You are right, if only the humanitarian disguise of these sinister schemes would have been lifted back then!

Seriously, one must wonder, if the Legislators of the past who began the process of giving the Federal Government unlimited power over the states ever envisioned what a swamp of usurpation we would be sinking in today.

I’ve never seen answers to a few essential questions:

1. What was the original intent and understanding of how Article V would work?

2. Do you have any scholarly research work on the history and debate of Article V? (other than just Hamilton’s personal opinion in the Federalist, that is)

3. Do you have any comment that’s related to this article here in particular, or did you just want to pass the information about your website along?

Indeed members of Congress, including Obama, joined against a lawsuit in criminal violation of their oaths of office to so declare they have the right to veto the Constitution. The criminal violation was admitted by their attorney of record before the Supreme Court. See FAQ 9.1 at the FOAVC website for further details.

Terry – excellent point. And the same goes for our rights, which are ours by birth.

Precisely correct! It is, in point of fact, a contradiction in terms the suggestion that state sovereignty can in any way exist alongside an all powerful central authority to which the states must always yield. One of the fundamental laws of logic is the law of non-contradiction (A cannot be non-A), which such a concept palpably violates and is therefore of no legitimate authority whatsoever, which is to say that rational people are in no way bound to observe it nor anyone who propagates such blatantly false illogical conceptions.

It is in fact to destroy even the natural law of self-preservation.

Well, the law itself cannot be destroyed. It can, however, be undermined to the extent that for all intents and purposes (governmentally speaking) it is non existent. And that’s what it invariably comes down to, now isn’t it. Indeed, the law of self-preservation applies as well to the national government as it does to the states and to the people. In asserting unlimited arbitrary power over them, the national government, in point of fact, is destroying itself and the reason for its existence. And we all know what the Declaration says about that — “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [the preservation of the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it…”

Nice article.