Restoration of the U.S. Constitution

James Wahler
Published: June 27, 2008

June 30, 2008 may be remembered in history as the day Americans began, in earnest, the moral and solemn process of holding their (servant) government accountable to the Constitution — under threat of withdrawal of allegiance, support and tax money. Next Monday, approximately 1,200 American citizens will begin the process of exercising a profound, but little-known, 800-year old right first articulated in the Magna Carta by formally serving a “Legal Notice and Demand” for Redress of Grievances upon the president, the attorney general and every member of congress at their local district offices. 

Incredibly, academic research since 1986 makes clear the right to petition for redress is not a redundant statement of the right of speech. It is in fact, the individual exercise of popular sovereignty.

Here’s what the founders sitting as the first Congress wrote: “If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, they may retain it until their grievances are redressed,  and thus
peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility.”

That is from the Journals of the Continental Congress, 1:105-113.

Demanding an official response within 40 days, the notice includes seven petitions for redress of grievances regarding substantial violations of our Constitution, including the war, money, privacy, arms and
tax clauses.

If liberty and constitutional order are to survive peacefully, it is imperative that the people learn about and exercise the unalienable right of redress. For details about the Plan to Restore Constitutional
Order, visit: http://www.givemeliberty.org/revolution.

JAMES WAHLER

Middletown