Should States Leave The Union? Or Would An Article V Convention Of The States Be Better?

If What This Lawmaker Said is True, The Rebellion Against Obama Might Explode

In the wake of the Scottish referendum on independence from the United Kingdom, talk of secession in America has increased.

In fact, a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that nearly 25% of American people are supportive, or at least open to the idea of their state seceding from the Union.

The movement has exploded inTexas, and there are multiple groups across the country that are pushing for secession, most notably in northern California, northern Colorado, and western Maryland.

WND is reporting on a state lawmaker from New Hampshire who has written a book about states rights, state sovereignty, and the right of states to secede from the Union.

Republican Representative Dan Itse says the founding documents of our country are supportive of state secession as a last resort against tyranny, pointing to the careful use of words like “state”, “union”, and how the union is only held together by the consent of the governed.

“The Founders stated in the Declaration that a people have the right to throw off tyranny. They would not have put themselves in a position where they would have to resort to arms if they couldn’t do it legally,” Itse said.

Itse discusses how the clearly delineated powers of the federal government, as laid out in the Constitution, are derived solely from the people.  No law or treaty that usurps the Constitution, or those powers, is valid.

He also says that the same holds true for Executive Orders coming out of the White House.

“The president has no authority to make law himself or to write an executive order that changes or nullifies any act of Congress,” he said. “He can write an order telling the members of the executive branch to follow the laws of Congress, but he has no authority to tell any person to do anything.”

It all comes down to the people and the states realizing that all power ultimately rests with them.  The government relies on the consent of the governed, and if the governed remove their consent of the government, said government no longer holds any legitimate authority or power.

Secession is a huge step, one that many people are not yet ready to consider, much less take.  People need to start putting immense pressure on their local and state governments and representatives, letting them know in no uncertain terms that they demand our federal government abide by the Constitution and the laws, before their actions push the people past the point where they remove their consent.

Should such an effort fail, and if voting the bums out continues to not work, options become increasingly limited.  There is the Article V Convention of the States movement, which would propose and add amendments to the Constitution, designed to rein in the federal government.  However, since the feds haven’t been following the Constitution already, what would make them begin to follow it now, or even to follow new amendments that they had no involvement in creating?

The very real threat of states leaving the Union may be the last and only recourse available to the people and the states to whip our federal government back into shape.