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Constitutional RestraintsTo Government Theft

Phillip G. Kayser


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Phillip G. KayserConstitutional Restraints to Government Theft

Copyright 2009, 2007 Phillip G. KayserAll Rights Reserved.

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Constitutional Restraints toGovernment Theft

Phillip G. Kayser

Bi ica B ueprintsOmaha, NE


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I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before Ihave first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

--Senator Barry Goldwater

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to donothing."

--Edmund Burke

This booklet contains the transcript of a keynote address given

before a 2008 Presidential Candidates Forum to which all

presidential candidates were invited.


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Contents:

Introduction ...................................................................................1A Statement of the Problem.........................................................3Are There Higher Laws to which Congress, the Judiciary

and the President are subject? ....................................................5The Constitution is the highest law of the land. ..............................................5The oath of allegiance taken by public officials..............................................5The Ninth and Tenth Amendments make clear that the Constitution is a

limiting document. .......................................................................................8The Constitution declares our founding document to be the Declaration ofIndependence................................................................................................8

The Constitution upholds common law, and thus the Christian laws that ournation were founded on must continue to be upheld. ................................9

Examples of Civic Theft .............................................................11Inflation. ...........................................................................................................11The Right to Bear Arms. .................................................................................11Stealing rights that belong to the States. ........................................................11Stealing our Constitution Away from Us.......................................................12

Government Waste. .........................................................................................12Eminent Domain. .............................................................................................13Regulatory confiscation...................................................................................13Graduated Taxation. ........................................................................................13Excessively high taxes.....................................................................................13Programs that arent for the general public use. ............................................14

What We Should Do to Work Toward a Solution .................15Pray...................................................................................................................15Give money to good candidates all over the states........................................15Network with good organizations...................................................................15Dont give blind support to parties or candidates. Be issues oriented..........15Read the Constitution and be prepared to talk about it with the candidates 15Understand Common Law and especially Biblical law. ...............................16Support candidates who will seek to dismantle all unconstitutional

departments and agencies. .........................................................................16Stop sending your children to government schools.......................................16Promote the abolishing of the unjust graduated income tax and the IRS. ...16Oppose the licensing of professions and trades.............................................16

Work to dismantle the Federal Reserve and promote a hard currency. .......16Call for the USA to pull out of the United Nations.......................................17Get involved in politics. ..................................................................................17Get to know your representatives & resource them with good literature.....17Pray...................................................................................................................17

Conclusion ....................................................................................19


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Introduction 1

IntroductionRonald Reagan expressed the frustration of many people when

he said, "Government's view of the economy could be summedup in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,

regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." He went on to

say, "The current tax code is a daily mugging." And that is thetopic of this booklet Constitutional Restraints to Government

Theft. The title itself is shocking to some people how dare weaccuse the government of theft? But it is my contention that it is

not simply citizens who can be guilty of theft; governmentsthemselves can be guilty.


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2 Constitutional Restraints to Government Theft


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A Statement of the Problem 3

A Statement of the ProblemAccording to my reading of the Bible and of the Constitution

there are many forms of government theft. Forcing people into

the Social Security System is one form, but Congressional raids

on the Social Security Fund are another. There are the hiddenforms of theft that occur through inflation and the fractional

reserve system, and there are the very frontal assaults on our

rights to own and bear arms, government waste, unjust taxation,regulatory confiscation and eminent domain especially in the

recent Kelo decision of the Supreme Court which has potentially

jeopardized all private property. At least two of the Ten

Commandments speak against such Ahab-like tyranny. Themodern state has developed a system of plunder and

redistribution of wealth that must be stopped.

