[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.

[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.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Later.

[CodeToad]

bttt

[kalee]

You did in my home school. :)

[SunkenCiv]

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[GNM]

Too bad it was written BEFORE the Civil War and not afterwards. I do believe that the states that left the Union had to rewrite their state Constitution's.

Wish more states had in fact put such words into their Constitution's. But doubt that today's politicans would enforce such words.

GNM