Virginia Resolution of 1798

Constitution Society ^ | December 24, 1798 | James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

[MichiganConservative]

A warning to the federal government that unconstitutional laws would be nullified by the several sovereign states.

Nullification.

You don't get this stuff in government schools.

[loveliberty2]

Liberty, under the Founders' Constitution, as others have stated, depends upon a virtuous and knowledgeable citizenry.

John Adams stated:"The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the People."

The Founders' principle was LIBERTY. The virtue among the people often referenced by the Founders was linked to this love of liberty referenced by John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:

"Let virtue, honor, the love of liberty . . . be the soul of this constitution, and it will become he source of great and extensive happiness to this and future generations. Vice, ignorance and want of vigilance, will be the only enemies able to destroy it."(Quoted in "Our Ageless Constitution" Essay entitled, "Virtue Among the People" available here

Rediscovering and understanding the principles which made the American Constitution a protection for liberty may be the most important task of our day, and time is running out. The "enemies" already have censored these principles from the nation's textbooks and much of our public discourse.

If every person on this thread and every person involved in the TEA Party movement would commit himself/herself to understanding and then sharing the ideas of liberty with at least 3 people, what a difference that might make! Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny," Schweikart's "A Patriot's History of the U. S.," and Stedman and Lewis's "Our Ageless Constitution" lay out these principles in easy-to-understand language and are an excellent means by which our own "dumbed-down" generations can be exposed to the truly revolutionary principles by which our liberty was obtained.

[RC2]

“exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, and which by uniting legislative and judicial powers to those of executive, subverts the general principles of free government”

All states need to consider this.

[MichiganConservative]

I also like Skousen’s stuff. “The Making of America” should be read by everyone.

[Cboldt]

-- You don't get this stuff in government schools. --

I studied the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions as a junior in High School, in the early 1970's. It was not a class-wide assignment, rather it was a research project assigned to me by by history teacher. I went from not particularly caring about history, to being enthralled by it, literally overnight.

[MichiganConservative]

I think they like it when the students don’t care about their history. Ignorant, fat, immoral, and lazy: the tyrants dream subject.

[Cboldt]

-- I think they like it when the students don't care about their history. Ignorant, fat, immoral, and lazy: the tyrants dream subject. --

The teachers are a mixed bag; but I agree, the vast majority are flaming liberal idiots. I was surprised to learn that my daughter's "science" teacher (10th grade) thinks man made global warming is a junk science hoax.

I don't mean that to be an endorsement of the public education system, or that I don't agree with the premise that schools are, by and large, indoctrination camps for liberal orthodoxy. I'm just relaying a personal observation that there are at least a few teachers swimming against the current.

[loveliberty2]

Yes, and the wealth of documents assembled by David Barton at, as well as the great collection of wonderful resource documents, ebooks, and other materials at Michael Chadwick's site at are places where materials are plentiful.

The point is that each citizen who cares about passing on to future generations the liberty we inherited, has a duty to study and understand by what means that liberty was obtained, and how to preserve it. The counterfeit ideas which dominate academia, politics, and the media today can be exposed, if "the People" arm themselves with truth.

[MichiganConservative]

I don’t think I was specific enough. It seems that the politicians like it when people forget their past, so a new past can be put in its place that serves the politicians. That’s what I was trying to get at.

[MichiganConservative]

Thanks for those links.

[Cboldt]

-- It seems that the politicians like it when people forget their past, so a new past can be put in its place that serves the politicians. --

Oh, yeah. Agreed. Orwell knew the number, and by his writing in these Resolutions, Jefferson did too. Same words, new meaning.

to enlarge its powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter which defines them; and that implications have appeared of a design to expound certain general phrases ... so as to destroy the meaning and effect, of the particular enumeration which necessarily explains and limits the general phrases ...

See, for example "general welfare" and "to regulate commerce among the several states." Yeah, the Republic has been dying for awhile. Heck, it might well be dead, existing in (shell) name only.

[gathersnomoss]

History is now Social Studies.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Later.

[MosesKnows]

for example "general welfare"

The Congress is tasked to provide for the common Defence and general Welfare but only within their Powers herein granted.

Article 1. Section 1.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The general welfare clause does not grant additional powers beyond the Powers herein granted by Article 1. Section 1 and listed in Article 1. Section 8.

[loveliberty2]

You’re welcome. There are others, but those just have so very much content that is original, well-researched, and useful for the battle of ideas about to be waged.

[CodeToad]

bttt

[tet68]

The Founders’ principle was LIBERTY.
The democrat’s principle is government.

If we side with LIBERTY, can we go wrong?
No, I say.
No, say we all.

[kalee]

You did in my home school. :)

[meadsjn]

I also like Skousen’s stuff. “The Making of America” should be read by everyone.

I'm reading The 5000 Year Leap, and find it extremely informative.

Some people who knew Skousen back in the earlier days of his writing say he was a controversial individual, but no one refutes his research and writing.

[SunkenCiv]

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