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Show May 5, 1972 MARKS MESSAGE Recode fs yftlook MARK E. Continued from Page 2 total, could be reduced in some way. He said, Now that the Peoples Republic of China is in the UN our share of costs should be reduced to 25 percent. Russias share is 16 percent. asked what he thought of ANDERSON he replied that it is a good policy considering the alternatives. I told him that a likely alternative under the circumstances may be for Communism to conquer us. He remarked that he has talked to many intelligent people from Communist countries lately, and they feel that Communism is superior to our form of gover- High -- Handed Stealing PROPERTY RIGHTS Where did you get the right to own property? From government? From the Constitution? From the people? No none of these. Your right to own property is an unalienable right endowed by God. God recognized that right when He declared, Thou shalt not steal, or Thou shalt not covet. The founding fathers of this nment. asked Congressman nation proclaimed that concept in the Declaration of We hold these truths to be Lloyd, how do you compare Independence: the two systems? He said, If that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by youre asking whether I favor their Creator with certain unalienable rights . . . . And Communism or Capitalism, I property rights were included in that concept of I then said favor Capitalism. unalienable rights. that I had not referred to ecoSince you do not have the right to steal from your nomic systems, but rather to our neighbor, neither do a hundred men acting in unison have form- of Constitutional goverthe right to steal. Nor does a majority in a legislature have nment versus the Communist the right to steal. system. Unfortunately, I did not Thus, when government or Congress takes your hear his reply. property by force to give to another, it is an act of At any rate, it was an interestis like the act of a lynch mob. It is a violation ing week. During the opening stealing. It ceremonies on Thursday night, of an unalienable right. It is a desecration of the my friend asked some students if Constitution. It is a breach of the Ten Commandments they realized that Alger Hiss and the moral and legal basis of civilized society. - 1 self-evide- nt, - Harry Dexter White wrote the UN Charter. The students were unanimous in asking, Who are they? We then told them who Hiss and White were from a newsworthy and historical standpoint. My friend pointed out the irony that the Congressman who was instrumental in the conviction of Hiss as a perjurer now looks to the UN as a great g force working for good in the world. When it was mentioned to the students that the Congressman is now President of the United States, they were surprised to learn that Nixon had ever been a Congressman. I should think it must be very difficult to teach American History when you have to keep skipping over and leaving out so many important facts. The MUN is an important annual function in the state of Utah. Some of your readers may want to attend the public functions themselves next year to see the many things the students are exposed to. peace-keepin- Thomas 0. Breitling Salt Lake City, Utah Utahs Page 3 defined the powers of each department (enumerated powers), and in the 10th Amendment reserved all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution to the states or the people. Third, the Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments) prohibit Congress from making any law abridging the unalienable and common law rights of man. Jefferson explained that to have a free people we must bind down those whom we are obliged to trust In questions of power, then, let no more with power be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. In other words, as Washington explained, it can be a useful government is force and lik e fire servant if kept within bounds however, remove the bounds, the limitations, and it can destroy everything your property rights, even your liberty and life. .... Candidate for the Second Congressional District I as a foreign policy, and The UTAH INDEPENDENT WHAT THEN IS GOVERNMENT FOR? Government is to secure, to guarantee, and to protect the unalienable rights of man. Continuing in the Declaration of Independence, the founders wrote: That to secure these rights. Governments are instituted among Men. Government is instituted to protect property That alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his That is not a just government, nor is property own secure under it, where the property which a man has . . . is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest. John Adams reiterated: The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be secured, or liberty cannot James Madison declared: .... exist." Thomas Jefferson said that we need a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. No government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life. WHAT IS THE GREATEST PROBLEM OR DANGER IN SETTING UP ANY GOVERNMENT? .... - LIMITATION OFFICIALS OF POWER UPON ELECTED IS THE REAL GENIUS OF THE CONSTITUTION Congress and the Supreme Court recognized these limitations upon their authority for one hundred and fifty years. In the days of Davy Crockett an attempt was made in Congress to give $10,000 to a poor widow. Crockett reminded Congress that public funds were not theirs to give to charity, that Congress had no such authority under the Constitution, and that such would be tantamount to stealing from some for the benefit of another. Instead, Crockett suggested that, although he was the poorest of the Congressmen, he would give one weeks pay for the widows benefit and asked that the others in Congress do the same. No one else volunteered. Yet few hesitate to give your property away. Even FDR recognized the limitations placed upon Congress by the Constitution. In an address March 2, 1930, Roosevelt said that Congress did not have the authority under the Constitution to interfere in the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social welfare, and of a dozen other important features. CAN THE CONSTITUTION BE CHANGED BY THE PEOPLE? can be changed by constitutional amendment. The authority of Congress can be increased or decreased by an overwhelming vote of the people and the states (threefourths). It is important that Yes, the Constitution the basic law of the land be relatively stable and not subject to quick change by every whim and fancy of a ratification was wisely slight majority. Therefore, a required for changing the Constitution. Washington advised, in his farewell address: If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by amendment in the way which the constitution designates . . . But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. Today, Congress has usurped powers not granted by the Constitution and its amendments, and the Supreme Court has not checked this abuse of authority. To the extent that this abuse continues, we, the people, shall continue to lose our property rights and our liberty. This usurpation by Congress is increasing at an welfare, alarming rate in every area of endeavor subsidies, controls, poverty, urban renewal, health, health, insurance, guaranteed incomes. It is stealing. Sir Bastiat called it legal plunder. John Taylor called it robbery. It is a violation of ones oath of office if he fails to uphold the Constitution; an abuse of mans unalienable rights. high-hand- ed The greatest danger in setting up any government is the misuse of government authority. Instead of using the force of government to secure individual rights and to promote justice and provide domestric tranquility, the tendency of man is to use the force of government for his Since I am one of five own benefit, to buy votes, to grant special privileges, to Anti-Americ- an Utahns charged with filing a set social to programs. up promote pet projects, false and fraudulent withholding said love of power and the that the and was Washington ) statement to abuse it predominate in the human heart. recently arraigned before Judge proneness I suggest that the time has financial help, withdraw as a Ritter on criminal charges, I Jefferson was fearful of trusting the power of government ' for us man. come to to the member, and ask the United stop acquiescing have been very sensitive to Nations to find a headquarters So, the founding fathers came up with an ingenious in our own trouble. In other IRS propaganda storm that location outside the United words, the time has come to way of solving the danger of abuse of power by limiting accompanied this, whole States that is more in keeping recognize the United Nations is the divided procedure. The Utah area the elected our officials. the the philosophy of the with First, they for the power of nationwide a for pad launching majority of voting members, federal power into three departments and made each the organization that tax rebellion, and judging from someplace like Moscow or weal against invasion of the it has become. The time has of the public guardian will the Sen. Barry M. goblins the volume of come for us to cut off all Peking. others (checks and balances). Second, they specifically Goldwater Fraudulent Five U.N.: (W-4- -- anti-America- n, anti-freedo- m - (R.-Ariz- Continued On Page 4 .) |