Summary
âž¡ The speaker is discussing his efforts to educate others about the U.S. Constitution and encourage them to get involved in local politics. He believes that understanding the Constitution is crucial for effective participation in local government and change. He also mentions his ongoing projects, including working with state legislators to return to a federal republic system. The speaker emphasizes the importance of local involvement, suggesting that change begins at the local level and encouraging listeners to run for office.
âž¡ A woman started a petition to investigate voting machines, which led to the sheriff assigning two investigators to the case. The speaker encourages everyone to find a way to contribute to their cause, even if it’s just stuffing envelopes for a candidate. He also discusses the importance of replacing bureaucrats and resisting corruption, suggesting that term limits may not be as effective as dismantling the bureaucratic infrastructure. The speaker concludes by reciting the preamble of the Constitution, emphasizing its role as an introduction and not a legally binding part of the document.
âž¡ An elderly woman at a gathering knew the preamble of the constitution, surprising the speaker. The speaker then explains the importance of the phrase “We the People” from the constitution, emphasizing that it includes everyone, even the enslaved. The speaker also discusses the reasons for writing the constitution, such as forming a more perfect union and establishing justice. The speaker concludes by mentioning the influence of the Articles of Confederation on the constitution and the southern constitution.
âž¡ The text discusses the reasons behind writing the U.S. Constitution, which include forming a more perfect union, establishing justice, ensuring domestic tranquility, and providing for common defense. It also highlights the results of these actions, such as promoting general welfare and securing the blessings of liberty for current and future generations. The text emphasizes that the government’s role is to secure, not guarantee or protect, these rights, as they are given by a higher power and not the government itself.
âž¡ The text discusses the concept of rights, emphasizing that they are God-given and belong to individuals. It argues that the government’s role is to ensure these rights are not interfered with, either by the government itself or others. The text also suggests that rights are not guarantees to services like healthcare or education, but the freedom to pursue them. Lastly, it highlights the religious undertones in the establishment of the constitution, suggesting it was ordained with God’s favor, and thus, even atheists benefit from this system that respects freedom of speech and religion.
âž¡ Berry believes that the Constitution should be understood by the general public, not just by lawyers. He criticizes lawyers in Congress for twisting the truth for their clients and not prioritizing the truth. He emphasizes the importance of returning to the original intent of the Constitution, viewing it as a contract that should not be broadly interpreted. He also briefly explains the Article Five convention, where states propose amendments, but these must be ratified by three quarters of the states.
Transcript
Are live there, Mister Gibbs. Good afternoon, everybody. Ron Partain, untold History Channel, joined as always, Tuesday at 04:00 p.m. pacific. 07:00 p.m. eastern for the Constitution class. And for those of you who are just tuning in, this is our, this is our third time going around through it, I think, you and me on the channel. This is our number three. So this is the third time, you know, it’s old hat for us, but, you know, but I will tell you that every time I go through the constitution, I always learn something new. So just because, you know, and I’m sure that Doug feels the same way, he probably sees things that he didn’t or maybe.
Is that true? Do you ever see, well, what I really, when I really learn is when people ask questions, because if you ask question, I have nothing encounter before I got to come up with an answer or I’ve got to look it up later. And there has been times where I go, you know what? That’s a good question. I’ll get back to you. And so that’s where I learn is when people are asking questions. So I encourage the chat room to ask questions, political, constitutional questions, not other things, but, you know, theories and stuff like that.
I want to stick with, you know, the original intent, what we’re working on. So if we go too off kilter, I won’t answer. And are my favorite squids doing tonight? Says Taco Berry. Yeah, well, I don’t even, I’m not even going to acknowledge somebody who calls us squids because he has clearly no idea of the importance of the United States Navy. Well, I will let Marines call me a squid, but Marines will not let soldiers or airmen call sailor a squid. They said, no, I can call it squid. You can’t. You know, it’s sort of like, you know, I can beat up on my brother, but you can’t.
Well, that’s because they’re part of the Navy. They hate to admit that they’re part of the Navy. They hate it. But I mean, it just, I mean, it’s, it’s the thing that I love is it says it right in the United States Marine Corps emblem. Department of the Navy. United States Marine Corps. I just think that’s just amazing. I got a friend of mine who, when he got his first paycheck when he’s the Marine Corps, and he thought that was a mistake because said Department of Navy. We talked about that. So my second ship was an LST, flat bottom.
Derek, arms out front, you know, troop transport. And he had ridden in one of those. And I asked him, I say, man, what was your first thought when you went out to see on that LST? And he said, thank God I joined the Marine Corps. I don’t know how you sailors did it. So, you know, we do get some respect from the Marines when they go out to sea. LST stands for landing ship tank, right? That’s what it means. Landing ship tank. Is it go. It’s a flat bottom vessel, so. And it’s got these big old arms right in front of it.
So what would happen is, is the bow would open, and the. And it would go. The flat bottom would allow it to get. Really get up close to the shore. Then it would. It would lower a ramp, and then the tanks would go right from the vessel onto the shore, onto the beach. And that’s. That was what, the. The big ramp, because it was flat bottom, though. It floated like a cork in the water. Trust me, I was on. I was on the. The USS Peleliu, flat bottom ship as well. And, yes, it sucked. Coming from the New Jersey that had, like, a displacement of, like, you know, 50,000 tons going to a ship that was a flat bottom and rode higher in the water, it sucked because, man, the New Jersey, we were in 40 foot season, the illusions, and I think we maybe were getting, like, eight to nine degree rolls, and we would get eight and ten nine degree rolls and calm seas on the.
On the. So I went to the LST Peoria from USS Chandler, got a missile destroyer. And so while they’re both smaller and did their share of rocking, it was interesting trying to get used to going from side to side to anywhere the boat wants to go. Anyway, so just real quick, I wanted to let you guys know that Doug and I are discussing the ability or discussing the possibility of making a not, like, an adjunct class to this, where we do it in a Twitter space so that the people who do want to participate, like, after the show, can come in and ask questions verbally.
