Lincolnshire Voice

The next few articles are dedicated to TREASON, our own written English Constitution and our ancient laws. It is essential that everyone in this country reads the superb document prepared by Albert Burgess and understands that our forefathers looked out for us and wrote laws that could not be broken in the future without first committing Treason, which was done in order to protect us all in our homeland.The following is a serialisation of this guide.

Laymans Guide to the English Constitution
by Albert Burgess

England is still ruled by Alfred the Great through the laws he gave us.

This is the story of how the constitution was formed and how high treason has been and is being committed at the highest levels of government.

Introduction
Know your Constitution or lose your ancient freedoms.
I believe that there is a need for a layman’s guide to the English Constitution because the Government’s guide to our Constitution is a work of pure fiction designed to mislead the ordinary man, woman and child in this country. It allows them to enslave the indigenous population, destroy our culture/way of life and destroy a thousand years of history.

I want you to remember one thing; England is ruled, not by the Queen or by Parliament and not by the Queen in Parliament, England is ruled by the law of the very good constitution left to us by our forefathers.

In every man and woman’s life there comes a timewhen their character is called into question - will they go with the flow no matter what, or will they say “No, this is not right” and “I will not have it?” The same is true of countries.

Our Constitution (simply meaning higher law) is determined by the overriding will of the people. English people and their integrity can make a difference to matters seemingly beyond their control. This guide looks at moments in history which show how people have created the Constitution we have today. It also shows that all good monarchs recognise the importance of respecting the collective wishes of laymen to maintaining power. In other words, power truly is with the people, if only they would implement it.

The origins of our Constitution.
King Alfred the Great.
Every work on the constitution needs a starting point and I have chosen the year 841 because this is when King Alfred the Great was born. Alfred was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf by his first wife Osburh. He was sent to Rome at an early age to study. We can trace the formation of his character and love of learning to this early time in his life.

Alfred’s life was not easy and he spent most of his early life fighting the Danes. Each of his brothers became King in turn, and to each Alfred gave unswerving loyalty, until he inherited the Crown in 871. He became King of Wessex.

The Vikings were on the attack and Alfred had to take control of his army at the same time as he was mourning the loss of his brother King Aethelred. Alfred was also affected by an illness. He could hardly have picked a worse time to become King; he was ill and a Viking army was at his door banging to get in.

Figure 1: Alfred burns the cakes

Here, we see Alfred hiding from the Vikings in the home of a peasant woman. He was asked to watch the cakes but his troubled mind wandered and he forgot all about them. The cakes were all burnt and Alfred was scolded by the peasant woman when she returned. After this event his fortune began to change…

Alfred managed to defeat the Viking army and established his kingdom from Watling Street to the South Coast. He made his kingdom strong enough to defend itself by building a strong navy to defeat the Viking long ships at sea. He built fortified towns and set up a form of national service so that half of the men were in arms and the others worked the land. In doing so, he was able to defend the town until a larger army could be mustered to come to its aid.

He became the only Saxon King to maintain full control of their kingdom, so he became known as King of all the English.

It was not only Alfred’s ability as a war leader which earned him the title ‘Great.’ He set out to educate all his people including the elderly. An Ealdorman who could not, or would not learn, was retired and replaced by a younger man.

It is in the field of law that we owe most to Alfred. He visited all the old kingdoms and took the best laws and customs from each of them. Custom is a practice that has been in use from times of greatest antiquity with the approval of the people. By its very nature custom can not be repealed as it is the rule of the land and its people. Alfred recorded these laws and customs in a book he called ‘The Dome’ (taken from Doom meaning punishment.) Each of Alfred’s Laws was based on the teachings of the Holy Bible.

Alfred showed The Dome to the Witan (councillors of a Saxon king) who agreed that it contained good law. It was issued throughout Alfred’s England as the King's Law. It was not until his grandson Athelstan united the whole of England under one King that Alfred’s Law covered the whole Kingdom of England. It is because of his book of law that Alfred is still held in the hearts and minds of English people.

Alfred had witnessed his father and bothers rule so he had strong ideas about how to manage his kingdom. He had decided upon a suitable candidate for Archbishop but the Pope had other ideas, sending him an Archbishop from Rome. Alfred turned the Pope’s choice around but the Pope sent him back to Alfred with a message; he, the Pope, appointed every King in the world, and if Alfred wanted to remain King he would accept the Archbishop chosen by him. Despite this, Alfred sent the Archbishop back to the Pope with another message; that he was elected King by the English and would do what was in their best interest. This incident started England’s refusal to accept any foreign interference.