ESSAY: State Legislatures Have the Power to Resist Federal Tyranny

Gateway Pundit ^ | 11-14-23 | Chris Alexander

[SeafoodGumbo]

America’s Founders fought a bloody revolution in order to escape the “absolute despotism” to which they had been reduced under the hereditary monarchy of the British government, a system that Thomas Paine said “laid the world in blood and ashes.” After that revolution was won, the Founders’ singular focus was to create a republic that would safeguard individual freedom and state sovereignty by vesting only limited, specifically enumerated powers in a federal government. The Constitution’s first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights), Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, as well as the Ninth and Tenth Amendments establish clear limitations on the power of the federal government and make clear that all power not specifically delegated to the federal government remains with the people, and the individual states.

Under our constitutional system, federal power is the exception, not the rule. As James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution”, wrote in Federalist Number 45, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” An observer of the massive, often unchallenged federal overreach occurring in 2023 America who knew nothing about our Constitution or history would be surprised to learn this fact.

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[chopperk]

Prove it.

[Lurker]

How quaint. The author still thinks the Constitution is operative.

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[central_va]

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.

---Jefferson Davis

[central_va]

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

--Jefferson Davis

[Secret Agent Man]

The states are sovereign.

States may attempt to secede.

The other states may attempt to say nope.

If the attempting secession state(s) are successful, they will secede.

Both sides have interests. Both sides have reasons. Some reasons are better than others.

[SeafoodGumbo]

I hope they do start proving it, especially if groups of states banded together to defy the federal government. We’ll see.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I read once that under the terms that Texas agreed to upon entry to the union, they have the right to succeed. Also the right to subdivide into 6 states...

Anyone know more about this?

[Alter Kaker]

Nullification? I thought Andrew Jackson did away with that silly notion by threatening to hang John C. Calhoun. If not, it died at Appomatox.

[itsahoot]

Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...

Gravity is an observabile fact, the scientific explanation of it is a theory.

[Ronald77]

It is but we need to stand up and demand what IS ours, and not let the government dictate. It is our own fault by voting weak self serving men and women into government positions of power and then wine when they limited our rights.

[cowboyusa]

The Union was founded by agreement of all the States. The Union is older than the Constitution. The Unired States is and always has been a Nation, and both the Articles of Confederation and Constitution forbid Secession. If old Andrew Jackson has been President in 1861, the war would have been over in a few months.

[DIRTYSECRET]

They wouldn’t in Wisconsin and Penn.

[cowboyusa]

Not sure what you mean. Lincoln was a bungler. Jackson would have found a General like Sherman right away.