So what I would do is I bring Doug onto my Twitter, and then we’d run it through my run. Through my Twitter. Run a space. But just know, guys, that we are working on some unique and different tools to allow better participation for the audience. So. Cause that’s what we want to. We want to open it up to people. So questions as good as I am told that I am explaining the constitution, there’s always questions, and I’m very happy to field the questions. My only, like I said earlier, my only criteria is that they are indeed questions and they pertain to the topic.
When we get into comments that go off into some other direction, not so much. So just be aware. We want to. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, that’s, that’s. We’re not going to do that today. That we’re just letting everybody know that that is a kind of a direction that we, that we are planning on going down. So, uh, in any event, today is the, uh, really is kind of like it’s, it’s kind of the second class, even though it’s really the first because today we’re going to go through the preamble. So. Yeah, and I’m sorry I didn’t make it last week.
I had, I was, I was in a situation where I just couldn’t get back to my computer in time. Um, so I apologize for those. You were like, oh, man. But, uh. But then again, it was a great opportunity because I was on the power hour this morning, Joyce Riley’s show. With who? With Alan and Warhammer. Actually, Alan was guest hosting. Alan Myers. You know that I do the Dave on Kleistal on there. I couldn’t tell you. That’s a good question. I don’t think so. But anyway, so Alan’s got relationship with him. He has guest hosted there before Matt back 21.
Matter of fact, he had me on it with him when he guest hosted. And so we may have some new viewers from that. And also a lot of my old constitution class people have, you know, I may have a few of them. So welcome one and all. And I hope you enjoy this and here’s how you can thank me. Tell other people about it. Click that, you know, you know, click that you like it and all that jazz, but also spread the word. So anyway, and sorry, guys, if for some, for those of you who do not have, who do not have Twitter or xdev, sorry, it’s.
I’m just going to open it up. I’m going to tell you that, you know, the, when I played, the couple of people said no x for me in there. Yeah. When I played Europa and stuff, it did not get censored on Twitter, but it did get censored on Rumble. And consequently, I don’t know why, but almost every video that I have uploaded over the last two weeks has been, is now demonetized. So I’m not doing very good with the rumble people. They don’t, they don’t like me very much. And I’m not very happy with Rumble, but I have long been suspect of rumble.
All right, so the real special ed real quick, ask, if you please, any info about this convention you’re doing. Mister Gibbs, Mel and I are wanting to meet you. I believe what you’re talking about is the tour I’m going to be doing there in October. Tail end of September and October. We’re still setting up the dates. I’ve got just west of Minneapolis, and we’ve got Milwaukee, somewhere near Walancey, Michigan, Ohio. I just now started putting it together, came across someone who can help me out with that. And then we’ve got New York, New Jersey, and Asheville, North Carolina.
And now it looks like Chattanooga, Tennessee. So that is happening in October. Don’t have the dates yet. We’re still putting it all together and getting all, everything in sync. We better get our buns moving. We have two months left, but we’re not going to charge tickets or anything like that. But I am going to have all my books with me. This is, I think, my third tour. I’ve done the next one. I’ll probably start charging because I want to make it more of a similar style thing, but this is more of a just get out there and speak.
And I’ve got kind of a program I want to go through, and I’ll have some books that go with the program. Mel and I are in Ohio. Yeah. So. And Warhammester, I was there when I asked because Colonel Watkins, that he has on his program every once in a while, told me she has some connections in Ohio, can help me get that one set up. So. So we’re still working on that, but we’ll let you know as soon as I have it. So hopefully within the next few weeks. I’ve got my wife making a lot of phone calls, too, to make sure things get set up and all the dates get lined up because we need to do it sooner than later.
So I’ll let you guys know right here on the show on for the Republic in that chat room when I’m on Sunday night. And of course, on my website at douglas v. Gibbs.com. and if you’re on my email list by email, so word will get out. And I’m sure guys like Ron and Warhammer will also help me get it out there into the constitution sphere. So there we go. Jackie, thank you so much for that. You know, I don’t really ask you guys to ever contribute anything, but it is appreciated whenever you do. So thank you for the I went to the rumble rant.
It is appreciated. Thank you very much. So that all said, are we ready to get rolling now that people have scurried into the room. All right, so preamble. Now. We did an introduction to the constitution a couple weeks ago, and I really just gave some history. What kind of led to the constitution? You’ll see me go back to history quite a bit when I go through the constitution. For those of you on with me that have never gone through the constitution before, I’ve got three things I’d like to say to you. One, I’m going to make you mad.
It’s worse than you thought. As bad as you think it is, it’s worse. Second, this is a lot of information. We’ve been taught a lot of bad information, and it’s going to feel like I’m trying to quench your thirst for knowledge with a fire hose. And that’s okay. It’s a lot of information. If you’re new to some of this information, just, you know, replay it, whatever it takes for you, but that just means that you’re normal. The average person does feel exactly that. I do talk probably a little bit faster than the average bear. I try to slow myself down knowing that.
So if I’m going too fast, put it in the chat. Hey, Doug, what was that again? And I’ll be glad. Again, I want to ask you a question that a lot of people, I’m sure, are going to wonder. You know, this information is fantastic, but how is, how should we use it? How can people use it to affect change? That’s probably the biggest thing. That’s a good question because I had a matter of fact this morning, a caller into the power hour. I was on the power hour this morning, and a caller called into the program and says, well, yeah, this is great what you do, but, you know, we’re up against an enemy that it doesn’t matter.
It does matter. And how we use this information is first, we educate others. We spread it. We spread this information because what happens once you understand the way the constitution is supposed to operate, ideas on what to do to get it there begin to percolate. And then once you have that knowledge, now you’re getting involved, and if you’re not one that can get involved, you don’t feel like you’re very effective. Then go to those who are like myself, you know, on my website, you can become a nine dollar a month patron, for example, to help fund my movement.
