5/23/11 there are only 4 of more than 55 Public Input statements published at www.wedrawthelines.ca.gov. This speaker has decided to publish comment re the "priorities" of deciding location of each of the lines within the 58 counties of California. This comment was submitted in pdf form to the Commission:
Public Input Speaker #13 at San Marcos 5/13/2011:
"The world is in serious trouble. The fundamental values of this Nation are being undermined. There is continued crumbling of principle, virtue, integrity and religious values-----the foundation stones of civilization and the definitive ingredients of peace and happiness. (Elder Richard Scott)*"
Along with several citizens of Fallbrook, we became 'real-time' witnesses to the accuracy of this statement at a Wednesday night San Diego County Board of Education Meeting. You won't read the story in any newspaper or hear it on the news, but every word of Elder Scott was at work, against the parents and their children of Fallbrook Schools.**
The statement of Elder Scott and the Witness of the words at the County Board of Education bring relevancy to this Public Input meeting regarding the placement of district lines in relation to "prioritized criteria #1: Draw the districts with equal population, based on the U.S. Constitution": Amendment XIV:2 "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting whole number of "persons" in each State,..". And in Addition,The Preamble: "We the People of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union...". These two excerpts from the Constitution combine to reflect one of the Constitutional Principles: "The individual component of the polity is the PERSON, which is defined as any being consisting of or having the essential cognitive attributes of a member of the species HOMO SAPIENS, including BOTH the capacity to compete with others for the means to exercise the NATURAL RIGHTS of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, AND the capacity to regulate its competitive actions to avoid depriving others of those rights and to sacrifice itself for the greater good of the polity as a whole or for their common posterity."***
#2 Priority of our 'Citizens Redistricting Committee is compliance "with the Federal Voting Rights Act to ensure minority voters have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.". Perhaps, you don't hear the difficulty inherent in the use and definition of these words, but there is difficulty because 1) Our Constitution [or Declaration] doesn't recognize "minority" anymore than it does rich, poor, color, alien-status or any other characteristic of "HOMO SAPIENS"; and 2) "..But in order to apply this to the particular exigencies of each individual, it is still necessary to have recourse to human reason; whose office it is to discover, as was before observed, what the law of nature directs in every circumstance of life; by considering, what method will tend most effectually to our own substantial happiness. And if our reason were always, as in our first ancestor before his transgression, clear and perfect, unruffled by passions, unclouded by prejudice, unimpaired by disease or intemperance, the task would be pleasant and easy; we should need no other guide but this. But every man now finds the contrary in his own experience; that his reason is corrupt, and his understanding full of ignorance and error.(Excerpt from Sir William Blackstone's 'Commentaries of the Laws of England" 1765)".
These Principles are a major reason 'persons' came and come here from all over the world: The recognition of the sovereignty, under God, of the "person". Although, it is the long known and much respected 'Naturalized Citizen' who has often worked the hardest to preserve and protect the Freedoms of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - defined by person--never government.
When each 'We the People - Commission member' starts to draw and place that redistricting line anywhere in 58 counties of this State, REMEMBER 'The Priority': One Man: One Vote is the Supreme Law of the Land - "superior to all other public acts, whether by officials or private citizens. .."***. The Constitution is #1 because the Supreme Law of the Land is #1. That you are protecting and equalizing 1 man:1 vote as consent from "We the People" to the government...not the other way around! Thank you, Catherine West, American and Private Native California
*Richard G. Scott, Quorum of the Twelve; Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints; BYU Commencement 5/10/2011.
** See: www.pyrrhicchange.blogspot.com for the 'rest of the story': "The San Diego Board of E..d..u..just got..."
** See: www.pyrrhicchange.blogspot.com for the 'rest of the story': "The San Diego Board of E..d..u..just got..."
***"Declaration of Constitutional Principles" Jon Roland; www.constitution.org - Section Rights, Powers, and Duties.
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