Causes for Action to create a new state: The Republic for El Dorado State.

Causes for Action to create a new state: The Republic for El Dorado State:

The People referred to herein are citizens of the united States of America.

CAUSE FOR ACTION: THE DECLARATION OF SECESSION FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA:

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.  It is their Right, it is their Duty.  We, therefore, the People, as American Citizens and Representatives of the United States of America, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world and the United States Congress for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name of the Republic for El Dorado State, state that we are absolved under natural law of all Allegiance to the State of California and that as a Free and Independent State to do all things which Free and Independent States do per the Constitution for the United States and as a Representative Republic.  Let this Declaration of Secession from the State of California stand with God and Country for the reasons here stated:  

WHAT AND WHO COMPRISES THE REPUBLIC FOR EL DORADO STATE:

El Dorado County, the home of the Gold Rush, is nestled in the north/central/eastern part of California including half of Lake Tahoe.  It was one of the richest counties until its major resources of income, timber, and mining, were virtually eliminated through laws and regulations by the government in Sacramento.  Now El Dorado relies mostly on its income from tourism and on the unhappy people from Sacramento, the Bay Area, and Los Angeles buying residential or second homes away from the crime ridden metropolitan areas.  The People of El Dorado County want their former livelihoods restored and their rural way of life respected.  Even without its geographical major economic drivers, the people of the county are economically resilient and self -sustaining.  They respect and cherish the American way of life and the Constitution for the United States.  Many of the residents of El Dorado County, who are not of the original native stock, go back several generations in California, but they would rather be Free than labeled as Californians; El Dorado County still has its American pioneer spirit and love and respect for America’s Founding Documents.

The people of El Dorado County are quite capable and ready to be an asset to the other 50 states if given the opportunity to make their own laws and constitution that better fit these Peoples’ standards and way of life than California’s constitution and way of life.  El Dorado State will, in square miles, be larger than Rhode Island State and will be the least populated state today, but Nevada was made a state with a population of only 40,000 compared to El Dorado’s almost 200,000 and is one of the few areas in California that is growing.   As one of the original 27 counties for California, El Dorado is rich with the legacy of the Gold Rush that carries on today.  El Doradans will stand tall as Americans of a Republic that knows what it means to have no local representation in what is supposed to be a Republic, not a Democracy.  El Dorado is a chartered county with an established government run by the People as American citizens for the People for 173 years.

The Major Causes for Secession are addressed here and in the U. S. Constitution:

The State of California has broken its Contract with the Congress of the United States and the People of El Dorado County by governing as a Democracy and not the Guaranteed Republican Form of Government for the People as stated in the Guarantee Clause.   

California has also failed to provide the Domestic Tranquility Right of Safety and Security to the People for protection from Foreign Invasion and Domestic Violence, also in the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution and in fact, has exacerbated the lack thereof through its laws and regulations.

The People of El Dorado County also have a major grievance regarding their Lack of Representatives and Representation.  121 state electable representatives for a population of 38,915,693 does not a Constitutional  Republic make.

We will here prove that California has abdicated its duties to fulfill the needs of the American citizens of El Dorado County and the United States of America.

Failing that, we will pray for relief as our forefathers who formed the State of California did, and said to an unresponsive Congress in 1850, “Leave us alone” and we will Declare Our Independence and secede from California, following in the footsteps of Oklahoma and “do it anyway.” 

America exists because of Secession

 THE FOUNDERS VIEWS ON SECESSION:  We know what the Founders thought about Secession by what they wrote in the Declaration of Independence.

Here's what James Madison had to say about states’ rights to secede from the Union, which El Dorado has NO intention of doing, but the example is clear;  Madison discussed “Revolution vs Secession” and he said, “to secede at will and/or from intolerable oppression, the former being a Violation and the latter being another name for Revolution”, Madison affirms an extraconstitutional right to revolt against conditions of “intolerable oppression”, but “if the case cannot be made that such conditions exist,” then he rejects secession as a Violation of the Constitution.  El Dorado, though not yet a state, intends to make its case using the familiar documents that Madison and men of like mind prescribed:  The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the U. S. Constitution and the California constitution, laws and regulations.

