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War
—Defined
Most people know war as the shoot'm up and bombing activity.
But... have you consider Political wars?
WAR from 1756
War
1. The exercise of violence under sovereign command.
5. Hostility; state of opposition; act of opposition.
WAR from 1785
War
1. War may be defined the exercise of violence under sovereign command against withstanders; force, authority, and resistance, being the essential parts thereof.
5. Hostility; state of opposition; act of opposition.
— force, authority, and resistance, being the essential parts thereof —
Force from 1785
Force
1. Strength; vigour; might; active power.
2. Violence.
3. Virtue; efficacy.
4. Validness; power of law.
5. Armament; warlike preparations. Often, forces in the plural.
6. Destiny; necessity; fatal compulsion.
Authority from 1785
Authority
1. Legal power.
2. Influence; credit.
3. Power; rule.
4. Support; justification; countenance.
5. Testimony.
6. Weight of testimony; credibility; cogency of evidence.
Resistance from 1785
Resistance
1. The act of resisting; opposition.
2. The quality of not yielding to force or external impression.
When we review the era appropriate definitions for hostility, oppression, infringe, deny, disparage, and abridge, we see similarity in the definitions.
Hostile from 1785
Hostile
Adverse; opposite; suitable to an enemy.
Hostility from 1785
Hostility
The practices of an open enemy; open war; opposition in war.
The descriptions above regarding tyranny and treason apply here as well. Hostility. When they take you and or your property against your will, they are kidnapping and or armed robbery, especially when they act outside Constitutional authority.
To Oppress from 1785
To Oppress
1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity.
2. To overpower; to subdue.
Oppression from 1785
Oppression
1. The act of oppressing; cruelty; severity.
2. The state of being oppressed; misery.
3. Hardship; calamity.
4. Dulness of spirit; lassitude of body.
Oppressor from 1785
Oppressor
One who harasses others with unreasonable or unjust severity.
— harasses others with unreasonable or unjust severity — is exactly what is done when the government acts outside The Constitution's granted powers.
To Infringe from 1785
To Infringe
1. To violate; to break laws or contracts.
2. To destroy; to hinder.
Infringement from 1785
Infringement
Breach; violation.
— To violate; to break laws or contracts; Breach; violation. —
This defines unconstitutional government activity. A breach of contract. A violation against the Supreme Law of the Land.
To Deny from 1785.
To Deny
1. To contradict; opposed to affirm.
3. To refuse; not to grant.
4. To abnegate; to disown.
5. To renounce; to disregard; to treat as foreign or not belonging to one.
To Disparage from 1785
Disparage
4. To treat with contempt; to mock; to flout; to reproach.
5. To bring reproach upon; to be the cause of disgrace.
— To bring reproach upon; to be the cause of disgrace — This is what government does when it publicly accuses and tries a person for violating unconstitutional laws.
To Abridge from 1785
To Abridge
3. To deprive of; to cut off from. In which sense it is followed by the participle from, or of, preceding the thing taken away.
Abridged of from 1785
Abridged of
Deprived of, debarred from, cut short.
Abridgment from 1785
Abridgment
2. A diminution in general.
3. Contraction; reduction.
4. Restraint from any thing pleasing; contraction of any thing enjoyed.
— to deprive of — is what government does when they pass laws prohibiting you the free exercise of a right that does not violate others; and is protected under Amendment #9.
The Declaration describes the passing of unconstitutional laws and unconstitutional acts by government as acts of tyranny & despotism. The Constitution, Article 3, Section 3 defines this as the treason of levying war against the nation.
Usually, well-armed law enforcement officers ticket and or arrest people who offend those unconstitutional laws. The Constitution, Article 3, Section 3 defines this as the treason of adhering to and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
When judges only want to know if the accused violated the unconstitutional law; The Constitution, Article 3, Section 3 defines this as the treason of adhering to and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
When jailers simply imprison the accused, without ever questioning the other actors; The Constitution, Article 3, Section 3 defines this as the treason of adhering to and giving aid and comfort to the enemy.