The Naked Polygamist

It may seem presumptuous for someone with no formal training in the law to write a legal opinion of a practice declared illegal by every one of the fifty states and held illegal by the United States Supreme Court.  Recognizing that the blueprint of American government was written to the understanding of every common citizen, however, I stand forward as one citizen in defense of the plural family, suggesting that our courts, legislatures, government officials, and citizens have never been presented with, nor have they considered the arguments I will present here.

      In the United States of America government is not the law.  In this country government is subject to law, as is every citizen.  Here, when government assumes a power not specifically granted by consent of the people government violates the law, and any law created under illegally usurped power is not, in truth, law, but a violation of law.  

      It is assumed by many Americans that the U.S. Supreme Court is the court of last resort in our land.  This is not true.  Our court of last resort is We the People.   

This court was established by the Declaration of Independence, which declared the people’s right, their duty, to alter or abolish government when it becomes destructive of fundamental human rights.  

It is not reasonable to assume that any government will police itself.  The Constitution has no power to limit and control government unless it is upheld and enforced by the People.  No government is policed unless its own citizens police it.

      This opinion is presented, therefore, to We the People, with the understanding that every judge, every prosecutor, every legislator, and every government executive in the land is a member of this tribunal.

I challenge any to publicly refute the reason and logic contained herein.

      It is my contention that anti-bigamy statutes in the United States of America are violations of the law of this land, that they constitute violations of fundamental human rights, that polygamy has never in truth been illegal, and that government, by prohibiting plural marriage, illegally persecutes and oppresses the family institution.

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Article 16.

(1)                 Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.  They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2)                 Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3)                 The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.