Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.
I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.