Dear Petitioner:
The signing of this petition goes beyond your civic obligation as an American and appeals to your inner patriotism—as a citizen who has the freedom, power, and privilege to protest the U.S. government and campaign for social equality. It is also a call to stand behind an aggrieved people who have been disenfranchised as a race—“people, person, and citizen”—by government policies and practices derived from “the supreme law of the land.” That law, the United States Constitution, created race, allowed for state discrimination that deprived persons of life, liberty, and property without due process of law, and established racial segregation that divided Indigenous communities, Black people, and women from attaining economic equality and social justice.
The Afromerican people are the only racial group under the United States Constitution who were made “three fifths of other persons.” Moreover, the Constitution created the Reconstruction Amendments, which abolished indentured servitude and led to mass incarceration. It assured equal protection under the law, which led to the era of Jim Crow laws—“Separate but Equal”—and enumerated the right of newly freed slaves to vote, which, ironically, was later denied and abridged by the United States government. In addition, the Constitution prohibited the government—all three branches—from “making laws, signing laws, and enforcing laws” that would declare “domestic institutions” (slavery in America) unconstitutional under Article V and Article I, Sec. 9, Cls. 1 and 4.
All American lives should matter. However, according to the United States Constitution—which decreased the representation of Black people in Congress, increased the “title of nobility” through land and property for slave owners, established free trade and free labor markets of indentured Black people, and managed for over two hundred years to develop our nation without a congressional apology or making Black Americans a whole people under the law—justice remains unequal.
Main U.S. Congressional Reasons for Citizens to Sign the Petition:
- A congressional letter of deference to the American people for “domestic institutions” (slavery within the jurisdiction of southern states) has extended itself throughout the North, East, and West as “human trafficking” in America, due to the deferred maintenance of law, policy, and enforcement of congressional duty.
- A congressional apology for the slavery of Black people
- A congressional apology to the American people for human trafficking
- Declaration of “domestic institutions” (slavery in America) as unconstitutional
- Constitutional prohibitions against the government from enacting legislation to make, sign, and enforce laws that deny equal protection of law or deprive Black people of life, liberty, or property
- Establishing three/fifths personhood and three/fifths representation
Due to deference to constitutional law, the institution of slavery and indentured servitude was allowed to exist at the discretion of state governments (to make laws, sign laws, and enforce laws). Moreover, the Constitution did not prohibit the evolution of human sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and drug trafficking across international boundaries, federal borders, and into state jurisdictions. Individual states, under the Constitution, had the power of discretion “to be or not to be” a slave state. Now, both federal and state governments lack the discretionary authority for deregulation and enforcement, because what was once a state issue has become a national problem.