2 | Page In addition,

the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or colloquially “Obamacare”)

is being implemented by 21 unknown Federal Agencies , and the rules to follow (likely impacting the individual, the employer, doctor-patient relationship, medication, etc.) will likely be a part of the 3,500+ final rules this year (and the unknown thousands of rules in 2015 and years thereafter). Now, with so many rules - and rules yet fashioned - nothing is more fitting than Alexis de Tocqueville

’s

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After havin g thus successi vely taken eac h member of the community in its powe rful grasp and fashioned him at will the supreme power extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penet rate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly rest rained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguis hes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.

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Under this administrati ve state, where is our representat ion? In addition, is not the imposition of these regulations with s

uch an economic impact guised taxation? The maxim held in the 1 760’s

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is no less true

today that “

1725, of Ipswich, MA).”

The Solution:

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very man, merely natural, was an independent sovereign, subject to no law, but the law written on his heart, and revealed to him by his Maker, in the constitution of his nature, and the inspir ation of his understanding and his cons cience. His right to his life, his liberty, no created being could rightfully contest. Nor was his right to his property less incontestible...He asserted that these rights were inherent and inalienable. That they never could be surrendered or alienated.

”

However, tyranny abounds, attempting to separate, surrender, and alienate our inherent and inalienable right s; in the face of so much tyranny what can we do? There is only one legitima te answer left, and the Framers deliberately gave it to us in Article V -

an Amending Convention

.

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The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution,

or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or

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From William Tudor

ames Otis’ arguments against Writs of Assistance