The Filibuster is made for Man and not Man for the Filibuster

 

The Filibuster is made for Man and not Man for the Filibuster

Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide.

...................................William Godwin, English Writer 

The above is a derivative of an unassailable Truth, expressed more than 2,000 years ago, by one of the most Highly Evolved Spiritual Beings, Jesus the Christ, who stated as follows in Mark 2:27, 

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:

...............................................................Jesus the Christ 

These profound Quotations above are Immortal Truths, telling us present day human beings especially we Americans, that "Law is made for human beings, and not human beings for the Law". Similarly, the Filibuster is made for Man (Members of Congress) and not Man (Members of Congress) for the Filibuster. Furthermore, the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Law of the Land is continually being made by us ("We the People of the United States") for us to limit the Powers and Authorities of those "few We the People", We the whole Citizenry choose to govern us, to continually perfect our Union, as lucidly stated in the Preamble. 

In other words, the United States Constitution is subservient to the Sovereign, "We the people of the United States" with the Ultimate Power and Authority to continually revise, decree and establish it. It is a mere guide or guiding principle, limiting the Powers and Authorities of the Few we choose to govern us, while spelling out some of the Fundamental Individual Rights of each and every Citizen, for us to live in peace, harmony and security, to continually perfect our Union. The Sovereign, "We the People of the United States", is not bound by the Constitution he continually makes and refines to limit the Powers and Authorities of the Presidency, Congress and Judiciary - the Sovereign's Agents. Although the Sovereign Authorized one of these Agents, Congress, to make laws within the ambit of the Constitution, such laws cannot violate any of the tenets of the Constitution, the Fundamental Rights of any Citizen of the United States, and most important, such laws cannot truncate, delay, or deviate from, the Purpose for the existence of the United States as a Nation, as explicitly described in the Preamble to the Constitution of United States, which states as follows: 

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." 

Now, this brings us to the current raging topic in the United States Congress, the Filibuster. What exactly is the Filibuster? The Senate Weblink, https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture.htm, describes Filibuster and its accompanying Cloture as follows: 

Filibuster

"A filibuster is a tactic employed in the United States Senate to prevent a measure from being brought to a vote. The most common form of filibuster occurs when one or more senators attempt to delay or block a vote on a bill by extending debate on the measure." 

Filibusters and Cloture

"The Senate tradition of unlimited debate has allowed for the use of the filibuster, a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, or other debatable question. Prior to 1917 the Senate rules did not provide for a way to end debate and force a vote on a measure. That year, the Senate adopted a rule to allow a two-thirds majority to end a filibuster, a procedure known as "cloture." In 1975 the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds of senators voting to three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn, or 60 of the 100-member Senate."

Beside the Filibuster and Cloture, there is another contentious Rule called the Byrd Rule, which is summarized as follows from the following weblink, https://archives-democrats-rules.house.gov/archives/byrd_rule.htm 

Summary of the Byrd Rule

"Under the Byrd rule, the Senate is prohibited from considering extraneous matter as part of a reconciliation bill or resolution or conference report thereon. The definition of what constitutes "extraneous matter" is set forth in the Budget Act; however, the term remains subject to considerable interpretation by the presiding officer (who relies on the Senate Parliamentarian). The Byrd rule is enforced when a Senator raises a point of order during consideration of a reconciliation bill or conference report. If the point of order is sustained, the offending title, provision or amendment is deemed stricken unless its proponent can muster a 3/5 (60) Senate majority vote to waive the rule.

 

Subject matter - The Byrd rule may be invoked only against reconciliation bills, amendments thereto, and reconciliation conference reports.

 

Byrd rule tests - Section 313(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act sets forth six tests for matters to be considered extraneous under the Byrd rule. The criteria apply to provisions that:

• do not produce a change in outlays or revenues;

• produce changes in outlays or revenue which are merely incidental to the non-budgetary components of the provision;

• are outside the jurisdiction of the committee that submitted the title or provision for inclusion in the reconciliation measure;

• increase outlays or decrease revenue if the provision's title, as a whole, fails to achieve the Senate reporting committee's reconciliation instructions;

• increase net outlays or decrease revenue during a fiscal year after the years covered by the reconciliation bill unless the provision's title, as a whole, remains budget neutral;

• contain recommendations regarding the OASDI (social security) trust funds.

