From Philadelphia, Samuel Adams writes to his friend Colonel James Warren that the idea of a confederation, or loose political union, among the colonies “is not dead, but sleepeth. To those who believed they would see the confederation completed long ago Adams wrote, I do not despair of it — since our Enemies themselves are hastening it.
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The following day, Samuel’s cousin, John Adams, wrote Warren’s wife, Mercy Otis Warren, and inquired if she would prefer an American Monarchy or Republic. While John declared his own preference for a republic, he wished it only if We must erect an independent Government in America, which you know is utterly against my Inclination. Although he regaled Mrs. Warren with the many virtues of republican government, Adams remained concerned that, there is so much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and Commerce among all Ranks and Degrees of Men even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public Virtue enough to Support a Republic.
Even among the inter-bred social elites of Massachusetts, there was no unanimity of opinion on the political course the colonies should take. Two days after John Adams equivocated over the sustainability of an American republic in his letter to Warren, Thomas Paine published Common Sense and swayed public opinion towards independence. Six months later, Congress charged Adams, by then considered an American Atlas for his passionate arguments for independence, to serve with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Only his knowledge that Thomas Jefferson was the better writer kept Adams from drafting the famed document himself.
Few Americans, including probably all Constitutional “experts”, recognize that the Constitution was written and accepted by the 13 separate and sovereign original (nation)states to create and to limit a new Republican central government. The first 10 amendments were written to regulate and limit the powers of the new government (vis-a-vis prevent another King George situation) and were not instituted to regulate the internal affairs of the original 13 founding states. In other words, the amendments do not apply to the sovereign states themselves.
In order to attempt to sway Americans to believe that the Federal government is the supreme government, the Feds have indoctrinated them to believe that the Bill of Rights dictates to the states what they can and cannot do. The Second Amendment is an outstanding example. It is common practice for gun owners (of which I am a member) to declare that the Second Amendment protects them from state control of weapons. It does not. States such as mine have their own Second Amendment enshrined in our constitution and that serves to protect our gun rights within our state. Other states have become decidedly more gun unfriendly and they have the perfect right to enact gun legislation to control or even eliminate the right to own guns. The Second Amendment simply prevents the Federal government from unreasonable gun control regulation of state citizens.
The Federal government, in an effort to expand and maintain their powers, which in many cases exceed their Constitutional authority, will continue to push the meme that the Constitution gives them the power to regulate the states.
The Founding Fathers (George Mason in particular) foresaw this possibility and gave themselves as sovereign states the power thru Article V of the Constitution to modify the Constitution thru amendment proposals and the ratification process, unhindered by any Federal authority. There are no limits as to what the states can propose and ratify. In the most extreme “nuclear” case they could ratify an amendment to annul all clauses of the Constitution and return all powers to the current 50 sovereign states. The Federal government and the Republic would be no more which would be a nightmare. A more measured approach is to call a Convention of States to propose amendments to strongly limit the powers of the Federal government to just those that make sense in the world of today. Ratification is by the state legislatures only, no governors, supreme courts and especially no Feds would be legally permitted to interfere.
After more than 250 years of “Rascallity”, it is time for the states to bite the bullet and make the changes that Washington, D.C. and the Deep State in particular will never make on their own.