So there’s ways to do it. Now, that said, one of the biggest, and this is advanced, this is a Constitution 201, but nonetheless, I’m going to mention it real quick. For example, one of the things I’m working on, state legislators, one of them is this main state is Utah, and I’ve got two of them now I’m talking to is to get Utah to defy the 17th Amendment and Reynolds v. Sims. And for those who don’t know what that means, it essentially means getting back to being a Republican, getting away from democracy and back towards being a federal republic.
And if we can start doing that, we can start opening some of these doors. We need to, to get things done in the right direction. Part of the problem is we’re playing on their ball field with their referees and their crowd, and it’s a difficult game to win. We’ve got to get the rules and the ball field back to something we can operate on without them just crushing us with every move because they control everything. And I’m a firm believer getting back to being a federal republic is one of the key factors to that. And so helping with something like that or other things.
And I’m also a firm believer everything begins local. And in fact, the shirt I’m wearing, and I don’t know how many you guys like to see, see the cockroach on cockroaches on capital. And what it says on the back is one of my sayings. We complain about the cockroaches in Washington, but we breed them locally. Stop breeding them. That’s something you can do, too. Everything begins local. And so if you can get involved or even run, we need people to run for office. And I know, Doug, voting, really, I mean, they’ve got control. There’s ways to get over this stuff.
There’s ways to point, to expose them. They’re like vampires. Exposed them to enough light. They do. Go ahead. It’s interesting that you say that. It’s interesting that you say that, Doug, because I was on us, I was on a Twitter space Sunday night and I kind of just stumbled into it and I became one of the participants in the debate. And it was about the validity of the queue operation. Was it legit? The people on the people that were going that were taking the position against the Q operation were talking about how the. Oh, well, the Q operation just says, trust the plan.
And they’re, you know, it’s waiting for people to be, you know, like, you know, just waiting for somebody to come in and be a messianic figure to fix it all for them as opposed to them doing it or being involved in the process. And, you know, I disagreed with that. And whatever, whatever anybody thinks, the Q operation, I’m not here to debate that I’m just telling you what I was. What I was in my firm belief is the Q operation was designed to get people to understand the things we’re talking about here with the constitution so that we have the ammunition to go and get involved in local politics.
It wasn’t about staying at home and sitting on the couch, and it wasn’t about going out and being involved in, you know, public protests. It was much more about going into, like, the city councils and the school board meetings and the places where you have a forum for redress of grievances and, and getting involved in terms of running for political office. That was what I truly believe the motives of the Q operation were to the people, you know, for, for affecting change in the country. And, and, you know, so it’s crucial that we understand the constitution and our form of government, which is why I believe this class is so important.
It’s a lot easier to fight the good fight when you’re armed with information. If you’re not armed, you can’t fight. And in our information war, being armed with knowledge is a very important part of it. What our information here does, it gives people a crumb or two or a little bit of a. Just a little bit of tidbit of things that they can take and run with so that they can go investigate it for themselves. You know, I mean, if you’re just listening to us for 1 hour a week, you’re not really getting much out of this.
You need to put a little bit more into it. It’s just like going to church. You go to church on Sunday, and if you don’t read the Bible every day, then you’re. What are you really getting? It’s, you know, it’s, it’s, you’re doing the very basic minimum. So it’s. I think it’s important for everybody to get a pocket constitution and read it and read it over and over and over and over and over and then ask questions. Yeah, and ask questions. So. And that’s what we’re here for, is to ask the questions. So. And, you know, for some people, too, it’s just, it’s that information and that knowledge is kind of what is needed to kind of light a fire under them.
I can’t count how many people I’ve had in my classes that have done things that I totally enjoyed watching, you know, run for central committee. One of them became, in Michigan, the vice chair of her central committee. I’ve got another person who, because of my class, realized, hey, we can do personal petitions. We have to just do what the state gives us, where you got to sign inside the box and all that. And she started a petition for people to sign for the sheriff to take a look at the voting machines, and she got it out there and got enough signatures, presented it to the Riverside county sheriff, and.
And he put two investigators on it. And while there’s a real battle with the. With the county supervisors, it is his intent now that he’s seen what he wouldn’t have looked into had it not been for that petition to, you know, work the work, his efforts to try to get those machines out of Riverside county. So. So it can be very. I had one person in Fulbrook class that I taught who walks up and says, hey, Doug, man, you got me, jazz. I want to do something, but, you know, I’m not a speaker. I don’t like.
I’m shy. I don’t want knock on doors. I won’t make phone calls. I like. Then find your favorite candidate and stuff envelopes for him. There’s something for everybody to do. And so. But if this jazz is you, you feel like, man, I want to, you know, do something. Now I’ve got this knowledge. I realize I got to do something. Then do it. Absolutely. And once again, also, if you’re also wanting to help people who are doing things that you can’t do, like, things I’m doing, like with the, you know, pushing to, you know, defy the 7th amendment.
And Reynolds v. Sims, a 1964 case that changed the state senate, then fund people like that. I mean, go to Douglas v. Gibbs, calm. And so there’s all kinds of things you can do. And I’m. And I feel like. Sometimes I feel like an echo chamber because everybody’s saying, we’ll get out there and be active, but. And I get that. But. But it is not just some cliche. It is important. It is true. And even the simple things, like waving flags over a freeway overpass is important. You don’t know who’s seeing it. You don’t know who’s listening and who’s watching.
In Temecula, there’s a guy who stands in front of the high school after school with signs. Transgender is killing children. Signs and things like that. I mean, and you’d be surprised what impact that had. And if all of us was doing that around this country, imagine what kind of impact that could have. So, real special ed is asking about when the chevron ruling is going to go into effect. I believe it’s in effect now. I mean. Well, actually, it’s getting rid of the chevron. You talk about the ruling that gets rid of the chevron. Yeah, that, that’s, that was instant.