Thomas Jefferson, “but when a long train of abuses and usurpations,….under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards……”

In 1812, Lewis Morris, a Declaration signer, said, “Secession, under certain circumstances, was entirely Constitutional.”

Cause: CALIFORNIA IS NO LONGER A “REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT.”

The land known as California was first home to the Native Americans, then was captured by Spain and became a part of Spanish Mexico.  After the Mexican war for independence from Spain, the “Californios” living in the north fought for their independence from Mexico City.  Then came the Mexican American War to take over what is now the south and western part of the United States.  The Californios revolt from Mexico was short.  It was they who made the Bear Flag used today to proclaim Californio free from Mexico known as the Bear Flag Revolt.  When the war between Mexico and the U.S. was declared over, the United States government paid Mexico 15 Million dollars for Californio, and other lands which much later became American states, to settle the Mexican American War by way of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, proclaimed July 4, 1848.  The Mexican Nationals, the U.S. Calvary, and the early American settlers then created the State of California using the Bear Flag as a symbol of its recognition of the Texas and American flags with its Texas single star, and American red stripe, (stars and stripes) and the word Republic, at the urging of, and with the blessing of, the U. S. government, again as with Texas, without another war.  So, from July 4, 1848, to September 9, 1850, California was a state in process and was never a Territory.  The State of California started as a rogue (other) state in September of 1850 and has only become more so as time has passed.  The Gold Rush of 1849 accelerated everything, even though the wheels were already in motion for statehood before gold was discovered.

The land comprising El Dorado County was purchased by the U.S. Congress for 15M from Mexico and included all of Californio, and all or parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, therefore Congress did not relinquish their acquisition of, nor did they charge the occupants of those lands for the land as the new states petitioned to join the Union and abide by the laws of the Constitution for the United States. 

The argument here is that California was bought and paid for to become a State in the same manner as Texas in 1845, but unlike Texas, it moved directly from acquisition to statehood, and that the United States government and Congress still has ownership rights over those lands regardless of the states currently occupying those lands.  Just as the U.S. had to pay Mexico, any State seceding from the Union would have to pay the U.S. for the land.

El Dorado is not seceding from the Union.

As with any landlord/owner (the United States government) a guarantee made to a tenant (State of California/legislature) is based upon the tenant also meeting the requirements agreed to upon the acceptance of the Agreement/Contract (the Constitution for the United States of America) by both parties, Article 4, Section 4, Clause 3, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”). (The Guarantee Clause) When the framers of California as a state solicited and accepted membership into the Union, they accepted the Rules of the Constitution, including Article 4, Section 4, Clause 3.  They understood that they were REQUIRED to Guarantee a REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE, as their State Flag so proclaims to this day.

“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.”….(a Republic).

 

CAUSE:  EL DORADO LAND IS OWNED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

El Dorado County was one of the Original 27 Counties that made up the State of California.  It was not only one of the first, it was in the El Dorado town of Coloma where gold was discovered on January 24, 1848, that set off the Gold Rush of 1849.  The name, El Dorado is Spanish for “the Golden One.”  The Mexican American War (1846 – 48) was a result of the ambitions of President James K. Polk’s Manifest Destiny to spread America from Atlantic to Pacific.  As America was in the first stages of what would be the Civil War, the Compromise Act of 1850 that made California a Free State, was passed in 5 separate bills, that also gave California its statehood on September 9, 1850.  Prior to that, the first governor, Peter Burnett signed into California law the creation of the state’s original 27 counties on February 18, 1850.     

California’s First Legislature met on December 17, 1849, and Governor Burnett was inaugurated December 20, 1849.  Governor Burnett sent a message to the Legislature questioning the advisability of passing laws before Congress made California a State, but they did it anyway, and proceeded to enact laws as necessary.  Therefore, El Dorado was a county before California was a State…other Property.  And it had government established before it became a State and in which El Dorado was formed as a County.

