Democracy and Power 101: Government is power When protesting the expansion of federal power, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration and Protest of Virginia and stated that rupture from the Union would be a calamity. However, “There is yet one greater, submission to a government of unlimited powers.”

Democracy and Power 101:  Government is powerGovernment is not, as some people like to say, a necessary evil; it is not an evil, but a means, the only means available to make peaceful human coexistence possible.  … Ludwig von Mises

Moral and Legal Authority

It's pretty clear to most folks who pay even a little attention to freedom, individual liberty, and other good things that an insurance mandate may run afoul of a little thing many of us miss called the Constitution.  Numerous activists have called asking about this, more have commented through the website, and all of us know that, should ObamaCare pass, there will definitely be a constitutional challenge. 

Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation writes: As you read this, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and officials of the Obama administration are in a room at the Capitol rewriting health care policy. The American people aren’t invited. Only a few lobbyists, Obama czars and liberal Senators have even been allowed to see this bill.

Four New Hampshire State Representatives have sponsored a bill to affirm “States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.”  Some of the bill’s text is copied below including a description of what “shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the government of the United States of America.”  It looks like some folks in New Hampshire are willing to fight to keep their guns and their rights.