That’s a instantaneous, isn’t it? Yeah. Doesn’t, doesn’t it occur? But a lot of them are defying it. Matter of fact, I watched a video with the VA director saying, I don’t care. We’re still going to continue to interpret the way we want, and even if you pass a law, we’re going to defy your law. VA director said that, you know, regarding, you know, taking guns away from, you know, veterans who show, you know, influence from their PTSD or can’t, you know, manage their checkbook or something like that. And so you, we do have defiant leftists that we will have to do more than just pass laws and rulings to take care of.
We gotta get rid of them. We got to get them out of office. If I can quote, if I can quote the Mister X from the movie JFK when he said, you know, JFK’s executive orders and policies were not really implemented because of bureaucratic resistance. And that is exactly what we are seeing today. And so what do we got to do? Replace the bureaucrats as with Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson when he became president, and I hope if Mister Trump can make it too big to rig and get in there, does the same thing, which we thought he was going to do the first time, is Jefferson.
Once he took office as president, United States in 1801, he fired the federalist party, in other words, the hamiltonian half of the bureaucracy. 20 years after that, the federalist party was gone. They couldn’t survive that blow to their power. The bureaucracy, the deep state, if you want to call it the swamp. It’s, it’s a huge factor in the power that they have. And that’s one of the things we got to dismantle, too. And that goes back to trying to get the right people in there. But the problem is, it gets back to my shirt. You get these cockroaches in Washington who you thought were good guys, then they got a little bit of position.
They, they change. So we need to really vet our local guys so that when, by time they get up there, they’re still fighting the good fight. Let me ask another question, and I’m not trying to derail the preamble here, but so if we are, what was, what was I going to ask the, the question about the term limits? Okay. So I know Trump wants to get in there and do term limits on people. They want to make a constitutional amendment for term limits. And I’m not necessarily opposed to that, but I’m also opposed, I don’t think the term limits would have as great a success in curtailing corruption as much as getting rid of the bureaucratic infrastructure that is there, regardless of who’s in office.
Term limit, man. Fact, term limits in California has been a disaster. They put term limits on the legislators there. And it got worse because now you’ve got green conservatives going up against a very experienced deep state and a Democrat party. They’re all clones of each other. So it doesn’t matter if you shorten their term. The one that goes in behind them is the same, exactly the same. And so term limits has actually been a disaster in California. We don’t want term limits at the legislative level. It’s good at the executive level, not good at the legislative level.
What I want proposed, and I’ve been working on this, is whenever there’s a change of president, all of certain bureaucrats, the ones that are directly related to the three branches, lose their job and they have to reapply if they want to keep it. Time to go to the preamble. Time to go to the preamble. A half hour. And so I figured out. Playing with his toys. Yes, I am playing with, well, everybody’s going to remember it. So now let’s ask you about convention states. We get to article five, we’ll talk about it. So stay tuned all the way to article five and I’ll answer your question.
Well, we may touch on it. We may touch on it before the end of the show. But, but, yes, because I have a question about that as well. I was actually looking it up about something with the John Birch Society and the article five convention. So. But anyway, they’re against it. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. Right. So preamble. So introduction, it is the introduction constitution. It is not legally binding is an introduction. Everything that’s in the preamble is not constitutional. That’s not, it’s not a part of the legal document. It’s an introduction, sort of like your, your paper, you sign when you go to your doctor.
You know, I state your name. Understand that my doctor is only allowed to, you know, whatever, you know, you don’t go to your ear, nose and throat doctor for a rectal exam. So they, an introduction saying exactly what they’re going to do, what they can do. And in a sense, that’s what the preamble does. Preamble says, all right, we’re creating a constitution. And here’s the reason. Here’s what it’s about. That’s what that preamble is about. And I remember, gosh, this was probably about twelve years ago, I was at an event in El Segundo, California, and it was actually a candidate kind of event, meet the candidates kind of thing.
And there was a bunch of candidates, was like 200 people there. And a friend, and a friend of mine was the organizer of the event. He says, Doug, I want you there because I want you to say things that’ll, you know, encourage people and really make these candidates think. And I was to be the final speaker. And so if you know how candidates are, they all went long. And so by the time it was my turn to talk, my, my presentation went from like 20 minutes to a couple of minutes. And so, and he says, hey, ma’am, sorry, I only got a couple minutes for you.
And I’m like, what am I going to do in like a minute or two? And so I thought, you know what? I’m going to have everybody recite the preamble with me. Surely there’s a bunch of people in the crowd, and other people will join in, and then after that we’ll do a quick explanation of it. And so I began to recite the preamble. We, the people of the United States, in order to form more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
And as I’m going through it, one person in the crowd is residing with me, and it’s this elderly woman, probably the oldest person in the crowd, sitting in a wheelchair. She looked like she’s probably pushing 90. She’s the only one in the entire crowd that was, was moving her mouth. I could see her reciting it with me. So later on, I asked her, uh, I, I asked her, how is it she would knew to recite how to recite it, could remember, or whatever. She says, well, we had to in school, and we had to pass a constitution class in order to, or a test in order to graduate.
One person out of 200 at a quote unquote GOPD get together knew the preamble, and it stunned me. Then it goes beyond that. When I teach this in my classes, people go, gosh, I could recite the preamble. I never understood it like that. So that’s what we’re going to do today. We’re going to go through this preamble word by word, piece by piece. So we’ll begin with we the people. We the people is probably among the most iconic three words in the world. I don’t care who you say it to around the world, in any language, when we the people, the person’s gonna know it’s uniquely american.
Most people don’t know that it comes from the constitution or the preamble, but they know it’s an american thing. We the people is an american thing. It’s funny, because I do my man on the street kind of things every once. Well, and it’s shocking, because most people I talk to think it comes from the Declaration of Independence. But it is the first three words of the preamble. First three words of the constitution of the United States. We the people. And it’s important. But then the word, next word is. Is of. Not in. It’s not. We the people in the United States is we the people of the United States.