Here comes the GOLDEN KEY for the GOLDEN COUNTY……

The following states were never a part of an organized incorporated territory:

Kentucky was originally ONE COUNTY separated from Virginia to become a state in 1792.  The other states are Vermont, Maine, Texas, West Virginia and California.  From Wiki: “California, admitted September 9, 1850, was formed from unorganized territory ceded to the United States by Mexico in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican American War.  The Act of Congress establishing California as the 31^st state was part of the Compromise of 1850.”

El Dorado County, as one of the original 27 counties, is “other Property” under the Power of Congress, not the California Legislature!

Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2: “The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States, and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.”

It is Natural Law that to undo an act, one must have been a party to or have had connection to the original act.  The County of El Dorado was a party to and instrumental in the original actions which formed the State of California and now the People of El Dorado pray for the release of El Dorado County from the Act of February 18, 1850, binding itself to the State of California, for the reasons reiterated and stated herein.

Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1 is the accepted Constitutional only way to make a state from another state. Therefore, going down history’s lane, in modern times, it has NEVER happened.  Even the 4 states that split from the original 13, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine, Vermont and West Virginia didn’t have an easy transition and mostly had, finally, to just firmly stand for what they wanted.  There are always too many on both sides who have vested interests in the status quo.  West Virginia is often cited as an example, but it was finally settled as a state by President Lincoln with a Proclamation because he wanted the railroad, owned by the U.S., that ran south though West Virginia, non-slave, to stay with the North during the Civil War and to balance slave and non-slave states with Kentucky, a slave state.  The General Assembly of the Restored Government of Virginia, in 1862 finally passed an act granting West Virginia’s creation and the Supreme Court agreed.  

Over the last 173 years, there have been 220 attempts to split California into 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 states, following Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1 to no avail because splitting the State would disrupt the power structure of the legislature.  The one and only attempt to be successful in getting approval from California’s legislature and Governor, died in Congress because of the Civil War; was the Pico Act of 1859 because there was agreement that the geography was too different between northern and southern California.

The People of El Dorado County have solid Causes for Secession from California.  California’s history and the U.S. Constitution, Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2,…other Property, proves that our Cause for Secession should go directly to the U.S. Congress for passage because we have exclusion rights from Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1 such that it does not Constitutionally apply to El Dorado County!

Upon approval by petition from the People of El Dorado County, we intend to go directly to the U. S. Congress that purchased the land for a Republican Form of Government by using the spirit given to us by such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, etc. and to set our course by their Declaration and Bill of Rights, following the rules of the U.S. Constitution as best possible, given to the People for use to guide them in the future so they could keep their Freedom, Liberty and Happiness to declare that we are the Republic For El Dorado State.  “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Self-evident truths grounded in the Declaration, the Bill of Rights and the U. S. Constitution.  Self-evident because they are made from the Divine Truths of Nature’s God who entitled them.

It is impossible to believe that the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence, would be of a mind to hold a people hostage to an oppressive State any more than an oppressive King.

CAUSE:  The residents of El Dorado County have NO LOCAL STATE OR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION.  NONE of the state or federal representatives that serve El Dorado County, live in El Dorado County, an area larger than Rhode Island.  

California’s 1849 constitution states that its legislature will consist of an Assembly and a Senate.  It also states, Article 4 Section 29, the number of representatives will increase with the population until the population reaches 100,000, then it will be capped at 80 in the Assembly and 40 in the Senate, Section 4 shall not be more than ½ the members of the Assembly.  Probably to the surprise of the founders, the population exceeded 100,000 in 1854, within 2 to 3 years after it became a state because of the Gold Rush that started in El Dorado! 

