The news just keeps getting inevitably worse everyday as our government continues to commit national suicide.
None of the Federal officials of either party are going to take the drastic steps necessary to stop the runaway national debt issues. They violate the Constitution every day with agencies that spend billions of dollars. They violate key provisions of the Constitution and have no political will to do what is needed to show some fiscal responsibility.
What to do?
How about state sovereignty? How about standing up for the Constitution here in the Commonwealth?
We have authored the Freedom For Virginians Act (FFVA) which creates a framework for the Commonwealth of Virginia to draw a line around the state and tell the Federal government that within our borders, the Constitution is affect. We need courageous state legislators who will stand up to the Federal government on our behalf, which is in the oath all of our state reps swear.
Overview
Freedom For Virginians Act (FFVA)
What Is It? The Freedom For Virginians Act (FFVA) is a proposed piece of state legislation that makes the Commonwealth of Virginia a bastion of freedom and protects the citizens of this Commonwealth from unconstitutional Federal activity.
How Does It Work? The Constitution lays out what exactly the role of the Federal Government is. Its responsibilities are called enumerated powers and listed in Article 1 Section 8. If the Constitution doesn’t designate powers to the Federal Government, the states and the people retain them (under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution.) With the FFVA enacted, Virginians can feel safe exercising completely their rights as protected by the U.S. Constitution because both state and local government will be required to stop the enforcement of anything unconstitutional by the Federal Government.
The sovereign states of this union set up the Federal Government as their agent to handle certain items that could not be efficiently handled by the 13 states separately. They specifically wrote in the document and agreed that the states retained their rights, specifically under the 10th Amendment.
So who determines whether a law is outside the scope of these enumerated powers? Americans have been led to believe that the U.S. Supreme Court makes that determination. They have been misled. The Supreme Court, according to our founders, is only “supreme” regarding cases that stem from the enumerated powers of the Constitution. The Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction in cases where the Federal government is acting outside the Federal Government’s powers as stated in the Constitution. Don’t take our word for it. Read what Thomas Jefferson says in the Kentucky Resolutions.
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia is very clear on two key points: Virginia is a sovereign Republic and that the Commonwealth has a duty to protect its citizens from oppression. This gives the state the right to intercede on behalf of Virginians when the Federal Government oversteps its Constitutional powers and the duty to act to protect the citizens from the Federal government attempting to exercise unconstitutional authority.
The FFVA, in part states:
As a Sovereign state, the Commonwealth of Virginia reserves the right to determine whether any law, regulation, executive order or Judicial Ruling goes beyond the powers vested to the Federal Government by Virginia and the several states that created the United States Constitution. Any laws, regulations, executive orders, Treaties or Judicial Rulings from the United States that the Commonwealth of Virginia deems not within said enumerated powers shall be considered moot and unenforceable within its borders.
Does this mean secession? Absolutely not! The FFVA does not say nor is it intended to mean the Commonwealth of Virginia is leaving the union. That would be secession. The FFVA says that, in Virginia, the Constitution will be followed as written. That adhereance to the supreme law of our land is what every citizen should demand and what every public official takes an oath to do. Unfortunately, no one has been doing it for a long time and that is the reason for the problems we are experiencing today. We intend for Virginia to start enforcing the Constitution again. It isn’t just our right. It is our responsibility.
This is the Civil Rights Movement of the 21st Century. In the 1960s, the Federal Government rightly stepped into the Civil Rights movement on issues likeBrown vs. the Board of Education. Segregated schools and other evils of the Jim Crow South were clear violations of the Equal Protection Clause which gave the Federal Government the right, and more importantly the duty, to step in an protect it’s citizens.
As in the 60’s there is a need for a Civil Rights Movement. Today the villain is not the states, but the Federal Regime that is instituting laws in clear violation of the Constitution and with the express purpose of exercising authority it wants, but does not constitutionally have. Our state officials not only have the right, but the duty, to step up and protect us from that tyranny.
More on the FFVA at our website, including a more detailed summary, historical documents in support of nullification and the full text of our proposed legislation.
