The limits of Federal power: Read this & understand

Properly constructed, the Supreme Court has given us all the tools we need to fight the unlawful expansion of federal powers, and fight it successfully. But for some reason we have ignored incredibly important Supreme Court decisions in forming our strategies and in formulating our court battles.

The Supreme Court has declared, both historically and recently, that the federal government has no authority or jurisdiction over any individual or over any issue that does not involve interstate commerce or over any issue that does not involve federal territory. Congress can pass no laws that govern life or activities within the boundaries of the several States. The President can enforce no laws that govern life or activities within the boundaries of the several States. And the federal courts can punish no individuals who violate these unconstitutional laws.

Americans, and especially the several States, must realize that States Rights has a friend in the current Supreme Court. We must realize that the Supreme Court has established the clear and long-standing doctrine of limited federal authority.

Americans must realize that the federal government can only violate these clear Constitutional limitations when and if We The People voluntarily submit to its unlawful laws and mandates. We must take the responsibility to learn what we must learn and hold the federal government accountable to these limitations, and we must commit the financial resources to finish this battle, or the only option to increasing federal tyranny is revolution.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be... The People cannot be safe without information." -- Thomas Jefferson

Link to article: http://www.freedomsite.net/fedjuris.htm

Also read in association about "The Patriot Movement":

http://www.newhumanist.com/Militia.html

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Federalists -- even ones with guns -- don't scare me, if that's what you're getting at.

Carolab, your comment is generally accurate -- i.e., the Court has been very respectful of states' rights. Except for Bush v. Gore, a pimple on the visage of the Equal Protection Clause.

Only things I would add are: despite the Court's 11th-Amendment jurisprudence, the Commerce Clause still grants extremely broad power to Congress to regulate activity "affecting" interstate commerce. The joke is the Commerce Clause is "as big as all outdoors" under the "affectation" doctrine.

Also, any "federal question" (i.e., a case arising under a federal statute) can always be brought in federal court.