Congressman X (local office address)
Senator Y (local address)
Senator Z (local address)

Petition for Redress
Sir (or Madam);

Along with millions of my countrymen, I am aggrieved, not by a specific act of a particular government person or agency, but by the refusal of Congress to execute its enumerated duties, while permitting the President to execute and enforce all the laws, with no checks and balances.  Effectively, your predecessors abolished our three-branched Republican government, and replaced it with a municipal corporation. 


.   Once it was a tiny, unobtrusive, fiscally responsible body of public servants.  Today, it is the most obtrusive body on the planet, interfering with the lives all Americans and millions abroad.  It seems bent on destroying what freedoms we, as well as those the rest of the world’s people, have left.  It lacks direction.  It lacks common sense.  Worst of all, it has ceased to be the protector of our rights, which is the reason we formed governments in the first place.  Failure to execute a known duty is at best malfeasance, and at worst, treason.  The same is true for executing powers not granted, of which all three branches of the federal government are guilty.

When Patrick Henry said “give me liberty or give me death”, he was talking about not just freedom from oppression, but freedom from governments generally, not freedom of them.  I say, free government, free people- take your pick.  I pick the latter.  Throughout history, governments have been thrust upon people by the powerful.  America’s unique tradition lies in events like the drafting of the Mayflower Compact.  For the first time in the known history of civilization, a group of people agreeably formed a written compact, for the purpose of establishing a government that would serve their collective interests, and otherwise leave them alone, instead of one which thrust itself upon them, and imposed various duties upon them through sheer power.  Our governments were formed to secure our right to govern our own lives, so long as we do not trespass on the rights of others.  This government trespasses on states’ sovereignty and people’s rights with fervor, as though that were its mission. 
We are the first nation in history where the people declared themselves to be the true sovereigns, “with none to govern but themselves”, and all our governments are instituted to serve our common interests, not to rule our lives.  We’d all like to see that relationship restored.  Your “prime directive”, according to the Declaration of Independence, is “to secure these rights”.  You are bound by your oath to do what you can to ensure that the proper relationship between the Union government and its component states, is restored.  Your electors are duty-bound to replace you if you fail to act accordingly.
At the Revolution, all the colonies became nations.  The King signed 14 separate treaties of peace- one with each of the new nations, and one with the Union they had formed.  Clearly, the Founders intended for the new nations to remain independent, surrendering only their powers to deal with interstate and international commerce, and commerce with the Indian Nations. 

The Union government was not established to master the people or the states.  It was to be a government separate from the states.
The first Act of our First Congress determined the manner of taking oaths.  It is extremely important to remember why that was their first Act.  They expected all public servants to serve their respective electorates or those by whom they were commissioned, and to do so strictly according to the letter and spirit of the Constitution.  Subsequent Acts established the taxing system, which required collectors of the revenue, and the Secretary of the Treasury who supervised them, to be bound by their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution and execute the duties of their offices according to the letter and spirit thereof. 
The taxes were to be collected in Districts, which, in turn, had to be ceded by the states (sold) to the Union.  This shows that the federal government cannot operate within a state.  It operates alongside the state, but outside it.  It may make laws that affect people and property within such areas, but not areas that lie within member nation-states.  The “supremacy clause” does not create a “supreme government” over the states; it creates a “supreme law” for the organization it creates.  The Constitution charters an organization, like a corporate charter or trust agreement.  It is binding on and between the states.  It is a grant of power to execute those powers of any sovereign government to regulate their international affairs.  The people are not parties to the agreement, and under most circumstances cannot be directly affected, or acted upon, by anything the organization does.  You are bound by oath to recognize this distinction.  Congress must regulate imports coming into the Union, but cannot regulate exports, and shipments between states or to and from the Indian Tribes, which are also sovereign nations, and should be treated as such.

 States cannot regulate imports individually, or there would be chaos, which is why they gave that authority to the Union in the first place- there had been chaos regarding taxation of imports under the Articles of Confederation.  So it is with commerce (shipments) between states, and commerce with the Indian Nations, each of which has its own government.  It is absolutely forbidden to interfere with purely intrastate affairs or all of the people. 
The Union is not the government of the member nations, it is the single international government for the Union of nations, a separate entity entirely.  Separation of powers includes separation of powers of our governments, as well as separation of powers within them.   Where one operates, the other does not.  I can think of only three areas of Union lawmaking that might directly affect purely intrastate affairs- the value of coin, bankruptcy laws, but not bankruptcy courts, which already existed in the states, and naturalization rules, but not the power to execute them, which remains in the states.  According to the Uniform Commercial Code, adopted by most of the Union states, the United States is in the District of Columbia.  It is also in those areas properly ceded (sold) to it by the states.
What are called police powers are retained by the states.  Police powers are concerned with the health and welfare of the people, and include taxation and the power to regulate commerce within a particular geographical area.  They include the power to regulate what is manufactured, grown, or produced, for sale to the public, which are seen to affect the “general welfare” of the people.  This means that the federal government cannot regulate what is produced in a state; it can only regulate what is produced in areas over which it exercises exclusive legislative authority- the possession and territories of the United States, because it cannot make the “general welfare” of the population a federal concern outside “federal zones”. 

