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For many leading founders - from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Adams - one amendment was not only the “foundation of the constitution,” but also “the Palladium of the private, and personal rights of the Citizens.”

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For James Madison, the people of the several states were both the source of all power - and thus the ultimate solution to usurpations - but at the same time, the source of many of the problems due to the tendency towards factions - ultimately leading to the majority trampling on the rights of the minority.

The largest government in history is not even remotely close to the system the founders set up under the Constitution. Things didn’t get like this overnight - and there’s a root cause for why it’ll keep getting worse. Understanding it is to also understand the solution.

Thanks to a growing number of unconstitutional federal programs, local law enforcement in almost every jurisdiction has been drawn in as tools of a national police state the founders would’ve despised. But states aren’t required to participate, even under modern precedent. Here are 5 big areas where they can simply opt out and help bring this unconstitutional national police state to an end.

Understanding nullification - what it is and what needs to be done - is far easier when you have a good understanding of these foundational principles underlying it.

Just 9 years after Thomas Jefferson called for nullification of the Alien and Sedition Acts - states and individuals took the same kind of strategy against his Embargo Act - signed by Pres. Jefferson in late 1807 - and a series of follow up acts to beef up enforcement of it.

Few areas from the Founders - if any - have been more widely rejected and misunderstood than their views and advice on foreign policy. Grasping their approach means understanding where it comes from as well.

For many of the founders, property rights were the foundation of all the others. James Madison took things even further, arguing that people not only have a right to property, but also a property in their rights - tying property rights, self ownership and all natural rights together.

One of the worst years ever, 1913 gave us the tools that support the largest government in history.