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Legislative Branch

t of view is that the Judiciary system is – Our last hope.A single state has the very means of containing and restricting our government’s egotistic power. It’s as simple as hitting Washington with a lawsuit every time it attempts to exercise unauthorized jurisdiction over State sovereignty. How can a strict constructionist supreme court refuse to honor the Constitution, if one or more states ask for, and insist on , its enforcement? The clearly legal and lawful way, with which no credible person can find fault with, is found in Article III, Section 22, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution which says: “In all cases…in which a state shall be party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction.” This is a powerful tool for the states, as it eliminates time consuming and expensive appellate action.I’m going to use the Federal Reserve System as my example of how to contain our gone-ho government through using the Judiciary (more specifically, our Supreme Courts.) One state could force an independent audit of The Federal Reserve System. A state’s authority to make such a challenge is clear from Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 6, of the Constitution which reads: “No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.” The Supreme Court must, therefore, honor the insistence of a state, or states, to uphold this very clear part of the Constitution. And with such a strong statement, not only could a state force an outside audit, it could perhaps abolish the FED. The superb wisdom and far-sightedness of those great men who wrote our constitution is promising -- to our freedoms. ...

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