"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evilminded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." — Justice Louis D. Brandeis dissenting, Olmstead v. United States

"Fiat iustitia ruat cœlum". Let justice be done though the heavens fall! — Lord Mansfield, from ancient maxim.

An unconstitutional act is not a law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; it affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal contemplation as inoperative as though it had never been passed. — Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425 (1886).

"Tyranny and injustice thrive when people make economic decisions rather than stand on principle." — Jon Roland, 1983

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Landmark Court Decisions — Local archive, with commentaries on the rulings and the opinions.

U.S. and State Reform Gateway — Collection of links to legal reform organizations and activities for the U.S. and each state.

The Constitution in Exile — Collection of documents and links to writings that focus on this movement.

State Bar Reform — Problems with state bars and what to do about them.

Law Libraries — Scholarly articles, federal and supreme court decisions, and legal briefs.

•  First Amendment Law Library
•  Second Amendment Law Library
•  Third Amendment Law Library
•  Fourth Amendment Law Library
•  Fifth Amendment Law Library
•  Sixth Amendment Law Library
•  Seventh Amendment Law Library
•  Eighth Amendment Law Library
•  Ninth Amendment Law Library
•  Tenth Amendment Law Library
•  Fourteenth Amendment Law Library
•  Bill of Attainder & Ex Post Facto Law Library
•  Title of Nobility & Impeachment Law Library
•  Money & Taxes Law Library
•  Separation of Powers & Supremacy Law Library

Legal action

1. Family Guardian Fellowship
   1.  Legal Research Sources
   2.  State Legal Research Sources
   3.  Law and Government Page-see sections 7, 9, 14
   4.  Sovereignty and Freedom Page-see sections 6, 9
2. Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)
   1.  Litigation Tools
   2.  Liberty University, Section 7: Legal Activism in Fighting the Fraud
   3.  Jury Nullification Playlist-Youtube
   4.  Legal Education Playlist-Youtube
   5.  Court Procedure Playlist-Youtube
   6.  Government/Court Corruption Playlist-Youtube
3.  Bouvier Law Dictionary. Also available as two self-extracting executables: Part 1 and Part 2.
4.  Pro Se Handbook — Local copy of guide available from here.
5.   Points of Rebellion, by William O. Douglas — Supreme Court justice reveals the breadth and depth of official corruption and abuse of constitutional rights and limits on powers.
6.    Woe Unto You, Lawyers, Fred Rodell, Professor of Law, Yale University, 1939 — Criticizes the legal profession.
7.  Wikipedia Articles of Interest. Check these for fidelity to their subjects.
8.  National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) — Have legislative reform agenda.
9.  Larry Becraft, constitutional attorney — This site contains some valuable articles on legal reform. There is also an alternate site. Here are some local copies:
   1.   Federal Jurisdiction
   2.  Treaties: A Source for Federal Municipal Power
   3.  Compulsory Production of Documents
   4.  List of Public Corruption Cases
10.  Paul Velte, constitutional attorney — Also has an organization, Peaceable Texans for Firearms Rights. Has served on Committee of Safety of the Southern Region, Texas Constitutional Militia.
11.  Citizens' Justice Programs — This archive of articles by constitutional attorney David C. Grossack includes some useful guidance for legal reformers.
12.  Tenth Amendment Center — Effort in many states to challenge unconstitutional federal overreaching of its authority.
13.  WordPerfect Non-Standard Point Size to Standard Point Size Conversion Chart — Needed to comply with Rule 33.1(b) in filings to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Private Prosecution & Quo Warranto

1.   Let's Revive Private Criminal Prosecutions — by Jon Roland. Calls for use of private prosecutors in cases of public corruption and abuse where public prosecutors unwilling to prosecute.
2.   Brief on Private Prosecutions — Provides cites for recent cases involving use of private prosecutors.
3.   Addressing the Constitutionality of the Independent Counsel Statute: Executive Control over Criminal Law Enforcement: Some Lessons from History, Harold J. "Hal" Krent, 38 Am. U.L. Rev. 275, Winter, 1989, — Interesting review of private criminal prosecutions in history.
4.   Notes on quo warranto proceedings — Provides cites for recent cases involving use of quo warranto.