In 1879, the California constitution was gone over with a fine-tooth comb and brought current to that time, with a population nearing 900,000, but no changes were made in the number of representatives of either or both houses.  That date, 1879, marks the time when California became a Democracy and NO LONGER a Republic.   At that time, the legislature could have done away with the one-half rule and let both the Assembly and the Senate grow with the population and the then still changing political geographical landscape of the counties.  Instead, they chose to leave it at the 1849 levels, not even bringing it current to the 1879 population of 864,694.  Even the 14^th Amendment of 1868, Equal Protection Clause, would not have kept California from updating its local representation.

Subsequent years of constitutional meetings in the 20^th century also brought no changes.  The result is that today Californians number close to 40 million and have one (1) Assembly Representative for every 500,000 constituents and one (1) in the Senate for every 1,000,000 constituents!  Add 80 + 40 + 1, the governor, and find that 121 elites, term limits or not, rule over the almost 40 million People in California.  There is NO local representation as originally envisioned in Article 1 Section 2, 3^rd Clause, not greater than 30,000 per representative.  To anyone’s way of thinking, the Founders of each of the two governments meant for the people to have Local Government. 

The bottom line is, the Founders wanted the People to run their government from the local level, increasing the number of representatives every 10 years as the population increased, and it did increase until the 20^th century.  At the local level is where we have direct democracy, that is why Representative Districts MUST be kept SMALL to avert mob rule, but not so small as to encourage nepotism or reverse mob rule.

From the U.S. Census Bureau: “The primary reason for the establishment of the decennial census of population is set forth in Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution. The Constitution provides for an enumeration of the population to serve as the basis for the apportionment of members of the U.S. House of Representatives among the states, with the provision that each state must have at least one representative. From 1790 to the present, an apportionment has been made on the basis of each census, except following the census of 1920. Calculation of a Congressional apportionment requires three factors--the apportionment population of each state, the number of representatives to be allocated among the states, and a method to use for the calculation.”

The Federal rules changed in 1911 which reflected on the 1920 census because that’s when the House was set at its current fixed number of 435, which negates the original intention of the Founders.  This is one of the basic reasons why America itself, not just California, is in trouble.

The issue of Representation is so important because it is the FOUNDATION of the Constitution and the Republican Form of Government.  The First Article, Section 2, Clause 3….”The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand….”

REPRESENTATION FOR STATES:  This Constitutional Article does not apply to the States; therefore, one would presume that California’s constitution may not be unconstitutional, but it certainly does NOT follow the intent of a Republican Form of Government.  Each State is free to choose how their State is run as long as it follows the U.S. Constitution rules, has a Republican Form of Government and encourages its People to live by the principles of America, In God We Trust.

Today El Dorado County’s California and U. S. representation consists of six people, NONE of whom live in El Dorado!  California is NOT even a Representative Republic.

CA Assembly:  El Dorado is split between Assembly Districts 1 and 5.  Each district represents 465,674 constituents.  District 5 represents 2 counties:  Placer and El Dorado which are neighboring counties, 25% El Dorado, 75% Placer, the representative lives in Placer County.  District 1 represents 11 counties, and the representative lives in Lassen County which is approximately 200 miles from El Dorado County. 

CA Senate:  El Dorado is split between Senate Districts 1 and 4.  Each district represents 931,349 constituents.  District 1 represents only El Dorado Hills community in El Dorado and 10 other counties, the representative lives in Lassen County, again approximately 200 miles from El Dorado Co.  District 4 represents the remainder of El Dorado Co. plus 12 other counties.  The representative lives in Amador, a neighboring county.

Congressional:  El Dorado County is represented in the House of Representatives by 2 Congressmen from 2 different districts, 3 and 5, thereby splitting El Dorado again.  Each Congressional District for the United States equals 710,000 population.  District 3 represents 10 counties which includes a part of El Dorado.  The representative for District 3 lives in Placer County.  District 5 represents 8 counties which includes a part of El Dorado and the representative lives in Sacramento County, which is not even one or a part of his counties.