And lest you think that these words are too harsh, these are the

very words used by our founding fathers in the Declaration ofIndependence. That document describes Englandsunconstitutional procurements from America as plundering,

ravaging, impressments and unlawful taxation. The following

phrase from the Declaration could apply just as well to our

modern American government, when it complains that KingGeorge has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People,

and eat out their Substance. And the interesting thing is that the

dissenting minority in the English Parliament agreed thatEngland was engaging in theft from Americans. These lords, at

personal risk to themselves, called what was happening a

plundering of their brethren.1

1 They reacted with special anger against the practice of impressments of

Americans who were then forced to fight against their own families, withattempted desertion resulting in death. These lords said in part, "we reject, withindignation, that clause . . . which, by a refinement in tyranny, and in a sentence

worse than death, obliges the unhappy men who shall be made captives in thispredatory war, to bear arms against their family, kindred, friends, and country;and after being plundered themselves, to become accomplices in plunderingtheir brethren."


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Of course, modern politicians redefine this theft as charity and

compassion. But we must not let them get away with it. AsFrederic Bastiat said in his masterful treatise, The Law, when a

person takes a dollar out of his own pocket and gives it to thepoor that is true charity and compassion. But when the same

individual takes a dollar out of your pocket and gives it to the

poor, it is theft. And it is theft whether a private citizen or apublic servant engages in it.

And this brings us to the statement of the problem or the

dilemma. Many people believe that the civil government isincapable of theft by definition because the civil government is

the one who defines the rules. If there is no higher law by which

a government can be judged, then by definition there can be nosuch thing as tyranny, and we have no basis for complaint. This

was precisely the argument that was used by the Nazi War

Criminals at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. Peoplerecognized that these were war criminals, yet the civil servants

defended themselves by saying that everything they did waslegal. They were following the laws of the state. And who givesthese judges the right to say that their laws were immoral? The

judges had to resurrect the concept stated in our Declaration of

Independence that Gods laws stand above mans laws. If this

were not true, it would make no sense for Psalm 94 to complainabout wicked civil magistrates who promote evil by law. A

law can only be evil if there is a higher law by which it can be

judged. The black economist, Walter Williams, places theproblem where it presently stands when he says, Thou shalt not

steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress. But as we

will see in the next few minutes, Congress must be reigned in byhigher laws


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Are There Higher Laws 5

Are There Higher Laws to which Congress,the Judiciary and the President are subject?

The Constitution is the highest law of the land.Unlike the war criminals in Nuremberg, our Congress cannot

claim to be following the law. They dont even have that excuse.

The highest law of the land is not the codification of the new

laws constantly emanating from Congress. The highest law ofthe land is the Constitution. In the case of Marbury v. Madison,

Chief Justice Marshall said, "All laws which are repugnant to the

Constitution, are null and void." Congress would not be able topull the wool over peoples eyes if the people knew the

Constitution backwards and forwards. And I highly recommend

that you carry a copy of the Constitution with you at all times.Distribute copies of the Constitution to friends and associates.

We need to use it as a tool to resist tyranny. And there are manybooks to help you study the Constitution. Firm Foundation Press

has published, The Exhaustive Concordance to the United StatesConstitution with Topical Index and Rapid Reference

Constitution. The Editor is Dennis Bizzoco. Its a great way to

find your way around the Constitution. If you have a tough timereading the Federalist Papers, which give the original

interpretation of the Constitution, you can buy the Federalist

Papers in Modern Language Indexed for Todays Political

Issues, edited by Mary E. Webster. There are many great tools tohelp you understand the Constitution and hold politicians feet to

the fire.

The oath of allegiance taken by public officials.

The second limit to government theft is the oath of office taken

by all Federal officials. They pledge to support and defend theConstitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.2 These

2 For example, the Senators take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear (or


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officers arent being forced to take these jobs against their wills.