Money

1.  Money Matters — Constitutional issues involving money.
2.  Tax Matters — Constitutional issues involving money.
3.  Montana Freemen Archive — This is the documentation developed by the Freemen of Justus Township, Montana, who began an armed confrontation with state and federal personnel in March, 1996. Is there merit in their position, or are they out of line? You decide. These are Microsoft Word .doc files, courtesy of Patrick Lear.

The commerce clause

1.  Dulocracy in America, by J. D. Sweeney — New edition of the original three volume treatise on the political and judicial history of the United States, heralding its decline in the 1930's from a nation under law to a welfare farm ruled by public servants operating under the guise of perpetual "economic emergency." Focus is on the Commerce Clause and how it has been used as the basis for usurpations of power by the central government of the U.S.
2. United States v. Lopez, 115 S. Ct. 1624, 131 L. Ed. 2d 626 (1995). Docket 93-1260 — Decided April 26, 1995
   •  Syllabus
   •  Opinion — Rehnquist, Kennedy, O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas
   •  Concurring — Kennedy, O'Connor
   •  Concurring — Thomas

Regulation

One of the key issues in the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is the definition of the term "regulation". According to Black's Law Dictionary (Sixth Edition), a regulation is "a rule or order prescribed for management or government; a regulating principle; a precept." It is usually understood today as a "rule of order prescribed by superior or competent authority relating to action of those under its control. Regulation is rule or order having force of law...." and a function of a government. But in its original meaning, current at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted, it included self-regulation, not just regulation by a government. The controversy, which arose soon after adoption, is whether the power to regulate includes, as a "necessary and proper" power (Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 18), the power to impose criminal penalties, or only civil penalties. The understanding of Jefferson and Madison, and many others of the Founders, was that it did not. See the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and the essay "Federal Criminal Powers Limited". However, later generations have departed from that understanding, and, in combination with the "commerce clause" (Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 3), extended federal criminal jurisdiction to anything having a "substantial effect on interstate commerce", especially after the appointment of compliant judges to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1937. There is also an issue arising from the practice of the U.S. Congress of adopting general legislation and delegating to executive agencies the power to promulgate "regulations" to define the details of such legislation. But, those "details" often amount to substantive law never contemplated by the U.S. Congress, and constitute an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to an executive department, something forbidden by the U.S. Constitution and a violation of the principle of the separation of powers it enbodies. The reversal of these usurpations is a focus of efforts to return government to compliance with the original intent of the Founders.

Taxation

1.   Uncertainties of the Income Tax — Brief by Larry Becraft. You might be able to use this in your tax case. Also see the following letters that you might use as a model.
   1.   Letter 1
   2.   Letter 2

Bills of Attainder

According to Black's Law Dictionary (Sixth Edition), bills of attainder are "legislative acts, no matter what their form, that apply either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial. ... An act is a 'bill of attainder' [under common law, see Blackstone's Commentaries] when the punishment is death and a 'bill of pains and penalties' when the punishment is less severe; both kinds of punishment fall within the scope of the constitutional prohibition. U.S. Constitution Art. I, Sec. 9, Cl. 3 (as to Congress); Art. I, Sec. 10 (as to state legislatures)." Unfortunately, this prohibition is being systematically violated in many ways. The following links are to discussions ofsuch violations and what is being done to remedy the situation.

•     Public Safety or Bills of Attainder? — Law Review Article: Jun. 14, 2000

Accountability

•  J.A.I.L. 4 Judges — One approach to holding judges accountable for their conduct..
  •  J.A.I.L. South Dakota — Initiative currently before the voters.