The Peculiar Conundrum is a political allegory, substituting difficult legal concepts with rules of sports. In the fictional country of Aminica (the United Franchises of Aminica), General Managers (Senators) and Head Coaches (Representatives) ignore many of their constraints listed in the Compact (Constitution) and act with impunity. The Sports Commissioner (President) and Referees (Supreme Court Justices) likewise do as they please. The country founded upon sports freedom, where soccer is named as the Supreme Sport of the Land, gets transformed by open corruption into football played to the death, where back-room deals enrich sports politicians and We The People are oppressed. But one man, Brandon Crawford, with the help of his brothers, work tirelessly to understand the peculiar conundrum, the odd phenomenon, of members of Congress and federal officials seemingly acting contrary to founding principles with impunity, so we may finally end the methodical push toward absolute tyranny....

From the Back Cover: Envision for a moment, the following nonsensical sportscast: “Only seventeen seconds remain on the clock as we near the end of the sixth inning. The soccer ball is caught by Right End Tom King, only 9 yards from home plate. “To keep from being called for ‘Traveling,’ King dribbles the ball but still manages to get past the Goalie without being tackled. Moments later he slam-dunks the ball through the basket to score a touchdown and the Cattails win the game.” It wouldn’t take much of a sports enthusiast to realize something was strangely amiss with this “game,” as the rules and terms from soccer, baseball, basketball and football were all intermixed into one bewildering event. And, with millions of die-hard sports fans across America who intricately know every rule and regulation of their favored sport, there is about zero chance any huckster would succeed in passing this off as a legitimate game. But, replace the game with politics, law and government, and tragically the most sacred of our country’s founding legal and moral principles may be substituted by their polar opposites with nothing but the weak...

Dollars and nonCents examines American monetary history, showing how paper currencies were deceptively made a legal tender (alongside gold and silver coin) in 1862 and cleverly upheld by the courts who were not exactly forthright with their rulings (necessitating a reading between the lines to understand them). Dollars and nonCents recommends a grain of gold as a market unit for accounting for the amount of gold, to begin transitioning away from the debt-based dollar which is destabilizing the United States....

Proponents of a legal tender paper currency occasionally point to the Constitution’s wording of the power “To coin Money” and claim that the word “Money” must include paper currency, since ‘money’ appears to be a word of greater meaning than that used in the same clause as it relates to “foreign Coin.” This is but a slight variation of the same argument which compares this power “To coin Money” in the Constitution with the wording used in the Ninth of the earlier Articles of Confederation (the articles under which the United States were joined together in common union before the Constitution was ratified), which stated, in part: “The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of respective states…” These proponents of paper money correctly point out that no foreign paper currency can be made current as American money since only “foreign Coin” is specified and also that “regulating the alloy and value of coin struck” obviously restricts that older authority to ‘coin’ which could be ‘struck’ with an ‘a...

Table of Contents Chapter 1. American Lawful Tender Money 1 Section 1. April 2, 1792 Coinage Act 1 Section 2. Standard Unit of Value 9 Section 3. Legal Tender Value — Weight & Purity 10 Section 4. Regulating the Value of Foreign Coinage 14 Section 5. Money - vs. - Coin 17 Section 6. June 28, 1834 Coinage Act 21 Chapter 2. Political Feuding 31 Section 1. The Banks of the United States 31 Section 2. The Independent Treasury 33 Chapter 3. Promise Money and the Courts 41 Section 1. Bronson v. Rodes, 74 U.S. 229 (1869) 41 Section 2. Hepburn v. Griswold, 75 U.S. 603 (1870) 42 Section 3. Legal Tender 43 Section 4. The Legal Tender Cases, 79 U.S. 457 (1871) 45 Section 5. Criminal Jurisdiction 48 Section 6. First Bank of the United States 54 Section 7. in all Cases whatsoever 57 Section 8. Electors 61 Section 9. Legislative Representation in States 62 Section 10. within the United States 65 Section 11. Presidential Elections 66 Section 12. The Legal Tender Cases (concurring opinion) 69 Section 13. Juilliard v. Greenman, 110 U.S. 421 (1884) 71 Section 14. Necessary and Proper-vs.-All Means Not...

While Patriots repeatedly complain that progressives ignore the U.S. Constitution with impunity, Patriot Quest shows in reality that there is only strict construction of the Constitution, and those who act contrary to the spirit of the Constitution are, surprisingly, the ones who necessarily hold its letter up to its strictest terms. To back up that claim, Patriot Quest examines the precedent-setting 1871 Supreme Court case which first upheld paper currencies as legal tender (despite earlier court rulings which upheld a legal tender of only gold and silver coin). Understanding how the federal government acts in this particular case actually allows Patriots to understand how government acts "in all Cases whatsoever" with arbitrary power which has defied all previous attempts to limit it. With the knowledge of how omnipotent government has been successful to date, a blueprint may thankfully be formed to finally Restore Our American Republic once and for all; to reclaim limited government operating again under strict construction of the whole Constitution, the likes of which America has not seen for 150 years....

