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Representative, Bill Archer (Texas)
Chairman, House Ways & Means Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, District of Columbia
(202) 225-4381
CHAPTER 4
AN OPEN LETTER TO REP. BILL ARCHER
by V.K. Durham 1/27/97
I watched your speech in Dallas today with much interest. You most assuredly make more sense than
others expounding their theories on curing the ills of America. You were absolutely right on the welfare
reform, and cutting off illegal aliens from our current welfare programs.
Chairman Archer, seemingly, those of you in our Congress and Senate of the United States civil government
have forgotten what this nation intended by the treaties with the original states and additional territorial
states civil governments which joined the union of republics. Per treaty, the Enabling Acts allowed the
civil governments of the territorial states, upon joining the union, to stand with equal footing/rights as the
original states. Whereupon each territorial civil government, of each state civil government would remain
sovereign (messages and papers of the presidents).
Federalization, as known today, was the prime fear of the Founding Fathers and noted in their conversations,
which were very vocal in the discussions of the pros and cons of a central government. Their fears
were of this nation becoming what it has become today, a nation not unlike that from which this nation
originally wretched herself in 1774-78.
Thousands of people have called me, stating: “Under today’s present government in the United States, it
is no different than the days when the Declaration of Independence was declared. All that is needed is to
rewrite the document and replace the word king with president, and this is the current status of the United
States.” This bothers me greatly, and should offer much concern to our present administration.
The Constitution is a contract. It is a contract between the civil government of the United States, and the
civil governments of the sovereign states, by treaty. The Founding Fathers gave seven articles of contract/
treaty. Beyond those seven articles, Congress, the Senate and even the President are forbidden to go.
Based upon the Lilburn Decision in 1637, the Bill of Rights became the first amendments to the Constitution,
ten in number.
The XIIth Article of the Bill of Rights rewrote the voting laws set forth by the constitutioners. In essence,
it rewrote the constitutional rights of suffrage, denying the people their right to vote, whereby the popular
vote of the people’s choice was usurped. Voting today is usurped by the computers. The current voting
system is a repugnancy to the Constitution. The treaty has been broken with the civil governments of the
states, which breaches the VIth Article. Any educated representative knows this to be true.
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