The “picture” here is that El Dorado County is NOT truly represented by anyone who is personally familiar with the LOCAL needs, problems and desires of the People of El Dorado, as evidenced by the needless misfortunes of hundreds/thousands of the victims of the Caldor and other fires, to People, wildlife and the environment, as just one example.  Had El Dorado County been a State, this Problem would have been addressed before it became a disaster because it wouldn’t have been held hostage to the many California detrimental environmental regulations made by a government passing “one size fits all” legislation in the most geographically diverse State in the Union.  Many of the People of El Dorado live in the forest and know how to take care of and cherish their forest for its beauty, its economic advantages, the wild habitant, and the planet. Many others who live in more urban settings aren’t necessarily homogeneous and have diversity in their particular settings or may also have nationality cultural differences that such large districts dilute taking away their natural rights as well.

What is the “Republican Form of Government” that the United States shall guarantee?

That seems to be a hard question to answer because where we often go for such answers, the courts, there are very few cases.  Most courts consider the Guarantee Clause to be a legislative matter and never justiciable. The Court in U. S. vs Cruikshank, stated that a republican form of government includes “a right on the part of its citizens to meet peaceably for consultation in respect to public affairs and to petition for a redress of grievances” as well as the “equality of the rights of citizens.”  Some would consider that definition could also be applied to a Democracy.  Herein lies some of the confusion between the two.  So, one can only conclude from various evidence that which isn’t a Republican Form of Government, such as big government  with large representative districts which limit the role of the people in their government.   We can also listen to our government officials who should know and who repeatedly refer to their office as being Democratic and their form of government as, “Our Democracy.”  Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch says the American Constitutional Republican Form of Government is the three branches of co-equal government, Legislative, Executive, Judicial which were set up to protect the People from tyranny of Government when each stays within their constitutional boundaries.  The good news is that the courts have been proven by others who have attempted our common cause without satisfaction to have no interest, so we can stay away from the courts.  We go instead to the Court of Public Opinion. 

AMERICA IS A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC:

One of the first decisions the Founders of the American Government had to decide before they could construct a constitution, was:  What kind of government shall we have, a Republic as in Rome or a Democracy as in Athens?  After much deliberation of the Classics, they decided on a Republic.  The word Democracy is found nowhere in the Constitution, so when the words “Our Democracy” are spoken, that confirms that the speaker does not follow the Constitution.   Nor is “Our Democratic Republic” found in the Constitution or any form of the word Democrat.  Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3 states representation is set to the ratio of one representative for 30,000 constituents which one would surmise that means small districts which were meant to put limits on direct Democracy to prevent mob rule.

Our Constitutional Republican Government is instituted with natural rules to protect the weak (limited population) from the majority (large population) who hold the power and conversely when the minority hold too much power, by the three branches of governmental authority.  The Constitution also protects the weak (the collective people) from the powerful (the government).  When people acting in the name of government violate ethics or laws, they break trust with We The People.  When the People pull back power, the natural result is for the powerful to legitimatize their quest for control by passing laws, resulting in more laws and force of law.  California’s government passes from 600 to 1,200 laws per year.  In 2021 the legislature and the governor passed 770 new laws, in 2022 they passed 997 different new laws. 

California operates under Common Law (British Law, Case Law) enforced by laws and regulations in the California constitution, statutes, codes and initiatives.  Per Wiki, “California law is enormous” its constitution is considered the worst and largest in the world.  Since 1850, California’s legislature and governors have enacted 29 Codes in addition to the constitutional laws and initiatives for Californians to follow.  A Californian can’t step out their door without breaking a law.  As of July 13, 2022, here are some of the code titles:  Criminal, Accident and Injury, Business, Family, Employment, Property, Healthcare, Consumer, Tax, Education, Gambling, Civil Rights, plus various city and county laws.

