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House
Bill 870
By:
Representative Franklin of the
43rd
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Title 28 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the
General Assembly, so as to create the Joint Committee on Repeals; to provide a
short title; to provide legislative findings; to provide for membership; to
provide for duties; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Title
28 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the General Assembly,
is amended by adding a new chapter to read as follows:
"CHAPTER
12
28-12-1.
This
chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Life, Liberty, and Property
Restoration Act.'
28-12-2.
The
General Assembly finds that:
(1)
Our forefathers, in the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of
America, stated: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men...';
(2)
In that charter they unanimously declared that:
(A)
There is an almighty, everlasting, creator God, the God of the Bible, the only
God there is, Who is active over the affairs of men and to Whom someday we shall
all give an account;
(B)
Our rights come from God and as such they are not privileges granted by the
civil government; and
(C)
The sole purpose of the civil government is to secure, protect, and defend the
God-given rights to life, liberty, and property;
(3)
God has instituted four, not one, spheres of government;
(4)
The first and primary sphere of government is individual self-government where
everyone is to take personal responsibility for himself and his actions. The
second sphere of government is family government where children are trained by
their parents or guardians to be productive and responsible citizens. The third
sphere of government is church government where there is a more public form of
discipline for the unrepentant. The church is given the keys of the kingdom to
help in the discipline of her members and to punish sins. The fourth, and
least, sphere of government is the civil government which has been given the
sword to punish those who infringe upon the life, liberty, or property of
others;
(5)
Unfortunately, over time people have looked to the civil government to right all
wrongs and to even punish sins;
(6)
When the proper governmental jurisdiction is perceived to not be doing its job,
all too often the civil government steps in and usurps a jurisdiction not
granted to it by God in order to meet that perceived need;
(7)
An example of such usurpation can be found in the thirteenth chapter of the book
of First Samuel. There, King Saul was all dressed up for battle against the
Philistines but Samuel the prophet had not shown up to offer the required
sacrifice. While waiting for Samuel, the troops grew restless and some had even
begun to desert and return to their homes. Saul, perceiving the unmet need,
offered the sacrifice himself, which was something that God had not authorized
the civil government to do. As a result of this unauthorized, though needed,
action, Saul lost his kingdom;
(8)
Looking to the civil government to right a wrong in a way that God has not
permitted is in reality a form of idolatry because the civil government is
looked to for salvation in that particular area;
(9)
Whenever the civil government assumes to itself an area that God has assigned to
one of the other governmental jurisdictions, it is blasphemously asserting
itself to be God;
(10)
The only legitimate functions of the civil government are the ones that pertain
to the punishment of those who infringe on the life, liberty, or property of
others. All other functions undertaken by the civil government are usurpation
and a blasphemous attempt to be God;
(11)
Efforts to shift those illegitimate areas that have been blasphemously
undertaken by the civil government to private sector entities by means of a
contract or a so-called 'public-private partnership' is a violation of Article
III, Section VI, Paragraph V(c) of the Constitution of Georgia, which states
that 'The General Assembly shall not have the power to authorize any contract or
agreement which may have the effect of or which is intended to have the effect
of defeating or lessening competition, or encouraging a monopoly, which are
hereby declared to be unlawful and void';
(12)
True privatization means that the civil government is no longer involved in a
particular area and that if a service which was formerly provided by the civil
government is truly needed, then the private sector, through one of the other
God ordained governmental jurisdictions, will step in to fill the void created
by the departure of the civil government from that function, all without tax
dollars; and
(13)
In order to 'perpetuate the principles of free government, insure justice to
all, preserve peace, promote the interest and happiness of the citizen and of
the family, and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty,' as the people
set forth in the Preamble of the Constitution of Georgia, all laws, departments,
agencies, authorities, boards, or commissions that do not pertain to the
legitimate jurisdiction of the civil government to secure, protect, and defend
the God-given rights to life, liberty, and property must be repealed and
abolished.
28-12-3.
(a)
There is created in the General Assembly the Joint Committee on Repeals which
shall consist of six members, three of whom shall be members of the House of
Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and
three of whom shall be members of the Senate appointed by the President of the
Senate. None of the members shall have graduated from a law school accredited
by the American Bar Association or have ever been admitted to the practice of
law in any state.
(b)
A co-chairman shall be selected by the Speaker of the House of Representatives
who shall preside over the committee in odd-numbered years. A co-chairman shall
be selected by the President of the Senate who shall preside over the committee
in even-numbered years.
28-12-4.
(a)
The committee shall meet subject to the call of the cochairman presiding that
year for the purpose of reviewing the entire Official Code of Georgia Annotated
and all departments, agencies, authorities, boards, and commissions to determine
whether they comply with the foundational principles of civil government
articulated in the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of
America and with the provisions of Code Section 28-12-2.
(b)
The committee shall recommend legislation to repeal every Code section and
abolish every department, agency, authority, board, or commission that it finds
fails to comply with the foundational principles of civil government articulated
in the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America or the
provisions of Code Section 28-12-2.
(c)
The committee may consider such legislation duly assigned to it repealing Code
sections or abolishing departments, agencies, authorities, boards, or
commissions that fail to comply with the foundational principles of civil
government articulated in the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united
States of America or the provisions of Code Section
28-12-2."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.