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Show OPINIONS Who needs a new Constitution bar everyone from owning a lethal weapon of any kind, would eliminate all taxing districts dis-tricts except federal, make all senators appointed, have only two elective offices, and provide an overseer for elections who would have the power to determine qualifications qualifi-cations of parties and candidates, and provide pro-vide the issues and information for both sides to discuss. "Red" the issue to the ballot by presenting thousands thou-sands of signatures and petitions against "land use planning". It's these same people who once again are trying to save us from those we elected to represent us. Every politician with his hand out to the federal government is selling sell-ing a few more of our freedoms. In future issues we will tell you more about this "new constitution" which would There was a billboard just south of j Milford a few years ago which stated: "The Constitution of the United States is adevine instrument, created by man, and inspired by God." The quotation is one of Joseph Smith's, i We believe that most Americans, and I , many foreigners , agree with this concept l j on which was built the greatest democratic ' society ever known. Not everyone in this great society does agree, however, and the proof is the "New Constitution", filed in the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives in January of this year. It's House Concurrent Resolution No. 28, titled ' "Introduction to a United Republics of America". Having spent the past couple of weeks studying the "new constitution", listening and researching where and how it came I about, and its ramifications on this society and country we live in, we admit to being ! shocked. What shocks us most is that, while this instrument would destroy the "Bill of Rights", and all our freedoms, not oib legislator legis-lator on the state or national level has sent ! out an alarm to his constituents. ' i They can hardly plead ignorance, be cause all that is necessary to receive a copy is to write your Congressman and ask for I it. Ordinarily we would give little attention j to such an outlandish, far-out piece of legis- ' j lation. We'd figure it wouldn't have a chance f. to get out of committee, and no chance for passage if it did. : But, when you take a look at its track j! record to date, the situation becomes fright - jj . en ing. The subject of a new constitution first saw the light of day during the Kennedy administration. ad-ministration. In 1966 the first open moves were made. It was written in 1970 and financed fi-nanced by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Founda-tion. In 1968 Nixon divided the country into 10 regional governments by executive order, and in 1971 appointed Rockefeller to head up a constitutional revision committee. On the state level, Governor Rampton divided the state into seven regional govern -ments called 'associations of government's Here in Southern Utah we have the (FCAG) Five County Assoc. of Gov't. These' divisions divi-sions still exist, even though they both have been declared unconstitutional. They not only exist, but wield great power. They get this power by controlling all federal spending. All grants, loans, or other federal monies must have the approval of not only the agencies charged with administering adminis-tering the monies, but they must earn a favorable fa-vorable nod from the FCAG, and then (in Utah) the Board of Directors of Region Eight, which sets over the states of Utah, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. Colo-rado. To give you an idea of the power these .bureaucratic agencies and regional governments govern-ments already possess, look at the "land use planning referendum", defeated in Utah last November. Almost every provision of the referendum has now been forced on local governments through regulations, made by these same bureaucratic agencies. If you want federal monies, you've got to play ball. Ironically, Utah would never have had a opportunity to vote on this referendum, were it not for a group called the "Concerned Citizens Assoc. of Notaries", who forced |