Continental Congress 2009 (cc2009) called to order
Indipendence Hall - Philidelphia, PA
St. Charles, IL. – Billed as the first one in over two centuries and referred to as “cc2009,” the Continental Congress 2009 convened at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, November 12 with delegates from all 50 U.S. states in attendance. We The People (WTP) Chairman Bob Schulz convened the Assembly to begin the selection of Congress officers from the ranks of elected Delegates who will preside over the 11-day long Assembly. Constitutional scholar and former Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik was selected as the presiding officer of the Congress.
For over a decade, WTP Foundation has championed an intensive, well-researched and coherent effort to hold the Government accountable for its escalating violations of fundamental Rights and the Constitution through use of the Right of the People to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Those ongoing abuses include violations of the Constitution’s tax, money, war, general welfare, privacy and other clauses that are at the heart of the conditions that now plague our nation.
Although the public has known little about the history or nature of the Right to Petition, scholarly and historical research has established without argument, that the Right, first articulated as the cornerstone of Western Law in Magna Carta (1215), provides the People an individual Right to hold Government peacefully accountable for its abuses.
Summaries of this important research can be reviewed as part of the legal pleadings of the 2004 landmark WTP lawsuit, We The People vs. United States, which sought to have the Judiciary declare, for the first time in history, the legal and constitutional meaning of the last ten words of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Amendment I “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Four years later, in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear this controversial case involving the essence of Popular Sovereignty.
Continental Congress 2009 will take the process of holding Government accountable and restoring the Constitution to the next level by first creating a formal record of the vast violations of the Constitution and Individual Rights now suffered by the People. Next, the Congress will debate and decide upon a series of practical but strong civic actions the People may take in order to restore their Liberty.
Don’t expect to find a whole lot of information concerning the movement, or the convention on your evening television, or radio. If you would like to follow this historic event live via feed, use this link: http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/default.htm#latestnews
Over the next 11 days, delegates representing the People of all fifty (50) states of the union are meeting to publicly debate our Government’s abuses of the Constitution and to consider practical strategies which can bring about compliance with our Constitution and Bill of Rights, not only in our government, at all levels, but in our individual lives. 7Bends will follow up with this historic event from Illinois and give you updates as we get them.
The following YouTube presentation gives more detail.
