updated September 23, 2022



This article explains legislative issues concerning creating political change, including summarizing the process of how a bill becomes a law; explaining the major political systems being used in the world today; explaining issues of United States politicians being loyal to political backers; explaining how the governmental system of the United States has migrated away from its original Constitutional principals; and explaining the public’s general lack of knowledge about the activities of Congress.






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This artice is a part of Creating Political Change Through Communication and Legislation.

updated September 23, 2022


There are many potential blockages to the effectiveness of political activists, but such blockages can be circumvented and effectiveness of activists can be improved.

This article summarizes issues of political activism, including explaining how activist groups are infiltrated by Establishment organizations using provocateur groups and other methods, the effects of activist communication styles, and other issues.






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 by Edward Ulrich, updated September 19, 2022

This article is a collection of video clips from before the 2020 election showing Kamala Harris communicating her stances about various issues, where she expresses her support for the most extreme leftist positions of the Democrats, including open borders.

Also see this article detailing issues with Joe Biden, and see this article summarizing immigration issues in the United States.

[Note: September 19, 2022— The text of this article has been updated and offline videos have been replaced.]





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This article is a part of A Summary of Immigration Issues in the United States.

[Note: September 23, 2022— I have updated the link to purchase the booklet.]

The 38 page booklet “Restoring the Rights of the States and the People” explains how the political system of the United States has migrated away from following the structure that has been specified in the U.S. Constitution, and it explains how elements of the current political system could be moved toward being restored to their original Constitutional principals.

The governmental system of United States was originally designed by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution to be a union of independent states, with most of the power belonging to the individual states, and with the Federal Government being intentionally very limited in its powers.

The political configuration of the United States currently consists of much of its power resting in a centralized Federal Government, which is a configuration that the Framers were strongly opposed to and went to great lengths to limit through the laws they created in the Constitution.

The booklet explains major points in the history of the U.S. government’s migration from its originally designed configuration in 1787 to how it is configured today, explaining the rationalized excuses and illegal methods that have been used by elements of the political system of the United States in order to implement legislation that is contrary to the laws and intentions of the Framers of the Constitution.

Methods are then described that can be used by citizens and politicians to move the government toward restoring key elements of its originally planned configuration as laid out by the Founders.

This booklet has been written by John McManus, and is distributed by The John Birch Society.

[Editor's Note, updated September 19, 2022— This booklet is very informative about the differences between how the U.S. Constitution has been specified and how American society is structured today.  Major socialist agendas have been implemented in the United States during the past two centuries which exist contrary to the specifications of the Constitution.  Many of such agendas are pointed to as being helpful for society, and it is true that some have been helpful, however those agendas have been implemented by making use of dishonest interpretations of the Constitution at the expense of such goals being reached by better methods.  Often it is shown that such implementations contain deceptive and dangerous ulterior motives that are designed to ultimately destroy the sovereignty of the United States in order to empower a tyrannical one world government.]

Also view the documentary video Overview of America.


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Introduction

This section introduces the subject of the Federal Government of the United States being involved in the lives of citizens in unconstitutional ways which is causing problems such as creating an out of control national debt.


The Tenth Amendment

This section describes the Bill of Rights, which are the first ten amendments to the Constitution that are meant to be prohibitions on government power.  The Tenth Amendment states that if the Constitution does not specifically authorize the government to engage in some activity, then the government is not allowed to do it; however Congress has a long history of violating the Tenth Amendment by implementing types of agendas that the Framers of the Constitution specifically intended to guard against, such as centralizing control of the Federal Government over the states through the creation of government programs, and engaging in overseas conflicts since World War II without formal declarations of war.


The Legacy of John Marshall

The section describes the activities of the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, who authored many dangerous innovations and interpretations of the Constitution during the first part of the 19th century which have since been used to circumvent many of the original intentions of the Framers who designed it.  Marshall’s activities shifted power from the states to the federal level in ways that the Framers of the Constitution specifically sought to block.


The Constitution Circumvented

This section explains that the laws of the Constitution are illegally being circumvented with false excuses such as claims that “the government of the United States can do whatever it wants as long as it is not prohibited by the Constitution,” with an example given of the unconstitutional existence of the Federal Reserve banking system, along with other examples.


More Marshall Mischief

This section describes additional methods that are used to circumvent the laws of the Constitution as first implemented by Chief Justice John Marshall, who reinterpreted the Constitution based on any excuse possible such as claiming significance of the absence of the word “expressly” in a particular passage; and he also stated that the original intent of the Framers is not a factor that needs to be taken into consideration in interpreting what they wrote, despite Thomas Jefferson specifically stating that the original intent must be honored.


Erroneous Reliance on the “Elastic Clause”

This section describes the use of what is improperly thought of as an “elastic clause” based on the incorrect interpretation of the phrase “foregoing powers” in one of the passages, which Congress uses as an excuse to be interpreted as being an “open-ended” clause that allows them to implement whatever they would like.


The “General Welfare” Clause

This section describes a misinterpretation of the phrase “provide for the general welfare” from a passage which is used as justification for the Federal Government to centralize power over the states and implement many socialist programs, despite the Constitution being designed to stop the Federal Government from having such authority.


Judicial Usurpation

This section describes the true task of the Justices of the Supreme Court being to uphold the Constitution rather than interpret it in order to forward political agendas; also described is the fact that the Supreme Court should not even be ruling on many cases that it does because those cases are matters of individual states and not the business of the Federal Government.


The Constitution’s First Sentence

This section talks about the Constitution not actually giving the Executive or Judicial branches law making powers despite the currently common practice of them doing so, such as when Presidents make use of “executive orders” to create federal agencies and bureaus despite such orders only actually applying to federal employees under their direct jurisdiction.


