Amendment XIV to the United States Constitution
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. . .” See EXHIBIT 19 to review the abuse of power and discretion since 1951 by the Washington State legislators, the USDOL / USDOE employees, and the US Secretary of Defense — the Prohibitive Hanford specific RCW 51.04.130 and RCW 51.28.025 relative legal consequences.
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“It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson---------------
"In 1803, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall stated, ‘The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.’ Thus, the Constitution is either The Supreme Law of the Land, superceding all other laws, or the Constitution is a worthless piece of paper. If the latter, government can do as it pleases. If the former tyrants have seized sovereignty illegally, it is the duty of the people to put them in their proper place in history."---------------
US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies (or Brandeis) statement in part in Olmstead v. United States: "Decency, Security and Liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the rules and conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the laws scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omni present teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If government 