Foundations of Freedom

In 1861 , President Lincoln declared a National Emergency and Martial Law, which gave the President unprecedented powers and removed it from the other branches. This has NEVER been reversed. Legally the war began with Lincolns proclamations: Proclamation of Apr 15, 1861 which summoned the militia to suppress "combinations" in the 7 states of the lower south

Proclamation: Apr 19 and Apr 27, 1861; A blockade of southern ports was

launched.

No international recognition was ever achieved giving the South full standing.

Before Lincoln’s 1st Congress ever met, he had taken those measures that gave the union war policy its controlling character.

1. Proclaimed an insurrection 2. Declared a blockade 3. Summoned the militia 4. Suspended habeus corpus privileges 5. Expanded the regular army 6. Directed emergency expenditures 7. Assumed executive functions beyond existing law

The above tardy ratification was passed by congress on Aug 6, 1861. In 1863 these strongly contested executive measures were sanctioned by the Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision sustained chiefly by Lincoln’s own judicial appointees.

Lincoln’s method for meeting the emergency and suppressing disloyal tendencies was to grasp arbitrary power by executive orde rs or proclamations as in the Emancipation Proclamation and arbitrary arrests. Prisoners were given no trials, deprived of civil guarantees and were subjected to no regular accusations under law. This led to a severe and widespread opposition to the Lincoln Administration. In 1863 , the Lieber Code was established taking away your property and your rights. The Lieber Code of April 24, 1863, also known as Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, General Order, or Lieber Instructions, was an instruction signed by President Abraham Lincoln to the Union Forces of the United States during the American Civil War dictated how soldiers should conduct themselves in war time. It was named after the German-American jurist and political philosopher Francis Lieber. The main sections were concerned with martial law, military jurisdiction, treatment of spies and deserters, and how prisoners of war should be treated. The Lieber Code can be found in US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1899), Series III, Volume 3, pp 148-164. 1863-1865, By Authority of Congress: The Statutes at Large, Treaties and Proclamations of the United States of America from December 1863 to December 1865, Volume XIII, edited by George P. Sanger, Counsellor at Law, Boston, by Little, Brown and Company (1866). Thirty-Eighth Congress, Session I. An act to enable territories in the west to form a Constitution and State government. 1887-1889, Statutes at Large of the United States of America from December 1887 to December 1889 and Recent Treaties, Postal Conventions, and Executive Proclamations. Published by Authority of Congress, under the direction of the Secretary of State, Volume XXV, Washington: Government Printing Office (1889), Fiftieth Congress, Session II. An act to provide a division of western territories and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washintgon. From 1864-1867 , Several Reconstruction Acts were passed forcing the states to ratify the 14th Amendment, which made everyone slaves. See movielocker.com/4084 for further information on this. In 1865 , the capital was moved to Washington, D.C., a separate country – not a part of the United States of America. In 1871 , The United States became a Corporation with a new constitution and a new corporate government, and the original constitutional government was vacated to become dormant, but it was never terminated. The new constitution had to be ratified by the people according to the original constitution, but it never was. The whole process occurred behind closed doors. The people are the source of financing for this new government. 1911, March 1 st , The Weeks Act, Third Session of the Sixty-First Congress, Chapter 186. An act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers. This act allows the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase land in the name of the United States that has been approved by the National Forest Reservation Commission. This gave the government power over the States to control navigable streams and waterways held within that state and national forest reserves. 1913 , the night of December 23 rd , the U.S. Congress committed perhaps the greatest act of treason in history. It surrendered the nation's sovereignty and sold the American people into slavery to a cabal of arch-charlatan bankers who proceeded to plunder, bankrupt, and conquer the nation with a money swindle .