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On September 18th, 1999, a convention in Sabine County, Texas, the first of 176 counties needed, ratified a constitution for Texas, Texas Constitution 2000, that will return Texas to the principles espoused in the American Declaration of Independence. How this came about is an interesting story but is not really relevant to the rest of this discussion.
Hi. My name is Donald D. Henson and I am the Chairman of the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1997 and the Executive Trustee of the Texas Constitution Ratification Fund (TCRF) that was created to fund the ratification of Texas Constitution 2000. My story is one of someone who migrated from being a dyed-in-the-wool socialist that believed our government could do no wrong to one who believes that most, probably all, current governments are evil. But my story's not important. What is important is what happened when a number of like-minded ordinary Texans got together and decided to write a new constitution. And we did it. We are now dedicated to getting the new constitution ratified. If we are successful...
You will be able to make decisions that affect you and your family. No government agent will second-guess your decisions nor take your children away.
You will be able to prepare to defend yourself, your family, and your property without being labeled a criminal for daring to own "assault weapons" or an "arsenal". And you will be able to actually defend yourself, unlike many places under the current regime where someone who defends himself may get a harsher penalty than the criminal.
You will be able to decide for yourself how to spend your money. All funding of government under Texas Constitution 2000 is voluntary. No more IRS. No more Form 1040. No more sales tax. No more property tax. Nothing. Nada.
You will be able to control what your children learn. There will be no more government-run public schools which means there will no longer be any need for forced taxation to pay for them. And, since there will no longer be any government rules about what can and can't be taught, you and your school can decide that. You can even decide to have daily prayers and Koran readings. Or not. You and your school decide. You can home school. If you want. You can form a teaching cooperative. If you want. You can send your children to private school. If you want. You will be in control.
You will own your own land rather than renting it from the government. No longer will the government be able to take your property for nonpayment of taxes. (There won't be any taxes so how could you not pay them?) Nor will government be able to take your property because the property is accused of a crime (asset forfeiture). Only individuals can commit a crime under Texas Constitution 2000. You can build a house on your land. If you want. You can grow potatoes on your land. If you want. You can let your land set idle. If you want. You will be in control.
You will be able to travel where and when you want without getting permissions from government. You will no longer need a driver's license. (You don't need one now but just about everybody, including the cops, thinks you do.) You will be able to come into Texas without needing a passport or a visa, or any other kind of paperwork. You may still need paperwork to get out of Texas as we cannot control what other terrorist organizations... er, ah... governments do but you will be able to get one from the new Texas government if you want one.
You will be able to work without permission from government. No longer will you be required to present a government-furnished ID number, such as a Social Security Number, in order to be hired. No longer will you need a license to practice your trade or profession. (But you might want to get a certificate of competency from whatever voluntary organization does that for your trade or profession.) No longer will you have to pay a government-mandated wage for work you need to have done. You will, instead, decide for yourself what you want to do in order to make a living and how you will go about it. You will be in control.
You will no longer have to attend a government-approved church (501c tax exempt organization) that is afraid to espouse controversial positions.
On the off chance that you do find yourself in front of a jury, you will have a randomly-selected jury of people from the community to judge your actions. (You can still commit a crime under Texas Constitution 2000 but it is a crime only if you take an action that is intended to, and does, harm another person or his/her property.) No more jury-stacking by abusing the jury selection procedures. The only "selection" that will be allowed is a juror can be excluded by a majority vote of the rest of the jurors if that juror is known to be a relative of the accused -or- if the juror fails to show up at the appointed times and places. Well, one more case. A juror is excluded if he or she is to participate in the trial in some other capacity. No more judges telling juries what they must, and must not, consider. No more back-room conferences where judges and lawyers decide your fate away from the eyes and ears of the jury. No more judges over-riding the jury decision. You will finally have, again, an honest jury that will hear all the evidence and make their own decisions about what it all means.
And what will make Texas Constitution 2000 different from all the others? After all, the US Constitution sounds good but, through the years, it has been interpreted out of existence. What's to keep the same thing from happening to Texas Constitution 2000?
As in all things in life, there are no guarantees. Those of us who wrote Texas Constitution 2000 are human. We make mistakes. We overlook the obvious. It is quite possible that there is a gaping hole in the constitution that bad people will begin to take advantage of. We don't think so. We spent a considerable amount of time reviewing and "what-if-ing" what we wrote. But it's possible. So, we built in some protections.
The new government is prohibited from issuing currency or causing currency to be issued. The new government is required to pay its obligations in gold. We figured that would tend to keep them a bit more honest. The rest of us will use whatever free market currencies that the market will support.
The new government is also prohibited from issuing charters. This means the banking industry will not be able to get the government to issue rules and regulations that make it appear that government is in control of the banking industry.
Government agents will not have immunity from prosecution, even if they are acting in their official capacity at the time. Any ordinary individual will have standing in the courts to bring charges against any government official. That government official will then be tried in a county court just like any common criminal, assuming of course that the grand jury indicts the official. This is a major step forward from the current situation in which you have no standing to bring charges in criminal court and can only sue, in civil court. And you need deep pockets and a good lawyer even to do that.
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