In a speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 23, 2010,
Peter Dale Scott gave a history of the various directives concerned with
government continuity during a state of emergency. He showed that these
directives could be used to supersede the Constitution
The government can not just grant themselves power without the will of the people. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it' "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,"
I find it ridiculous that anyone could think that 1776 could be the answer to 1984. It was no good for the 100 million Indians murdered by the slave owning Americans. The slavery of black people just continued and was followed by a further 100 years of Jim Crow.
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