"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority..."

"A wise and frugal government...shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

The party of Jefferson has come to this: the most reckless, cavalier spendthrifts in the history of the United States. With no regard for public opinion nor for the debt burden they hoist onto future generations, this Congress and this Administration march determinedly toward a Marxist, Socialist agenda.

Alexander Hamilton anticipated a federal government run amok. In Federalist 33 he wrote: "If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify. "

Patricia Hampl, in her 1999 memoir, A Romantic Education, wrote of her generation--the first of the Baby Boomers: "Perhaps no American generation--certainly not our parents who were young during the Depression--had a childhood as long as ours. The war (Vietnam is the war she is referring to) kept us young. We stayed in school, endlessly, it seemed, and our protest kept us in the child's position: we alternately "rebelled" against and pestered the grownups for what we wanted..." (7).

And now they are in charge. And they will have their way. They are still rebelling but no longer against the government. Now they rebel against us because they now find they love and must have the very power they rejected in their youth. Ironic to be sure. The Democratic party of the people is now the party AGAINST the people. The party that opposed big business, now IS big business. The government being the biggest, most inefficient business in the land. This generation of babies that wailed for their rights are now usurping ours.

Unlike those who wring their hands and say it is too late, I cannot accept their fatalism. If it be too late, then I will fight in vain. I still believe in the power of our Constitution, no matter how "injured" and I believe enough in our history to feel the fight itself is noble and necessary, no matter the result.

"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority...take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution..."

An abusive government who violates men's dignity and birthrights at some point loses its right to be their government. That's in essence the Declaration of Independence.

The states ratified the Constitution as an agreement with the federal government. The Constitution is a contract between the states and the federal government. The federal government has broken that agreement and that contract and no longer abides by the terms of the Constitution. Therefore, the states are free from their ties to this rouge government. "Togetherness" doesn't include Marxism and tyranny.

” The Constitution is a contract between the states and the federal government. “

There is no federal government. it does not exist. We exist. We form that government. It is not a living entity. We are. There is no federal government in this contet. The agreement is simply between the States and of the people. The people of all States have violated our trust. We desire freedom, they desire slavery. People within our own State have violated our trust.

Not exactly. When the states ratified the Constitution, the federal government in its three distinct branches was born. The Constitution is the legal document that gives what we call the federal government (actually three branches of government) its power. The Constitution is the agreement that the states will submit to this government under the terms of the Constitution.

All three branches of the federal government, executive (POTUS), legislative (Congress), and judicial (SCOTUS) have broken that agreement by ignoring and/or overriding the text and original intent of the Constitution. Therefore, the states are no long bound to abide under, as I say, this rogue government.

The preservation of this union depends on the sworn oath every single officer of each branch takes: To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Without a working, authoritative Constitution, we simply do not have a true union, only the (temporary) appearance of one. We no longer have the adherence to the rule of law and values of liberty the people and states relied on in their original ratification.

I don't want to see this union dissolved but it is the three branches of the federal government, not the states, that is in the process of dissolving the bonds of this union. Behind this is a spiritual malaise wherein the people have allowed this disintegration to take place. What are the states to do? Those states with enough of those having Christian values and a will and purpose to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution may have to band together in some sort of collective rebellion against this rogue government. Maybe a New America with strict adherence to the original Constitution and its Amendments will emerge, but anything lasting must have the rule of law (not the rule of the whims of man) and a belief that God, not government, grants us our rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Somewhere, somehow there will be enough of us who will declare "Give me liberty or give me death" and the battle will be waged with guns if necessary.

I might be splitting a few hairs here, but my point was that the federal government doesn’t exist except for the fact that the people operate it. If the people fail to run for President or Congress, no one can make them. If no one shows up to work and operates the federal government, there is no one to hold accountable. This truly is a government of the people. We think the federal government stinks and has violated our rights, well, it has, but whom do we hold accountable? Ourselves and each other.

To me, this gives the right for us to tell each other to get lost. If the other person isn’t going to uphold the Constitution as a contractual obligation to each other, then we have the right to also walk away from it. People talk as though the government exists outside of the people such that if no one operates the government then it still exists, as if there is abinding agreement between each individual and the federal government. There isn’t. It is an agreement between each and every one of us that we shall act accoding to the document called a constitution. It isn’t a magical document. It doesn’t grant any rights we don’t already have. It protects our rights by ensuring the federal government only has certain rights that we grant it in order to help protect our other rights and protect us as a nation.

Everything in (human) life is made up of individuals and you're right, we are (meant) to be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And you're also right that a segment of the people have chosen to ignore the Constitution which as you rightly point out (and many don't understand), does not grant us our God-given rights but protects those rights.

However, we're still dealing with a legal agreement whereby the states delegated some of their power of the sake of a union founded on the constitution. 1700's England and Nazi Germany were also a bunch of individuals, but at some point you have to deal with an entity as such. We must at some point understand as Cicero of old that the enemy within is a greater threat than the external enemy who is known to all. We have to say enough, did as our founders, and prepare for whatever it takes to preserve the Constitution and our freedoms. The states consisting of enough like-minded people are the best vehicles to implement this. If this translates into war with a bunch of individuals, like our first civil war, then so be it. As Lincoln said, may we seek to be in the right as best we can see the right and in doing so, may God help us.

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