We don't need an Armed Insurrection to recover our Constitutional Government... There are several Constitutional and peaceful roads to reform left untired. However, it will take the several States to do what they have failed to do for several decades. The States must reassert their Constitutional RIGHTS and AUTHORITY as sovereigns in the Republic. The States must assert their soverign right as the primary governing authority, as the creators of the Federal Government, and the founding authority for our Republic.
The States must act on their Constitutional powers to assert their rights under Articles 5, 9, and 10, of the US Constitution to govern as constitutional sovereigns... by doing the following:
1) The States must challenge the legal doctrine of 'Stare decisis' and its usurpation of statutory law... removing unconstitutional rule by Judicial fiat. Unelected federal judges must not be permitted to establish a parallel set of law, known as the Law of the Court. There can be only one law-making authority under the Constitution and that is Congress. Congress is the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government, not the Federal Courts. The findings of the Federal Judiciary must be limited to the case in law before the Court and no others.
2) The States must act in unison to mandate the Federal Government operate within its Constitutional limits... This can be done using several Constitutional means. First among them is the legislative and legal doctrine of Nullification (legislation to void unconstitutional federal law and regulation). The power of State law to nullify federal actions has been upheld by the SCOTUS. ANTI-COMMANDEERING legislation is another legislative tactic that States may use to limit the impact of unconstitutional federal overreach. State legislatures must immediately challenge Federal law, Regulatory, and Judicial overreach, each time it is encountered. The several States must become adept at passing State Statutes that nullify or make it impossible for the federal government to enforce its usurped powers.
3) Finally, and probably the most powerful tool the States have to restrain the Federal Government is found in Article 5 of the Constitution... Under Article 5 of the US Constitution, 2/3rds of the States can petition and require Congress to call a Constitutional Convention. A Constitutional convention whereby the States... not Congress... may propose and ratify Amendments to the US Constitution. Therefore, Let the States use an Article 5 convention to pass a 'Recall and Term Limits' Amendment. Under Article 5 the States have the ultimate power to reform the most egregious and despotic outrages now taking place in the Federal Government. They however must use that power if it is to be effective.
Under Article 5 of the US Constitution, the States can mandate a 'Recall' of every sitting elected and appointed public official using the Amendment process... a recall can occur simultaneously with new elections. The States may limit the terms of ALL elected and Appointed Public Officials to ONE TERM by Amendment. One 6yr term, with 1/3rd standing for election and appointment every 2yrs would go a long way to ending political cronyism and the corrupting influence of lobbyists and money on government. Term limits could extend to all Federal Judges, including the SCOTUS. Any Recall provision should include a restriction against the current members of government holding elected or appointed office again... State or Federal.
We have not yet exercised the Constitutional powers and tools our founders gave us to keep federal overreach under control... or the despots of political parties from destroying the Republic. It is the PEOPLE and their STATE GOVERNMENTS who created the Union and gave us our Constitutional Republic. It is now up to the PEOPLE and the States to assert their sovereign rights as the masters of our Constitutional Government; too, strip the Federal Government of its usurped and unconstitutional powers. We have not yet exercised the peaceful and Constitutional Power given to the People and the States to deal with corrupt and criminal federal officers and government.
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"We have not yet exercised the peaceful and Constitutional Power given to the People and the States to deal with corrupt and criminal federal officers and government."
AGREE!
Anything forceful would be devestating, even descending on DC peacefully is dangerous and unfruitful today, especially under this regime.
We need to act locally, elect people who know, and are willling to act by the state constitution. We need strong governors and AGs and take back our states through the already existing laws.
Exactly, we need to COOPT the GOP and RNC.... throwing out all the RINO's and anyone with questionable loyalty to the Consitution... we need to retake the GOP and use its organization and status as a major party to NOMINATE and run true conservatives for government office at ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT starting with our local precinct or assemblymen and women.
The People and the State Government must strip the Federal Government of ALL OF ITS USURPED and unconstitutional powers.... limiting it to the Constitutional functions found in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. We must remove all federal judges who are incapable fo reading the plain language of the Constitution without becoming confused as to what it is saying... the original meaning of our Constitution must be restored in dividing the powers of government between the States, Federal Governmetn and its agents.
The Constitution can only provide the type of Government and civil liberties it intended if it is followed in its ENTIRETY... all or nothing, as it is independent, upon each branch and constitutional officer doing as dictated by the Constitution... let one branch or officer exceed their authority or abuse their office and the whole suffers.