Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 15, 2012

Article One, Section 1 of the Washington State Constitution reiterates the foundational tenet of America?s constitutional system: ?All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed?.?

According to the Washington Supreme Court, however, all political power originates with the political class ? which is why the court invalidated an initiative approved by 71 percent of the voters in the City of Mukilteo to ban the use of red light cameras.

The lawsuit challenging the initiative was filed by ?Mukilteo Citizens for Simple Government,? a one-person front group for the city government and ATS ? the corporate con artists who profit from the red light camera scam.

Wrote the court: ?We hold that because the legislature expressly granted authority to the governing body of the city of Mukilteo to enact ordinances on the use of automated traffic safety cameras, the subject matter of Proposition 1 is not within the initiative power.?

The power exercised by the legislature, of course, is derived from the consent of the governed. The court?s totalitarian reasoning, however, substitutes the word ?submission? for ?consent.?

Institutional arrogance of that kind has led to revolutionary bloodshed before.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.