Treaty Law and the Constitution

This section describes how international treaties are not allowed to replace the Constitution’s power and limitations, despite many doing so.  Quotes by Founders are shown explaining their concern that treaties must not be able to alter Constitutional powers.


No Constitutional Convention

This section explains that a “Constitutional Convention” (“con-con”) is a legal method for creating drastic changes to the Constitution which could include potentially completely nullifying it, which has great potential to be abused by corrupt political elites.


What Can Be Done

This section describes many steps that can be taken in order to help restore the United States government to a system which more closely follows the original intent of the Framers of the Constitution.  Suggestions made include the establishment of non-governmental associations to help create change; citizens voting for proper candidates who will support the Constitution; the importance of congressmen introducing new legislation which undoes laws and programs that are unconstitutional; impeaching corrupt politicians; restoring the original method of senators being chosen by state legislatures; the importance of members of the House not voting to fund unconstitutional mandates; unconstitutional rulings made by the Supreme Court being overturned by Congress; as well as many other suggestions.



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 by Edward Ulrich, updated September 18, 2022

A parabolic reflector Sterling engine type solar collector.  Note that the dish is simply a mirror.  Image from Wikipedia.

“Sterling engine” type solar power generators are the most efficient and inexpensive method for harnessing solar energy, and they have many benefits over centralized large scale solar installations that often cause serious harm to birds.  A powerful personal solar power Sterling engine can easily supply all of the energy that is needed by a home.  This article explains the mechanism of such devices and explains ideal potential implementations of them.

The most efficient and potentially cheapest method for generating solar energy is to use personal “Sterling engine” type solar power generators, which are simple mirrored dishes that focus light onto a central mechanical “Sterling engine” which is heated by concentrated sunlight to move pistons that generate electricity.

Sterling dishes can generate enough energy to supply an entire household using a dish that is small enough to fit onto the roof of the house, and the relatively small size of such dishes allows for netting to be utilized which would protect birds or any other animals from being harmed.








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 by Edward Ulrich, updated September 16, 2022

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Plant, near San Bernardino County, California.  (Image from Wikipedia.)


The wasteful and heavily government subsidized Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Plant which opened in California’s Mojave desert in 2014 has brutally incinerated as many as 28,000 birds per year at the rate of ten per hour, but engineers are claiming that their efforts have supposedly reduced the amount of birds killed to two per hour.  Nonetheless, even if the claim of the kills being reduced is true, it is still too many and the ineffective plant should be shut down.



The following points are from a Breitbart article: “California’s Subsidized Solar Power Incinerates 2 Birds per Hour”

— The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Plant is the world’s largest, with 350,000 movable mirrors covering 5 square miles, all reflecting sunlight onto three 40-story towers to boil water for creating electricity.

— The facility is a joint venture between NRG Energy, Google, and BrightSource Energy.  It costed $2.2 billion to build, and it was subsidized with an Obama administration $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee.

— Under current regulations, Northern California’s PG&E is forced to pay a premium price of $57 per megawatt hour for solar power versus $35 per megawatt hour for power generated using natural gas.  Additionally, corrupt “sustainable energy” legislation results in the plant actually being paid $200 per megawatt hour during the summer and $135 per megawatt hour during the rest of the year.

— The plant also receives huge California subsidies that include a 30 percent tax credit and a guarantee that the utilities will buy all of the plant’s electrical generation despite the actual demand on the plant.

— The plant is estimated to have killed over 28,000 wild birds in its first year, at an average of about 10 per hour.  Workers refer to the birds that fly through the concentrated heat as “streamers” because they catch fire mid-air and plummet to the ground trailing smoke.

— The Audubon Society of California gathered several conservation organizations to call for the plant to close due to it violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, citing that the bird losses were much higher than at the Alamont Winds turbines in Northern California which killed 67 golden eagles, 80 American kestrels, 57 burrowing owls, and 172 red-tailed hawks over a recent 10-year period.  [Note: More recently the global warming alarmist Audubon Society had published an article in 2017 saying, “solar power is good for birds” because it “saves them from global warming.”  At the end of the article it did mention the Ivanpah plant as being “not so good for birds,” claiming that it kills seven birds per kilowatt hour as opposed to “climate change impacts of burning fossil fuels [killing] only one bird per gigawatt hour.”]

— A spokesman David Knox said the plant is trying to be proactive in testing different tactics to minimize bird deaths such as by redirecting the rays away from migratory bird paths, replacing flood lights with LED lights that attract fewer insects that birds feed on, attaching anti-perching spikes on the frames of the three towers, broadcasting loud and high pitched shrieking noises, and spraying nonlethal avian respiratory irritants that are used by farmers to protect crops.  Knox said the results have been “modest,” bringing the bird kill down to about two an hour.


— In addition to the insurmountable bird killing problem, the plant’s engineers refer to it as a “dirty” resource due to it requiring a 100% fossil fuel power back-up due to the intermittent nature of it being solar power.





A burned MacGillivray’s Warbler that was found at the Ivanpah solar plant during a visit by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in October 2013.  (Image from AP/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)


A burned Yellow-rumped Warbler.  (Image from AP/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)


An injured Northern rough-winged swallow found at the Ivanpah solar plant.  (Image from BrightSource Energy)


An insect leaves a smoke trail after being burned at the Ivanpah solar plant.  (Image from USGS/PLOS ONE)


Also see many disturbing images of a Prairie Falcon that was burned at a similar “Crescent Dunes” solar installation in Nevada.  The images show that its feathers were actually melted and the bird was still alive but could not fly.




Another Breitbart article talks about the situation as well.  Following is an excerpt: