{"id":129,"date":"2009-12-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=129"},"modified":"2017-03-20T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:29:04","slug":"preface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Preface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Across many administrations and years, by each branch of government, through each major political party, the Constitution for The United States has been violated.\u00a0 The People have formally Petitioned the Government for Redress of the violations in the most humble of terms.\u00a0 The People and their Petitions have been ignored. Each un-remedied violation has taken its toll with dire impact on our economic interests, our people, our quality and way of life\u00a0 and our international and national reputations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We hold this Truth to be Self- Evident: Any action, by any branch of the Government, that is repugnant to the Constitution, is null and void.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <!--more--> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On November 11, 2009, and for eleven days continuing morning, noon and night, Citizens of America gathered in St. Charles, Illinois, as Delegates from each of forty-eight States, to discuss these violations, and Government\u2019s refusal\u2028to be held accountable, and to recommend a course of action to restore Constitutional Obedience in a Constitutional Republic now challenged to Its core.\u2028These were not professional legislators, wordsmiths or attorneys.<br \/>\nThese were ordinary, non-aligned citizens from across America \u2028and all walks of life.\u00a0 They set aside their lives for this Assembly. \u2028They represent You and Me, the Free People of America.\u2028\u2028The conclusion of their efforts is This Document called Articles of Freedom.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It is proposed that these Articles be distributed to All in the Land with the intent to draw the attention and courage of a \u201cgoodly number of millions of People\u201d who, entitled to their Freedom and essential to Its maintenance,<br \/>\nArise to Restore the Constitution for the United States of America.<br \/>\nThen and only then shall America\u2019s Destiny be Fulfilled.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across many administrations and years, by each branch of government, through each major political party, the Constitution for The United States has been violated.\u00a0 The People have formally Petitioned the Government for Redress of the violations in the most humble of terms.\u00a0 The People and their Petitions have been ignored. Each un-remedied violation has taken its toll with dire impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[83,78],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-freedom-preface","tag-continental-congress-2009","tag-preface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}