They have voluntarily bound themselves to follow theConstitution. Yet very few do. Many experts have estimated that

somewhere between 62% (that is the lowest figure I have seen)and 90% of the Federal expenditures and programs are grossly

unconstitutional. According to one scholars analysis, 62% of

President Bushs 2006 Budget involves taking money from onegroup of citizens to benefit other citizens a form ofsocialism;

redistribution of wealth.3 And we need to ask these men why

affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United Statesagainst all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith andallegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mentalreservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully dischargethe duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

Presidents take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I willfaithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the

best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the UnitedStates." (See Article II, section 1 of the Constitution.)3 Mr. Cantoni, founder of Honest Americans Against Legal Theft(www.haalt.org) listed many forms of government theft, but consider thefollowing samples:DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

$176 billion in farm assistance$359 million in loans to companies that install broadband in rural areas$5.5 billion for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,Infants, and Children

$214 million for USDA-financed multifamily housing$33.1 billion for the Food Stamp Program

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE$3.7 billion for the Strengthening America's Communities Grant Program,

including the Minority Business Development Agency, the AdvisoryCommission on Asians and Pacific Islanders, and the International TradeAdministration$47 million for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

$13.3 billion in Title I spending$1.1 billion for Reading First and Early Reading First$412 million to help states test students under No Child Left Behind

$500 million for Teacher Incentive Fund$2.9 billion for Teacher Quality States Grant program$40 million for the Adjunct Teacher Corps$50 million for the Choice Incentive Fund


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they have perjured themselves in doing unconstitutional things.

If they say that they have not, all we need to ask them is todemonstrate that their pet policy is authorized by the

Constitution. The Constitution is a limiting document. Theburden of proof is on them to demonstrate that they have not

violated their oath. If the biggest crisis of the hour is a

government not subject to the Constitution, then one limit is to

$219 million for Charter Schools Grants$37 million for Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities$1.2 billion for High School Intervention Initiative$250 million for High School Assessments$175 million for Striving Readers program$269 million for Math-Science Partnerships$12 million for State Scholars Program

$12.2 billion for all IDEA programs$4.3 billion to retire Pell Grant shortfall

$17.9 billion in Pell Grants$125 million to improve access to community colleges$299 million for Historically Black Colleges and Graduate Institutions

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT$161.5 million for the American Dream Down-payment Initiative$40 million for housing counseling

$2.5 billion for the Single Family Home Ownership Tax Credit$4 billion for homeless programs and grantsUnspecified amount for Housing Opportunities for Persons With Aids(HOPWA)

$74 million for Prisoner Re-entry Initiative$20.8 billion in rental assistance$5.7 billion for public housing$583 million for Native American Block Grant

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR$4 billion for job training

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONThe entire budget of $593 million is theft

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

$9.5 billion in discretionary spending and $564 billion in mandatory spendingTHE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICEThe entire budget of $921 million is theft

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTSThe entire budget of $121 million is theft

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIESThe entire budget of $138 million is theft


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remind officials that they need to abide by their oath. We

desperately need a Constitutionalist President who is willing toveto unconstitutional laws and to remind Congress of its vow to

uphold the Constitution.

The Ninth and Tenth Amendments make clear thatthe Constitution is a limiting document.

Another Constitutional limit is states rights. There is no

reason why States cannot band together to resist unconstitutionalmandates from the Feds. The Tenth Amendment says, The

powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,

nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the Statesrespectively, or to the people. States have a vested interest in

telling the Federal government to back off; to tell them that the

Constitution is not a suggestion it is a limiting document. In

other words, if you cant find it in the Constitution, the Federal

Government cant do it. Thats the tenth amendment. Call yourstate representatives and ask them to use interposition to resist

unconstitutional Federal mandates.

The Constitution declares our founding documentto be the Declaration of Independence.

Thus life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness areindeed the law of the land

The fourth Constitutional limit is the Declaration of

Independence. The reason I say this is a Constitutional limit is

that Article VII of the Constitution dates the founding of ournation to July 4, 1776 when the Declaration was signed, not to

September 17, 1787 when the Constitution was signed. Its not

the Constitution that founded our nation; our Constitution says it

is the Declaration. This is significant because the Declarationmakes our nation a religious nation and declares that our rights

are not granted by the state. If they were, they could be taken

away by the state. But our rights are inalienable preciselybecause they are granted by a higher power - God our Creator.


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The Declaration adds three inalienable rights life, liberty and

the pursuit of happiness. It also condemns much of what is goingon in Washington if people would only read it.

