Military came first

Timeline of the United States founding

• April 19, 1775 - 'The shot heard around the world' at the Battle of Lexington and Concord

• June 14, 1775 - Established the United States Army

• June 30, 1775 - The first 69 Articles of War were published

• October 13, 1775 - Established the United States Navy

• November 10, 1775 - Established the United States Marine Corps

• December 3, 1775 - Established the Grand Union Flag

• July 4, 1776 - The Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence

• November 15, 1777 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation

• March 1, 1781 - The several states ratify the Articles of Confederation

• June 21, 1788 - The Constitution of the United States is ratified

Notice that the military and military law were established before the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States. This is critical to understanding the War For The World. The military came first in our nation.

Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence asserts the Right of the People to alter or abolish the government being created by the founders.

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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that 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, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

The founders were saying that the British government did not represent the People, and therefore they were throwing off the shackles of that government and forming a new government and if the new government they were forming should become tyrannical (That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends), the People still have the right to form a new government (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . . it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government).

The founders decided that a 2% tax on tea was abusive. Surely our current government far exceeds those abuses.

If so, what can be done? The next section explains what has already been done under existing US Laws.