We are of this country. We’re not talking about illegal aliens. We’re not talking about, quote, unquote, indigenous peoples who have nothing, decided to participate in the union at the time. We the people of the United States, people who have said, I’m in. I’m a part of this experiment. Let’s do this. We the people of the United States. Now someone says, well, what about the slaves? Actually, the slaves are included here. If you read Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence, and he refers to, with 168 words, slavery and condemns it, blames the british crown for pushing it and keeping it in place in America, and in that 168 words of anti slavery language, in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, which got changed on July 1 because South Carolina and Georgia weren’t real hip with it, he not only mocks the king as a christian king, quote unquote, he underlines Christian in a mocking manner.
The christian king who pushes slavery, but also, when he refers to slaves, uses the word men. But what he does with men is he puts in all caps, capital m, capital e, capital n. So in other words, the slaves are men, no different than the colonists. And this is the same guy that earlier in the Declaration of Independence wrote, all men are created equal and all men that are of the United States, even those enslaved, this was written for them. And if you. As you go through the Constitution, what you find out is it’s not a pro slavery document.
It’s actually an anti slavery document. Read Frederick Douglass’s writings after he read the Constitution. About the Constitution. He didn’t like it till he read it. So we the people of the United States includes everyone that’s of the United States, that’s a part of this system, and included those being enslaved in order. And then now we get our reasons. We have four reasons for the writing in the Constitution. Reason number one, in order to form a more perfect union. I always thought that was funny. That says more perfect. That’s like becoming more pregnant. If it’s already perfect, how can it be more perfect? And then I got to looking at language and got talked to a couple pastor friends of mine, and.
And one pastor says, we got to realize that one of the root words for. For perfect is complete in original languages. So, in other words, based on what he said, in my own studies, I’ve come to realize when they say more perfect, not only did they think it was perfect under the articles Confederation, but they’ve realized there was a problem, need to make it more perfect. But what they really meant was more complete. Okay, that makes sense. So in order to form a more concrete. Makes a lot of sense. And so, because under the articles, and you and I have talked about this so many times, Ron, articles of Confederation was the constitution before the constitution.
It was written during the war. And it was just because, see, the French had this attitude, we want to help you guys, but we don’t think you’re serious. We need to see a document that unites you as colonies if you want our help. It’s sort of like, you know, trying to get a lawyer, you know? And the lawyer’s like, well, I don’t know if you’re serious about what you want me to do. Pay me a retainer, I’ll take it as being serious, and I’ll get to work for you. And that’s kind of the way the French were.
The retainer was, hey, we want to see you in action of being a union. So they kind of pushed for the articles of confederation, and they. And they wrote it. And it. But because the founding fathers of the time, the Americans of the time, were scared to death of a tyrannical government, the Articles of Confederation created a confederation where the member states held on to all the power, and there was very, very, very little power that went to the central Union. And so when Shays rebellion emerged in 1786, where basically military veterans from the American Revolution, who got paid with fiat money from the art under the government by the articles of Confederation, were not able to pay the bills because nobody was accepting it, they decided they needed a stronger government that could provide stronger economic foundation and be able to also put together a force to take down rebellion, things like that.
So they decided at the 1786 Annapolis Convention in August of 1786 that they needed to fix the articles. They set the date for May of 1787. They met in Philadelphia, and within six weeks, they realized there’s no fixing the articles. They were going to write a new constitution. There were actually delegates that walked out because of that. Robert Yates and John Lansing from New York, New York, or two of them. Oh, you’re going to write a new constitution. We’re out of here. Which left Alexander Hamilton alone to represent New York. And so they, what they’re doing is they’re saying, hey, the union under the articles Confederation is not working.
We need a stronger government, but we’re scared to death a strong government. So we’ve got to find, we got to do this balancing act. We need bigger without getting too big. Or as I like to tell people, what we have is a lamb. What we need is a lion. But the problem with lions is lions eat people. So we need to put that lion in a cage and put shackles on its ankles. This constitution, are those chains. So, so more perfect union. Then the second reason, establish justice. And this now understand, the preamble is written last.
The whole constitution had already been written, and the gouverneur Morris led the committee to write the preamble, and he was kind of behind all of this. And by the way, he was also paranoid about foreign influence, which in my latest article@politicalpistachio.com, i write about this. And so when he wrote the preamp, he wanted to make sure that the rule of the law is, was mentioned in the, the preamble and this establishment of a new judicial system. And what’s funny is the judicial branch, there were actually those during the convention argued against it. It could be a danger.
What if they start incorporating rights into the states or what if they start interpreting the constitutional ways that’s not intended, like judges would do for the purposes of the king. I think they did. I think that that was, that, that was a very astute observation, and I, I think a lot of that has come to fruition. Yeah. And a lot of those guys also became what was called anti federalists, people that argued against that judicial branch. So, but nonetheless, it’s also important to know that the articles of confederation, even though they were kind of ditched in favor of the Constitution, never went away in the minds, especially in the minds of the southerners, because the southerners actually, when the southern constitution was created, when they broke away, it was really kind of a hybrid.
They took the best parts of the articles Confederation and the best parts of the constitution, and then they kind of, they made a hybrid. Is that, would you say that would be an accurate, a fairly accurate statement? Yeah, in a manner, I would say, yeah, now. And, and I was watching the, I’ve been watching the chat off and on as I talk, and I have to admit that sometimes it cracks me up. So if every CB chuckles because I caught something, like when I was talking about the doctor and, you know, going to one doctor and getting the other end taken care of and special ed at the time puts what I’ve been going to the wrong doctor, but got, okay, so, yes, I do pay attention.
And I just noticed I Warhammer says, well, Ron watches the chat, you know, well, and, and there’s questions about convention states, all that. And well, let’s get through the preamble and if we have time, we’ll address it, and if not, we’ll take care of it another day. But anyway, so you’ve got established justice. Justice is not just a judicial system. Justice is something else also. Justice is something that is the rule of law. What is right, a just God, a just system. That’s what justice is. So a lot of that went into also what established justice means.