CAUSE:  CALIFORNIA LAWS DO NOT PROTECT THE PEOPLE FROM INVASION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

The governance of California continually calls their government, “Our Democracy”.  The Founders of the U.S. Constitution warned us against Democracies and that word is not found anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. This guarantee is not only for a State because a “State” is inanimate.  It is guaranteeing the People within the State protection against invasion of our state and country borders, (https://factcheck.org/2021/03/

California has also failed to provide the Domestic Tranquility Right of Safety and Security to the People for protection from Foreign Invasion and Domestic Violence, also guaranteed in Article 4, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution and has, in fact, exacerbated the lack thereof through its laws and regulations.

October, 69,022 people were apprehended on the southwest border, up 79% from July) and of the homeless who take advantage of California’s weather, free money, and free drugs (California Has Third-Highest Homeless Population In US: …https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/California).  And the Sanctuary Act.  It is guaranteeing the People security from Violence in their homes, their person, and their property of every kind against lawlessness and criminals. (California Attorney General Rob Bonta released a report last week showing a notable rise in homicides across California, (Aug, 2022). Plus, other actions taken by the tyrannical and unconstitutional government of the State of California.  

Following the Gold Rush, started in El Dorado County, California became not only the third largest state in square miles but also the most populated state of the 50. It is a beautiful, diversified state including Hollywood, the original Disneyland, Silicone Valley, the natural wonders of Lake Tahoe, the Mohave Desert, Death Valley, Redwood Trees, the Pacific Ocean, the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges, the largest producer of such variety of foods from rice and wheat to strawberries and avocadoes.  The geography, climate and people of the state are all very diverse and that is the blessing and the problem.  It is so diverse and so large that while some of its people flourish others are held captive by bad and numerous laws that are a burden to them because one size laws do not fit all and many are detrimental to their geographical regions and resultant cultures. 

California’s constitution, statutes and regulations have grown in directions that now result in one-party rule,  made of both parties, that passes tax hungry, tyranny abetting rules and laws that do not give its residents the Life, Liberty, and Happiness of other states, as exhibited by the numbers of Californians who have departed for parts east to the point that California has lost population and a representative in the House.  California is controlled by the more populated counties such as Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego in the south, San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa in the north and they too have little in common in geography and economics between the two areas.  Of California’s 58 counties, that leaves 50, outnumbered and fighting for their place in the sun, El Dorado among them.  Because of the Size and Diversity of California, even many in the more populated areas are not happy, so it’s not just the population size, it’s the burdensome, prolific domestic LAWS, and CRIME.  As previously stated, tyrants need voluminous laws to maintain their power and control, but the laws in California are not for controlling crime and criminals, they are mostly domestic laws to control the people.

California is a Democracy of the majority with representatives.  California is run by Los Angeles and environs and San Francisco and environs.  California does not meet the Constitutional requirements of Article 4, Section 4, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them; “against invasion;…..against domestic Violence.”  Shall guarantee, are very strong words that have been broken by the against Invasion California “landlords and tenants” in the legislature who have forgotten it is the People as leaseholders who put them in positions to perform the duties to serve and protect their investment.  Instead, the landlords and tenants have robbed the People of their power because the People have been removed from what the Founders of this country constructed to be BY and FOR THEM.  California has failed to provide the Domestic Tranquility Right of Safety and Security to the People for protection from Foreign Invasion and Domestic Violence, also guaranteed in Article 4, Section 4 and has, in fact, exacerbated the lack thereof through its laws and regulations.

California’s violent crime rate increased in 2021.

• California’s violent crime rate increased by 6.0%, from 440 per 100,000 residents in 2020 to 466 in 2021. While robberies fell somewhat (by 1.9%), aggravated assaults jumped by 8.9%, and homicides and rape increased by 7.7% and 7.9%, respectively.

• In 2021, aggravated assaults were 67% of reported violent crimes; 24% were robberies, 8% were rape, and 1% were homicides.

• California’s violent crime rate in 2020 (the latest nationwide statistics available) was higher than the national rate of 387 per 100,000 residents and ranked 16th nationwide.

