Rights don’t come from a constitution, a bill of rights, or any document at all. The Founders held that your natural rights come from your creator - and you have them at birth. They also viewed civil rights as built on a natural rights foundation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
-Declaration of Independence

The right to resist, danger of precedent, division of power: Essential - and totally forgotten - principles that fueled the American Revolution. All drawn from John Dickinson’s totally ignored 1767 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.

4. LIBERTY IS THE FOUNDATION

“Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds----that we cannot be happy, without being FREE----that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property----that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away”

If @GavinNewsom wants to kick some federal ass - rather than just talk tough - here's what he should do first:

End all "material support and resources" to the NSA - or any federal agency engaged in mass, warrantless surveillance.

There's already a law on the books in California to get the ball rolling on this, the "4th Amendment Protection Act" - and it just needs two small amendments to give it the punch it needs. Amendments needed to CHAPTER  32.5. The 4th Amendment Protection Act:

First, simply remove the words “in response to a request.” Second, replace the requirement for “actual knowledge” with a specific definition of an illegal search.

“The state shall not provide material support, participation, or assistance to a federal agency or an employee of a federal agency to collect the electronically stored information or metadata of any person unless one or more of the following circumstances apply: (a) The person has given informed consent. (b) The collection or use of the electronic data or metadata is pursuant to a warrant, based upon probable cause, that particularly describes the person, place, or thing to be searched or seized. (c) The collection or use of the electronic data or metadata is in accordance with a legally recognized exception to the warrant requirements.“

Using a constitutional amendment to enforce what's already the supreme law of the land under the constitution - no congressional power to regulate purely INTRAstate commerce - is something that James Madison, for example, vehemently rejected.

Here, from Federalist 50 - responding to the idea of calling conventions to enforcement:

"I confine myself to their aptitude for ENFORCING the Constitution, by keeping the several departments of power within their due bounds, without particularly considering them as provisions for ALTERING the Constitution itself.

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In the first place, a distant prospect of public censure would be a very feeble restraint on power from those excesses to which it might be urged by the force of present motives. Is it to be imagined that a legislative assembly, consisting of a hundred or two hundred members, eagerly bent on some favorite object, and breaking through the restraints of the Constitution in pursuit of it, would be arrested in their career, by considerations drawn from a censorial revision of their conduct at the future distance of ten, fifteen, or twenty years? In the next place, the abuses would often have completed their mischievous effects before the remedial provision would be applied. And in the last place, where this might not be the case, they would be of long standing, would have taken deep root, and would not easily be extirpated." One of our first Supreme Court justices was quite clear on how the people need to deal with usurpations of power -

"The only resource against usurpation is the inherent right of the people to prevent its exercise"
-James Iredell

Keyword: ONLY.

"In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself."
-James Madison, Federalist 51 Here, James Madison builds on his arguments in Federalist 46 - pointing out that states are part of the checks and balances - and act as a check on federal power.

Lawyers, unsurprisingly, have often told us "this is an extremely dishonest reading of Federalist 51. One reason given today was because "Hamilton in Fed 33 maintained that federal power must be supreme over the states."

What’s the fastest way to get a Republican to start sounding like Nancy Pelosi when it comes to the constitution and the Founders?

Talk to them about the founders views on foreign policy and war powers under the constitution.

“those guys have been dead for two centuries, they don’t get a vote.”

“the constitution isn’t a suicide pact”

“the founders couldn’t have anticipated what we’re facing today” Don’t play patty cake with these people. They are not your friends or your allies. They are your enemies, just like Nancy and her ilk.

States and individuals can stop the #pistolbrace rule – without waiting for the feds to magically do something they almost never do – limit their own power.

It'll take hard work and good strategy. The latter, we’ve got from James Madison. @michaelboldin

@michaelboldin Writing in Federalist 46, James Madison gave us a 4-step blueprint to stop federal programs - without waiting on the federal government to stop itself.

Implementing this plan, he wrote, "would oppose, in any State, difficulties not to be despised; would form, in a large State,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

June 12, 1775 - The British make an offer: Give up your guns and give up your friends - and we’ll give you peace? No deal for gun control said the Patriots. And it’s an attitude modern Americans would do well to heed. @michaelboldin

NO DEAL for gun control! Watch the show on @rumblevideo

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"Voting the bums out" was never the proper strategy for dealing with a federal government that doesn't stay within the bounds of the Constitution.

And it never will be.

Resist. Refuse to comply. Nullify. “The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”
-Samuel Adams

How the Emergency of 1929 and its Aftermath Revolutionized America. #EndtheFed Thread 1/15

"The stock market crash in 1929 provides an excellent example of how an emergency or crisis can be used to revolutionize a society permanently and destroy liberty and well-being in the process." @JacobforLiberty

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