The following post illustrates what Convention of States Article V was meant for.
Now more than ever we need to band together and relentlessly push for an Article V convention to stop federal overreach, or we will lose everything our founders, soldiers, and the independent, rugged people of this republic have fought and died for.
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…"
Who was Muhlenberg, and why is he important today?
CLERGYMAN
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was born at Trappe, Pennsylvania, in October 1746. He was the eldest son of Anna and Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, attended University of Hale in Germany 1763, was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1768, and was a pastor to Lutheran churches in New Jersey.
He married Anna Meyer in 1770, was ordained an Episcopal minister in 1772, pastored Lutheran and Episcopal churches in Woodstock, Virginia, gave his "a time to pray and a time to fight" sermon in 1776, and recruited a regiment from Virginia.
He was the fighting parson of the American Revolution.
It is said that Muhlenberg preached his last sermon from Ecclesiastes which ended “there is a time to pray and a time to fight.” Thereupon he removed his clerical robes to reveal a continental officers uniform underneath and preceded to enlist his flock into the Continental Army.
SOLDIER
Muhlenberg was commissioned as a Colonel of the Virginia militia in 1775 and commanded the 8th Virginia regiment, which became the German regiment of the Continental Army. He fought at Charleston and Philadelphia, was promoted to Brigadier General in 1777, wintered with his troops at Valley Forge from 1777 to 1778, and fought at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and Stony Point.
He also was a member of the Royal Arch Masonic lodge in Philadelphia, named commander of all forces in Virginia in 1780, fought at Portsmouth and Yorktown, was promoted to Major General in 1783, and retired November 3, 1783.
STATESMAN
Returning from military service to Woodstock in 1783, Muhlenberg received a land grant of 11,662 acres in Ohio River Valley in consideration of seven years’ service as Brigadier General in the Virginia continental line.
He was a founder-member of the Society of the Cincinnati, elected vice president of Pennsylvania 1787, elected to the first House of Representatives in 1788, re-elected from 1791 to 1795 and 1799 to 1801, then elected to the United States Senate in 1801, served as collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia (1801-1807), and died October 1, 1807, at age 61.
Consider this statement of the Black Robe Regiment:
“The time has come that we must now arise and awaken to the danger of this hyper-progressive agenda that so permeates every aspect of our political, legal, and educational systems. It is time now to educate ourselves and push back against the erosion of our freedoms and liberties and restore the constitutional authority back to all aspects of our governance. It will take the leaders of our churches to shepherd their flocks as did their predecessors during our first fight for liberty.”
We must prevail.
