The Historical Foundation

"All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and established for their benefit; and, therefore, they have, at all times, an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter or abolish their form of government, in such manner as they may deem expedient."

Courts, Bar associations, and administrative agencies exercise power that was never delegated by the People. Citizens are routinely denied the ability to alter or challenge the machinery of government — particularly the judiciary — through any practical mechanism. The "right to alter" has been reduced to casting votes for pre-approved Bar-member candidates.

"The Supreme Court… shall always have power to issue writs of injunction, mandamus, quo warranto, habeas corpus, and such other remedial and original writs as may be necessary to give it a general superintendence and control of all other Courts."

The Writ of Quo Warranto — explicitly preserved in the original Constitution — is now practically inaccessible to the People. Courts routinely dismiss quo warranto filings on procedural or standing grounds, denying citizens the very remedy the founders built into the foundational law. The "superintendence" belongs to the People; the courts have inverted it.

"All Courts shall be open, and every person, for an injury done him, in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law; and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay."

Access to justice today requires a licensed Bar member, filing fees, court costs, and years of delay. Probate courts operate on closed administrative dockets where heirs are never fully informed of their rights. The "remedy without sale, denial, or delay" has been replaced by an adversarial commercial system where justice is explicitly for sale — by the hour.

"The General Assembly shall provide… an officer to take probate of wills, to grant letters testamentary of administration and guardianship; to attend to the settlement of the estates of decedents and of minors… subject to the direction and supervision of the Courts of Chancery."

Modern probate courts operate as commercial clearing houses — not as constitutionally mandated officers attending to the settlement of estates. The supervision by equity (Chancery) has been eliminated. Judges act as special administrators extracting value from unclaimed intestate estates, with no requirement to disclose this framework to heirs. See: The Hidden Commercial Architecture ↗.

"Non user for the space of one year, or any act of a corporation… inconsistent with or in violation of the provisions of this Constitution or of its charters, shall cause its forfeiture, and the General Assembly shall, by general law provide a summary process for the sequestration of its effects and assets… and no forfeited charter shall be restored."

The Florida Bar (EIN: 59-0996758) operates as a corporation that regularly acts inconsistent with the constitutional chain of authority. Under the original organic law, such conduct requires forfeiture of its charter. No such process has been initiated. The very courts that would adjudicate the forfeiture are staffed by Bar members — the guild polices itself.

"The accused hath a right to be heard by himself or counsel, or both… and shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself."

Courts routinely deny pro se litigants meaningful access. Judges — who are officers of the Bar guild — apply procedural technicalities that effectively silence parties who exercise their right to appear without Bar-licensed counsel. "Heard by himself" has become practically unworkable in a system that requires Bar-certified intermediaries to navigate its own rules.

The Federal Farmer warned that judges independent of the people — appointed for life, removable only by impeachment — would become a class of officers answerable to no constituency.

The Federal Farmer warned that federal authority over all cases would "unavoidably produce a consolidation of the states" — not by force, but by legal and commercial absorption.

The Federal Farmer warned that remote federal courts would make justice inaccessible — that citizens would be dragged from their local communities to answer before a court unknown to them.