So we have two reasons so far. Out of the four more perfect union. Establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility. One of the problems with what was going on is the states fought like cats and dogs or like brother and sister. They were siblings. And if you had siblings, you know what I’m talking about. Me and my sister used to fight like cats and dogs. One, my sister one time was pulling so much hair out of my head, my mom and dad were convinced I had bald spots. And don’t worry, I got her back. I had, God bless me, with bucky beaver teeth.
My front two teeth came in before everything else, man. And I just bugs bunny right into her forehead. And she, four stitches later, she never pulled my hair again. But anyway, that’s the way siblings are. They fight with each other and like crazy. Now when it comes time to be there for each other and my sister’s like, hey, Doug, there’s this bully picking on me. I’m there. So, you know, it’s sort of like the, I guess the marine sailor thing, too. You know, we give each other a lot of garbage, but we’re there for each other.
Well, the states were the same way, and they were fighting like cats and dogs or like siblings, or like marines and sailors. And a lot of it was over land, it was over commerce. And. And so they realized that the federal government would need to act as a mediator when it came to those discussions, those cross line disagreements. And so that’s where insured domestic tranquility came from. But it also takes something else into account. Remember, what encouraged them to have this convention? Shays rebellion. And Shays rebellion was seen as darn near an insurrection. You had armed veterans firing upon, you know, tax collectors and merchants and blocking the steps of courthouses, things like that.
They needed the ability for the federal government to be strong enough to take care of things like that, ensure domestic tranquility. All right, finally, our fourth reason. Provide for the common defense. Each state had been providing, for the most part, for its own defense. It had its militias. And then during the war, what began to turn the american revolution around was this common defense, the creation of the regulars, the continental army, where the states provided personnel, but those personnel were not serving under the state. They were served, which the states, when it came to the militia, saying, we’re not sending our militia to.
That. The regulars were part of this common defense. Their commander in chief was George Washington. They were signing enlistments. That’s the common defense. And so they recognize that was necessary. It was necessary to win the american revolution. It would be necessary to survive, especially in a world of empires. The british empire, while at the time was the largest empire, there were a lot of european empires who would love to gobble up these fledgling colonies. And so what we were seeing here is the understanding of that militias alone is not going to do it. We need a common defense.
We need the. The states to each provide personnel. And these personnel, to be part of the common defense, become regulars, professional military, to defend this country against what’s out there. So we got four reasons for writing the constitution to. To form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility. And for the common defense, the next two are results. These are, things are going to happen if this is operating the way it should. First was promote the general welfare. Notice, it didn’t say provide. Here it says promote. To promote the general welfare to put out there.
And a feeling of. A general feeling of all’s well. That’s what welfare means. A condition of all’s will. To promote a general condition of all’s well. If it’s doing its job, then in the streets and in the towns and in the counties, there will be a condition of all’s will, because there’s no invaders invading. There’s no problems with the trade. The government’s doing its thing. The second result would be secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. We’ll go backwards here. Who is the posterity? Future generations, those not yet born, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren, our posterity, even beyond that, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves.
Yes, to themselves, but also to their posterity. How many times you heard these knuckleheads out there while these founding fathers, just a bunch of rich aristocrats that were doing it for their own pockets and their own power. No, they say right here, not just to ourselves, but our posterity. And notice something. If you look, if you’re looking at the screen or if you’re looking at a constitution, ourselves is lowercase, but posterity. See that, that capital p at the beginning. Posterity is capitalized. Remember earlier when I was talking about Thomas Jefferson putting in all caps the word men? Capitalization was used for emphasis.
This was taught in the colleges at the time, too. And in fact, when they discovered, a decade or a decade or so ago, Sherman’s copy of the original draft of the Constitution, and they saw where he was, had to make corrections to offer to. Jefferson had erased certain nouns, first letter, and put wrote in a capital letter. It wasn’t an oopsie. This is something they did on purpose. It was for the purpose of emphasis. So if that’s the case, if posterity is capitalized for the purpose of emphasis, what they’re saying is, yeah, we did this for ourselves and put on the line our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor for ourselves.
But we especially did it for you, those of you not yet born. We were willing to die and lose everything for future generations. Doesn’t sound like an aristocracy doing something for themselves to me. Now, now, what are the blessings of liberty? Well, blessings, that’s something that God would give you. Liberty. Well, that’s your first, your first and most known right. You know, life, liberty and property 1 second after life. So liberty, blessings of liberty, is the blessings of freedom and your natural rights, your natural rights, which are given to you by God. God given rights. The Saxons, from.
From whom most of this system came from, believe that your rights were divinely dispensated. In other words, they came from a higher power. Well, if your rights come from a higher power, then what does that do to government? It tells government they’re not the highest power, and they have no say over your rights. Your rights comes from something higher than them. Their job, when it comes to your rights, then, is to secure your rights, secure the blessings of liberty. And this word secure isn’t just here in the preamble if you go to the Declaration of Independence and I’ll read it for you.
We hold these truths. I’m sorry, I gotta go further down. No, that’s. That’s right. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. That word secure again. So when. So this word secure is not there on accident. What do they mean by secure? People will tell you all the time, the government’s there to protect your rights and guarantee your rights. The government will tell you.
They don’t know what. We’re going to guarantee your rights, so we’re going to pay for your whatever. That’s not what the constitution says, and that’s not what the Declaration of Independence says. Doesn’t use the word protect. It doesn’t use the word guarantee. It uses the word secure for a reason. They’re not there to protect your rights. Why? Who’s the biggest enemy of your rights? Government. Why would you want the biggest enemy of your rights? To be there to protect your rights or try to guarantee them? That would be like a. I tell people, when the Roman Empire went from the roman republic to the roman empire, and the roman soldier went from being a member of the community and the republic to an enforcer of roman law under the empire, and that’s like that soldier jumping in front of you and holding up his shield and saying, don’t worry, I’ll protect you, against me.
