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Reply to "Is an 'armed revolution' feasible? An interesteing read...."

Armed revolution shouldn't be on any clear thinking, constitutionaly minded person's radar.

State nullification/interposition and utimatley secession sound like such "radical" ideas today. Leftist, statists, nationalist, etc. have turned these "founding" principles into radical principles for their own political reasons.

But these ideals, along with local government and federalism, were for the most part intended...besides the obvious, individual freedom and liberty...to be a way to "avoid" armed revolution. A "gentlemanly" way to resolve political conflicts. And if those conflicts could not be resolved, we the people, acting through our natural polities, the States, could go our separate ways.

"resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government . . . . and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. . . . that the government created by this compact [the Constitution for the United States] was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; . . . . that this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority"

So certain people will cry racist whenever "States Rights" are mentioned, but the truth is that these ideals are connected to our very founding. These were to be peaceful ways to resolve our differences. Our state governments acting as a defender of our individual rights from the central government through nullification/interposition. That was the "mainstream" way to fight the central government. Secession was the legal, but "radical" response when no other course was left. And we had the natural right to defend ourselves from federal tyranny. Thomas Jefferson said on several occassions to colleagues who were ready for "radical" solutions, that the time has not "yet" come....

So, I'll say again, armed revolution should not even be on anyone's radar. We first have to re-learn what the founding generation gave us as mechanisms to fight central government usurpations of power. Then implement those mechanisms...nullification...interposition.

Of course the founding generation didn't trust the central government to abide by the compact of the Constitution...see the 2nd Amendment.

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