WELCOME: This is our first free educational class coming up very soon. I will be hosting the Sheriff and the Citizens Class. This is through Institute on the Constitution (IOTC) from Americanview.com. This is a 5 to 6-week class, mostly informative with weeklyreview questions, some discussion. Everyone is welcome including present law enforcement personnel.

INTRODUCTION: Today, more than ever, we need a posse, a support team (citizens) of North Dakota to stand up and support our Constitutional Sheriffs. And if he/she is not one yet, they need to take this class. Hosea 6:8 states, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou has rejected knowledge…”

OUTLINE: Some lecture topics are: Former Sheriff Mack’s testimony on how he sued the Clinton Administration and won (regarding the 2nd Amendment), The Oath of Office, part 1 & 2; The American view on Constitutional Sheriffs, and Interposition (part of every Sheriff’s duty).

George Mason, Founding Father of Virginia said, “To disarm the people is the most effective way to enslave them.”

If interested, please sign up by clicking “join group”. There is a student handbook charge of $15.00 that you will need to purchase form IOTC. We will attempt to make required readings available through a link for download. Click here below for your student handbook. See you in class

https://theamericanview.com/collections/individual-items/products/the-sheriff-and-the-citizen-student-booklet#a_aid=NDjo&a_cid=08e2287b

There are other optional readings: “The County Sheriff, America’s Last Hope” by Sheriff Richard Mack and “The Proper Role of Law Enforcement”: by Sheriff Richard Mack. There are more suggested readings in the Student handbook. See https://cspoa.org/join/

Use this link for general purchases other than your course material at IOTC

https://theamericanview.com/#NDjo

About the Instructor

My name is Jo-Anne LaVigne. I presently live in Larimore, North Dakota for the past 20 years. I’m originally from Pittsfield, MA. I came to North Dakota in the summer of 1975 after High School. Through some millitary family members I ended up staying here where I made a profession of Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. I did move around from time to time. Among other certificates, I received my BA in History (concentration in Museum Science in 1998, in North
Adams, MA. Was an EMT for a time here in Larimore, ND. I hold a M.Ed in Education and Ciriculum, with a concentration in online teaching, out of Concordia University, Portland, OR. I’m presently working on my Master Gardening Certificate out of NDSU. Also very active in my church, New Testament Baptist Church here
in Larimore, ND I presently and proudly teach/host three classes at IOTC, The Sheriffs and Citizen, the US Constitution and The Duty of the Jury.

My father was a WWII Veteran and discharged as a TSgt. He joined the Army/Air-force in 1945, his senior year of high school. He did not walk for his diploma, he felt joining the the war was more important than receiving his high school diploma. His mission was flying in the B52 Bomber in the European Theater. His position was a “Top Turret Gunner” AKA “Heavy Bombers” These men and all the men and women were very well trained and disciplined. They knew their enemy and fought to destroy them at any cost. My father loved his country and what she stood/stands for presently. He always told me to buy things that were made in the USA. With just three years in the Army/Air-force corps, my dad’s love, patriotism, courage, loyalty and perseverance honor, trust and leadership gave us freedom, peace that should be followed. Thus, his patriotism rubbed off on me and the rest is history.

I’m also partner with Dustin Amundson as one of the ND State leaders in developing the North Dakota State Constitution course that upon completion, will be hosted by IOTC, http://www.theAmericanview.com

Oath of Office – Part one

Review Questions

1. Washington D.C. bureaucracies wants to believe that their polices supersede the___________________
2. T / F – Are the Sheriffs subject to federal direction?
3. What is the CLEO? ___________ _________   _____________ ____________    Does the state certify the CLEO? YES / NO.  If not, then who does? ______   _____   _________. And how do we certify our public officials, namely the Sheriff? When we _______ and _________ our own public officials. Who decides our state officials?  ______   ____   ___________. Who is the CLEO? The ______________.
4. Oath of Office.  “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
5. Each executive officer (Sheriff) is bound by an oath to ___________ and ______________ the _____________________________.
6. Article ____, section ____ of the U.S. Constitution states ________________ branch(es)of government have the same assignment, they are _________ by an oath of office. Sheriffs are of the ___________ branch of government.
7. So, who is the Sheriff’s boss? ______ _____  
8. Do courts interpret the law or the US Constitution? YES/NO. they only _____________ the law.
9. The issue in the lawsuit between Sheriff Mack and the Clinton Administration was not the 2^nd Amendment, but _____ _____________ and the _______________________ of the federal government in requiring state officials to carry out the _____ ________    _____ (Brady Act).

