The state of the union is not what it should be, to say the least. The free, public educational system has turned out a generation, maybe two or more, that have no idea of what an exceptional and near perfect document the Constitution is, and what that has meant in world history. Having been born here and never having to defend our nation against a direct threat to our borders or way of life, those Americans who came of age to vote in the past decade or two have no appreciation of what America has become and what she has done to aid all the people of the world in the 230 plus years of our existence.

Instead, the leftist idealism of social justice and economic equality have been the mantra to which these Americans have been raised. Fairness, above all else, is the perceived goal all the time being a means to the ultimate goal of total power over the people and their lives by the elitist, all knowing rulers.

When Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency he took up the cause of this generation and promised change that would bring a hope of real, tangible equality of all the people regardless of ability or merit. Obama promised what the teachers and professors had always said it should be and these ungreatful, spoiled children of America’s freedoms and greatness believed they could improve America per their ideals and it would be utopia for all. It is because of these two factors of our history, the educational brainwashing and the appearance of Barack Obama on the scene, that we see the Constitution being waylaid, ignored, side-stepped, and ridiculed as ancient, outdated, and in need of overhaul or outright abandonement.

Those of us who were raised by conscientious, responsible parents who taught us the truth about America’s unique history, those who have made their life’s work the defense and security of the people, have, for decades, seen and were worried by the intentional erosion of the government’s adherence to the Constitution, and have been witness to the corruption of our nation’s laws that was so dilligently forseen and excellently provided for in the Constitution.

The federal government has become the very thing the Constitution was written to prevent, a tyrannical collection of elitists competing for the spoils of their wanton fleecing of the people from whom they received their powers. This has been, in large part, due to the ever widening of responsibility the federal government has claimed and the willingness of the people to let them claim it, all in the name of equality. The left column of politicians see the government as being the cure-all and pre-imminent decider of all things, while the right side of the matter believes that the Constitution is near perfect enough to provide, as written, a solution to all needs and misdeeds that our nation will experience. The very basic premises of the Democratic Party, entitlements to the un-entitled, equality of living standards for all, governmental regulation of all things in society, are all in direct opposition to the intent of the Founders and to the word and purpose of the Constitution.

The purpose of the founders was limited government that served the will of the people, guaranteed the safety and sovereignty of the people, and imposed no restrictions not necessary to an orderly, civil pursuit of what each person decided to pursue. Benjamin Franklin said of government that the most ideal form is none at all, but society, being composed of individuals, needed some form of organization if it were to be a successful society. These men, of English heritage, looked upon the parliamentary system of Great Britain as a template of what could be accomplished, and they took the opportunity of being isolated from England to not only rebel against the king’s tyranny, but to break from the empire completely and establish their own society.

This was to be a grand experiment of man’s ability to govern himself without having the onerous royalty handing down privelages and allowances from on high. No time in history had ever seen this bold, assertive process tried, much less succeed. All governing to that time had been by monarchy or empirical conquest, and the rights and privelages handed down at the will of the ultimate ruler. This new nation was going to give the people the authority to govern themselves as they saw fit and as the Creator had given them the inherent right to do. All of the world’s powers were betting that the new nation would fail and become an autocracy, if, and that was a huge if, they could win their seperation by arms against the premier military of the world.

We have only to read the Declaration of Independence to understand the tyranny these British Americans had come to know. English soldiers being quartered in the homes of citizens, writs of action being issued against them with no jurisprudence, taxation of every aspect of life while having no representation in the process, property being seized or destroyed without cause, and, eventually, the attempt to disarm the people and impose harsh retribution for their disloyalty to the king. It was with these circumstances prevailing that the seperation from, and war with England was undertaken.

We know the outcome of that war and we know the Constitution was created to insure that the government would always be subject to the will of the people. The seven articles and ten ammendments of the original Constitution were so constructed that each clause and section was in support of all the rest. Every word of every paragraph was argued over, written and re-written to leave no doubt as to their intention and effect. Men of sound mind and being well educated pondered over what was to be, how it was to be implemented, and how that was in support of the whole. Benjamin Franklin, having seen the divisiveness and stubborness that these men were prone to in their work, after reaching an agreement as to the content of the document, admonished the delegates to not leave from here with the word of conflict and disagreement overcome on their tongues, but to agree to leave for home professing the great sense of cooperation, fair play, and agreement in all things as unanimous so as to give no reason for foes to rejoice in their need to compromise, but to present to all, especially foreign eyes, a spirit of brotherhood, morality, and accomplishment of all they had sought.