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA YESTERDAY AND TODAY:

The once beautiful Sunshine Golden State of yesteryear has ridden into the sunset. The State of California has become a state run by the Bureaucrats for the Bureaucrats.  California is a Big, (third largest state in area, first in population) politically unified party, Democracy of both political parties.  California is losing population and businesses to the point that U-Haul pays people to bring their trucks back to California so they can be reloaded and sent out again.  The once golden state has lost its luster because of it has become intolerably oppressive for many of its residents inside and outside of greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. 

BACK TO THE BEGINNING:

To the men in remote California in 1850, Congress didn’t seem to them to be in a hurry to pass the legislation to admit California to the Union so in desperation they (authors unknown) sent the following letter: 

“Yet, whatever be the fate of our prayer, we will not despair, nor will the continued neglect of Congress shake out attachment to our country or love for our countrymen…we will not attempt any supplication – we need not – we would not.  But we have one request which, we beg, will be deliberately and patriotically considered, that is to say, should Congress refuse to admit California as a state into the Union, we pray that their action will cease with the refusal, and that, as heretofore, they will neglect to pass any law for the benefit of California.  Upon the happening of this event, we will not further ask the attention of Congress to our interests, and beg that our wishes will be considered as embodied in a simple request contained in three words,                         “Let us alone.”

The People of El Dorado County declare that they prefer to stand and fight for American principles rather than be forced from their homes and property by such who follow in the footsteps of King George.   Every document written by the Founders of this great country have this one thing in common, and that is because they lived it, as we live it today:  The Cry for Freedom and Liberty from Tyranny for the People.  All People, but especially the unprotected, the common People by whose work and ingenuity make this country prosperous and happy for everyone.

We pray that Congress will hear our cry, if not, we share the sentiment of our compatriot forebears and will do it anyway.

Amendment 10:  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.

THEREFORE: By extension, the Organic Agreement/Contract of 1850 between the United States Government and it’s Congress and the State of California, consummated on September 9, 1850 is also guaranteed to the tenant’s leaseholders (the 58 independent counties of California).  When said Contract, (Constitution) through tyrannical and unlawful actions on the part of the tenant, (State of California, et al/Legislature) is broken, the Contract is null, and void, and the tenant’s leaseholders have the Right to due process of Natural Law.  Therefore, We of El Dorado County (one of the original 27 counties) declare that the State of California has not performed in its duties as a State of the Union of the United States as required by The United States Constitution under Contract and Trust to We The People By and For, but not limited to, the following parts of said Contract,  Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3;  Article 3, Section 2; Article 4, Sections 1; 2; 3,Clause 2; 4; Article 6; The Bill of Rights, 1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10; Amendments, 14, Sections 1; 2; 4; A15; and that The American People as the Owners and Founders of the United States government have the Right to due process under the U. S. Constitution without the consent of the California Legislative (employees of the people) body of the State of California, Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1 who in body would be prejudiced against the People of El Dorado County and as a conflict of interest to the Republic for El Dorado State.

THE PEOPLE OF EL DORADO, AS AMERICAN CITIZENS, STAND IN THEIR RIGHTFUL POSITION OF POWER AND AFFIRM THEIR INTENTION TO FORM THE REPUBLIC FOR EL DORADO STATE ON THE LAND OF THESE UNITED STATES AS BORDERED SINCE FEBRUARY 18, 1850, AS A COUNTY IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.  WE HEREBY PRAY FOR A PEACEFUL ACCEPTANCE AND JUST RESOLUTION TO THE FORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC FOR EL DORADO STATE AND RELEASE FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND APPROVAL BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, WITH FULL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND POWERS AS A SOVEREIGN STATE OF THE UNION OF AMERICAN STATES, per Article IV, Sections 1 and 2. 

