CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY
HAVE NOT ENFORCED THE
FEDERAL ANTITRUST LAWS
SO AMERICANS MUST
ASK THEIR STATES FOR
PROTECTION FROM
ILLEGAL MONOPOLIES
SO AMERICANS MUST
ASK THEIR STATES FOR
PROTECTION FROM
ILLEGAL MONOPOLIES
Click http://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-calls-on-governors-to-lead-nation/ to read about Vice-President Joseph Biden's suggestion the states lead the nation: to solve the problems that the Congress and Presidency have allowed to burden ordinary Americans. This part also advocates for the enactment of a simple criminal law of 118 words, St. 1919, c. 298, to break the grip by Big Gas, Big Oil, and Big Banks on the the prices for necessaries of life such as gasoline, natural gas, money, and oil for heat in each of the 50 states in the American Republic.
Members of the Congress and Presidency have allowed illegal monopolists such as Big Gas, Big Oil, and Big Banks to abuse and bully the inhabitants of the American Republic for their personal financial gain for decades.
At least one state - the State of New York was ahead of the Vice-President. Click http://www.eany.org/our-work/press-release/albany-crude-oil-moratorium-sets-mark-statewide-action to read Peter Iwanowicz's statement about Daniel McCoy courageous landmark Order against Global Partners for a moratorium on additional expansion at the Port of Abany. Also, click http://www.eany.org/our-work/press-release/oped-counties-should-follow-mccoy%E2%80%99s-oil-trains-lead to read the editorial of the Troy Record about the secretive ways of a member of Big Oil that prompted Daniel McCoy's landmark order. Then click http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2013/fracking-ban-stands-in-new-york-town-victory-for-local-communities to read about the decision by the Court of Appeals in New York that ruled that voters towns in the State of New York may ban frackers from extraction of natural gas within each town's borders. The citation by name of parties for this decision is Wallach, Trustee v. Town of Dryden and Cooperstown Holstein Corporation v. Town of Middlefield. Click http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/05/1342057/-Small-Victories-Denton-Texas-NoFracking-Passes?detail=email# to read that the voters in oil-rich City of Denton, Texas, have also banned frackers' use of their land.
Click http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48920114/ns/us_news/#.UEf8KCI9svs to read [with video] about a federal judge's recent approval of Arizona's "show-me-your-papers" new law which is as an example of a state's police power to pass a law to protect its inhabitants' health and safety as St. 1919, c. 298 did for almost 59 years.
Consistent with Amendments IX and X to the federal constitution, the fifty states have a duty to regulate the prices for necessaries of life such as gasoline. The fifty states successfully cooperated with one another to regulate commercial business in the American Republic by the Uniform Commercial Code [UCC]. Use of a search engine like google will verify that each of the fifty states has adopted the UCC with minor differences in text necessary for some states. For example, type in the search bar "uniform commercial code for maine".
Let the ordinary American across America help decide how they want to run their 51 governments, not a handful of politicians in Congress and the Presidency who easily fall under the influence of another handful of managers of Big Gas, Big Oil, oil speculators, and Big Banks.
Members of the Congress and Presidency have allowed illegal monopolists such as Big Gas, Big Oil, and Big Banks to abuse and bully the inhabitants of the American Republic for their personal financial gain for decades.
At least one state - the State of New York was ahead of the Vice-President. Click http://www.eany.org/our-work/press-release/albany-crude-oil-moratorium-sets-mark-statewide-action to read Peter Iwanowicz's statement about Daniel McCoy courageous landmark Order against Global Partners for a moratorium on additional expansion at the Port of Abany. Also, click http://www.eany.org/our-work/press-release/oped-counties-should-follow-mccoy%E2%80%99s-oil-trains-lead to read the editorial of the Troy Record about the secretive ways of a member of Big Oil that prompted Daniel McCoy's landmark order. Then click http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2013/fracking-ban-stands-in-new-york-town-victory-for-local-communities to read about the decision by the Court of Appeals in New York that ruled that voters towns in the State of New York may ban frackers from extraction of natural gas within each town's borders. The citation by name of parties for this decision is Wallach, Trustee v. Town of Dryden and Cooperstown Holstein Corporation v. Town of Middlefield. Click http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/05/1342057/-Small-Victories-Denton-Texas-NoFracking-Passes?detail=email# to read that the voters in oil-rich City of Denton, Texas, have also banned frackers' use of their land.
