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A Visit atGrandma’sHouseBy: Anna Maria Riezinger All Rights Reserved10 December 2019
A Visit at Grandma’s Houseretend that you are going over to Grandma’s House thisPafternoon. You find her wrapped up in an afghan in her favoritechair, sipping a cup of tea. The late afternoon sunshine is making thewhole room the color of honey and the peace of her house feelsrooted in the peace of Nature itself. She looks up and smiles at you,and she says, “I need to tell you something, before I forget. Grab acup and have a sit. ”And so you do, and she begins. “During The War of Independence, three different instruments ofgovernment came to exist. They were:The Union of Colonies. People called it different names.The United Colonies, The United Colonies of America,the United States, and so on, but it was, and is, a Unionof families and communities throughout this country. TheUnion took form via the adoption of The UnanimousDeclaration of Independence published on July 4, 1776.Next, came the Federation of States known as The UnitedStates of America on September 9, 1776.And finally, came the Confederation of States of Statesknown as the States of America on March 1, 1781.Everything developed from these three (3) unincorporated businessstructures that were — all three — created by the SecondContinental Congress.A Visit at Grandma’s House2
The Union took over the soil jurisdiction — that is, thenational jurisdiction of these United States.The United States of America took charge of theinternational jurisdiction.And the States of America took charge of commercialaffairs.Much of the history we learn in school concerns only one of thesethree structures — the States of America. That’s because the FederalGovernment developed mainly out of the States of America.”She stops and reaches over and hands you a little card with theOfficial History printed on it, and then resumes.Official History: First Continental Congress met September 5-October 26,1774, following calls for a general congress from Rhode Island (May 17),Pennsylvania (May 21), New York (May 23), and Massachusetts (June 17).Second Continental Congress met May 10, 1775, by resolution of the FirstContinental Congress, October 22, 1774; became the ConfederationCongress (“United States in Congress Assembled”), March 2, 1781, followingratification of the Articles of Confederation, March 1, 1781. ConfederationCongress superseded by the Federal Government, March 4, 1789.That’s the “flow chart” of what happened to the States of America.However. The Union and The United States of America didn’t disappear.They operate in separate jurisdictions, and except for a little overlap,they are not within the sphere of the Federal Government at all.A Visit at Grandma’s House3
The Union and The United States of America are our specialconcern, and they exist outside the Federal Government construct.That’s what most people don’t understand.Three parts — a Union, a Federation, and a Confederation.The Union and the Federation are naturally separated from theConfederation.Why? Because of the nature of their membership.The Union is made of farm families and communities that have lifeand breath and substance, soil and crops, docks and parks. It’sphysical and unincorporated and sovereign. The Union is populatedby living people.The Federation is made of States that have defined, physical bordersthat are agreed upon, a population of living people called “StateNationals” and a population of people who serve the StateGovernment. They are called “State Citizens”. When they are onduty, performing their tasks, they are operating in the capacity of“Lawful Persons” and as one of the “People” of that State.The Confederation was made up of business organizations called“States of States” — incorporated entities that exist only on paper,and that conduct commercial business for our States. These States ofStates and the people working for them, are all conducting businessas Legal Persons.So you can see that both the Union and The United States of America— the Federation — deal with actual physical life, communitiesfilled with people, States that have physical borders, while theConfederation is concerned with business transactions andrelationships, Legal Persons, and things that exist only on paper —various kinds of corporations.A Visit at Grandma’s House4
When a Continental Congress is convened, as may be during yourlifetime, each State will send a Delegation of State Deputies who areFiduciary Officers for that State of the Union.They will be required to act according to The Prudent Man Standardwhile making financial and other decisions for their State and takentogether, for the country as a whole.The Continental Congress is the most powerful instrument of theAmerican Government and it is composed entirely of LawfulPersons, known as “People”, doing business for you, the living,breathing population of each state.But as I showed you in that little snippet of Official History, there areother kinds of Congresses, too.There was the Confederation Congress that became the FederalCongress, and the Federation Congress known as The United Statesof America in Congress Assembled, and the Union Congress knownas The United States Congress, and so on.You have to write everything out, always, to keep it clear, but thismuch you can be sure of: the Continental Congress is your Congress.It’s the Congress directly serving the people of this country. It lastconvened March 1, 1781.The United States of America in Congress Assembled conductsbusiness for your States of the Union, and it has met sporadically,most recently in 1965. All the other “Congresses” you can name orthat you see referenced in print are spin-offs of the Federal Congress— which is a different bird entirely.Please notice that the various “Congresses” that are in constantsession in Washington, DC, don’t serve you and I doubt that theyeven serve the States of the Union in any legitimate respect. They’veforgotten who they work for and exist only to make money forthemselves.A Visit at Grandma’s House5
The Federal Congress represents States of States, that is, businessorganizations, and in today’s world, these are corporations that havebeen incorporated by foreign governments. They aren’t even ourown States of States. These organizations are Legal Persons and theyare run by Legal Persons — meaning that they are created on paper,by charters, and articles of incorporation and patents. They have noother physical basis for existence — no borders, no trees, no people,no faces, no feelings, no accountability, either.That’s why they are called “inchoate states” or, properly,“Confederate States”.All this confusion (yes, and deliberate deceit) based on similarnames, has developed over the course of two centuries, and it onlygot worse with the adoption of the Constitutions in 1787, 1789, and1790.”Grandma leans back in her chair, looking vaguely relieved to haveall that off her chest, but her tea is cold and she stirs herself, blinks,and says, “Come on downstairs. We’ll sit by the fire. I’ll feed yousome nachos — how’s that?”She folds up her afghan, heaves a sigh, and trundles toward thestairway.So you follow her downstairs and she stirs up the embers in the grateof her fireplace and you sit in a chair waiting for her to come backout of the kitchen. You already feel like your head is going toexplode.She soon appears again with your favorite plate of nachos and acouple cold drinks, and gets comfortable again, staring into the firefor a few moments before she turns her head, and looks straight atyou.A Visit at Grandma’s House6
