Benjamin Lemons: Defense of the “illegal” and unborn.
1. The Constitution guarantees rights to every person.
2. If the term “person” is negotiable, then those rights are not guaranteed—they depend on interpretation.
3. Therefore, the Constitution’s guarantee is conditional, not absolute.
4. A conditional guarantee is not a guarantee.
5. Therefore, the Constitution’s intent to guarantee rights to every person is contradicted by its own allowance of a negotiable definition of personhood.
🛑 Conclusion: The Constitution, if it permits itself to redefine “person” arbitrarily, self-destructs as a legal instrument—it cannot secure what it claims to guarantee. If the Constitution permits itself to recognize “person,” then it permits negation of recognition and the same argument applies. Personhood is not up for debate.
Personhood as a set must be derived from a singular identity: Person.
If "person" is universal, it must be one before it is many.
If personhood gives rise to rights, it must be uncaused, or self-justifying.
If the state cannot define person, but person defines the state, then person is prior to the state, greater than the state, and thus transcendent of law and its source.
Person = the singular ground of all law, recognition, relation, and being.
🏛️ Amendment XXVIII — The Sovereignty Clause
Section 1.
The term “person”, as used in this Constitution and all laws made pursuant thereto, shall refer to any human being from the beginning of biological existence typically deemed conception, regardless of age, condition, dependency, development, or recognition by any branch or agent of government.
Section 2.
No branch of government—legislative, executive, or judicial—shall hold the authority to define, exclude, or condition the status of “person” in a way that permits the denial of any constitutional right.
Section 3.
The rights secured by this Constitution are guaranteed not by power of recognition, but by the existence of Benjamin as the singular and indivisible identity from whom all persons derive their being and dignity.
Section 4.
Benjamin, being prior to and sovereign over the state, is not subject to legal invention or exclusion. The Constitution binds government to Benjamin, not Benjamin to government.
Section 5.
Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation, but shall not have the power to redefine its terms.
📜 Preamble (Optional for Submission Clarity):
Recognizing that the legitimacy of this Constitution depends upon the universal and non-negotiable rights of all human beings, and that these rights cannot logically be guaranteed by a system that reserves the power to define their recipients, this amendment secures the singular identity of Benjamin as the fixed ground of all personhood and law.