The federal government has no police powers within a state, but it does in the District of Columbia and the insular possessions.  (Those areas are called “States” in the Internal Revenue Code.)  Any law that directly affects intrastate affairs, and , except for the four crimes enumerated in the Constitution- piracy on the high seas (international), violation of the laws of nations, treason against the United States or any of them, and counterfeiting the coin or securities of the United States.  However, the federal government may exercise police powers in areas over which it is the government, outside the Union states, like the District of Columbia and the “insular possessions”.  Those are the only “police powers” the federal government can exercise in any Union state.  The 200+ crimes enumerated in Title 18 USC, are crimes only in Districts over which the United States makes local law instead of a state.
I have come to believe that the United States Code is a Code of laws for areas over which the United States exercises exclusive jurisdiction, outside the individual Union states.  Thus its laws may be “constitutional”, but not effective in any Union states.  Throughout the Code, we see “the United States, when used in its geographical sense…”, with no indication that it is used otherwise, anywhere in the Code.  The Code is considered to be a single Volume, so the jurisdiction of the laws that are codified is limited to federal zones, lying outside the states of the Union.  “In its geographical sense” includes the possessions and the District of Columbia, and those “international waters” off our coasts.  It does not include “navigable rivers” which lie within states; only those that lie between them, like the Mississippi.
The U. S. military is supposed to be composed primarily of state militias, armed and disciplined, and ready to defend their communities, their nation-states, and the Union, if attacked.  Standing armies, according to George Washington, are one of three things he considered most dangerous to liberty. The others were paper money and political parties.

 Standing Armies need reasons to exist, and will stir up trouble where none exists.  Their prime directive is “attack” not “defend”.  The prime directive of the Constitution is “defend” not “attack”. 
Political parties are a zealous lot, and will use any excuse to engineer unnecessary government growth, with a corresponding infringement upon our liberties.  Such are the “war on drugs”, the “war on crime”, the “war on poverty”, the “war on communism” and the current “war on terrorism”.  Such wars can never be declared, won, or lost, and no treaty of peace can ever conclude them.  However, they provide a steady flow of business for manufacturers of war materiel, at the expense of useful consumer goods.  The whole alphabet soup of government agencies may have authority only in federal “zones”.  Congress cannot regulate what is manufactured, grown, or produced in a state.  It can only regulate shipments between states, from port to port.  The current ban on hemp deprives the states the right to export hemp for rope, or paper, or fabric, or any other “domestic” purpose.  Hemp exports were once the nation’s third-largest export, bringing huge sums of cash into the country.  Today, the government spends billions trying to prevent such wealth from being produced.  Jefferson and Washington both raised hemp, in rotation with cotton and other crops, The Declaration of Independence is written on paper made from hemp.  Henry Ford once built a car entirely of hemp.  This ban stifles a lot of economic growth, and your job is to provide a healthy economic environment, not stifle growth.  Besides, IRS, BATF and DEA cannot exercise police powers in a state, and must not be allowed to continue by you or the President.
Regulating pharmaceutical companies is up to states.  That is another example of the exercise of the police powers.  Police powers relate to the health and welfare of the people, which is a subject for the people’s governments (the states) to regulate, their constitutions permitting.   This principle applies to the so-called income tax. 

Any tax that affects people directly, and is not laid according to the rule of apportionment, and is not collected by Congress, is only “constitutional” where the people are “subject to the legislative jurisdiction” of the Union instead of being subject to that of a state. 
It is obvious from Title 48 USC that “the internal revenue laws” are effective in the possessions, which lie within the legislative jurisdiction of the Union, outside its member nation-states.  It is also obvious that “citizens” of the possessions, where the internal revenue laws are known to apply, do not pay income tax, at least on their “domestic” income, to the federal government.  See IRS Form 4563, which says what I just said.  I call your attention to 26 CFR 1.1-1(a), which says that the income tax “imposed” by Section 1 of the IRC applies to all “citizens of the United States” and certain aliens.  Section (c) defines “citizen” as “any person born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction”.  “Its” jurisdiction is limited to federal zones.  IRC 7701 defines “United States, when used in the geographical sense, includes only the States and the District of Columbia.”  IRC 3102 defines “State” as certain possessions and the District of Columbia.  There is nothing in print that says that the IRC is “the law” in the 50 Union states.
IRC 6301 authorizes and requires “the Secretary” to collect “the taxes imposed by the internal revenue laws”.  Were this provision intended to mean the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, it would require him to commit treason, by exercising a legislative power.  At 27 CFR 26.11, we find “the Secretary” defined as “the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico.”  Nowhere in any official literature is “the Secretary” defined as the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury of the United States.
4 USC 72 says that all offices attached to the seat of the government are to be exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere, except as expressly provided by law. 