Exceptions to the Byrd Rule - Section 313(b)(2) allows certain otherwise covered Senate-originated provisions to be excepted from the Byrd rule if the provisions are certified for exemption by the Senate Budget Committee chairman and ranking minority member, as well as the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee of jurisdiction." 

Although the above Senate Rules and/or Tactics, the Filibuster, Cloture and Byrd Rule, are Legislative Rules or more precisely, Senate Rules that are not even in the United States Constitution, our fellow American Citizen-Political-Actors, Senators and House Representatives, hiding under the color of Government, are deploying their self-created arcane and archaic Rules and/or Tactics to deprive us, We the People of the United States, of, our "common defense", our "general Welfare", our "Blessings of Liberty", and our Fundamental Right to Vote.  

When a group of renegade American-Citizen-Political-Actors, hiding under the color of State Governors and State Legislators, deprive us, "We the people of the United States", of our Fundamental Right to Vote and Choose our Agents or our American-Citizen-Political-Actors we want to represent us in Congress, and the current American-Citizen-Political-Actors hiding under the color of Congress, fail to stop such violation due to the arcane and archaic legislative rule called Filibuster they created for themselves, then Congress itself, the Agent of "We the people of the United States", is in Violation of our Fundamental Right to Vote and Choose our next Agents or American-Citizen-Political-Actors, a Violation of the United States Constitution. 

When our fellow American Citizens, Senators and House Representatives we voted into office as Members of Congress, and gave temporal Authority to lead us since all 332 million of us cannot be in Congress at the same time, now turn around to use their self-created arcane and archaic Rule called Filibuster to stop us from repairing, rebuilding and modernizing our dilapidating and crumbling Infrastructure, these Members of Congress are violating the Constitution, especially the common defense Clause, the general Welfare Clause and the Commerce Clause. 

The Filibuster is made for Man and not Man for the Filibuster. American-Citizen-Political-Actors, hiding under the Color of Congress as Senators and House Representatives, created the Filibuster by and for themselves, and not for "We the people of the United States" who do not give a hoot about their arcane and archaic Filibuster. What the Sovereign, "We the people of the United States", wants is a National Smart Infrastructure upon which We the People of the United States can individually and jointly play our Parts in the Cosmic Game of Life for our Happiness, while not being deprived of our Fundamental Right to Vote and Choose our next Agents or next American-Citizen-Political-Actors we want to represent us in Congress. Anything else is a gross violation of the Constitution and our Fundamental Right to Vote and Choose our next Agents, by our current Agents or current American-Citizen Political-Actors. 

The Sovereign's Right of self-governance and Fundamental Right to vote and choose his Agents to represent him, emanate only from the Sovereign himself, the Ultimate Sovereign Power and Sovereign Authority, and not from any other Authority. In short, the Sovereign is Supreme and his Decision is Final, and the Sovereign is "We the People of the united States", all 332 Million of us, and not the 545 officials of our national governmental bodies (1 president + 100 senators + 435 representatives + 9 supreme court justices). The 545 officials are a Part of "We the People of the United States", and the Part cannot be bigger than the Whole. Thus, the renegade American Political Actors hiding under the color of State Governors and Legislators must stop violating the Right of the Sovereign to Vote and Choose his Agents, including them, the State Political Actors.

Bright Harry is the author off America, Wake Up!, where he debunks the Federal Government Budget Deficit and National Debt as mere illusions, albeit extremely deadly ones, with facts, logic, mathematics and history. He succinctly describes what the Real National Deficit is - a shortfall in the money in circulation and in the hands of American Citizens compared to the Wealth of Goods and Services we have already Produced.