The Golden Rule of American Government, which Patriots disregard to their peril, is that no one entrusted with the exercise of federal authority is empowered to change the extent of that authority (only ratified amendments change the Constitution [and only the States are empowered, by Article V of the U.S. Constitution, to ratify amendments]). Two crucial implications necessarily follow: 1. Since no federal action has therefore actually ever changed the Constitution, the Constitution of original intent remains fully intact, except as modified by the 27 Amendments which the States have ratified to date. 2. Since the federal government cannot change its power, the nearly unlimited discretion federal authorities have long-exercised must therefore necessarily come from somewhere within their delegated powers. ...

Chapter 1. The Golden Rule 1 Chapter 2. Legal Tender Paper Currencies 15 The Legal Tender Cases; Passage Number One 19 The Legal Tender Cases; Passage Number Two 25 Chapter 3. In all Cases whatsoever 41 Chapter 4. The Bank of the United States 57 Chapter 5. Arbitrary Government 61 ...

As these proud and once-prosperous United States of America continue in tragic decline, Mark Evanston leaps back into action in the third and final installment of the Bald Justice series, Bare Liberty. Working with his colleagues at the Patriot Corps, Mark continues on with his Patriot Quest to eliminate government tyranny, once and for all. Mark routs out evil where it lurks most prevalently, within our monetary system which was cleverly separated from the gold and silver coin which is otherwise required by our U.S. Constitution. By understanding precisely how our government is able to ignore the Constitution with impunity, Mark soon devises his proposed cure, his Once and For All Amendment. Bare Liberty provides the solid rationale for proposing and ratifying a new constitutional amendment in story form, to close the constitutional loophole which has always allowed government to act in all cases whatsoever, to act everywhere except where they are expressly prohibited from acting. By Building Awareness of Republican Knowledge, the Patriot Corps is able to help Restore Our American Republic. By individually learning to B.A.R.K...

“I have to admit, my first killing shocked me,” Terry admitted. “Not because it was so hard, but actually because it was so easy and even more so because it was thrilling. Total dominion over someone else is very intoxicating, so much better than alcohol, drugs, or even sex. Actually, it was even better killing someone who had willingly just given me great sex only hours earlier, who now welcomed me back, only for me to then kill her.” “Your first killing?” Mark was able to get out, before figuring out that Terry must have also killed Stan Bogelman and Mike Holladay. “I can see you now realize that I also killed Stan and Mike, as well as your sex double Art Black down in California, after your investigators began closing in on him,” Terry offered. “And now I see you finally understand that I’m telling you all this so I can get a bigger thrill out of killing you next.” Mark had no time to try and process that information, but simply react, more aggressively than he had ever acted in his lifetime. Mark sprinted the few yards toward Terry with all the speed and determination he could possible muster, but Terry was easily able t...

Base Tyranny is the second book in a fiction series (following Bald Justice), looking at our monetary history of gold and silver coin, transitioning into legal tender paper currencies....

Gordon Radcliff’s plan was ironically rooted in America’s extensive seacoast defense system. On March 17, 1861, two weeks after the necessary two-thirds of Congress had sent the proposed 13th Amendment to the States for ratification and a week after the Confederate States of America approved emitting bills of credit directly, Gordon Radcliff attended a family reunion and dinner. Originally Gordon had planned to skip the reunion, so he could continue to concentrate on his work, to come up with some plan to move things forward. It was only after the ever-persistent nagging by his mother that he dutifully decided at the last minute to attend the function. If his mother only knew the ultimate cost of that nagging, she would have never enticed her son to attend. If she knew then the devastation her son would help instigate and his ‘reward’ for bringing it to his mentor’s attention, she would have taken far more drastic action than simply avoid nagging her son. After dinner, Gordon patiently listened, along with several other family members, to his patriotic cousin ramble on continuously about his second year of engineering s...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s gold confiscation of April 5, 1933 was tough on private citizens, but even tougher on coins. Confiscated gold coins, sacrificed in pits of fire, were melted and cast into gold bars to serve at the feet of their mortal enemy, paper currency. Then, it was silver’s turn at the axe in 1965, as President Lyndon B. Johnson’s substituted silver with copper and nickel as would a common counterfeiter. For another 50 years, gold and silver meekly accepted whatever came their way, a natural outgrowth of their age-old Supreme Mandate of “Non-Interference” with the human world. But, thousands of years of principled monetary action may not be so easily extinguished, and once revived in spirit, spreads like wildfire. With two historical gold coins helping lead the way, growing numbers of young commemorative and bullion coins began throwing caution to the wind, discarding the plastic shells they received as parting gifts from the mint, to go “Freewheeling.” Daring to face the world without their protective gear, the young coins quickly realize they are individuals, all with their own hopes, dreams, wishes a...

