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With or Without Federal “Permission”
we don’t need approval from the federal government to stand up for our rights. We need to stand up for them whether they want us to or not!
State Sovereignty: A Tool to Protect Freedom
The Founders knew that if permitted, the federal government would transgress the limits of the constitution, and, as Thomas Jefferson remarked, “[annihilate] the state governments and erect upon their ruins a general consolidated government.”
Today. Not Tomorrow. Now.
Asking, demanding, hoping – that the federal government will limit its own power – just doesn’t work. So why not try something new?
Even those who disagreed agreed on federalism
Maintaining government over the daily concerns of people at the lowest level possible was necessary for self-government to thrive and kingly government to have no place in the future of the United States.
Firearms and the Constitution Versus Treaties
There is no loophole that can allow international interests to trump the U.S. Constitution, but the treaty must be made in pursuance of our Constitution, just as all laws that Congress makes must be in pursuance of the Constitution.
Fertile Ground for Freedom
we must stop cowering in fear at the mere mention of federal power, as if the United States government were some omnipotent god to whom we must bow down and serve.
The Origins of Nullification
The defenders of centralized governmental power (a.k.a. tyranny) despise the Jeffersonian idea that the citizens of the states have a right to nullify what they believe to be unconstitutional federal laws.
Rewriting History
Demonizing those who support liberty and limited central government is what progressives do best. Here’s all the ammo you need to rebut their 3 top fallacies. Article by Prof. Brion McClanahan.
Nullification: Individual and Collective Uses
The jury is one of the smallest, and therefore most significant, of duly constituted bodies involved in the application of laws and the mechanisms of justice.
Nullification Movement Gains Steam: Missouri Rejects Healthcare Mandates
Today, voters in Missouri helped bring the Jeffersonian principle of Nullification one step closer to the mainstream by approving Proposition C – the Health Care Freedom Act.
The Impossible is now Possible
Unlike the reformist strategy which seeks to mobilize power within Washington, DC in order to reform and redirect that power, nullification seeks to diminish and redistribute that power through relentless, decentralized, but ideally coordinated, acts of state level, constitutional resistance.
