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No more “fringe” than our founding fathers. I believe that our federal government should stick to those areas of responsibility that Article I, Section 8 and the 9th and 10th amendments limited it to. Everything else should be left up to state and local governments.

You leave up the interpretation of the Constitution to the Supreme Court (which was not even empowered by the Constitution to decide the Constitutionality of laws) but Thomas Jefferson, one of the earliest advocates of nullification (Read his KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS), warned us about relying on these unelected federal officials to protect us about the growing power of the central government:

” ... the Federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.

“When all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.” - Thomas Jefferson (1821)

The Conservative movement of the 20th century advocated states’ rights and limited government but the movement had a detour where it approved of central government infringement as long as it was for policies of its approval. The problem is, in doing so, you abandon the principle behind states’ rights and limited, Constitutional government.

And on a forum called “FREE REPUBLIC” we have so-called “conservatives” who advocate virtually no Constitutional restrictions (all it takes is majority approval and a judical wink and nod) and a dismissal of states’ rights and limited government. It’s a bastardation of the conservative movement.