El Dorado County has had government in place since 1850, and, with few exceptions, changing from county to state will not be a disruption to the governance for the People, rather it will be a blessing.  Where possible, Common Laws will be replaced with Natural Laws.  Examples of Natural Law are the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, etc.  Natural Law is based on the theory that certain Rights exist independently of any government’s granting of those rights; they come from the God in whom we Trust.  When a group rebels against their government and asserts Natural Rights that the government hasn’t granted them or has removed from them, they are making a claim of Natural Law.  The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution were assertions of Natural Law, the Right to live Free, the Right not to be taxed without Representation, the Right not to be overburdened with too many laws and regulations, the Right to safe and secure homes, neighborhoods and businesses, the Right to freely travel, the Right to freedom of worship, the Right to self-defense, the Right to speak freely without fear, the Right to assemble and to petition the government without reprisal, the Right to be secure in technology, the Right to………..?  

CONDENSED VERSION: 

El Dorado County is a sovereign chartered county on land paid for and thus owned by the United States Congress, not the STATE OF CALIFORNIA in which it is located; and thus, the legislature of the STATE OF CALIFORNIA does not have rightful Constitutional jurisdiction over the Rights of the People in El Dorado County to abdicate from its powers. Those Powers belong exclusively to the U.S. Congress.

California has misused its Powers against the People of El Dorado County as enumerated here, but not limited to; (1) California has failed in its Contract with Congress and El Dorado County to maintain a Republican Form of Government; (2) when California became a Democracy in 1879 it ceased all attempts to increase local representation;  (3)  California has failed to properly protect its borders from foreign and domestic Invasion;  (4) California has failed to lawfully protect its people and land areas from domestic and foreign Violence; (5) we reserve the right to add more causes.  The stated Causes are found in Article 4, Section 4, known as the Guarantee Clause. 

 Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2…or other Property gives the Right exclusively to Congress to extract the People of El Dorado from tyranny.

The People, as American citizens beg for relief from living in a Democracy and Demand to have their guaranteed Natural Devine Rights of Life, Liberty, and Happiness restored by way of the United States Congress accepting El Dorado County as El Dorado State through Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 and Article 4, specifically and the whole of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence which is also a Declaration of Secession applicable to the Rights and Conditions of El Dorado County.

NOTE:  The terms Republic or Republican and Democracy or Democratic have no correlation to the political parties who chose to use those terms as names, nor the colors of each party. 

THE FOLLOWING TWO ARGUMENTS HAVE BEEN CITED AS THE ONLY WAY:  

1.  U.S. CONSTITUTION, Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1:  ……no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State…….without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned…….

REBUTTLE: 

See document, page 4 re:  El Dorado proceeding directly to Congress and bypassing Article 4, Section 3.  

2.  If the Supreme Court Ruling of Reynolds vs Sims was reversed, representation would be restored, and we’d be Happy:

 Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population.

REBUTTLE:

Agreed, it should be reversed, and that would help to even out the lack of representation for El Dorado County by more following the Constitutional way of solving the problem of population discrepancies between the counties as with the states on the federal level; the problem of the majority ruling the minority.  Eleven state senators in Los Angeles County is not fair to the eleven counties it takes in Northern California to equal the same population. This still leaves the Assembly which is too small for such a large state in area and population.

What is not considered though is the California Constitution.  By the constitution of 1849, California is only allowed 80 members in the Assembly and (one-half) 40 in the Senate.  California has 58 counties so some counties will still have to share with other counties as they did before.  Many of the 220 attempts to separate the state as cited above, were attempted BEFORE 1964, so apparently those living in California prior to 1964 were not happy with their representation (not the only thing) from as far back as 1858.  Representation is a major factor in the unhappiness within California but there are many, many more factors for unhappiness having to do with geography culture, too many laws and regulations, taxes, crime, vagrancy, etc., etc. 

Is there any current activity to reverse Reynolds v Sims?  How long will it take to even get SCOTUS just to consider it, let alone pass it?  Is there a ground swell among the American population at large to reverse it?

Moving the 40 around in a population of just under 40 million still won’t restore the guaranteed Republic.  We’ll still be a Democracy and underrepresented.

The time has come for the united States to be reboundaried from sea to shining sea.

Sharon Durst and the Committee to form the Republic for El Dorado State