In fact, quite the opposite. Nullification gives the people, through their states, a way to roll back federal overreach short of rebellion or armed violence. It's a safety valve WITHIN the constitutional system, not something to wreck it. As Judge Abel P. Upshure argues in perhaps the best defense of nullification written, it is how we "arrest the progress of evil." Not run away from it.

"Secession, so far from being a form of resistance to usurped power, is the precise reverse; it is neither more or less than a running away from the oppressor."

We are not about destroying the Union. It has its benefits and purposes. We are about restoring the Republic to the vision of its founders, about restoring the proper constitutional balance between the state and federal governments.

"It is not designed to put down the federal government – nor embarrass or impede its legitimate operation, but simply to prevent it from exercising a power which does not belong to it," Upsure wrote in 1833.

I think people who seriously advocate secession should look at their state legislatures and seriously contemplate what they'd end up with. But I digress.

Over the last year, we've seen a drastic change in the landscape in the U.S. People are talking about the Constitution. Two states have passed nullification legislation in one chamber of their legislature. We have lawmakers seriously working to lay claim to their state's sovereignty. We are at the beginning of a wave. I am optimistic that with hard work, we can restore the Republic. It's nowhere near time to talk about destroying it.

You save the final option until you run out of options. We're not there yet.