NULLIFICATION: The Doctrine that could completely UNRAVEL the 110 year old Federal grab for power.

I realize this is old news to many of you on here who are way ahead of the game on this subject than I am, but I am reading through Tom Wood's powerful and brilliant book right now on the subject and is it just me or is there a real AWAKENING on the subject of NULLIFICATION?

The 10th Amendment is so concise, and so profound:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

The most important words in that sentence, are the last four: "or to the people."

Well, we have been INDOCTRINATED for over a century of this federal monopoly on power, with the states being 'enslaved' to the general government, and the governors and the state legislatures being mere symbolic representations of 'government.'

As near as 5 months ago, this writer was convinced of the same, pretty much ignorant of the role of the states, a once powerful role that has long since been crowded out by the 900,000 pound bloated fat tyrannical unconstitutional BOOR that is the modern federal government.

But I digress. For those of you already there on this, been there done that :-), humor this newbie for a minute with this little exercise:

So CALIFORNIA (and Oregon and other states) are basically saying "F you" to the DEA and the ATF, refusing to submit or cooperate with the federal laws against medical cannabis.

And VIRGINIA, and a few other states have passed overwhelming language in their legislature basically saying "F you" to the monstrous 'Kidnapping Provision' of sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA, and instructing the state and their officials to NOT COOPERATE with the Feds in such an event.

This is NOT NEW, however. But, as Tom Woods points out, this powerful tool has been suppressed.

KENTUCKY and VIRGINIA through Jefferson and others, first introduced it in 1798 to fight against the tyrannical federal Alien & Sedition Acts.

NEW ENGLAND then loudly protested (in the most Hobbesean way: "How dare you criticize the great and powerful OZ").

But those tables quickly turned only 10 years later when, ironically, it was President JEFFERSON himself and then President MADISON, who helped enact disastrous and unconstitutional trade embargoes, thus prohibiting Americans from trading with other countries. People in New England began to starve.

The end result there was a series of NULLIFICATIONS from NEW ENGLAND, including this one from Massachusetts in 1813:

"Resolved: That the Inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, have enjoyed, for its earliest settlement, the right of navigating from Port to Port within its limits and of fishing on its coasts; the the free exercise and enjoyment of these Rights are essential to the comfort and subsistence of a numerous class of its citizens; that the power of prohibiting to its Citizens the exercise of the these rights was never delegated to the general government, and that all Laws passed by that Government, intended to have such an effect, are therefore unconstitutional and void."

You can't get any clearer than that.

Using the foregoing, let us ask these questions in this exercise:

Hey Mr. President!

By whose authority do you have to forbid the state of Florida from drilling for oil in their state waters??

Hey Mr. President!

Show me where you have been delegated the express power from the people to tell North Dakota as to whether or not they want a pipeline coming from Canada, through their state??

Hey EPA!

By WHOSE authority do you tell people where to move their dirt, and then brag about it when you throw them in prison??

Hey Department of COMMERCE!

By WHOSE authority are you even in existence?? Commerce just happens. Thankfully, it doesn't need you. What gives YOU the right to be a department or even exist at all???

Hey Department of the INTERIOR!

By whose authority do you claim that you 'own' all this land??
How does the Federal Government claim to 'own" anything that it has not bought with its 'own' money??
OH...I thought so.
Its not YOUR land, its OUR land. And it doesn't belong to you!

Hey Military Industrial Complex!!

By WHOSE authority do you take money off the backs of taxpayers, to become millionaires and billionaires off of the business of war, all the while, unconstitutionally pushing for conscription enslavement of the nation's youngest and most able to foreign lands, while our national defense, suffers???

By whose authority to you do this??

Hey Federal Reserve!!

Your DAYS ARE NUMBERED...I can promise you that.

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NULLIFICATION is the most IMPORTANT mechanism for restoring life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for America...in the 21st Century.

Just ask all these cats this question: "By WHOSE authority do you do this?"

They can't answer.

This has international ramifications as well (in regards to unconstitutional treaties which are in violation of the natural rights of American citizens).

The answer is simple.

TIME TO NULLIFY.

~Chris
Norfolk, VA