Click http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48920114/ns/us_news/#.UEf8KCI9svs to read [with video] about a federal judge's recent approval of Arizona's "show-me-your-papers" new law which is as an example of a state's police power to pass a law to protect its inhabitants' health and safety as St. 1919, c. 298 did for almost 59 years.
Consistent with Amendments IX and X to the federal constitution, the fifty states have a duty to regulate the prices for necessaries of life such as gasoline. The fifty states successfully cooperated with one another to regulate commercial business in the American Republic by the Uniform Commercial Code [UCC]. Use of a search engine like google will verify that each of the fifty states has adopted the UCC with minor differences in text necessary for some states. For example, type in the search bar "uniform commercial code for maine".
Let the ordinary American across America help decide how they want to run their 51 governments, not a handful of politicians in Congress and the Presidency who easily fall under the influence of another handful of managers of Big Gas, Big Oil, oil speculators, and Big Banks.
This blog proposes a national plan similat to the UCC for each of the 50 states enact a criminal law such as in IMAGE 1 below that will regulate the prices for "any necessary of life" in the same way that it did in Massachusetts from 1919 until 1978 and will restore the sovereignty of ordinary Americans. This criminal law with penalties of jail time and fines is a superior alternative to federal antitrust laws. The mere possibility that a Attorney General of a state may prosecute an illegal monopoly is enough. Click http://www.ehow.com/print/list_6922269_effects-criminal-justice-system-america.html to read about deterrence of criminal laws.
The federal antitrust laws do not have this watch-dog protection. because, though illegal, Big Gas, Big Oil, oil speculators, and Big Banks simply go to one place, Washington, DC, with their suitcases full of cash to bribe and corrupt members of the Congress and Presidency.
This criminal law does not cover luxuries. Courts of each state will have the duty to decide what products and services are necessaries of life and are luxuries. Gasoline, money, and food are necessaries of life but jewelry usually is not a necessary of life.
See IMAGE 1 below to read the original text of this simple criminal law of only 118 words. Shakespere could not have said it any better. The statutory citation for this law is St. 1919, c. 298. Senator John Walsh was a major advocate of this law which Governor Calvin Coolidge signed into law as an emergency measure on September 5, 1919, to protect the middle class from inflation and profiteers after World War I until 1978 when Governor Michael S. Dukakis unwisely undid the wisdom of Calvin Coolidge and John Walsh.
This blog will refer to this criminal law as the Coolidge-Walsh Law [CW Law] which is well within any state's police power for the protection of its inhabitants in the regulation of prices for any necessary of life.
This national plan will shrink the size of Congress and the Presidency to fit their activities within the powers in Article I, Section 8 and Article II of the federal Constitution and allow the 50 states to make laws within the full scope of Amendments IX and X of the federal constitution. As James Madison said in Paper No. 46, "... Many considerations ... seem to place it beyond doubt that the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the governments of their respective States ... ." [Emphasis added.] Jay, John; Madison, James; Hamilton, Alexander (2011-03-30). The Federalist Papers (Kindle Locations 4032-4034). Kindle Edition.
The federal antitrust laws do not have this watch-dog protection. because, though illegal, Big Gas, Big Oil, oil speculators, and Big Banks simply go to one place, Washington, DC, with their suitcases full of cash to bribe and corrupt members of the Congress and Presidency.
This criminal law does not cover luxuries. Courts of each state will have the duty to decide what products and services are necessaries of life and are luxuries. Gasoline, money, and food are necessaries of life but jewelry usually is not a necessary of life.