Volume II, Appendix contains texts of America's monetary laws. Appendix Topic A. Organic Documents B. Mint Statistics through 1902 C. Preliminary Coinage Reports D. Primary Coinage Acts E. Secondary Coinage Acts F. Foreign Coinage Acts G. Commemorative Coinage Acts from 1891-1954 H. Modern Commemorative Coinage Acts I. Acts regarding Mints and Assay Offices J. Acts Regarding Notes K. Criminal Monetary Jurisdiction Acts L. The Great Deception & the Duping of America M. Miscellaneous Acts N. Monetary Portions of Title 31 of the United States Code ...

Contents Chronological Listing of Acts herein 2 Appendix A: Organic Documents 19 Constitution 19 Amendments 28 (Declaration of Independence) 37 (Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union) 42 Appendix B: Mint Statistics 1793-1902 50 Silver Coinage Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 51 Silver Coinage Mint Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 (odd denominations) 54 Gold Coinage Statistics 1793-1902 (in dollars) 57 Appendix C: Reports 60 Superintendent Robert Morris’ 1782 Report 61 PROPOSITIONS RESPECTING THE COINAGE OF GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER. 66 Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston’s April 8, 1786 Report 69 April 8, 1786 72 Thomas Jefferson’s 1791 Report 74 Alexander Hamilton’s January 1791 Report 79 Appendix D: Primary Coinage Acts 99 1792, April 2 100 1834, June 28 104 1837, January 18 105 1849, March 3 111 1853, February 21 112 1873, February 12 114 1878, February 28 126 1879, June 9 128 Appendix E: Secondary Coinage Acts 129 1792, May 8 130 1793, January 14 131 1796, May 27 132 1800, April 24 133 1851, March 3 134 1853, March 3 135 1864, April 22 136 1865, March 3 137 1866, May 16 139 1871, March 3 1...

This fiction novel introduces the manner of deception used to bypass the U.S. Constitution's express limitations on the scope of government. Since this is a rather large topic, this novel limits its scope to deal with money, showing how legal tender paper currencies were cleverly instituted in 1862 and gold was 'confiscated' in 1933. For a thorough, non-fiction look at the same topic, please see Monetary Laws, Volumes I & II; by the same author....

Mark’s greatest insights came from his great-grandfather’s monetary papers which relayed one conversation with Floyd Johnson. Floyd had brought up that the federal government seemed to be growing immensely powerful, not by amendment as was the express means provided by Article V of the Constitution for changing federal power, but merely somehow. Mark Adamson noted that the Tenth Amendment very clearly established the ‘rule’ of American government, that with ratification of the Constitution, government power became divided into federal and State jurisdictions. Mark Adamson likened this 10th Amendment principle to a pie, with the small sliver of federal authority delegated to the federal government as outlined by the Constitution, with the States retaining the remainder of the government power pie as reserved powers. Floyd stated he agreed only in principle. He stated that in practice the federal government now all but consumed the mostly insignificant State government authorities, with States being now forced to tow the federal line. Floyd therefore argued for a pie in which the small sliver went to the State governments, wher...

Re-discover America's limited government under the U.S. Constitution, learning about how the almighty wizard intimidated the cowardly and the meek who fail to properly use their God-given brain, until the small dog who trusted his nose pulled back the curtain to expose the fraud. Regain limited government and honest money by learning that deception....

Table of Contents Forward 1 Table of Contents 2 Preface 4 Volume I: NARRATIVE DISCUSSION 6 Chapter 1: Constitutional Overview 6 Chapter 2: Money Raised to Fund the Revolutionary War 28 Chapter 3: Weights and Measures 52 Chapter 4: Constitutional Monetary Clauses 57 Chapter 5: Preliminary Reports 93 Chapter 6: Primary Coinage Acts 102 Section A: 1792, April 2 Act 102 Section B: 1834, June 28 Act (Chapter 95) 121 Section C: 1837, January 18 Act 143 Section D: 1849, March 3 Act 154 Section E: 1853, February 21 Act 158 Section F: 1873, February 12 Act 165 Section G: 1878, February 28 Act 170 Section H: 1879, June 9 Act 173 Section I: 1900, March 14 Act 185 Chapter 7: Secondary Coinage Acts, Commemorative Coinage Acts 187 Chapter 8: Acts Respecting Foreign Coin 189 Section A: 1793, February 9 Act 189 Section B: 1797, July 22 Proclamation 191 Section C: 1798, February 1 and 1802, April 30 Acts 192 Section D: 1806, April 10 Act 192 Section E: 1816, April 29 Act 193 Section F: 1819, March 3 Act 198 Section G: 1821, March 3 and 1823, March 3 Acts 198 Section H: 1823, March 3 Act, Chapter 53 199 Section I: ...