Thus the laws of nature and of Natures God are thelaws of the land.

Further, the Declaration indicates that our nation is subject to

the laws of nature and of natures God. It makes the laws of God

the basis for our Constitutional republic. The constitution was

not a scrapping of the Christian republic, but a perfecting of it.We need to be bolder in using the Declaration of Independence.

The Constitution upholds common law, and thusthe Christian laws that our nation were founded onmust continue to be upheld.

A fifth major restriction that the Constitution places upon ourelected officials and judges is the common law. And its not just

the Constitution that mandates common law. The Northwest

Ordinance, signed at the same time, said of all future states thatmight join the union, The inhabitants of the said territory shall

always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus,

and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the

people in the legislature; and of judicial proceedings according

to the course of the common law. Constitutional expert, JamesMcClellan, says that the language of both the Federal and State

constitutions in the United States cannot fully be understoodwithout reference to the English common law.4 Amendment VII

to our Constitution says, where the value in controversy shall

exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall bepreserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-

4 James McClellan, Liberty, Order, and Justice: An Introduction to the

Constitutional Principles of American Government, p. 33. On page 35McClellan says, Some provisions of the Constitution, such as the one referringto contract in Article 1, Section 10, presume the existence of common lawand cannot be understood properly without reference to it.


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examined in any court of the United States, than according to the

rules of common law. It was mandated. And what is commonlaw? The United States Supreme Court itself said,

...Christianity, general Christianity, is and always has been, apart of the common law not Christianity with an established

church but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.5

Chief Justice Story said, There never has been a period ofhistory, in which the Common Law did not recognize

Christianity as lying at its foundation.6 This is why on

September 17, 1796 (seven years after he signed theConstitution) President George Washington, said, it is

impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the

Bible.7 Making Common Law the law governing all the state

and federal courts makes Gods law the law of the land, just asthe Declaration of Independence did. And we should not be

ashamed of this. The only way we can restrict tyranny is if there

is a higher law. Our modern Congressmen for the most part does

not see themselves as being guilty of theft because they do notsee themselves as subject to a higher law. They have become

above the law just as the Parliament in England had during theWar for American Independence. William Blackstone described

the state of affairs in Parliament back then when he said, the

power of parliament is absolute and without control. It hath

sovereign absolute, despotic power.8

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Quoted in William J. Federer, Americas God and Country, (Coppell, TX:Fame Publishing, 1994), p. 600.6 Federer,Americas God and Country,p. 574.7 Federer,Americas God and Country, p. 660. See also James K. Paulding, A

Life of Washington, 1836, Vol. II, p. 208.8Cited in John Allen, Inquiry Into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogativein England, (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), p. 35.


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Civic Theft 11

Examples of Civic TheftHas the modern Congress been exercising despotic power? Ibelieve it has. And I believe this can be demonstrated to be true

by the criteria of the Bible, the Declaration of Independence andthe Constitution.

Inflation9.

The first example of theft and despotism is inflation. Theeconomist, Hans Sennholz, has demonstrated that inflation is

theft in that it covertly transfers income and wealth from all

creditors to all debtors,10 (our government being the biggest

debtor and the biggest recipient of this transfer of wealth).Ronald Reagan said, Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as

frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. The

economist, Milton Friedman, said, Inflation is taxation without

legislation.

The Right to Bear Arms.

When the BATF took away guns from New Orleans residents,they were not just stealing private property (in violation of the

second amendment), they were taking away the ability of these

citizens to defend themselves against common thugs. This is

despotism.

Stealing rights that belong to the States.

In 1935, the United States Supreme Court defined the modernuse of the Welfare Clause as theft. The court said,

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Inflation can be defined as "An increase in the supply of money and creditcaused by government action. Inflation usually results in a rise in the generalprice level for all goods and services, and, in popular usage, inflation has come

to mean any rise in the general price level." (George Edward DurellFoundation)10 Hans Sennholz, Inflation is Debt June 24, 2005 blog athttp://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/sennholz6.html.


