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@Admiral America The federal government has strained against the Constitution from the moment it came into force. The Alien and Sedition act under John Adams was a gross violation of the 1st Amendment and prompted Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions. Today, almost every thing the federal government does is unconstitutional.
Right on, Arizona! The paper money machine called the Federal Reserve means that government no longer has to be accountable to the People by coming to us for taxes to finance warfare and welfare; it can just print and spend, and tax us indirectly through a depreciate currency. The Founders knew all the evils of "bills of credit" and prohibited the States to issue them or make them legal tender. The federal government, of course,does not even have authority to enfranchise banks, let alone a monopolistic central bank issuing private notes for government debt. We are on the road to ruin through endless federal spending and monetized debt. Unless and until we return to gold/silver backed currencies, we are doomed to economic collapse. Thank God for Arizona!
@TannerWilliams @DanielSaccomando But of course, the federal judiciary almost always rules in favor of the federal government, so our only real hope for preserving liberty is our guns and the resolve to remain free.
Sad to say, but the federal government is the single greatest threat to our liberty we face today. We may fast be approaching the time when we will be forced to choose between the chains of federal slavery or undertaking the second American Revolution to defend ourselves and preserve our liberty. Nullification legislation and acts removing local incidents of firearms manufactured in-state are the best bet we have to avoid tyranny and bloodshed. I hope and pray state legislatures will push back against fed gov and preserve liberty for us and our children.
This sort of effort is long, long overdue. The States and People should secede before they allow the federal Leviathan to devour the remaining tatters of our liberty. God bless Arizona!
Obama's announcement to ban assault rifles shows how timely this sort of legislation is. We need to be prepared to fight to the death on this one.
The Commerce Clause has been grossly perverted to allow congress to regulate almost anything it wants. It took a Constitutional Amendment to reach local incidents of beverage alcohol during Prohibition (18th Amendment). Yet, by the same clause Congress now purports to be able to reach local incidents of drugs, guns, ammunition, etc. Thus, Congress now purports to regulate by statute and judicial fiat what formerly took a Constitutional Amendment. Wyoming's effort is a good start. The states should be prepared to secede if Congress and the Administration try to restrict ownership of semi-automatic weapons, as these are absolutely essential to preserving our freedom from a tyrannical central government.
The only viable formula for limiting the power and usurpation of the central government is for the States to grow sufficiently frightened of enslavement and financial ruin that they seriously contemplate and threaten secession. Unless and until we are serious enough about freedom to be willing to risk fighting and dying for it, there is small hope of change. The federal government's pattern of total disregard for the Constitution stretches over many, many decades. There is no hope short of war or total financial ruin that it will ever correct its course. The States need to start thinking in terms of protecting themselves against the federal government, of seeing their first duty to God and to their citizens, rather than to the Union. We need moral leadership to resist the federal government at the State level. That is what we most need and what we most lack.
@DonJonVonavich I am not so sure that secession is beyond the realm of reality. When Obama was first elected there was a lot of agitation and discomfort among the states, what with REAL ID, Health Care, Gun Control, etc. Many states passed 10th Amendment Resolutions and Freedom of Firearm Acts, all which forebode civil war. I think the States could successfully secede if circumstances were right. A broke federal government with two foreign wars going is not in a great position to fight another/multiple fronts at home. Also, world-opinion, which we seem to idolize so much, would not look favorably on the federal government making war against peaceable states intent on no more than gong their own way. I wouldn't rule it out, but agree it is not on the immediate horizon any where.
Bad money drives out good. Nobody is going to consent to pay gold or silver to the State if he could pay fiat FRN's instead! The first time this sort of law is passed someone will go to federal court to challenge the compulsory use of gold/silver to pay state debts and, presto, the whole thing will collapse. I appreciate the author's attempt, but it is wishful thinking totally out of touch with reality. The Federal government will only consent to change with the States force it to change by threat of secession.
As much as we need monetary reform, I have to say this proposal seems out of touch with reality and is nothing more than an exercise in wishful thinking. It is silly to believe that any State could succeed in getting a secondary currency to circulate. All that is required to sink the whole scheme is one person going to Federal court to challenge the requirement of paying money other than FRN and the whole thing will collapse, because we all know how the federal judiciary will rule! No, the States are going to have to gather up the courage to demand reform or threaten revolt or secession and be prepared to back it up before real change will come about. The enemy of our freedom is Washington DC and we need to begin to look this fact square in the face and openly talk about it.
@RtGreenwood The article argues that States can end-run the Fed ("nullify") by causing a gold/silver backed currency to be legal tender in their States. But as bad money drives out good, the two currencies will not circulate together. People will hoard the gold/silver and the fiat will continue to circulate in perpetuity. The principle that bad money drives out good means that a good, constitutional currency will never circulate side by side with a fiat currency as people will always hoard the one and pass the other along.
What about the principle that "bad money drives out good"? People hoard gold and silver and use paper money because it is "worthless". Thus, whenever good money and bad money circulate side by side, bad money drives out good. How will a gold backed currency/coin circulate simultaneously with fiat money?
@Brian Barrett The Bill of Rights does not apply to the States. The People, acting through their respective State governments, can make laws respecting an establishment of religion, etc. The Supreme Court has turned the Bill of Rights against the States via the 14th Amendment, by finding something called 'substantive due process" which allows them to review the substance of the local acts and legislation. The history of the Bill of Rights until after the Civil War ALWAYS ruled that it they applied only against the Feds.
If a governor of one of the 50 States used a drone to assassinate a criminal who was difficult to bring to justice because he was beyond State jurisdiction, it would be murder, and everyone would call it that. The fact that the killing occurred on foreign soil would not blind us to the extra-legal nature of the act. The same should be true of Obama: His assassination of individuals, particularly American citizens, on foreign soil is murder, and he should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. Unfortunately, nobody in Congress has the moral courage to seek his impeachment, and the press has insulated him against criticism. The President of the U.S. has become the "assassin in chief." It is past time for the States to secede and part ways with the criminal organization called the federal government. May God send us courageous leaders to resist federal tyranny!
@solarwizardry Amen to State flags flying atop the U.S. flag! Why should we lift the federal government above the States that created it?
The Founders should have made "original intent" the sole interpretative method permitted in the courts of the U.S. government. Indeed, an Amendment enshrining Original Intent is in Order:"The Constitution and laws passed pursuant thereto shall be interpreted and enforced according to their Original Intent at the time of adoption, and no decision, rule, or judgment of any court in contravention of Original Intent shall be of any force or effect. "The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution shall not be interpreted to incorporate the Bills of Rights or otherwise render them applicable against the States. The doctrine of Substantive Due Process is hereby annulled." A Constitutional Amendment like this ought to be sponsored by the Tenth Amendment center.
All Congressmen voting for NDAA ought to be indefinitely detained in federal prison for violating their oath of office and high crimes and misdemeanors against the U.S. Constitution.
The Bill of Rights is expressly limited to the Federal government: "Congress shall make no law." Nothing in binds the States or People, or limits their powers in any way. If a State wanted to declare itself officially "Catholic" (Maryland, for example), it was within the right and power of the People and State to do so. The power to decide issues of religion, like so many other issues of uniquely local moment, was reserved to the People and States by the 10th Amendment.
@EdwardNilges If the right to rebel is determined by the "context of the times" prohibited only because "resistance would be suicide", then when the context of the times counsels otherwise, or where not to resist would be suicide, then by your definition we are free to follow our conscience and resist or rebel. Thanks for making my case for me! :)