We the people of America are the Union, and Union is Federal - not some party.
Mayors of America's cities,
Respectfully, we put a question to you — and we invite the whole country to debate it.
The Declaration of Independence opens with "one people." Not fifty peoples — one. It teaches that governments are instituted among men, "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed," and the men who signed it closed by pledging to each other "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
The Constitution that people ordained begins, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union." And it does not leave your place in that Union to opinion. Article VI binds "all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States" by oath to support that Constitution, and declares it "the supreme Law of the Land — any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." Your jurisdiction lies within your state, respectfully. But the oath you swore first runs to the whole. Even in a state, a city is Federal.
The other side of this debate will answer with the Tenth Amendment, and it deserves its place: the powers not delegated are reserved. But reserved powers were never an oath to a party, and nothing in the Tenth puts party before Union. That is the debate. Let us have it in the open.
Today the country is governed as if the parties came first and the Union second. Division is what segregates our government — party against party, state against state — while the oath that binds us all sits quietly underneath.
The Federal Delegation is not a party. It stands on the founding order: federal before party, union before division. 616,000 Americans have signed the Federal Declaration — a printed page, signed and mailed in — and the campaign that carries it is self-funded, over $237,000 of my own money since 2017, taking no donations from anyone.
The signers of the first Declaration pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. We ask far less of you. Say, on the record, which came first: are you federal before state? If the oath came first, say so — and let the debate begin where the people can hear it.
Robert Buchholz — Mr.Buchholz "AP"
Founder, the Federal Delegation · Pentagons President
federaldelegation.org · pentagoncampaign@gmail.com · 202-603-0805
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