Obviously, that’s ridiculous. But when the. When the government tells you they’re there to protect your rights, that’s what they’re doing. Don’t worry, we’ll protect you against us. They’re the biggest enemy to our. Of our rights. They’re not there. They’re there to secure a right. So what does secure mean? Now, the word secure, in this case, means to keep work, keep it where it belongs. Where does it belong? In your possession. It’s yours. God gave it to you. God gave you your rights. They are God’s gift to you. Who is government to mess with God’s gift. And we’re all created equal, which means we all get the same rights.
We all are given the same rights. All of them. This is the. This is 1828. Uh, Webster’s secure, free from danger from an enemy was at the very beginning here. In other words, to remain in place, to remain from danger of being taken away by an enemy that may resist assault or attack. The place is well fortified and very secure. Gibraltar is a secure fortress in this sense. Secure is followed by, against, or from to as secure against attack or from an enemy. Free from danger. Safe apply to persons with. From. Free from fear of apprehension of danger.
Not alarmed, not disturbed by fear. Confidence bore the unsecure confidence of safety. So getting back to without saying that, my exact words, secure means to free from being taken from you. It’s your possession. Can’t be taken. It’s your property. Right. I think this is probably the best one to make certain to put beyond hazard, liberty and fixed laws, secure to every citizen, due protection of person and property. The first duty of the highest interest. Amendments to secure the favor of God to close. Yeah, well, reading Madison’s notes and reading Gouverneur Morris’s writings and reading a lot of Jefferson’s writings, what you come to, the conclusion is your rights are your possession.
They belong to you. God gave them to you. So for them to be secured, it means that they’re to remain in your possession. Now, if government’s job is to secure your rights, then what’s their job? Leave them alone. Right? Because they’re yours. They’re to remain secure in your possession. And so their job is to restrain themselves from interfering your rights and then when needed, to restrain others. So in other words, government’s job is, and this is Madison’s writings that really says this, a government’s job then restain, restrain themselves and then restrain others, means your rights belong to you.
And the only time government gets involved is when it has to restrain others. So what does that mean? Well, what? Well, it. Let’s say if there is a robbery, someone has interfered with your rights. Now, government comes in, they investigate, there’s. There’s then due process and so on and so forth. But when there is no interference with your rights by anybody, their job is nothing. And they’re not to make any laws to interfere with your rights, to keep you from accessing your rights. Life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness, it says the Declaration of Independence. Life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness.
You don’t have a right to be happy. You don’t. You don’t guarantee happiness. You have a right to pursue it. You have a right to pursue it. So now let’s carry that out a little bit. You don’t have a right to health care, you have a right to pursue it. You don’t have a right to education, you have a right to pursue it. In other words, government’s not supposed to make any laws that creates an obstacle, let you pursue it. Free market, free situation. That’s between you and your pursuit. None of government’s business. And if I can, if I can elaborate on the, like, when you talk about healthcare, when people talk about healthcare is a right.
Healthcare, if they say that healthcare is a right, what that, what that implies is that somebody else has to give you that service. That is not, you can’t guarantee, you can’t take from somebody to give something to you. That’s nothing. That’s not the way that it works. You want to elaborate on that? Well, yeah, because it goes back to, what I’m saying is government’s not supposed to interfere. And also, if it belongs to you, it’s up to you to pursue it. And stealing from Peter to give to Paul was something that, redistribution wealth is something that Samuel Adams called the schemes of leveling or unconstitutional.
Your rights are your rights. And that’s that. And, and it’s not, they’re not to be paid for by anybody else or not to be guaranteed, not to be protected there, to be left alone. That’s the reason why the first amendment begins. Congress shall make no law. That’s why the end of the second member says, shall not be infringed. Their job when it comes to your rights is to do nothing, to stay out of it, to not interfere. Correct. All right, and finally, we get to a very key part here. Do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
Now, if you look up ordain, it essentially means to establish, but there is a religious component to it. So, so if it was, if it just meant to establish. See, right. Right there. So right at the top, was it, say, properly to set. To establish in a particular office or order. I. So it says, well, to ordain and establish. Or are they being repetitive? To establish and establish. No, ordain goes further. It is invested with ministerial meaning. It is a godly meaning. So in other words, what they’re saying here is to ordain and establish. Not to just establish, to ordain when they establish it.
In other words, to establish it with God’s favor. We’re, and we’re making this decree, this, this godly decree that this belongs to you, we the people. And so we ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America. I’d never thought about it that way. I never thought about it that way. But that makes a lot of sense, you know, and, and I don’t want to, I don’t want to get this into a religious conversation. But I know a lot of people do, you know, talk about romans 13, and it’s like, oh, well, you know, if whatever government is here is, you know, that’s, it’s, well, it doesn’t mean you’re supposed to accept ungodly government.
Right, exactly. And that’s, and that was the exact point I was going to make. I mean, you know, if, if the government is behaving in a godly manner, then they’re doing things that are godly. But if they’re not behaving in a godly manner and they’re doing things that are like, you know, abortion and, and taking prayer to school and doing all the secular stuff and attacking christians, well, then why in the world are we. That’s not godly. We’re not. We, you know, we’re actually bound from a scriptural standpoint to stand against that, in my opinion. My opinion.
But that’s, you know, that’s just my opinion. Again, I’m not trying to turn this into a religious argument, but. Well, and religion is a very important thing. The first, 1st thing listed in the first amendment is freedom of religion. The religion God is all throughout this document, even though the word God is not here, Goddesse. The word God is throughout this document. These were godly men. And even the ones that weren’t the greatest christians, some of them were universalists, stuff like that. They recognize that it was God’s favor and that our moral system was based on godly values, godly principles.