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"If the novel view of the General Welfare Clause now

advanced in support of the tax were accepted, this clausewould not only enable Congress to supplant the states in the

regulation of agriculture and all other industries as well, butwould furnish the means whereby all of the other provisions

of the Constitution, sedulously framed to define and limit the

powers of the United States and preserve the powers of thestates, could be broken down, the independence of the

individual states obliterated, and the United States converted

into a central government exercising uncontrolled policepower throughout the union superseding all local control

over local concerns."

- United States v. Butler (No. 401) 78 F.2d 1 affirmed, 1953.

Succeeding years have proven that court to be absolutely right.

We have a despotic Federal government that has stolen awayStates rights.

Stealing our Constitution Away from Us.

They have certainly been stealing our Constitution away fromus. Black economist Thomas Sowell rightly said,

"An independent judiciary does not mean judgesindependent of the Constitution from which they derive their

power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to

uphold."

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Many books have been written to demonstrate that all three

branches of government are no longer subject to the

Constitution. Our constitutional liberties have been eroding on amassive scale.

Government Waste.

Government waste is another form of graft, corruption andtheft. In the Johnny Hart comic strip, B.C., this famous line

was written. Waste not -- want not': The motto of absolutely no

11 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell030204.asp.


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Civic Theft 13

government agency whatsoever." Herman E. Talmadge said,

"Virtually everything is under federal control nowadays exceptthe federal budget."

Eminent Domain.

I already mentioned the tyranny of eminent domain that is

destroying businesses and peoples lives in many cities across

our nation. Eminent domain is no longer for government use. Itis taking away land from one business to give it to another

business that will produce more taxes. Or in many cases, it isbeing used to give land to large corporations for Ball Parks andother ventures.

Regulatory confiscation.

Then you have regulatory confiscation. The Wilderness Act of1964 stole vast tracts of land from the states and from private

individuals. Then there was the Clean Water Act, The Clean AirAct and the most astonishing land grab of all, the EndangeredSpecies Act of 1973.

Graduated Taxation.

Karl Marx considered a progressive (graduated) income tax tobe essential to establishing socialism in a country. Several of his

socialistic principles have been wholeheartedly embraced by the

USA. We began with Ronald Reagans comment that the current

tax system is a daily mugging and I love his insight oncommunism. He said, "Communism works only in heaven,

where they don't need it, and in hell, where they've already got

it." - Ronald Reagan, June 1983.

Excessively high taxes.

Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall said,

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to

destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution

and no property can bear taxation"


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- Chief Justice John Marshall, inMcCulloch v. Maryland, 17

U.S. 316 at 323, 1819, United States Supreme Court.The Bible defines any taxation over 10% to be tyrannical

(1Sam. 8:15). Some people object to using the Bible as a

standard, but without it, there is no limit to which we can be

taxed. At one time, Englands highest tax rate was around 90%.R. J. Rushdoony quotes Luigi Barzini saying, the late Luigi

Einaudi, Italys foremost economist and ex-President of the

Republic, calculated that, if every tax on the statute books was

fully collected, the State would absorb 110% of the nationalincome.12 Without a Biblical maximum for taxation, taking

100% of our income (also called slavery) cannot be objected to.

But according to the Bible and the Declaration of Independence,that is tyranny.

Programs that arent for the general public use.

And what about the welfare system and the thousands ofprograms that only benefit a small minority of the population?

There is no way those can be justified by the Constitution.

President Calvin Coolidge said, "A government which lays taxeson the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound

public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of

tyranny" (speech in Washington D.C., June 30, 1924). In 1875the Supreme Court had much more sense than it does today. In

that year they declared, "To lay with one hand the power of thegovernment on the property of the citizen and with the other to

bestow upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises andbuild up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is

done under forms of law and called taxation." Mark Twain once

complained about the civil government, saying, No mans life,liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Saint Augustine summarized the Biblical position when he said,

Without justice, what are states but great bands of robbers?