“This isn’t easy to hear or to understand, I know, but you’ve got toknow it and I am counting on you. This is your country. Yours, andwhile I live, mine. So you have to learn.”She turns back to the fire and you can see her profile edged in thefirelight. The nachos help. You begin to feel like you can think again,just as she begins to speak.The States of America Confederation“So, we’ve got three separate things, a Union, a Federation and aConfederation called the States of America, which was one of thethree original “instrumentalities” of government established by theSecond Continental Congress. And we are going to focus on that lastone, the Confederation, because that is where all the problemsstarted.Each State chartered a “state of state” commercial corporation thatwas a member of the States of America Confederation.For example, Georgia chartered The State of Georgia, which thenfunctioned as a separate entity and as a member of the States ofAmerica Confederation doing commercial business for Georgia.See how that works? You have your State that conducts internationaltrade, and your State then also creates a “State of State” that conductscommercial business.Commerce is business conducted between two incorporatedentities.Your State of the Union is not “incorporated”, so it had to chartera State of State to conduct this kind of business.A Visit at Grandma’s House7
Please Note:[The original States of States that belong to Americans and to our States of theUnion all include “the” as part of their Proper Names: The State of Georgia,The State of Massachusetts.This fact will become important to know later on, so remember it. There areBritish Territorial Dopplegangers doing business as “the” State of Georgia andPapal-Roman Municipal Dopplegangers doing business as “the” STATE OFGEORGIA to deal with.]“The States of America Confederation was accorded specific dutiesand functioned in the global realm of commerce It was supposed tofunction for the benefit of all the State of State members.However. As a result of the Constitutional Convention, some of the originalduties and powers of the States of America Confederation and of TheUnited States of America Federation, both, were soon shared outwith King George and the Pope.The Constitutional ConventionNineteen specific and enumerated “Powers” were “delegated” intotal.The delegating was done by the People of the United States —meaning the State Citizens of the respective States of the Unionacting by and through The United States of America.The member States chartered all the States of States that weremembers of the Confederation, so the States had to do thedelegating of the “Powers” — some of their own Powers and someof the Powers that were originally assigned to the States of America,too, were delegated away in the process.A Visit at Grandma’s House8
A grab bag of Powers originally vouchsafed to both the Federationand the Confederation were re-sorted by these new Power-sharingagreements called “Constitutions”.Constitutions are debt agreements, stipulating who does what, andwho pays whom for which services, and in this case, they representthe implementation of international treaties as well as servicecontracts.”Grandma pauses to wet her whistle and push back in her recliner,chews thoughtfully on a corn chip dripping with cheese, gives anironic smile and shakes her head at you.“It’s amazing,” she says, “what they have gotten away with notteaching you—For example, there were three (3) Constitutions established, one foreach of the Subcontractors of The United States of America:(1) Coming out of the Constitutional Convention, the States ofAmerica was to continue to operate and do the lion’s share ofthe work under the provisions of The Constitution for theunited States of America [1787].(2) The British were to operate our Territorial Governmentunder another variation of our name — “the” United States ofAmerica — so their Constitution is called: The Constitution ofthe United States of America [1789].(3) The Pope’s Municipal Government was to operate underanother variation of our name “the” United States, so theirConstitution is called: The Constitution of the United States[1790].A Visit at Grandma’s House9
The United States of AmericaFederation of �––––––Federal Government Subcontractors:States of America Confederation [American]United States of America [British]United States [Papal — Roman Municipal]Thus, the “Federal Government” was made up of threeSubcontractors, one American, two foreign, all owing duty andallegiance to The United States of America — our unincorporatedFederation of States.Those are the three branches of the Federal Government, not thishorse hooey they feed you in school about “executive, legislative,and judicial branches” — those aren’t branches of anything. Thoseare functions that all these Subcontractors had.So we had, for example, Federal Courts, operated by the States ofAmerica.We had Territorial Courts, operated by the British TerritorialGovernment.We had Municipal Courts, operated by the Papist-Roman MunicipalGovernment.A Visit at Grandma’s House10
The Civil WarAnd now things get interesting — the States of AmericaConfederation continued to function as one “branch” of the newFederal Government from 1787 to 1860, when it broke in half —North and South. The former members of the South formed theConfederate States of America.A bitter commercial mercenary conflict styled as a “civil war” brokeout, with the remaining States of America Confederation members(North) going head to head with the Confederate States of America(South).The British Subcontractors sided with the Northern Confederation,and the Papist-Roman Subcontractors sided with the South.Please Note:None of this directly involved The United States of America nor TheUnited States, as the Union was then called, except that we and ourStates suffered a lot of damage as a result of the bad decisions andbehavior of these Subcontractors.We should have fired them all and required the other Principalssubject to the Constitutions onto the carpet, but in the grossconfusion and mass death caused by the American Civil War, theGrand Army of the Republic (GAR) came to power and morphedinto the United States Army. We have lived under a mixed military protectorate, awaiting“Reconstruction” of the States of America ever since.The si
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