God was at the center of this. Now, here’s the thing. Here’s the wonderful thing about it. You know what that means for all you atheists out there? You have the freedom to be, you’re an atheist because it is a godly system that recognizes all people have freedom of speech, all people have freedom religion, all people have freedom to operate the way they operate in liberty. Be an atheist. Atheists have more rights and safety in this christian country than in anywhere else in the world. Yeah, we’re gonna go down a major rabbit hole that I don’t want to go down by going down that rabbit hole, by going down that path.
So I’m just going to shut up. Yeah, you’re going to be. Well, I also want to reiterate something that was put in the chat room by Warhammer. And, and I think that this is, this is very important. Warhammer writes, how the heck are there only 20 likes on this video? Might be more by this moment. Click the darn thumb thingy, people, and help the algorithm. Everybody live or later, hit the like button. Hit the like button and then go tell two friends about this show and bring them to it. If you tell two friends and they each tell two friends, before we know it, we start educating the country.
Tackle Berry says, wish we could educate most or all of Congress on this. And if Doug, as the main speaker, laugh out loud and watch jaws drop and heads explode, well, how are we going to even get a Congress understand if the people don’t understand, right? Well, unfortunately, most of the most. Most people in Congress are lawyers, and they’ve been taught that the constitution has to be interpreted by, you know, with legal expertise, and it’s not. It can’t be discerned by the general public, which is the absolute opposite of what it was intended to be. And the way the lawyers operate, remember, is they operate for the client, not for the truth.
Correct. Did you hear that? The truth doesn’t matter to a lawyer. Their client winning is what’s important, even if it’s not the truth. So if you got people who spend their living twisting the law and twisting the truth for their clients, what are they gonna do when they’re politicians? So, yeah, not a big fan of lawyers. Be. Now, that don’t get me wrong. There are some lawyers out there absolutely adore and love, and they’re friends of mine, and they get it, and I. They love this document, and they. And they are originalists, but there’s not a lot of them and a lot of these lawyers.
And even back in the beginning, I mean, you know, John Adams, for example, you get. You start going through the names, and most of them were lawyers. They. And they think because they’re experts on the law, you trust the experts, and their job is to interpret, which it isn’t, then, you know, it’s all, you know, they could do whatever they want. We need to get back to the original ten. Remember, this is a contract. This is a social compact, as Madison put it, as a contract. And contract law is different from other kinds of law. It is not to be broadly interpreted.
It says what it means. Either it’s in there or it’s not. That’s the way contract law works. And if you need to discern the meaning of something, you go back to the original minutes, you go back to the original discussions, you go back to what was going on when it was written, and that’s where Madison’s notes and the ratifying conventions are so important. Amen. All right. Amen. You want to touch on the real quickly? Do you want to. You want to spend just a couple of minutes and touch on the article five convention just real quick, just kind of an overview.
Now I can do a 1 minute, one and a half minute overview. Sure. So article five convention or convention estates or con call, this is called by some people, which is not what it is, means constitutional convention. There was one in 1787. There shouldn’t be another one. But an article five convention or a convention of states is where the states get together in convention to propose amendments. But when those amendments are proposed, not only does it take two thirds of states, just like it takes two thirds of Congress, if it’s proposed in the other manner that’s available in article five, it still has to be ratified by three quarters of the states, either by convention or by the state legislatures.
So that’s your fail safe. And, and while I’m not a big fan of Alexander Hamilton, he actually nailed it regarding this subject in federalist paper number 85. And he claims that the fail safe against the constitution be rewritten with a convention. States is the fact that still takes three quarters of states to ratify it. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Yeah. Even, well, you know, the older, the younger folks don’t understand. What that means is everything’s digital, right? I actually had, I actually was teaching the class of middle schoolers, high schoolers. I had a clock on the wall and none of them knew how to read it, which was great because they didn’t know when school was over, when class was over.
That’s. So I guess, I guess that’s a benefit, right? Yeah. All right, let me use my usual. Bye bye. And plug real quick. So united we stand combined we kick butt. God bless America, my friends. God bless you. Thank you for spending the time with me. Thank you for what you do. Visit me at douglas v. Gibbs.com. visit my other shows. I’m on the radio, AM radio on the weekends, KMET 1490 AM from one to three Pacific on Saturday or 09:00 p.m. pacific at KPRZ. That show is also available on all the podcast platforms. Mister Constitution hour by Douglas v.
Gibbs. Go to douglasvgibbs.com to learn more. Well, not only, and somebody says Florida, Jackie says, that’s, that’s sad. They can’t even read a clock. Well, it’s even worse than that. They can’t even make change. So, you know, they can’t handwrite. They can’t make change. I mean, there’s a, you know, I read a very interesting book one time and I’m not going to get too deep into the weeds on this. But it was a guy by a guy named Michael Lavery. And he talked, he talked about handwriting and cursive, that when people write handwriting with cursive, that it took eye hand coordination.
And what that did is that stimulated the brain and it caused, it actually reduced ADD and ADHD. Here’s the reason why they want to get rid of it. Yeah. So I was very assist in brain development. As for the term limits thing. And then, and then Taco Berry gets into money in politics. Oh, you want to ask Walt Warhammer all about that one? In fact, we talked about it today on power Hour. Go to the power hour.com. check out the show we did this morning. Once it’s available. We talk about that during the show. Hey, listen, I’m going to, I’m going to go ahead and kill the show because I’ve got Mike on the other, on the mic on the other line, so.
Hey, everybody, thank you. For those of you participating in Twitter, you can always ask questions as well, because I do see the, I’m posting all these videos to Twitter. So if you’re seeing this on Twitter, you can ask questions as well in the chat and we can see it. So thank you, everybody, for your time tonight. We look forward to seeing you again next Tuesday. Until then, have a great night, everybody. And if you want to come and join us over for Tuesdays with Mike, we’re going to, we’re about ready to start right now. So Mike’s in the room.
And Mister Gibbs, thank you so much for your time and always a pleasure. Next week, sir. Have a great night, everybody. See you in a shoe. See in a few. Bye.
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