12 Luigi Barzini, The Italians (New York: Bantam Books, 1965), p. 109 as citedby Rusdoony,Institutes,vol. 1,p. 35.


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What We Should Do 15

What We Should Do to Work Toward aSolution

PrayBut we are not helpless. There is much that we can do. First,

we can pray. Scripture says,

"if My people who are called by My name will humblethemselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their

wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive

their sin and heal their land." (2Chron. 7:14)

Give money to good candidates all over the states.

Second, we can give money to good candidates all over the

states. Dont just support your own state representatives. The

more Constitutionalism is promoted in each state, the better offwe will all be.

Network with good organizations.

Third, network with good organizations. Get involved.

Dont give blind support to parties or candidates.

Be issues oriented.Fourth, dont give blind support to parties or candidates. If

they arent constitutionalists, they arent worthy of your support.

Be issues oriented. Make your loyalty be to the Constitution, not

to a man. And ultimately, if you are a Christian, your loyaltyshould be to Gods law.

Read the Constitution and be prepared to talkabout it with the candidates

Fifth, read the constitution and be prepared to talk about it with

your candidates. This will do more to restrict unconstitutionalbehavior than most anything else that we do.


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Understand Common Law and especially Biblical

law.Sixth, understand common law, and especially the Biblical law

that stands at the basis of common law. Its in the Constitution.

Support candidates who will seek to dismantle allunconstitutional departments and agencies.

Seventh, support candidates who will seek to dismantle all

unconstitutional departments and agencies. President RonaldReagan said, There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neatand predictable as a law of physics: As government expands,

liberty contracts." But as he discovered, the president cant do it

alone. He will need all the support he can get from Congress andSenate.

Stop sending your children to government schools.Eighth, get your own children out of government schools.

They are at the heart of the hijacking of our country. Better yet,

abolish government-funded schools and get back to competition

in education the way it used to be.

Promote the abolishing of the unjust graduated

income tax and the IRS.Ninth, promote the abolishment of the sixteenth amendmentand the abolishment of the IRS.

Oppose the licensing of professions and trades.

Tenth, get the government out of business by opposing the

licensing of professions and trades.

Work to dismantle the Federal Reserve andpromote a hard currency.

Eleventh, work to dismantle the Federal Reserve System and

promote a hard currency.


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What We Should Do 17

Call for the USA to pull out of the United Nations.

Twelfth, call for the USA to pull out of the United Nations.We are going to see enormous theft coming out of theinternational treaties and United Nations mandates.

Get involved in politics.

Thirteenth, get involved in politics yourself. Run for office orhelp others run for office.

Get to know your representatives & resource themwith good literature.

Fourteenth, get to know your elected officials and resourcethem with good literature. Treat them as a friend you can help

and you will get farther than if you treat them as an enemy.

PrayFinally, pray again. "Unless the LORD build the house, they

labor in vain who build it." (Psalm 127:1) Unless the Lord guard

the city, its watchmen will keep awake in vain.


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Conclusion 19

ConclusionLet me end by giving a brief quote from Barry Goldwater. He

said,

"I have little interest in streamlining government or inmaking it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do

not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend

freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is

not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones thatdo violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their

purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarrantedfinancial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether

legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether

it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be

attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shallreply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and

that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."13

13 Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative (Washington, D.C.:Regnery Gateway, 1990), p. 17.


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Constitutional Restraints

to Government TheftPhillip G. Kayser

s there such a thing as Government

theft? How can theft even be

defined? If the government is guiltyof violating the Constitution, what can

be done to stop it? This booklet calls

America to return to being aConstitutional Republic, and to take seriously the Biblical Law

referenced in the Declaration of Independence (our 1st founding

document) and the Common Law referenced in the Constitution

(our 2nd founding document). There is hope for America if itscitizens will wake up.

Phillip Kayser is the Senior Pastor of Dominion Covenant Church in

Omaha, NE. He holds a M.Div. from Westminster TheologicalSeminary (California) and a Ph.D. from Whitefield TheologicalSeminary (Florida). He and his wife Kathy have 5 children.

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