The Powers Not Delegated

The several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government.
Thomas Jefferson

Nullification
The real way to resist DC is not by begging politicians and judges in Washington to allow us to exercise our rightsits to exercise our rights whether they want to give us permission to or not.

Nullification state-level resistance to unconstitutional federal laws is the way forward.

When a state nullifies a federal law, it is proclaiming that the law in question is void and inoperative, or non-effective, within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as that state is concerned.

Its peaceful, effective, and has a long history in the American tradition. Its been invoked in support of free speech, in opposition to war and fugitive slave laws, and more.

Regarding nullification and health care, theres already a growing movement right now. Led by Arizona, voters in a number of states may get a chance to approve State Constitutional Amendments in 2010 that would effectively ban national health care in their states.

20 States resisting DC can do what calling, marching, yelling, faxing, and emailing has almost never done. Stop the feds dead in their tracks.

For example, 13 states are already defying federal marijuana prohibition, and the federal government is having such a hard time dealing with it that the Obama administration recently announced that they would no longer prioritize enforcement in states that have medical marijuana laws.

Better yet, in the last 2+ years more than 20 states have been able to effectively prevent the Real ID Act of 2005 from being implemented. How did they do that? They passed laws and resolutions refusing to comply with it. And today, its effectively null and void without ever being repealed by Congress or challenged in court.

While the Obama administration would like to revive it under a different name, the reality is still there with massive state-level resistance, the federal government can be pushed back inside its constitutional box. Issue by issue, law by law, the best way to change the federal government is by resisting it on a state level.

Thats nullification at work.

Over the years, wise men and women warned us that the Constitution would never enforce itself. The time is long overdue for people to start recognizing this fact, and bring that enforcement closer to home.

The bottom line? If you want to make real change; if you want to really do something for liberty and for the Constitutionfocus on local activism and your state governments.

Thomas Jefferson would be proud!