Thanks for the note. I had not heard that.
Not too many people do.
Virginia and one other state - I can’t remember which, included a similar phrase in their articles of ratification which specifically reserved the right to protect their rights against a tyrannical central government. By accepting those two state articles, the Constitutional Convention in effected applied them to ALL the states that ratified.
Increasingly it appears that there are two irreconcilable visions of America - one a conservative one based on Judaeo-Christian traditional morality and hard work and the Constitution, and one that only wants a government which will redistribute wealth from those who work to those who don’t and become the plantation keeper who looks over them from cradle to grave.
It may become necessary for enough states to invoke this right again to assure that the first group of Americans have a place they can continue to exist in.