We citizens of today have seen the near demolition of the Constitution, not as legal ammendments to it or the repeal of its foundation, but by the re-interpretation of not only what was written and intended, but what "should have been", or was implied to be the meaning and purpose of its text. Where a clause of an article stated the pre-emptory action to be this or that, it has been interpolated to also include this or that was to be done if the clause did not prohibit it. Certain assurances that the government would not become intrusive in the affairs of men have been wrongly enforced as meaning that no man would be allowed to affect the same affairs off limits to government. If it isn’t distictly prohibited, an action by government allowed under other circumstances has been deemed to be demanded under all possible turns of events. But, a bit of insight into the creation of the federal government can be gained by reading the notes and thoughts of those who participated in that creation, and of the grievances filed against the government by the states when they saw the authority of the federals being in opposition to the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson, in drafting the Kentucky Resolutions in 1798, began with why the states had formed the General Government.

This supports in re-affirmation Article 1, Sect 8-10 and the 10th Ammendment to the Constitution, the former granting and limiting the explicit law making power of the congress, and the latter proclaiming that any power not delegated to congress by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Jefferson continues his prosecution of the government with more detail.

In the subsequent resolutions Jefferson proves his case against the federal government, congress specifically, of enacting law which it had not been specifically empowered to enact, and that because congress had overstepped their constitutional powers the laws were invalid, of no power or force of law, and that those powers NOT given to congress were retained by the states or the people.

In the seventh resolution, Jefferson addresses the government’s "construction" of additional, implied power to those parts of the Constitution that were meant to allow some freedom of legislation in their execution of the powers already specified.

Friends, we are not, today, in the same straits that the founders faced. We have no soldiers in our streets to impose laws on the public, much less being made to provide them room and board. We are not, as yet, being arrested for voicing our opinions or opposition to the actions of the government. We are not, as of this date, being subjected to prosecution under whimsically drafted and illegal directives having no force of law. Not yet do we face the tyranny described as being unsufferable as to warrant armed revolt. Not yet. But when that day does come, and I hope it does not, the actions we as Americans take in securing the federal government’s inability to oppress will not be an overthrow of government, but WILL be the dutiful arrest and incarceration of elected officials who acted in direct violation of the law of the land by the authority having the jurisdiction to do so, we, the people. Instead of overthrowing government we will be restoring the lawful restrictions on a government guilty of acting with the color of authority not prescribed to it.

If that time is inevitable, we the people would do ourselves great favor to have predestined the return to power of the last legal officers holding those essential positions only until proper elections can be held. No suspending of the Constitution, no declaration of martial law, no legal battles over the authority of the people to act need be endured by the people. We, the people, having suffered the insufferable for longer than should be suffered, will have the support and sworn allegiance of all patriots to that Constitution we are re-affirming as the law of the land, according to that law of the land.

Until that day comes, if ever it does, we, the people can still act to peacefully regain control of the federal works. We can insisit that our state legislatures adopt resolutions of sovereignty similar to those drafted by Jefferson for Kentucky. We can legally withhold all revenue from going to the feds by establishing the state as our proxy in tax collection. All employers and other sources of revenue for the feds can be made to abide by state laws in their withholding and remittance of that money. Banks can be helpful by not making any transfers of funds by or for the federal treasury. It was the states that created the federal government for limited purposes, and it is the states acting with the authority of the people who can first stop the usurpation of power, indict those responsible for the violations of the law, and re-establish a federal government that is absolutely limited, once again, to the specific roles granted to it by the Constitution. In one fell swoop ALL the entitlement legislation, tax codes, federal bureaus of everything, the SCOTUS, the EPA, all gun control laws, the destruction of religious freedoms, the power of the biased media, all of it, can be eliminated. Just reinstitute the Constitution, as written. It is the Supreme Law of the Land. Let us regain our control of government by obeying, protecting, and defending that which affirms our power to do just that. There can be no effective opposition if we all act in accordance with it.