See IMAGE 1 below to read the original text of this simple criminal law of only 118 words. Shakespere could not have said it any better. The statutory citation for this law is St. 1919, c. 298. Senator John Walsh was a major advocate of this law which Governor Calvin Coolidge signed into law as an emergency measure on September 5, 1919, to protect the middle class from inflation and profiteers after World War I until 1978 when Governor Michael S. Dukakis unwisely undid the wisdom of Calvin Coolidge and John Walsh.
This blog will refer to this criminal law as the Coolidge-Walsh Law [CW Law] which is well within any state's police power for the protection of its inhabitants in the regulation of prices for any necessary of life.
This national plan will shrink the size of Congress and the Presidency to fit their activities within the powers in Article I, Section 8 and Article II of the federal Constitution and allow the 50 states to make laws within the full scope of Amendments IX and X of the federal constitution. As James Madison said in Paper No. 46, "... Many considerations ... seem to place it beyond doubt that the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the governments of their respective States ... ." [Emphasis added.] Jay, John; Madison, James; Hamilton, Alexander (2011-03-30). The Federalist Papers (Kindle Locations 4032-4034). Kindle Edition.
Here are five advantages from a CW Law to protect America from Big Gas, Big Oil, oil speculators, and Big Banks and, at the same time, shrink the size of the Congress and Presidency to bring their activities within the express powers in Article I, Section 8 and Article II of the federal constitution and let the legislative powers and the economic power of the people and the states again grow within the full scope of Amendments IX and X.
1. It stops concentration of our country's wealth in the hands of a few to let ordinary Americans keep enough money to live normal lives and keep their democracy healthy for everyone. Click http://www.bigthink.com/ideas/18777 to read about Louis D. Brandeis' description of the corporate democracy.
2. It is a vigilant Watch-Dog, 24/7, to stop inflation and artificial prices for "necessaries of life" well above their natural price by competition for nearly 59 years - from September 5, 1919 to August 10, 1978, even when Americans were asleep in bed.
3. It is a legal obstacle to make it difficult, if not impossible, for illegal monopolists to influence the many judges and prosecutors of many courts of the 50 states with nominal dangers of corporate democracy.
4. It will use state courts run by judges and prosecutors that taxpayers have already paid for and are able to handle any new criminal business without duplication of costs to taxpayers.
5. It is a simple statute of only 118 words in sharp contrast to the new, but very awkward, Massachusetts Antitrust Law of nearly 3,500 words that replaced it in 1978.
1. It stops concentration of our country's wealth in the hands of a few to let ordinary Americans keep enough money to live normal lives and keep their democracy healthy for everyone. Click http://www.bigthink.com/ideas/18777 to read about Louis D. Brandeis' description of the corporate democracy.
2. It is a vigilant Watch-Dog, 24/7, to stop inflation and artificial prices for "necessaries of life" well above their natural price by competition for nearly 59 years - from September 5, 1919 to August 10, 1978, even when Americans were asleep in bed.
3. It is a legal obstacle to make it difficult, if not impossible, for illegal monopolists to influence the many judges and prosecutors of many courts of the 50 states with nominal dangers of corporate democracy.
4. It will use state courts run by judges and prosecutors that taxpayers have already paid for and are able to handle any new criminal business without duplication of costs to taxpayers.
5. It is a simple statute of only 118 words in sharp contrast to the new, but very awkward, Massachusetts Antitrust Law of nearly 3,500 words that replaced it in 1978.
IMAGE 1
If you are able to print copies of St. 1919, c. 298, please make three copies. Then send a copy to your governor, your speaker of the house of representative, and your president of the senate in your state legislature and ask them to make this type of criminal law a part of your state's statute books for relief from the pain at the pump and indirectly at the cash register at the food market.
Otherwise, send your request [with your name and address] to putnam15@hotmail.com for a prompt reply with 3 copies.
