Explain with some detail how Lincoln stole national sovereignty from the voters of each state.
By engaging in a self-coup, turning an international government against an international union....
.... under the false pretext of a "civil war" to preserve a long-standing
national union.
I don't know whether he
believed this or not, but it's irrelevant to the fact of the matter.
The term "self-coup," describes a
legitimate government that illegally seizes power; which it then
uses to keep and/or
increase its power.
This term describes the current United States federal government, which:
- was legitimately established as the government of an international union of 13 sovereign nations, called "the United States of America;"
- in which each state was a separate sovereign, that was supremely ruled by its respective electorate, or "people.“
However in the ensuing decades, this
international union then grew to 34 sovereign nations, and the electorates grew from 6% of their respective populations, to 44%.
At this point, the federal government
engaged in self-coup, to illegally seize power; by claiming that:
- the union had always been a national union, as a single nation over subordinate states; and that
- the government always a national government, whose whole "people" supremely ruled it simply by voting in elections.
The federal government then ordered Total War and totalitarian suppression over the
member-states of the international union, under claim of
national authority and "necessity."
And thus the federal government achieved
national power over the states; and used this power to suppress the mainstream legal and historical consensus to
concede and validate federal allegations-- particularly according to the
outcomes of the self-coup, thereby creating a self-validating
new national order.
This self-coup, thus:
- illegally usurped supreme national sovereignty away from the respective voters of the individual states, in violation of each state's supreme international sovereignty; thereby:
- usurping supreme national sovereignty to the government officials and offices, while leaving the electorates with only limited token franchise; which thereby:
- created a constructive plutocratic oligarchy under rent-seeking public officials,
- while operating under the pretense of a voluntary popular government which was legitimately established by the American Revolution,
- while labeling and justifying this self-coup as a "civil war against insurrection" by individual states against said "national union."
The US government must be called out on this; since failure to do so,
concedes its current false premise that the American Revolution established a national union over the states-- over which the people only have the power name their supreme rulers; while not consenting to their actual government by being otherwise able to alter or abolish it.
The historical facts logically imply that the Civil War was a self-coup by the U.S. government.
The argument for this implication is based on the following historical facts and logical steps:
- Fact: Under the Articles of Confederation, the states retained explicit sovereignty and had no federal political superior.
- Fact: The U.S. government, claiming a continuous "national union," used military force to prevent the withdrawal of these sovereign entities.
- Fact: The post-war Supreme Court, in Texas v. White (1869), issued a binding ruling that declared the Union was always perpetual and secession was never a legal right, thereby validating the federal government's use of force and establishing a new constitutional order.
The
logical implication is that a government (originally of an international league) used force to illegally seize national power from within the existing structure and then retroactively justified its actions through a self-validating legal process, which fits the definition of a self-coup.
Is that enough detail?
It was the forefathers each state willfully chose to join a union with the other states giving up much of any sovereignty they may have had.
They states had
no sovereignty
before the Declaration of Independence, and each one had
100% sovereignty
after it.
