Hello once again everyone. I'm back again, and this time I waited a bit to make
certain I was ready to write again and that nothing else would crop up as it did last month. I've also got an update too, although its a bit different. While I have writing to do on Europe, I started writing an update on American politics and I had a piece that's important but doesn't connect well. Thus, I wrote a fun (to write) little piece to talk about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to get back into the swing of things. Beware though, it does have some spoilers although nothing very new.
Thank you all again for reading and for all who bore with me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FOR REVIEW AND REVISION DUE TO ANTI TEUTONIC AND ANTI AMERICAN MESSAGE
IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF PROPAGANDA
OCTOBER 1 2035
Document to Review:
"A Brief Summary of the First Amendment”
Written By James Corwin.
Published on ETTS:usa.hud.albanygazette.iis/104282, March 16 2029
PAGE 1
For reference, the full text of the First Amendment is as follows:
Section I:
No Persons shall be subject to any form of Slavery after the year 1827 in any Territory under the jurisdiction of the United States
Section II:
No State or Territory under the jurisdiction of the United States shall have more than one Resident per ten Citizens with the Exception of Those Territories which are set aside for Residents
Section III:
Citizens of the United States are freely allowed to travel between the States except as punishment for a Crime of which said Citizen is duly convicted. Residents are permitted to travel to States with Approval from the Legislature of the respective States.
Section IV:
Any Resident traveling into, or residing within a State with more than one Resident per ten Citizens shall be subject to Punishment in accordance with the laws of said State
Section V:
Congress shall have the authority to enforce laws to provide that the above Sections are enforced.
Amongst all sixty-four amendments to the Constitution of the United States, over forty have been repealed at some point or another. Only two amendments have ever been repealed more than once; the Twelfth Amendment (1832, 1922) and the Fifteenth Amendment (1848, 1932). The First Amendment has been repealed four times, in 1822, 1888, 1922 and 1977, giving it the dubious honor of being the most repealed amendment. It should be somewhat of a surprise then that so little is known about the First Amendment among modern United Statesers. There is no doubt that this lack of knowledge, along with the deliberate misinformation campaign by Jackson Duke, is a large part of the reason the recent proposal by the Action Party to bring back the First Amendment has gained so much traction.
When the First Amendment was adopted in 1791, it was a reaction to the Great Slave Rebellion which saw the death and displacement of tens of thousands of those who lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Former slave owners were terrified by the prospect of another such rebellion and there was much confusion in these states as to what should be done with those slaves whose owners were either absent or dead. As such a convention of these states proposed that gradual abolition and an eventual removal of the majority of slaves to some territory in the west as the solution to the situation. This proposal would eventually become the basic idea of the First Amendment, and while the ending of slavery was a moral and just action, it was the other elements that led to the First Amendment's repeated repealing.
The first section of the First Amendment has been kept in some manner following the First Amendment's repeal every time it was repealed. Slavery is, without a doubt the most repugnant practice of Revolutionary Era USA, and most following generations in both the US and abroad have agreed with this sentiment even before abolition finally occurred in 1822. It is without a doubt that slavery was simply incompatible with the principles of Revolutionary Era USA; it was only a matter of time before an uprising like the Great Slave Rebellion would force abolition in the country where the pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness was so valued. After all, the moral conflict between slavery and the principles of Revolutionary Era USA actually prompted the First Amendment to be abolished in the first place by the Sixth Amendment which ended slavery six years earlier than the original 1827 deadline.
PAGE 2
Sections II through V represented the portion of the First Amendment that has so often caused immense suffering for the USA's non-white population. While not explicitly laid down, the terms Citizen and Resident were initially meant to serve as stand in terms for the USA's white and black populations respectively. And as such, the First Amendment was often used to justify the forced removal of much of the former slave population into what would become the African Autonomy (modern day Autonomous Republic of New Africa in Dixie) in 1804. The First Amendment would also be used during the Dictatorship of Andrew Jackson to undertake similar actions against Natives in the southwest of the United States, which ultimately led to the Sixth Amendment not containing similar sections when it replaced the First Amendment.
The First Amendment was brought back in 1867 by William Walker's Dictatorship in order to deal with the remaining Polkists and Libertarians rather than any racial policies. The Polkists and Libertarians having been stripped of their citizenship and thus being “Residents" were moved to the newly acquired United States territory of the Grain Coast to secure United Stateser control over the region. Despite Walker's status as one of America's most racist Dictators, the Walker government actually had the same amendment which brought back the First Amendment, the Eighteenth Amendment, grant citizenship to most of America's nonwhite population; only some of the Natives would remain "Residents" of the United States rather than citizens. When Walkers government fell, Congress passed the Twenty-Second Amendment which once more suspended the First Amendment.
With the successful coup-d'état by the Young Americans at the tail end of the First Global War, the USA's brief (and limited) attempt at enfranchisement of non-whites came to an end, and the new government of Dictator Theodore Roosevelt would utilize the First Amendment to justify the removal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese from Oregon, California and the rest of the United States’ possessions back to the newly acquired Oriental Territory. Similar action was not undertaken the black populations of the United States as under Rooseveltian National Corporatism people of African descent are at the same level as Mediterranean Europeans while East Asians are the second lowest group
Under the Nikists the First Amendment, particularly Section IV, was used to justify the horrors of
No need to go on and print more of this anti-American drivel. This Document is to be
censored in its entirety and not placed into archive
Actions authorized by Inspector-in-Training Alexander L. Corwin, 10/1/2035
