Why The Need For The Continental Congress

[David Justice]

What is a principal to do with a rogue agent?

I give you a power of attorney to represent me in a particular matter, and in my name you abuse or usurp that power!

Should I not hold you accountable?

You represent yourself to the world to be acting in my behalf under my power of attorney. In this capacity you claim to be exercising power I granted to you. Using my resources and credit as collateral, you bind both me and my children to financial obligations I did not authorize; obligations beyond the scope of powers granted by my power of attorney to you. I become angry, remain silent and do nothing. Would not my failure to hold you accountable, to bring charges against you for exercising power outside the scope of my grant of power to you, be construed as my consent to the obligations? Would not my failure to distinguish my delegated power, from your crime against me, appear to give presumptive validation to otherwise invalid obligations?

I write you and call you to account. You remain silent. I write you a second and a third time, demanding that you answer me relative to your transgression. You continue to remain silent. I have you served with a grievance naming your long train of abuses and usurpations against me and demand you appear before me to give an account, but you continue to refuse. I bring suit against you. Rather than hear my complaint, the court defends you, summarily dismissing the complaint and telling me you are not accountable to me. The merits of my claim go unheard. The appellate court upholds the judgment of the lower court. The Supreme Court tells me they are uninterested in hearing such a trivial matter.

This is the exact circumstance the American People are confronted with relative to their government. The Constitution is analogous to a power of attorney, giving government the right to exercise limited power as an agent acting in behalf of its principal, the American States, the Sovereign People. Not unlike a rogue agent performing beyond the scope of power delegated under a power of attorney, professional politicians and bureaucrats are exercising federal power not granted by the constitution. Such an abuse of power is what in law is deemed an "ultra vires" act and void. Desiring to avoid the appearance of tacit consent to unconstitutional governmental acts, grievances were served upon the appropriate politicians and bureaucrats as petitions for redress, which to this day remain unanswered. Adequate demands were made and opportunities to respond provided. Silence has been the only answer forthcoming. The federal judiciary, properly petitioned, chose not to hear the merits of the grievances, defending instead the governmental acts via the sophistry of judicial manipulation of words and concepts to contrive conclusions circumventing truth for the sake of political expediency.

This is why the need for Continental Congress 2009.

In order to fully grasp the need for Continental Congress 2009 we must, among other things, distinguish between it and a "constitutional convention." Simply put, the latter, a "Con-con," is where unaccountable, professional politicians could come together under the constitution to sanction the "powers" of government they have usurped and now control. Were this to happen, politicians, under the guise of necessity and political expediency, could potentially re-write, even suspend the original intent and powers of the constitution in such a way as to altogether avoid accountability. If not answerable to the American People now, how much less accountable would politicians be were they to negate responsibility altogether through the contrivance of a constitutional convention. In contrast, Continental Congress 2009 is an assembly of statesmen, delegates appointed from among the Sovereign People of the fifty American States, coming together to hear and resolve specific constitutional grievances brought against the usurpations and abuse of power being unlawfully exercised by rogue politicians and bureaucrats.

The intent behind Continental Congress 2009 is to bring together an assembly, not of professional politicians, but of learned statesmen who understand the principles of the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen united States of America, who understand the principles and intent underlying the Constitution for the United States of America, who understand that in America, sovereignty is vested in and derived from the People, and who understand that the original intent of the constitution is to grant limited powers to a government created to serve the American States and the American People.

Finally, the intent of Continental Congress 2009 is to invoke the principles of the Declaration of Independence as the interpretive foundation of American government, and in so doing to use the Constitution for the United States of America as originally intended, as the standard, the measuring rod of power delegated to the federal government. What could be construed as analogous to a grand jury, the statesmen of the Continental Congress 2009 will hear facts and law and juxtapose them to the powers granted in the constitution to determine whether there has been abuse or usurpation of the constitutional delegation, thereafter rendering finding of facts and conclusions of law on the matters presented. Thereafter resolutions will be passed concerning the matters heard, including recommendations to the States and the American People as to appropriate action to be taken.

David Justice
We the People Congress
Colorado Coordinator