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not decline paying. Since I have grown poor, I have acquired authority; nobody threatens me; I rather threaten others. I can go or stay where I please. The rich already rise from their seats and give me the way. I am a king, I was before a slave: I paid taxes to the republic, now it maintains [PAYS “BENFITS” TO] me: I

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am no longer afraid of losing: but I hope to acquire. "

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The people fall into this misfortune when those in whom they confide, desirous of concealing their own corruption, endeavour to corrupt them. To disguise their own ambition, they speak to them only of the grandeur

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of the state; to conceal their own avarice, they incessantly flatter theirs.

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The corruption will increase among the corruptors, and likewise among those who are already corrupted. The people will divide the public money among themselves [to pay “BENEFITS”] , and, having added the administration of affairs to their indolence, will be for blending their poverty with the amusements of luxury. But with their indolence and luxury, nothing but the public treasure [“BENEFITS”] will be able to satisfy

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their demands.

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We must not be surprised to see their suffrages [VOTES at the ballot box] given for money [GOVERNMENT “BENEFITS”]. It is impossible to make great largesses to the people without great extortion: and to compass this, the state must be subverted. The greater the advantages they seem to derive from their liberty, the nearer they approach towards the critical moment of losing it. Petty tyrants arise who have all the vices of a single tyrant. The small remains of liberty soon become insupportable; a single tyrant starts up, and the people are

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stripped of everything, even of the profits of their corruption. ’

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[The Spirit of Laws, Baron Charles de Montesquieu,

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SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/Publications/SpiritOfLaws/sol_08.htm#002]

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5. Obfuscate the terms and definitions in the franchise to confuse PRIVATE and PUBLIC persons and property: 21 5.1. Make it appear that said law applies universally to everyone, including those in the states of the Union, when in 22 fact it does not. 23 5.2. Compel the courts and the IRS to mis-interpret and mis-enforce the Internal Revenue Code, by for instance, 24 making judges into “taxpayers” who have a financial conflict of interest whenever they hear a tax case. 25 Montesquieu in his The Spirit of Laws, which is the document the founders used to write the Constitution, describes 26 this process of corruption as merging POLITICAL law with CIVIL law, and thereby turning EVERYONE into an 27 “employee” and/or OFFICER of the government whose “pay” is the “benefits” of franchises. Political law is law for 28 the government ONLY, and not the PRIVATE citizen: 29

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of civil Law.

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community of goods to live under civil laws.

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By the first, they acquired [PUBLIC] liberty; by the second, [PRIVATE] property. We should not decide by the laws of [PUBLIC] liberty, which, as we have already said, is only the government of the community, what ought to be decided by the laws concerning [PRIVATE] property. It is a paralogism to say that the good of the individual should give way to that of the public; this can never take place, except when the government of the community, or, in other words, the liberty of the subject is concerned; this does not affect such cases as relate to private property, because the public good consists in every one's having his property, which was

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given him by the civil laws, invariably preserved.

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view than that every one might be able to preserve his property.

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Let us, therefore, lay down a certain maxim, that whenever the public good happens to be the matter in question, it is not for the advantage of the public to deprive an individual of his property, or even to retrench the least part of it by a law, or a political regulation. In this case we should follow the rigour of the civil law,

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which is the Palladium of [PRIVATE] property.

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Thus when the public has occasion for the estate of an individual, it ought never to act by the rigour of political law; it is here that the civil law ought to triumph, which, with the eyes of a mother, regards every

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the civil law, the not being forced to alienate his possessions.

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