THE PEOPLE'S REPEAL AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION
By Doug Wallace
Well over 30 years ago I saved an article written in the late nineteenth century by a psychic who made some predictions concerning the future of America which pertained to a hundred years hence. As I recall, many of the predictions had come to pass.
Unfortunately, I lost that article along with many other documents I had in a filing cabinet which I had stored in a public storage facility located in Carson City, Nevada. That was in 1980, just a few short years after I had succeeded in pressuring the Mormon Church to abandon its 140 year plus racist discrimination of Black male members of the church which abandonment occurred on June 9th, 1978. In 1981 I learned that the cabinet had been stolen along with other items including a law library.
The file cabinet contained many items of interest to the church and as I learned later, was sold to the church by a person who had compromised the lock to the storage space. It so happened that he and I were engaged in adversarial litigation at the time and he escaped criminal theft charges by alleging the break-in was a civil matter. Later I was summoned as a witness in Federal District Court in Portland where he and his wife were convicted and sentenced for Tax evasion.
Regardless of the long term damage otherwise caused by the loss of the files in that cabinet, I have reflected on the item of the predictions for America. Among those predictions was a single Item which I wish I could quote verbatim but since I can't the best I can do is to paraphrase it.
[The right of the people to repeal any act of the Congress within 48 hours after such passage shall be established by constitutional amendment and the authority of the President to execute any such act shall also be held in abeyance pending the vote of the people.]
Now at that time (1978) I could not see The "How" of the American people to possibly make their will known within 48 hours. I thought of the telephone system with a key pad code and a fingerprint scanner to authorize the right of individuals to vote in any such case. It would be cumbersome and fraught with criminal interference.
Today with the internet, the "How" is answered and certainly the time has come in the course of political events for the people to override the expressions of the Congress and for that matter the President.
My interest in that particular prediction was coupled to an epiphany I had as a child on the Lincoln Grade school grounds in Ogden, Utah in which I was given a perception of a future event in which leaders of the Mormon Church would attempt to take control of the United States government by deceit and deception.
I gained an understanding that later in life I should make some attempt to avert that situation with, of course, the help of many other individuals who would likewise be prompted to commit to a course of preserving true democracy in America.
Over the years, I have not been a political kind of person. The closest I came to that was in participating in the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's and 70's between 1970 and 1978 by publicly acting to defeat racism within Mormonism. However, I did make a feeble attempt at running for the office of Mayor of Sparks, Nevada in 1979 but that was only because I wanted a platform to express concern over the use of the Helms (borrow) Pit as a public marina without taking the precautions to shore up the 120 feet deep sheer sidewalls as a hedge against earthquake.
Because of my straightforwardness, I had been asked many times why I didn't run for public office. My answer was that no one who is known to speak the truth can last in politics. It may well be that I should have pursued politics but deep inside I know that honesty isn't a real-world qualification for competing for public office.
Nearing age 82 years with by-pass surgery and a recent pacemaker, any hopes of my accomplishing what I could envision in younger days is erased.
But I raise the issue of the above referenced prediction as a cure for many of the ills that confront American society and would urge others to actively seek the passage of such an Amendment that will put teeth into the constitutional vision of the Founding Fathers which they could not foresee but is possible in our day. It would convert a Republic into true Democracy.
Anyone out there who can recall the set of predictions I reference in this article would be a welcome contact for me.