Oath of Office – Part two

Review Questions

1. T / F – Checks and balances within the Constitution enforce, uphold and defend themselves?
2. T / F – The law enforces itself?
3. How do we take American Liberty back? ___________ by ___________ and ____________ by _____________
4. The US Constitution is an _________________ and it does protect everything ____________________.
5. James Madison wrote a resolution which he asserted that whenever the ______________ ________________ exceeds its ___________________ limits and begins to ___________ the citizens of a state, that state’s legislature is duty bound to ____________ its power to prevent the federal government from victimizing its people.
6. The purpose of government is ___________________
7. Our Founding Fathers were concerned about God-given _____________ of ____________
8. The Bill of Rights is also known as the __________________. These rights are our _______________ rights which the _________ of ___________ simple declare to the government that they ______________ be ________________.
9. T / F – States didn’t surrender their powers, they delegated powers to the federal government.
10. Sheriff Mack stated in the lecture that all Sheriffs are duty bound first and foremost by their _______  of ________ and also bound by ______________ rather than pick and choose what you will uphold. You must stand as the citizen’s ________________ of your county.
11. What are the four areas of Interposition that a Sheriff is duty bound to act upon? ____________, ______________, _____________, ______________, our God-given rights.
12. In the lecture there was a slide stating that State legislatures, city and county reps. are not subject to ____________ _____________. Meaning federal officers can / cannot order your state around?
13. Judge Scalia of the US Supreme Court stated,“Residual state sovereignty was also implicit, of course, in the Constitution’s conferral upon Congress of not all governmental powers, but only ___________, ____________ ones, which implication was rendered express by the Tenth Amendment’s assertion that ‘[t]he powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’” This “rendered express” means, that the U.S Constitution has _______________. Which is the ____ Amendment.
14. If the federal government comes into a state and commits incursions, it’s the duty of all county, state, and city officials to interpose on behalf of the citizens, this is an example of a Constitutional ________________.
15. “But the Constitution protects us from our own ______  __________: It divides power among sovereigns and among branches of government precisely so that we may resist the temptation to concentrate power in one location as an expedient solution to the crisis of the day.”
16. “The ____________ ________________ may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor _____________ the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to ________________ or ______________ a federal regulatory program.” Examples, Obama Care, Mask wearing, social distancing…..
17. The Constitution is there to protect what you have been blessed with by God – your _____ _______ 
18. The Declaration of Independence explains that the purpose of civil government is “to __________ ___________  ..”
19. It is a very noble and ____________ position, that of a sheriff or peace officer, to protect your God-given rights.

Rights of the Sheriff as Constitutional Officer:

Where the sheriff is named in the Constitution his duties are the same as they were at the time the Constitution was adopted.  Where the office of sheriff is named as a constitutional officer the people intended that those officers should exercise the powers and perform the duties then recognized as appertaining to the respective offices which they were to hold.  

While the legislature may impose additional duties upon the sheriff, where he is recognized as a constitutional officer, it cannot restrict or reduce his powers as allowed by the Constitution, or as they were recognized when the Constitution was adopted.

The Sheriff Essentially a Common Law Officer:

From the very title and by virtue of occupying the office of sheriff it carries with it all the common law powers and duties, except as modified by the State Constitutions and by statutes.  The sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the county today even as he was at common law.  His jurisdiction is coextensive within the county including all municipalities and townships.  Where the State constitution provides for the election of that officer without prescribing in express conditions the duties which shall attach to the officer, it is presumed that the duties are those attaching to the office of common law.

(See the handbook for more info)

Oath of Office – Part two

Class Review Questions – Week 3

The American View

Review Questions

1. The Presuppositions of American Polity – From the Declaration of Independence. Fill in the words W__ H______ T_________ T_______ T__ B__ S_______ E___________
2. Finish the paragraph, ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________governed,
3. Our Founding Fathers believed in _______________ truth.
4. The American View of Law and Government. From the Declaration of Independence
   1. There is a ________
   2. Our rights come from _______ (Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness)
   3. The Purpose of civil government is to ____________ those ______-________ __________
5. Biblical View, the state is ___________ ___________, state authority is ___________, leads to ______________, results in _______________. Based on ________________
6. Pagan View, the state is ______________, state authority is _____________, leads to ____________ _______________, results in  Based on ______________.
7. What form of government do we have today?
8. A Democracy form of government is a way to eliminate ______from the equation, the Higher moral law (standard).
9. The eternal standard is the law of __________and of __________ Also known as the __________
10. The temporal standard is the ___________________.

Pastor Whitney’s Lecture – Part one

1. Where does the law come from __________ and of _________   _________, or the ________.
2. Looking at God’s law, the civil magistrate in Romans 13:1 is ______________ of  So, he himself is to be in ______________  to God’s law.
3. Justice is defined as _________
4. There are _____ ordained governments (jurisdictions)
   1. _______________________   ________________________
   2. _______________________
   3. _______________________
5. Luke 20:25, Jesus answers these lawyers, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s. Jesus was setting ___________ between the state authority interfering with the church’s authority, you cannot operate outside those boundaries.
6. Nullification is the recognition that a law that cause itself law is not law but ____________

Interposition – last lecture

Interposition

Review Questions

1. The Declaration of Independence is the most clearly articulated document of ________________.
2. The ancient English common law rooted in the ______________
3. Civil magistrate was hired to ______________ and  _____________ our God-given rights. The civil magistrate is also called the _____________. But we don’t ______________ any of our God-given rights.
4. When an individual state is being violatedby the Federal government and believes they have been encroached upon its sovereignty, the individual state may oppose
   _____ federal action against them and the US Constitutional law, by enlisting their civil magistrate (________) to _________ on the state’s behave.
5. Litmus test found in article ____, section ______. These are the only things the Federal government is permitted to do. Is education in any of these sections? ____.
6. The Sheriff is the ________ law enforcement officer in the county.
7. The problem for the Sheriff is that the _________ _________ is taking over the powers to arrest and leaving the Sheriff with less authority than what the Constitution allows him to hold.
8. A Posse is a group of _________ in his (sheriff’s) county that he can call upon or summons to his assistance as to aid him in keeping the peace, in pursuing and arresting felons etc.
   
   

Review Lessons – Week 5

1. We will review entire Sheriff course
2. Participate in any discussions and questions
3. Discuss future classes, class certificates and ND State Constitution Project.