Open Letter to the Kendall County Board
Dear Members of the Kendall County Board,
I’ll say the quiet parts out loud. The people of Little Rock Township took a stand, firmly declaring that the unlawful systems of government erected without their consent must fall, as Haman’s gallows turned against him (Esther 7:10, KJV). On June 26, 2025, through a Resolution and Ordinance, enacted by the People assembled at properly called, official, public meeting, they banned commercial solar and wind facilities on public and commercial property, not merely to halt a 1,550-acre Savion Energy project, but to expose and dismantle an unconstitutional alteration of their county’s “county under township” form of government established in 1849, and strengthened by the 1870 Constitution. Like King Josiah, who found the Book of the Law and saw the deviation from established law (2 Kings 22, KJV), they have unearthed their “Book of the Law”, the Illinois Constitutions of 1870 and 1970 (along with its Transition Schedule), which reveal the required referendum never ever authorized this shift. This usurpation literally subverted the peoples expressed text of their constitutions, which are the instruments that govern all governmental actions, using modern legal systems rather than the established law of the land (Luke 11:52, KJV). This act has fueled decades of state and county overreach, severing the people’s ability to check government power. With compassion, yet unwavering resolve, they call on you to do what is right: acknowledge this truth, work with them to restore their township system, and avoid the ruin that follows defiance, as “pride goeth before destruction” (Proverbs 16:18, KJV). The people have distributed the multiple notices and affidavits that you ignored, and are prepared to publicly post them, so the whole state can see how public servants turned a deaf ear to the people’s lawful pleas, and I have read them.
For months, they warned you, as Ezekiel 33 (KJV) commands watchmen to sound the alarm, through notices and unrebutted affidavits, yet you ignored them, choosing attorneys’ counsel over the people’s voice and declaration of fundamental principles. “For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested” (Luke 8:17, KJV), and God has used the people to bring this unlawful government scheme to light. During COVID, while Illinois languished under endless “mandates” by Governor Pritzker and oppressive legislation by the State General Assembly, the people studied fundamental law, learning that “all political power is vested in and derived from the people”, and it is they that create government and government cannot alter itself. Romans 13:1-2, KJV, declares “every soul be subject unto the higher powers,” and in America’s republic, the people are that power. This is distinct from the Republican Party, but is the Republican Form guaranteed by U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4. Public Servants who resist “receive to themselves damnation.” This act by the people of Little Rock Township was not one of “rebellion”, but a peaceful rebuke, with lawful precision, line upon line. It is the government who has been rebellious and is warring against the Constitution, not the people. With pen, paper, and constitutions, they have exposed a government created for the people, not by them, severing them from the place of power they reserved for themselves, a county which is under township authority, with expressed prohibitions of the State General Assembly.
This is bigger than solar fields. Since, at least, 1971, Illinois’ state government has enacted statutes, either unconstitutional on their face or unconstitutionally applied, like the TRUST Act, PICA Act, FOID Act, SAFE-T Act, has allowed non-citizens to become law enforcement officers, has taxed essentials like gasoline, and extended elections beyond the constitutionally mandated single day. The current General Assembly even introduced legislation to dissolve townships by statute, yet again, defying the constitutional (mandatory) requirement for any dissolution to be by referendum. During COVID, Illinois suffered under endless “emergency proclamations” by Governor Pritzker, while other states thrived in freedom. Sadly, the County Board stood idle, while the people’s rights and liberty were trespassed, in the name of “safety”. When a BKFD public servant was fired for asserting his right of conscience and liberty, or when recently, the state threatened private education rights directly protected by the Illinois Bill of Rights, by introducing the “Home School Act”, the County Board remained silent and essentially said “they can’t do anything” or seemingly considered it “not my problem.” Well, the people discovered why! It’s because the current County Board was never authorized by the people and is directly subject to the State, rather than being under the townships, where the people can lawfully assemble and assert their rights secured in the Constitution that they ordained. All the while, Attorney’s parrot the idea that “all units of local government” are subject to all state legislation, which is entirely not true! There were and are prohibitions that the State General Assembly must abide by. The people continue to suffer from oppressive taxation and laws that undermine the welfare of their community, lives, and property, while the State General Assembly and Executive Branch continue to unlawfully use power they were never granted. In 1870, the people constitutionally hamstrung Springfield’s unfettered control over townships, yet in 1971, this township system was ripped away unlawfully, likely due to the complacency and reliance on attorneys beholden to a private association instead of upholding the Law of the Land. The people have awakened and discovered their power, and with grace, they’ve urged you to awaken too.
Your attorney(s) will likely rely on Reynolds v. Sims and Avery v. Midland County. This is misguided. The people already know this because they all parrot the same things, taught by the same schools, and all of which flies in the face of fundamental and constitutional law. Those cases, deal with apportionments for state legislature and county commissions (which is an entirely different style of county government), do not override Illinois’ constitutional mandate for a referendum to change the county under township system. Avery, a Texas case, cannot undermine a county under township system or deem it “unconstitutional” when it’s the original form that some of the original states adopted in 1776. Attorneys, trained in statutory law, not fundamental principles, mislead you with crafty statutes and administrative tribunals, not the judicial courts the people established. Are you willing to take the advice of an attorney over the will of the people and the expressed text of the constitutions? You are reminded, yet again, the attorneys will leave you holding the bag if you choose to defy the Law of the Land. The people, studying state constitutions and centuries-old legal texts, are ahead of your counsel and aligned with the Supreme Court, which frequently recurring to these fundamental principles. Justice Clarence Thomas, in his June 26, 2025, opinion in Gutierrez v. Saenz, echoed the people’s reliance on John Locke (a renowned forefather of law), affirming the people’s sovereignty and original liberty. Additionally, As Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch publicly stated in a Fox News Sunday interview, when asked about resolving conflicts between branches of government, he replied: “The answer is the Constitution. If it’s in the Constitution and the other two branches are infringing on it...I’m duty bound. I took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and you win even though the government may not like it.” If Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch isn’t willing to look past the constitution’s mandatory requirements, should you?
