Hello, my name is Brian Eakin. I have my domicile in the State of Michigan. Because of this fact, I am a sovereign man who is a part of the United States of America. As I am one of The People specified in the Constitution of the United States, I hold a position of supreme importance over the government which seeks to guide our country.
As our elected officials govern by the sufferance of The People, our interests and desires hold a larger sway than the personal attitudes of our elected officials; the men and women who make up the bureaucratic agencies that are attached to our government.
I submit to you that these individuals have lost sight of their purpose and function in relation to the people they serve. Each elected individual, in taking the oath of office, becomes legally bound by said oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. This document was specifically designed to limit the scope and power inherent in the various offices that make up the federal government.
James Madison, one of the primary authors of the Constitution of the United States, indicated in the tenth Federalist Letter the dangerous human nature of those people attracted to positions of authority. Their powerful and deep-seated belief in the “rightness” of their own code of conduct and intellectual prowess would make them inclined to garner more power and authority into their hands.
In light of the nature of our current government’s intrusion into the minutiae of the sovereign man and woman’s daily life, it is my belief that the dangers Madison and the other Founding Fathers took have been overtaken by purposeful immoral actions and manipulations of our laws by the very people he warned us against.
These manipulations have been enacted through purposeful erroneous interpretation of words and phrases in the original document. Such interpretations were used to author laws that gained those in the seats of office more power and monetary wealth to control and manipulate the public welfare and moral view.
The driving force behind my association with Convention of States is to bring our elected representatives back within the confines of our federal Constitution. If COS is successful, our elected representatives will become the public servants envisioned by the Founding Fathers. The bureaucratic agencies which make up the majority of the federal government will be restrained by the dictates of our Constitution. A limiting document that will be employed by our elected representatives when determining the scope of agencies' involvement with the sovereign members of this country.
