Author name: Ted

(see short version) A Constitutional Appeal for a National Moratorium The Lock and the Treasure For decades, America has debated what may be called the lock. The phrase “All Persons Born…” has become the focal point of one of the most consequential constitutional controversies in American history. Courts have debated it. Scholars have interpreted it. …

THE LOCK, THE TREASURE CHEST, THE ACID TEST, THE GAUNTLET, AND THE ROOM (long version) Read More »

(see long version) A Constitutional Appeal for a National Moratorium For decades, America has debated the lock. The phrase “All Persons Born…” has become the center of one of the most consequential constitutional controversies in our nation’s history. Yet a lock has meaning only in relation to what it protects. A lock is not the …

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  We, the People, of “any of them”, authority citizens and supporters of constitutional inquiry, respectfully call for a temporary national moratorium concerning the ongoing controversy surrounding the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship. We do not seek delay for delay’s sake, nor do we seek to predetermine any outcome. Rather, we seek understanding before judgment, …

THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT MORATORIUM DECLARATION Manifesto Read More »

The Unfinished Promise of American Freedom Freedom Is More Than Emancipation Throughout American history, freedom has often been discussed as though it were a single event. Yet history demonstrates that genuine freedom unfolds through a series of stages, responsibilities, opportunities, and understandings. For the formerly enslaved population and their descendants, freedom did not arrive all …

Chapter V Actual Freedom Read More »

  From Lincoln to Marshall, Thomas, Jackson, and the 250th Anniversary President Freedom’s Long Journey The story of American freedom did not end when the guns fell silent at Appomattox, nor when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It did not end when Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1866, nor when the …

Chapter IV The Education Chain: Read More »

THE GREAT MORATORIUM An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump Mr. President, Shalom. I respectfully ask you to consider an extraordinary act of presidential leadership. Withdraw Trump v. Barbara, not in surrender, but in strength. Withdraw it temporarily so that America may first undertake a national period of constitutional education concerning the Civil Rights …

The Great 14th Amendment MORATORIUM: Open Letter Appeal – President Trump Withdraw “Trump v. Barbara Case #25-365 Read More »

Constitutional Enlightenment Before Constitutional Determination Accompanying Memorandum Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States To the Honourable Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Special Attention To Justices Thomas and Jackson-Brown Greetings, Your Honours, Shalom! This accompanying memorandum is respectfully submitted in support of the attached appeal …

THE GREAT 14th Amendment “All Persons Born…”MORATORIUM: Open Letter To US Supreme Court Concerning “Trump v. Barbara” Case # 25-365 Read More »

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES To the Honorable Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States * Special Attention to Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson Greetings, Your Honors. Shalom. We the People of Federalized US Citizens by the 1866 Civil Rights Act, …

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While the world is no longer occupying the streets of cities and towns across the nations of the earth, as it did during the spring and summer of 2020, humanity nevertheless responded together — regardless of nationality, race, politics, religion, or economic status — to the cry that “Black Lives Matter.” Though many did not …

The Matter Is About The Identity of the “All Persons Born…” of the 14th Amendment Read More »

CORE must get involved NOW because the present Birthright Citizenship crisis is not merely an immigration matter — it is rapidly becoming the most important unresolved Civil Rights and Constitutional question since Reconstruction itself of all time. This is the ultimate fight for our Actual Freedom as US Federalized Citizens, and given the forecasts and …

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