"Yankee" or "Yank" is slang for any

"Yankee" or "Yank" is slang for anyone from the United States and a Patriot is someone who feels a strong support for their country, or even a love. Some patriots will defend their country in war, and even die.

What We Believe
We Believe that the Federal Government is too big. The founding fathers would not recognize today's federal government ("FedGov"). They never imagined that any government purporting to follow the rules set forth in the Constitution could ever grow to be so large and intrusive as the one in Washington, D.C.

We Believe that most powers of FedGov rightly belong to the states. The States delegated only certain, limited powers to FedGov and retained all others. There is no constitutional authority for much, perhaps most, of FedGov's activities.

We Believe the States are the "boss" of FedGov, not the other way around. As boss of FedGov, the States should ensure that FedGov follows the rules for its operation as set forth in the Constitution.

We Believe that the problem of unceasing FedGov expansion is the Supreme Court's practice of "Judicial Review." The legislative and executive branches of FedGov exercise unconstitutional powers and the judicial branch of FedGov gives its approval, declaring that each new power FedGov grants itself is a valid Constitutional power. Determining the constitutionality of FedGov laws and regulations is not a power granted to FedGov.

We Believe that the States are the rightful arbiters of constitutionality questions. The States wrote the Constitution and the States, not the hired help, should determine what it means.

We Believe that the States have not only the right, per the Tenth Amendment, but the duty to prevent FedGov from acting unconstitutionally. The States owe it to their citizens to ensure Constitutional government.

We Believe that the States should put into place mechanisms allowing citizens to challenge unconstitutional laws. These might include findings of a state's legislature or citizen-originated petitions.

We believe the adage: "That government is best which governs least."

We believe that "Constitutional law," as we know it is based on the fiction that the Supreme Court should be deciding what is and is not constitutional.


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What We Are Not
We are not "anti-government." Government is necessary to maintain a civil society and ensure equal protection of the laws for all citizens. We are, however, anti-unconstitutional government. We're anti-bad-government. We're anti-bloated, wasteful, too-intrusive government.


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What We Need To Be Doing
We MUST be working within the system to change the system and work to return usurped powers to the states.

We MUST raise public awareness. Thinking and talking about the rightful place of FedGov with regard to the States — the boss / hired help relationship.

We MUST educate state & local legislators. Most state & local legislators probably do not realize that they are the "boss" of FedGov. After all, given FedGov's behavior, FedGov apparently thinks it's the boss.

We MUST provide resources for others. Provide the information and tools that others can use both to raise awareness among friends and acquaintances, and to communicate our goals to their own state & local legislators.


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What We Should Not Be Doing
Advocating the overthrow of the government of the United States of America. We want only to rein it in and return it to its Constitutionally delegated duties.

The federal government routinely violates constitutionally-protected rights of both its citizens and of the states making up the union. The legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government are all guilty. We are to the point where government sees no practical limits on its actions. Unless something is done — and soon — the United States of America is doomed as a republic. In compressed form, here's what this site covers.

It is far too easy to pass unconstitutional laws.
It is practically impossible to repeal unconstitutional laws.
There are many unconstitutional laws on the books.
The Supreme Court has permitted vast, unconstitutional expansions of government power.
We need a mechanism, outside of the federal court system, to invalidate unconstitutional laws.
It is the right and responsibility of the states to provide that mechanism.
The problem can be remedied, but only by changing the way we pass laws and the way we determine whether laws are in fact Constitutional or not. To understand what's needed to fix this very broken system, we must first understand how we got into this mess in the first place.

Here are three questions to ask yourself:

1. Does the Constitution empower the Supreme Court to judge the constitutionality of federal laws and regulations, and uphold or strike them down as the court sees fit?

2. Does the Constitution prohibit the states from determining the constitutionality of federal laws and regulations, and uphold or strike them down as they see fit?

3. What does the Constitution have to say about the powers not delegated to the United States federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States?

The answers to the above questions are these:

1. No. The powers of the U.S. Supreme Court are listed in Article III, Section 2. There is no mention of judging the constitutionality of laws and regulations in Article III, Section 2.

2. No, the Constitution does not prohibit the states from exercising this power. In fact, nowhere in the constitution is the judging of laws to be constitutional or not even addressed.

3. For this answer we refer to Amendment X which states: "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."

Ask any 'Constitutional Scholar' the above three questions and you should get the same three answers. Given the foregoing three irrefutable facts, it is reasonable to conclude that the power to review federal laws and regulations as either being in accordance with the Constitution or not is a power "...reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Take Back The Power

Whereas the States and the People wrote the Constitution of the United States, creating the government of the United States of America and delegating to it certain, limited powers; and

Whereas the government of the United States of America has enacted many laws which are repugnant to the Constitution of the United States; and

Whereas the government of the United States of America has vastly exceeded the limited powers delegated to it by the Constitution; and

Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States has upheld these unconstitutional acts; and

Whereas the government of the United States of America has demonstrated that it cannot be trusted to limit itself to those powers delegated to it by the Constitution; and

Whereas judging the constitutionality of laws is not a power delegated to the government of the United States of America by the states; and

Whereas judging the constitutionality of laws is not a power prohibited to the states by the Constitution;

Be It Resolved that the States and the People find it necessary and proper to exercise their reserved powers to determine the constitutionality of the laws, rules and regulations enacted by the government of the United States of America, and to prevent enforcement of any which they find to be unconstitutional.


NOW GET OUT THERE AND ACT