True or False - Opposing Government Mandates?

True or False:
If there is a government mandate that you think tramples your freedom, you have to comply unless you can point to a specific right guaranteed in the Constitution being violated.

 
FALSE!
We must remember we received her blessings of liberty from God, not the government. (“We the People” wanted to “secure the Blessings of Liberty.” US Const, Preamble. “We, the people of the State of Michigan, [are] grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom.” Const 1963, Preamble. We are all “endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” like Liberty. Declaration of Independence.)

We the people hold the sovereign power. (Citizens Protecting Michigan's Constitution v Sec’y of State, 503 Mich 42, n 90 (2018); US Const, art VI, Republican Form of Government; Const 1963, art I, § 1; US Const, Preamble “We the People” established the Constitution; Const 1963, Preamble “We, the people of” Michigan established our state constitution.)

Government does not have its own source of rights, sovereignty, or property ownership. Government was created by the people. (To “secure the Blessings of Liberty” we established the Constitution. US Const, Preamble. “[G]rateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom and earnestly desiring to secure these blessings undiminished to ourselves and our posterity,” we the people established our state constitution. Const 1963, Preamble. We are all “endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights” and “to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Decl. of Independence.)

Government actions are ALL done on behalf of the people (Upper Peninsula Power Co v L'anse, __ Mich App __ (2020) (Docket No. 349833), n 6) and derive authority from the people.  (“A constitution is made for the people and by the people,” Citizens at 61, “deriving its force from the . . . people who ratified it,” Id, containing “the principles on which [the government] shall act, and by which it shall be bound.” Id at n 90. “Its most basic functions are to create the form and structure of government, define and limit the powers of government, and provide for the protection of rights and liberties.” Id at 81.) 

So, where the people have not given the government specific authority to act, it may not do so. On the contrary, WE may exercise OUR rights without waiting for government permission to do so.

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