We are not a secessionist group. Our purpose is to legally and peacefully advocate for political reform to reduce or eliminate the excessive meddling by the US government in the affairs of the several States. We consider secession to be a last resort. For those looking for that, we can tell you where to look. Secession should not be ruled out entirely, but we hope that it won't be necessary.
It's questionable whether the Constitution was legally adopted to replace the Articles of Confederation, since the Articles did provide a method for amending them, but this method was not followed. Apparently, the Constitution was adopted and the Articles were simply ignored from then on. As far as we know, no official action under the Articles was taken to amend or deactivate the Articles or to terminate the Union created thereby. The original 13 States did not officially rescind their approval of the Articles and they did not remove their membership from or otherwise dismantle the American government created by the Articles, they simply adopted the Constitution as well. But the Articles provided that the Union they created was to be perpetual. Therefore, it could be argued that legally, the American government created by the Articles still exists but has simply been covered over by the American government created by the Constitution. But technically, since both were adopted, then both should apply. This could be tricky to apply but it would certainly be interesting to try. The Articles were adopted by the original 13 States. It could be argued whether it was the States or the people, or the individual signers at the Constitutional Convention, or the Convention itself as an implicit organization, or some combination of these, that adopted the Constitution.
Thus, if as postulated above, both the Articles and the Constitution are legally in force, all of the restrictions on government found in either document (explicitly or implicitly) should apply, and only the privileges and powers explicitly and specifically granted to government by both documents should apply, and all of the rights of the individual preserved by either document (explicitly or implicitly) should apply, and only the restrictions on the individual imposed explicitly by both documents should apply (and each such restriction applies only to each individual which consented specifically and explicitly to such restriction). Since the Articles were only adopted by the original 13 States, and no new States or territories were added thereunder, the Articles apply only to those 13 States. Since other States and territories were added via the Constitution (and some even unconstitutionally), and were not properly added under the provisions of the Articles, which are still in effect, they are not legally subject to US rule. And even in the original 13 States, any government privileges or powers granted by the Constitution but not also explicitly granted by the Articles (or vice versa) are null and void. This means that the US government, as it's currently set up and run, is illegal, and therefore null and void.
While this should be fully investigated, that is more appropriately the work of other organizations. Our scope is based on the assumption that the Constitution was legally adopted and that the Articles are irrelevant, and we are concerned with the US government's history of violating the rights of the individual and state and local governments, especially the 10th Amendment and all it implies.
Aside from whether the Articles should still be in force or whether the Constitution was legally adopted, there's a more obvious problem, even if you assume that the Constitution is in effect and the Articles are not. Over the years, the Constitution has been amended, misinterpreted, twisted, circumvented, and then ignored, yielding to the inevitable tendency of governments to grow at the expense of the people and their rights. This process began long before it finally caused the War of Northern Aggression, but the War solidified the Federal government's power and accelerated the process. Certainly by the time of the War, but very likely even sooner, there had been so many key points in American history at which Congress passed laws, Presidents signed them, the Supreme Court made decisions, Constitutional Amendments were made, etc. which violated the Constitution or at least the principles that America was founded upon. These key points need to be researched and indentified, although several are already apparent. Each such unconstitutional action was illegal and immediately null and void. Each President or member of Congress or the Court that participated or acquiesced in these unconstitutional actions violated his oath of office to obey the Constitution, and thereby immediately forfeited his office and authority. Each such person then continuing to pretend to perform his previous government function under such authority became an imposter and thus a criminal. Even if these people cannot all be identified and prosecuted, none of their subsequent actions can be counted as legitimate, even those which otherwise would have been constitutional and valid, because they would no longer have legitimately been in office. Eventually enough of them lost their offices (and were not replaced) that very likely at some point the House, Senate, and Supreme Court no longer had a quorum, and the Presidency also became vacant.
At any rate, this surely happened with the illegal actions of Lincoln and others to gut the 10th Amendment and create a strong national government more powerful than the States and able to rule over the States and the people way beyond the limited Federal authority intended by the Constitution and the Founders. When Federal troops invaded the Maryland legislature and at gunpoint prevented them from voting to secede, and when the US government effectively substituted their own cronies for the Senators and Representatives from the seceding States, these actions comprised an illegal and unconstitutional coup, a takeover of what little was left of the original, legitimate American government. The number of positions stolen this way, when added to the number of positions already lost due to unconstitutional actions before the War, very likely caused most if not all of Congress and the Supreme Court to be subverted, joining President Lincoln in the illegal conspiracy. All acts of Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court from that point on were illegal and immediately null and void, because by then, the government calling itself the UNITED STATES was no longer the original America that the Founders fought and died for; it was a rogue government which had taken over and occupied the legitimate America, initially by attrition and trickery, and finally by force. Under the domination of this illegitimate government, the corruption spread to the States and local governments, because government automatically tends to exceed its authorized powers unless it is constantly restrained.
As a result of all this, the US government has been operating America illegally for probably 150 years or more, and is legally null and void. While all of these issues raised above should be fully investigated, we do not have the resources to do so, nor to mount the appropriate legal challenges (such as civil and criminal action under RICO, breach of contract, etc. against the entire US government and all state and local governments combined), and of course the illegal de facto government would not seriously consider them anyway. Again, this is more appropriately the work of other organizations.
Our approach is based on the assumption that political action (educating the voters and getting them to vote accordingly) could actually work to effectively restore the rights of the individual and state and local governments, under the 9th and 10th Amendment.
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