Title: Revisionist History is Propaganda Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/revisionist-history-is-propaganda|revisionist-history-is-propaganda]] Login Required to view? No Created: 2021-07-14 19:35:33 Updated: 2022-09-16 01:22:49 Published: 2021-09-05 03:00:00 Converted: 2025-04-14T21:12:13.901855960 ---- The assertion we hear today is the three branches of our U.S. government are three “co-equal” branches. Yet the Constitution itself reveals a clear and distinct hierarchy of power. Today, it feels as if the people live at the pleasure of legislators in Washington, D.C. The Founders would be horrified to see the money and power legislators take for themselves. In order to change our system back to its intended hierarchy, the people must be educated with facts and not fall for the folklore being dished out by the press or worse yet, swallow whole the nonsense propagandized by schools funded by overburdened tax payers. **The Legislative branch is superior to the Presidency and the Courts.** Lawmakers should be afraid of the citizens, not the other way around. Therefore, our Constitution begins by describing the Legislative Branch. Specifically, it begins by laying out the structure of the House of Representatives. Today, we have lost the lesson that the government closest to the people is the most important. The House turns over every two years so We The People can keep a tight leash on the most local and accessible federal legislators. When a vacancy occurs, there must be an election so the people remain in control of their choice for the most important federal slot, the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives must initiate any bill that contains levies a tax. "Obamacare," anyone? That originated in the Senate. Details, details. Originally, U.S. senators were chosen by the States’ legislative bodies. Note the progression: the citizens create their state legislatures, then allow the legislature to appoint two US senators. In every case, the citizens must have the power to rein in the power of elected officials. When legislatures control the US senators, the state itself (empowered by the citizens) have a say in Washington.   Today, no state legislature can control or discipline a US senator because the relationship to the people has been severed by the 17th amendment. This strips power from free men and women, to unhook elected officials from the people and severely constrain the power of the States.   The only power the States now hold to rein in the federal government is the Electoral College. There is a concerted effort to eliminate that as well.   In the 2020 presidential election, we saw state executives (governors) and state courts swoop in to steal even that last vestige of the peoples’ power to curb the hubris and lust for power in the House and Senate in Washington, DC. It should be the burning desire of every freedom loving US citizen to revoke the 17th amendment. Because the Senate is a step removed from the individual citizen, the body turns over a third of the members every two years. This is why the Senate is considered a more deliberative body. Emotions were to be cooler in this chamber.   By practice, no Senator or even the President of the United States is allowed to enter the House Chamber unaccompanied by a sitting member of the House. This is an important tradition that honors the ordinary American citizen. **Presidency Second to Congress, Higher than the Supreme Court.** The next clue we have that legislatures are superior to executive branches (this system repeats throughout the states) is the bills are sent to the President, our second most powerful part of lawmaking. The President either signs or rejects the bill. There is no power to edit. It must be accepted or reject as it is presented. This power of the presidency is not supreme, however. The Legislative branch can surmount a presidential veto. This power further cements the Legislature’s supremacy as the most important and powerful of the three branches. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach and the Senate to try the President whereas the President has no authority to reprimand, try or expel any member of either the House or Senate. This is yet another example of the Legislature’s supremacy. In Article III, the Congress is granted the right to create lower (the Constitution uses the word “inferior”) courts to buttress the Supreme Court. So in all respects, including the order mentioned, its ability to regulate the presidency, and the power to create courts, it is absolutely clear that we Americans do not, in any way, have three “co-equal” branches of the federal (or state) governments. Note that bills are not sent to the Supreme Court to approve or reject. Some people have advocated sending bills to the Supreme Court to make sure they “pass muster” regarding appropriateness or some other standard. To do so would further weaken the power of the people to chart their own course. The Supreme Court clearly has the least power because their opinions are not heard until they are asked to do so by citizens who believe they have been wronged. Only then does the Supreme Court have a say in the legislative process. This, too, protects the sovereignty of a self-governing population. **The Supreme Court has the least power.** The Supreme Court is the third mentioned branch because it is intended to be the weakest. However, the appointments have no time limit. The thought behind this unique quality afforded the Court is that their deliberations and judgments not be tied to popular trends (officially, “out of the fray”). The only time the Supreme Court is heard from is when it is asked to settle a dispute. It has been proposed that all laws be sent to the Court to make sure the laws passed are unassailable. Doing so would give the Court broad latitude and would usurp power from the citizen.   Generally speaking, the Court chooses to take cases that have constitutional implications. It does not take all that come to its doors. It is directed to take any dispute that arises between the States. As we saw in the 2020 election where Texas objected to illegal activity by other states, the Court refused to do its duty. I dare say the Founders would not recognize this country as the one they risked all for. It is sad that we have allowed our system to be so poorly managed. Fortunately, thanks to the Founders' foresight, we have the power to restore the original system. An Article V Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the authority to propose constitutional amendments. These amendments can return our country to the Founders' vision by limiting federal power, impose term limits on federal officials, and mandating fiscal restraints on Congress. With these amendments in place, power will be balanced between the federal and state governments, and We the People will once again be in control of our country's future.