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Premises:

1. It is a principle of law that a statute or law or legal procedure (or whatever) which is null and void on Constitutional grounds is null and void not merely from the time its nullity is discovered and proved, but from the moment of its inception. 16 Am Jur 177

2. The Constitution of the United States is written in plain English.

3. The Constitution of the United States is internally self-consistent. [Therefore, any 'interpretation' of the plain english meaning of the words and phrases of the Constitution which results in internal inconsistency is a false interpretation.]

4. In the absence of ratification of a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the original Constitution remains in force unamended.

[NOTE: Pick up your copy of the Constitution of the United States to follow along here if you wish.]

The Constitution of the United States of America
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

Fact Set 1:

1. Throughout the Constitution of the United States, the word "States" and the word "People" are consistently used to refer to separate and distinct political entities with separate and distinct political needs and objectives.

2. Throughout the Federalist Papers, since the beginning of our nation regarded as representing the "intent" of the founding fathers, the word "States" and the word "People" are consistently used to refer to separate and distinct political entities with separate and distinct political needs and objectives.

Conclusion #1: The terms "States" and "People" refer to separate and distinct political entities in all places they are used in the Constitution of the United States as originally written and amended.

Fact Set 2:

1. Article I Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires that "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives."

2. Article I Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires that "The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.

3. Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires that "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."

4. [Conclusion #1 restated] The terms "States" and "People" refer to separate and distinct political entities in all places they are used in the Constitution of the United States as originally written and amended.

Conclusion #2: The People, as a separate and distinct political entity, are to be represented by their chosen Representatives in the House of Representatives.

Conclusion #3: The States on the other hand, as separate and distinct political entities, are to be represented in the Senate.

Conclusion #4: The Congress of the United States, finally, is to consist of the Representatives of the People and the Representatives of the States in congress (the word essentially means "together").

Fact Set 3:

1. Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires the only means of lawfully amending the Constitution of the United States.

2. As a limitation on what provisions of the U.S. Constitution may be amended and under what circumstances, Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires "... that no State without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."

Conclusion #5: The separate representation of the States in the Senate, and representation of the People in the House of Representatives, must have been pretty important to the founding fathers, for if even one State fails to ratify a proposed amendment which would work to deprive the States of their equal suffrage in the Senate, the proposed amendment fails of ratification.

Fact Set 4:

1. [Restated] Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States defines "Senate" as consisting of "two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof". (Emphasis added.)

2. Proposed Amendment Seventeen (1913) to the Constitution of the United States, Clause 1, if ratified, would redefine "Senate of the United States" as "two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof". (Emphasis added.)

3. If the States, as separate and distinct political entities from the People, are deprived of their equal Representation in the Senate, then they are deprived of their equal suffrage (vote) in the Senate.

Conclusion #6: The proposed Seventeenth Amendment, if ratified, would deprive the States (as political entities distinct from the People) of their equal suffrage in the Senate.

Fact Set 5:

1. [Conclusion #5 restated] The separate representation of the States in the Senate, and representation of the People in the House of Representatives, must have been pretty important to the founding fathers, for if even one State fails to ratify a proposed amendment which would work to deprive the States of their equal suffrage in the Senate, the proposed amendment fails of ratification.

2. [Conclusion #6 restated] The proposed Seventeenth Amendment, if ratified, would deprive the States (as political entities distinct from the People) of their equal suffrage in the Senate.

3. According to their legislative records, UTAH and DELAWARE each withheld their consent to being deprived of their equal suffrage in the Senate by voting to reject the proposed Seventeenth Amendment.

4. According to their legislative records, eight other States withheld their consent to being deprived of their equal suffrage in the Senate by taking no action at all on the proposed amendment.

Conclusion #7: The proposed Seventeenth Amendment was not ratified pursuant to Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States.

Fact Set #6:

1. [Conclusion #7 restated] The proposed Seventeenth Amendment was not ratified pursuant to Article 5 of the Constitution of the United States.

2. [First premise restated] It is a principle of law that a statute or law or legal procedure (or whatever) which is null and void on Constitutional grounds is null and void not merely from the time its nullity is discovered and proved, but from the moment of its inception. 16 Am Jur 177

Conclusion #8: The proposed Seventeenth Amendment was and is null and void and carries no force or weight or obligation of Law and the proposed Seventeeth Amendment has been null and void and has carried no force or weight or obligation of Law since the moment of its inception (May 31, 1913).

Fact Set #7:

1. [Third Premise restated] In the absence of ratification of a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the original document remains in force unamended.

2. [Restated] Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires that "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."

3. No Senator of the United States has been chosen by the legislature of any State pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States since May 31, 1913. Conclusion #10: No "Senate of the United States" as defined by the Constitution of the United States has existed since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

Fact Set #8:

1. [Fact Set 2, Fact #1]: Article I Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires that "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives."

2. [Conclusion #10] No "Senate of the United States" as defined by the Constitution of the United States has existed since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

Conclusion #11: No "Congress of the United States" has existed since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

Conclusion #12: No "legislative powers" have been granted or vested in any institution since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

Fact Set #9:

1. [Conclusion #12 above] No "legislative powers" have been granted or vested in any institution since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

2. Without "legislative powers" delegated to government by the People, any law or statute or code or administrative regulation purportedly "passed" by anyone is but mere "color of law" -- not pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, not binding, not having any lawful force or weight of law, null and void.

Conclusion #13: No legislation (law or statute) has been lawfully passed by any "Congress of the United States" since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

Fact Set #10:

1. Article II Section 2 Clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States provides and requires that the President "shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law."

2. [Conclusion #11 restated] No 'Senate of the United States' as defined by the Constitution of the United States has existed since the first individual usurped the office of 'Senator of the United States' without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

CONCLUSION #14: No treaties have been made, no ambassadors, public ministers, consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, or other officers of the United States have been appointed since the first individual usurped the office of 'Senator of the United States' without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

Fact Set #11:

1. [Conclusion #11 restated] No "Congress of the United States" has existed since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

2. [Conclusion #12 restated] No "legislative powers" have been granted or vested in any institution since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

3. [Conclusion #13 restated] No legislation (law or statute) has been lawfully passed by any "Congress of the United States" since the first individual usurped the office of "Senator of the United States" without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

4. [CONCLUSION #14 restated] No treaties have been made, no ambassadors, public ministers, consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, or other officers of the United States have been appointed since the first individual usurped the office of 'Senator of the United States' without having been chosen pursuant to Article I Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States.

CONCLUSION #9: The EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, and JUDICIAL Branches of the government of the United States as established by the Constitution of the United States are -- simply and conclusively -- out of business.

Fact Set #12:

1. The illusion of a government of the United States persists.

2. The illusion of a government of the United States has and exercises the power to compel obedience regardless of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States herein mentioned.

3. [CONCLUSION #9] The EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, and JUDICIAL Branches of the government of the United States as established by the Constitution of the United States are -- simply and conclusively and irrevocably -- out of business.

FINAL CONCLUSION: The current existing government of the United States is an Occupation Government deriving no just or lawful authority from the formal Consent of the People conveyed by the Constitution of the United States, but deriving its (unjust and unlawful) authority from the informal acquiescence and capitulation of the People in the face of intimidation, coercion, oppression, and economic power.