Little Rock Township’s actions align with Justice Thomas’s quoted “Lockean” principles quoted in their Resolution, demanding that the Illinois Constitution, and the county under township system it protects, be upheld as the supreme Law of the Land.
Townships are America’s unique expression of the people’s will. This is the only form of local government where they can assemble to bypass errant servants and even correct State and Federal servants who go against their rights. It’s no wonder that the “powers that be” tried to unlawfully confiscate and hide this power! For over 50 years, this usurpation has obscured freedom under the Illinois Constitution, the state’s highest law. Little Rock Township did not act as “sovereign citizens” but as God-fearing people who believe in “the perfect law of liberty” (James 1:25, KJV), which is reflected and ordained in our state constitutions, to restrain government. Again, they align with Justice Gorsuch who publicly said, “The powers of government derive their just authority from the people themselves, we [people] are sovereign” and again in a different interview “It is We the People, those are the first 3 words of the constitution, and you are the sovereign in this country”.
It’s clear, if you cannot produce proof of a referendum from July 1, 1971, you occupy unlawfully created seats. If your attorneys, who are paid for by the people, insist on relying on a “case” rather than the text of the constitution itself, they should be reading Norton v Shelby County 118 U.S. 425 (1886) to see the underlying principles applied. Further, after reviewing the notices and affidavits that you ignored, it appears likely that you could be held personally liable and responsible for every dollar spent and any trespass of rights that you or any county agent has done since you were informed of this situation. There is no “immunity” for private acts and acts outside of the constitution are “private.” You have been knowingly sitting in unlawful seats, no judge has to tell you this. If that were the case, what’s the point of having constitutions and different government offices? Constitutional mandates are self-executing and impervious to discretion. The plain text of the constitution, it’s use of the word “shall”, and lack of referendum is sufficient. Like a stolen car, this government must be returned to the people, no matter how long held by someone other than the rightful owner. Your lack of rebuttal (acquiescence) to the people’s notices and affidavits concedes their claim. If you cannot produce evidence of a referendum to change the county government structure, the case is closed. Will you sue the people, knowing your seats lack constitutional authority? Or will you join them in a peaceful transition and “revolution” in the correct sense of the word, back to how they ordained their county structure? They’ve extended grace, not wishing for your financial ruin, but justice demands action, and the people need to be reconnected to their township to fend off the onslaught of despotism proliferating from Springfield.
If you resist, Article IV, Section 4 obligates the federal government, including President Trump and Congress, to assist the people to restore their republican form. This is guaranteed to the people. The right of the people to redress grievances is unassailable jurisdiction. The people, can prosecute “maladministration”, whether it’s now, or later. Time does not absolve this trespass. I encourage you to heed the principle found in Acts 5:38-39, “And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God”.
Was there a referendum that the people cannot find or have overlooked? If they are wrong, then show them publicly! Or will you continue in this unconstitutional form, risking further liability? The stone slung by Little Rock Township can, and will, crush unlawful systems. The people, with God’s backing, will prevail, that’s how this nation was founded. With compassion, I urge you to do that which is right, for your sake and the people of the county and state. Kendall County is one of many that were unlawfully torpedoed. You will need grace from the people to protect you from ruin since you’ve ignored them for nearly a year. Don’t take caution from me, take it from Jesus himself, Matthew 5:25 (KJV), “Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.”
The people have grown tired of unlawful government, are studied, and have taken Article I, Section 23 of their Illinois Constitution to heart, according to Psalm 119. On this Independence Day weekend, I implore you to actually read what the people have sent you for yourself. If you don’t understand, then ask the people that sent them to you. Do not rely on attorneys but rely on the text of the constitutions themselves and the fundamental principles presented to you. If an attorney tells you the people are wrong, then have that attorney give you a sworn affidavit explaining exactly how. Otherwise, they shouldn’t be believed, they’ve been trained in a system that is as unlawful as the current county government structure. If the people are wrong, your attorney should be able to point it out quickly and easily. The people are eager to hear how an attorney or anyone else will attempt to distort the word “shall” in a constitution, because the Supreme Court agrees with the people, that the “use of the word ‘shall’ creates an obligation that is impervious to judicial discretion” (Smith v Spizzirri May 16, 2024).
I’ll close with a final appeal, talk to the people, they understand you have not been taught right in the law, they were once ignorant too, but are no longer. They don’t want to see you, or their County destroyed; they want it restored to its lawful condition as a County Under Township. Learn from the people to do just and right things, then you may find grace with them as a good and faithful servant, rather than adversary. It’s not too late.
Sincerely,
Pete Masterson
Constitutional Scholar and Independent Journalist
Sources:
Little Rock Township Resolution and Ordinance; Reynolds v. Sims 377 U.S. 533 (1964); Avery v. Midland County, 390 U.S. 474 (1968); Norton v Shelby County 118 U.S. 425 (1886); Gutierrez v. Saenz, Opinion of Thomas, J., June 26, 2025; Fox News Sunday, Interview’s with Justice Neil Gorsuch, August 4, 2024, Smith v Spizzirri May 16, 2024