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A Collection of Essays, Documents and Commentaries
Expounding the State and Federal Relationship
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George
Mason |
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Patrick
Henry |
Thomas
Jefferson |
Nathaniel
Macon |
John
Randolph |
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Robert Y.
Hayne |
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Jefferson
Davis |
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Judah P.
Benjamin |
Robert E.
Lee |
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John R.
Rarick |
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Rosalie M.
Gordon |
William
Flax |
Gordon
Baum |
William
Lord |
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If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates, but let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
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We’re slowly getting this site developed! Our latest addition is a complete transcription of Rosalie M. Gordon’s important 1958 volume Nine Men Against America. This book chronicled the transformation of the Supreme Court from a constitutionally limited body to a “standing constitutional convention.” Miss Gordon begins her review in the late 1930s with the New Deal cases, then offers an unsparing analysis of the revolutionary Brown v. Board of Education decision and key cases in the three years following that severely crippled the rights of the States and the security of our Federal Republic. This book was met by a conspiracy of silence, and was effectively shut out of mainstream distribution. Why was this book considered such a threat? Very simply, it was written in language easily understood by the average citizen. The legalese was stripped away and the Warren Court’s assault on American liberty was laid bare for all to see and understand.
Below is a list of topics that will be dealt with each in their own section, as time permits.
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B A T T L E F I E L D S O F S T A T E S O V E R E I G N T Y
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| The Ninth & Tenth Amendments |
The Federal Reserve & Monetary Policy |
| The Doctrine of ’98 – Interposition |
The 16th Amendment & Federal Taxation |
| The Federal Judiciary |
The 17th Amendment |
| The Commerce Clause |
“Civil Rights” Laws |
| The Electoral College |
The Federal Invasion of Arkansas, 1957 |
| The Treaty Power |
The Apportionment Cases |
| The War Between the States |
Federal Grants-in-Aid |
| The 14th Amendment & “Incorporation” |
The “War on Drugs” |
| The 15th Amendment & Suffrage |
The “War on Terror” |
| State Citizenship vs. “Federal” Citizenship |
Immigration |
Introductory Essays on States’ Rights and Constitutionalism |
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by James J. Kilpatrick
On behalf of the State of Virginia
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The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 & 1799
The key to restoring the principles of the American Revolution.
Hear an excellent address by Thomas E. Woods, author of
The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History
Mr. Woods refutes the Big Lie:
The Supreme Court is not the final interpreter of the Constitution.
The individual States can determine for themselves if the Constitution has been violated!
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One of the most important messages you will ever hear! |
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Dr. Corsi at the CP meeting on Dec. 1.
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The Constitution Party held its National Meeting in
Concord, New Hampshire on December 1-2, 2006. |
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Dr. Jerome Corsi delivered an important address on the North American Union and NAFTA Superhighway which the Bush Administration is arranging behind closed doors. What does this mean for you and your family? What does this mean for the future of our Republic? Find out!
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The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena. The champions of constitutional liberty must spring to the struggle, like armed men from the seminated dragon’s teeth, until the government of the United States is brought back to its constitutional limits, and the tyrant’s plea of “necessity” is bound in chains strong as adamant:
For Freedom’s battle once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
When the war closed, who were the victors? Perhaps it is too soon to answer that question. Nevertheless, every day, as time rolls on, we look with increasing pride upon the struggle our people made for constitutional liberty. The war was one in which fundamental principles were involved; as force decides no truth, the issue is still undetermined, as has been already shown. We have laid aside our swords; we have ceased our hostility; we have conceded the physical strength of the Northern states. But the question still lives, and all nations and peoples that adopt a confederated agent of government will become champions of our cause. While contemplating the Northern states—with their federal Constitution gone, ruthlessly destroyed under the tyrant’s plea of “necessity,” their state sovereignty made a byword, and their people absorbed in an aggregated mass, no longer, as their father’s left them, protected by reserved rights against usurpation—the question naturally arises: on which side was the victory? Let the verdict of mankind decide.
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 President Jefferson Davis
Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government, 1881
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The States have submitted too long to Federal usurpations. At their grave peril, they can submit no longer. Through every device of interposition they can bring to bear—political, legislative, judicial—once more they must invoke their sovereign powers to insist that Federal encroachments be restrained. . . . This awakening of State sovereignty, met at first with mockery and ridicule, will be met next with all the hostility and force that centralists can bring to bear. If this force is to be overcome, the conservatives of this Republic—those who believe in limited government and in individual responsibility—must be prepared to risk those sacrifices which the hour demands.
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James Jackson Kilpatrick The Sovereign States 1957
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The Hour Is Late!.
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GENERAL DISCLAIMER
This Web project is not associated with or endorsed by James J. Kilpatrick, or any other person or organization referenced, cited, or pictured herein. It is presented strictly as an educational resource—user assumes all risk of injury. Nothing we present should be construed as legal advice! There are positions advanced here which, while we are firmly persuaded of their validity, are not offered to suggest a course of action that the current governing authorities regard as illegal, rightly or wrongly.
The best way to fight for the restoration of constitutional goverment in the United States is to join with like-minded citizens—become active in a patriotic group that fights for the States’ Rights position, such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, join the Constitution Party, and also a good gun rights group such as Gun Owners of America. And of course, we should learn everything we can about our Federal Republic and how it’s supposed to work. (We hope this site will help.) Lastly, the Apostle Paul exhorted us to pray for all that are in authority. Our Republic is in desperate trouble, and we need God’s help now more than ever.
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