Let’s step back a few years in American history to a fairly creditable source by the name of Thomas Jefferson. It is safe to say that Mr. Jefferson has a few credits to his name.
Thomas Jefferson was one of several founding fathers that placed one fear above all others: a government with too much power!
Now let’s step forward to 2010 and ask have We the People allowed a government with too much power? YES or NO!
If your answer is NO. Get yourself a one-way ticket to the country of your choosing, you are in the wrong place!
If your answer is YES! Study and get well acquainted with this statement by Thomas Jefferson: there is a “rightful remedy” to the federal government’s uncontrollable quest for power – it’s called Nullification!
You must first understand that what We the People have allowed, done or not done, for the past century has only made things worse and we need to make some changes to correct this mess. The first step is to get out of the government lure that they can fix anything. Look around you! The general government’s failure on so many issues speaks volumes
Nullification is simply the states unplugging from the federal system on anything that is unconstitutional. The true patriots believe this will also involve unplugging from the Federal Reserve and the IRS (where did you, a person, contract to give the Federal Reserve power over your money or the IRS power over your “income?)
Celebrate this Independence Day by making a commitment to step away from the government lure, stop electing wolves in lambs wool, study Nullification, it is quite simple. Leave this Independence Day intact for your children and their children!
God created the People, the People created the States, and the States created the general government! We need to get some real People on state legislatures!
For Liberty!
cross-posted from the Minnesota Tenth Amendment Center
“Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.” –Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800.
Just today I saw elsewhere that somebody had written: "Too large", in 1800, was 13 states and 2.5 million people. Not today's 50 states and 300 million people. And can anybody today deny the "corruption, plunder, and waste"?
"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. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State." — James Madison
I freely admit that I borrowed these quotes from someone else who had posted them today. They seemed to fit.