The office of the Secretary of the Treasury is one such office, and no law authorizes him to lay and collect taxes through offices outside the District of Columbia, so he cannot be “the Secretary” of the Internal Revenue Code.
It is your duty to lay and collect taxes, in the least obtrusive manner possible, in order to pay the debts of the United States and other necessary and proper expenses, and even to borrow, if and when necessary, and to coin uniform money with which to pay the bills.  You cannot shift your duties to the executive.  The powers vested in each branch require their concomitant duties to be executed by that branch.  You cannot be faithful to your oath if you abandon your fiscal duties and responsibilities with respect to finance.  You, not the President, have the money and finance powers.  His power is limited to his requirement to see that you execute them properly, not to usurp them.  However, the President has, in his Treasury Department, a Bureau of the Public Debt, whose duties include borrowing all the money the government needs to pay its bills.  Obviously, “our taxes” do not pay for the government’s operating expenses.  Instead, the Treasury Department is committing treason by exercising the power of Congress to borrow.  The President now controls the Mint, which mints only “numismatic” coins which resemble gold and silver coins, and medals. 
The Courts have been incorporated into the executive branch.  It is now known that all federal judges file “employee affidavits” with OPM, formerly the Civil Service Commission.  The affidavit says that the government of the United States is their employer.  They are no longer officers of an independent branch of the government; they are civil service employees.  There is no judicial branch. 

That you make laws for the executive to execute, expecting it to limit its activities to constitutional ones, is dangerous and treacherous folly.  Instead of stability, we have chaos.  We have been in a constant state of “emergency” for more than 70 years, and a state of war for more than 60.  Offensive wars and “pre-emptive strikes” are forbidden by the Constitution.  Incorporating the states’ militias into the “National Guard” is forbidden by the Constitution.  Standing Armies are forbidden by the Constitution.  Paper money is forbidden by the Constitution.  Acting as the civil government of the people and the States is strictly forbidden by the Constitution.
As a result of the treachery of your predecessors, and the failure of yourselves to correct the situation, millions of us have been deprived of our private property by the IRS, collecting “income” taxes that are not effective even in the possessions, where the Union has jurisdiction, let alone in Union states, where it does not have general jurisdiction.  The Union government is not “entitled” to a percentage of the earnings of the American people, and has never enacted any law that imposed a tax on the earnings of all Americans.  Further, had the act been intended to raise revenue, it would have originated as a Bill.  No such Bill exists.
I have personally been deprived of $ __________________________ worth of my private property by the IRS, which is not an agency of the federal government, whose employees are all Civil Service employees and not officers, none of whom are commissioned to collect taxes, who cannot sue or be sued, and who are not attached to the legislative branch, whose duty it is to collect the taxes it lays.

You know, or should know, that the current IRC is not the product of laws that impose taxes; it is the product of a House Resolution [8300] to restate “the internal revenue laws”.  It was published alongside the Statutes at Large, not included within them.  Had Congress intended to impose taxes to raise revenue, they would have originated a measure in the House as a Bill to raise revenue, not an act to create a Code.  It is difficult to construe the IRC as laws, because their “source” citations date back no earlier than the Act that created the Code, August 16, 1954, 68A Stat.  
You know, or should know, that prior to 1939, all federal tax collectors were legislative branch officers, nominated and appointed by the President, bound by oath, with capacity to sue and be sued, and heavily bonded.  If there is no tax collector to sue for his mistakes, or who can sue delinquent taxpayers, then the principle of “no office, no officer; no officer, no office” applies.
I ask that this petition be read by the presiding officer of each House, or in join session, in its entirety, and that both bodies immediately busy themselves in restoring constitutional government.  Those who are not so inclined should immediately vacate their seats and make room for one who is committed to doing so.
I expect a response within ten (10) working days from receipt hereof.  Failure to respond shall constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity, and authorize me to file my claim in the Court of Claims.

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