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The Patriot Post® · The Virginia Model for a Constitutional Confederation of States
By Mark Alexander · Jan. 22, 2020
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/68076-the-virginia-model-for-a-constitutional-confederation-of-states-2020-01-22
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” —Tenth Amendment1 (1791)
Unless you’ve been sequestered on the dark side of the Moon, you’re undoubtedly aware of the massive race riots and murderous gunfights that took place outside Virginia’s state capitol on Monday. At least that’s what the state’s governor, Ralph “Blackface” Northam, and his Leftmedia2 echo chamber were hoping would happen at Monday’s Second Amendment3 rally.
Declaring a state of emergency ahead of the annual Virginia Citizens Defense League gathering in Richmond, Northam claimed, “State intelligence analysts have identified threats and violent rhetoric similar to what has been seen before other major events such as Charlottesville.”
For the record, the victim in the Charlottesville unrest4 was run over by a car — caught in the middle of a battle between thugs from the fascist “antifa5” movement and thugs from the so-called alt-right. Northam should have instead issued a diktat banning all vehicles from the capitol grounds.
Taking Northam’s bait, media outlets were breathless in their warnings. As National Review’s Jim Geraghty noted6:
NBC News: “As gun rights rally looms in Virginia, Richmond residents fear another Charlottesville.” Axios: “As Richmond braces for hate, Americans say race relations are getting worse.” The Associated Press: “State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that’s expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond.” MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin reported during the gathering, “Right now thousands of gun-rights activists, white nationalists, militia groups [are] all swarming the Virginia state capitol in Richmond.”
As it turned out, more than 20,000 citizens gathered at the capitol, some heavily armed, as is their inherent and unalienable right. But despite all the leftist and Leftmedia predictions, not a single shot was fired7.
I call that “a well-regulated militia”!
The only mention of “white supremacists” at the rally was from black Second Amendment advocates in attendance, who debunked the phony racist narratives being perpetuated by Northam and the MSM.
Defense League President Philip Van Cleave observed: “It’s almost like they want something to happen. It sounds crazy, but they keep [predicting trouble] and you have to start wondering if that’s intentional.”
For his part, Donald Trump8 praised the 2A advocates, asserting, “Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away.”
After socialist Democrats9 from the populous suburbs of Northern Virginia gained a majority in the General Assembly10 last November, they and Northam have been on a singular mission to disarm11 the Commonwealth’s law-abiding citizens. In response, more than 100 Virginia counties and cities have passed resolutions establishing 2A sanctuaries12, declaring their commitment to uphold our Constitution’s prohibition of government interference with Second Amendment rights, and declaring they would not enforce gun-control laws passed by the legislature.
Virginia is thus at the forefront of states, counties, and municipalities passing laws or resolutions to prohibit or impede the enforcement of unlawful and unconstitutional actions, in effect giving the Constitution itself sanctuary. This is not to be confused with the Left’s lawless and dangerous illegal-immigrant sanctuary13 movement, whereby certain states, counties, and municipalities are prohibiting or impeding the enforcement of lawful and constitutional actions.
Northam and his ilk received a quick lesson on “the law of unintended consequences” after they arrogantly attempted to undermine the rights of the people14. It is grimly ironic that their anti-constitutional efforts are taking place in the shadow of that state’s extraordinary Founders, George Washington15, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Oh, and in a state whose motto is “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” meaning death “thus ever unto tyrants.”
I would fully expect Northam et al. to challenge Virginia’s 2A sanctuary movement16, all the way to the Supreme Court.
The reaffirmation of our Constitution in Virginia and other states attempting to give sanctuary to Liberty and Rule of Law is, I think, a good place to reintroduce a concept I proposed 20 years ago as part of what is now our Patriot’s Primer on American Liberty17.
That concept: “A Constitutional Confederation of States.”
My proposal, then as now, would be to pursue a grassroots-inspired18 Constitutional Confederation19 — an alliance of those states that are not urban-leftist mob ruled, whose delegations could assemble to affirm the authority of our Constitution in order to provide broader sanctuary for the Rule of Law20 it enshrines — in effect, re-ratify our Constitution and reaffirm its supremacy as law.
If we’re to fully restore Liberty and the integrity of our Constitution, we must do so from the bottom up — a groundswell from grassroots Americans if it is to be enduring. We must start at our foundation, speaking with one disciplined, determined, and unified voice toward one primary objective: the reestablishment of Rule of Law.
“Constitutional Confederation” is a more complicated sanctuary concept than those alliances being formed to defend the Second Amendment, but a good starting place would be with those organizational alliances because their mission is, ultimately, the same — protection of the Constitution. An initial objective could be to obtain resolutions from the 27 Republicans governors now in office and county resolutions in the remaining 23 states, such as Virginia, with statist Democrat governors.
The initial purpose would be to educate our fellow citizens on the point that our Constitution21 established a Republic and is intended to reflect the consent of the governed — a nation of laws as opposed to the rule of men22. Article IV, Section 4 states unambiguously, “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government.”
A Confederation of States should rise to demand no less than the standard our Founder’s set forth in our Constitution and affirmed in its Bill of Rights23 as “Article the Tenth,” the Tenth Amendment1: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
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