Posted by Two Cities on May 26, 1998 at 17:03:37:
In Reply to: Diversity Statute is a MAJOR KEY: graphic illustration posted by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. on May 23, 1998 at 10:46:01:
: Articles of Confederation
: |
: | U.S. Constitution
: | |
: | | 1866 Civil Rights Act
: | | |
: | | 1 class: | 2 classes:
: *---*----------------*---------------------->8
: state Citizens | state Citizens
: |
: *---------------------->8
: federal citizens
:
: where "8" means infinity,
: because the Union is perpetual.
It's all contract.
Articles of Confederation (a contract)
constitution of the united States of America (a contract)
Primary contracting parties, and late comers to the contracts
of all varieties.
'Perpetual' is of course a perception, much like that of all roads
leading to Rome (or should I say ROME)
The contracting parties to the Articles are?
The nation states (could say States, but this term has been usurped)
Who empowered the states?
The contracting parties to the state constitution.
The ratifiers (the people) seem to be holders in due course
to a contract they did not author.
The contracting parties to the U.S. Constitution are?
We the People.
Who are the people with a capitilized "P"?
Representatives of the ratifying body of the U.S. Constitution?
I don't seem to recollect any general public election ratifying
this instrument.
So the State legislatures do the ratifying, and the people
become secondary holders in due course, through the powers granted through
those original state constitutions that rarely see the light of day.
state citizens, federal citizens?
state natives, federal natives??
day of birth (nativety)? date of birth??
Commencing? Beginning at a point??
Natives were excluded as parties to those citizen contracts.
Some of them have governments of their own, taxing districts
etc., and are flexing their muscles more or less in several
places.
And on any given day, a number of people arrive contract-less
in the world, and the binding process is repeated for each and
every one.