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Framing the debate in a constitutionally illiterate populace will be a trick I suspect.

Exactly so. The simpler the argument, the easier our job will be. Everyone understands "jurisdiction"; and, agree or disagree, most will at least understand the jurisdictional issue at stake in this debate, viz. federal vs. state.

On the surface at least it would appear The States would have the upper hand. Which only seems natural since The States are the nearer governing body to The People.

I couldn't agree more. But that's political theory, and what we need is a practical argument to pound into the heads of public-skool victims. As you know, there aren't enough John C. Calhouns out there to save this nation, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates wouldn't draw enough of an audience today to fill a Yugo.

Our strategy requires an easy-to-wield weapon: a simple, straightforward, easy-to-understand argument with clear and consise points. The battleground should be issues of particular interest to the states engaged (gun manufacture in Montana, offshore drilling in Louisiana, etc.)

It'll be an assault on many fronts, and some states may need to shift ground in order to exploit weak spots. The objective is to force D.C. to retreat on one front or other. Then we use our momentum to exploit the hole, and before you know it, they'll be in full flight and we can regain as much ground as the Founding Fathers left in our possession.

It'll be an assault on many fronts, and some states may need to shift ground in order to exploit weak spots.

Just as they have been doing to us for decades. I've said it numerous times before but I believe it to be absolutely true: The mindsets of conservatives and libtards is so different we might as well be from different planets. Libtards are incessant busybodies who feel compelled to run other people's lives; conservtives just want to be left alone to go about their lives. One mindset is much more conducive to meddling than the other and therefore are the ones always on the attack in their insatiable desire to run things. Conservatives ALWAYS play defense against these simple minded morons. They are, for lack of a better term, control freaks. A form of mental illness is it not? ;^)