orations, and where Abraham Lincoln proposed his “spot resolutions,” would have suffered the fate of the twin towers and the Pentagon.
Similarly if we are apathetic, afraid, or otherwise unwilling to oust the oligarchy that has hijacked the nation, and whose leaders are steering the country down into the vortex of ruination, then, alas, the legacy to our children and grandchildren will be devoid of genuine liberty. Much less of America’s marvelous heritage will live. Nor will posterity know how it feels to be governed in a real republic.
Todd “let’s roll” Beamer and his fellow insurgents stormed the cockpit on 9/11. Likewise let us the citizens, the majority onboard, recapture the helm and redirect our country away from her rendezvous with ruin.
Such a rescue operation is the subject of the book, Treatise on Twelve Lights: To Restore America the Beautiful under God and the Written Constitution. (Please click here, or on the icon above, for free internet access to the book's full text). In addition to recapturing the ship of state and restoring it to fit political leadership, Treatise on Twelve Lights is also about renewal – about returning to port, where “we the people” can renovate the hull and refit the rigging.
To shed light upon our patriotic duties to rescue and renew the country, let us consider our national origins. For to be sure, the creation of the United States, and of its highest law, took place in illuminating ways.
First, on June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced into the continental congress a motion for independence from the British Empire. John Adams of Massachusetts seconded the motion. As elaborated and later enacted into law, it remains well known to students around the world as the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
The interactive book before you emulates, or rather imitates this approach of 1776. Lee’s motion to the continental congress sought to sever the thirteen colonies from a regime that had metamorphosed into tyranny. Similarly, Treatise on Twelve Lights is a motion or plan for setting the USA free from postmodernist forms of tyranny, which came slouching forth like Leviathan during the era that followed the Kennedy assassination.
Lee's motion of 23 decades ago was intended to restore what Jefferson, the prime author of the Declaration, called the most valuable of all freedoms – the freedom of a people to be self-governing. Likewise, we the people of the United States must rise once again to a very considerable challenge. Our task is to restore genuine self-governance under God and the written Constitution.
Second, from the standpoint of the U.S. Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia: Its historic proceedings offer a paradigm for our own approach. The U.S. Constitution grew out of a plan drawn up by Professor George Wythe, a teacher in his early sixties, together with six fellow citizens from the state of Virginia. In May, 1787, prior to being sworn in as delegates, they put together a document which subsequently they submitted to the Constitutional Convention. In June that informal prototype – know to history as the Virginia Plan – was taken up as the Convention's agenda after Edmund Randolph proposed it from the floor. Throughout that Summer the delegates molded, modified, and elaborated the Virginia Plan into the document that the states would be asked to ratify.
In less illustrious but somewhat parallel fashion, a longtime teacher in the state of Washington, now in his early sixties, has composed a prototype arch-amendment to which this book is keyed. Proposed from what might be termed the floor of the great parliament of public opinion, it is offered as the agenda for what the U.S. Constitution (Fifth Article) terms a “convention for proposing Amendments.”
Unlike the Virginia Plan, however, written in less than a month, the composition of the proposed twelve lights law was over the course of 33 years.
A point in common is that the Virginia Plan was neither a decree nor an edict forced down the throats of an unwilling population, but rather a motion to which the governed consented. Likewise what the proposed constellation law sets forth here is manifestly not an amendment of the Constitution by adjudication; i.e. by the form of usurpation, sans consent of the governed, that has become infamous in our own time. Nor is it proposed as a bill to be enacted by career politicians, but rather via that temporary assembly of citizens for which the Framers provided. The Article V convention would then propose their arch-amendment to the states for ratification.
Note that the Convention of 1787 proceeded in much the same way. It was a temporary citizen assembly, and it let ad hoc ratifying conventions elected in the states decide whether radically to upgrade our first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation.
With such democratic precedents to illuminate our steps; and with that motivating virtue, hope, spurring us to better the future; may the Twelve Lights League (TeLL) help restore the reality in the opening words of the U.S. Constitution:
"We the People"