If The Constitution Falls, the States Must Rise Up; Not in Secession, but in Constitutional Loyalty.

If the Build Back Bett-oops, I mean the Big Beautiful Bill passes, State representation will be lost, and no taxation can commence without it.

The current presidential administration of the United States, led by trump and his billionaire band of fascist flunkies, has abandoned the Constitution. What we’re experiencing isn’t just authoritarian drift, it’s a full-blown legal collapse. A rogue government operating under the illusion of legitimacy. A lawless executive no longer bound by the very founding document he swore to uphold, legalized by an incompetent Supreme Court, and legitimized by a limp Republican Congress.

That being said, these States have a decision to make. Immediately, because the questions are numerous: What happens when the First, Second, and Fifth Amendments no longer constrain the government? When freedom of the press is crushed in legal battles? When protesting is criminalized with soldiers on patrol? When dressed up and masked agents are dragging innocent people off the streets in unmarked vans to who knows where? When ICE becomes a domestic Gestapo that laughs and scoffs at the idea of due process?

That’s not hyperbolic or theatrical, that’s now. Today.

The Constitution can’t be a decorative scroll you can brush aside. It’s literally the foundation of all legal authority in this country. If a president is actively breaking it, deporting people without hearings, activating national guards and ordering them into states without governors consent, weaponizing federal power against political enemies, and more, then we’re not operating under Constitutional law anymore. We’re operating under rule by force.

So what happens next?

If the federal government is violating the Constitution, then States are not just allowed to disobey, I argue they are Constitutionally obligated to, because disobeying this illegal administration would be adhering to the supreme Law of the land. In fact, the States may be the last true line of defense.

A State like Illinois or California should argue: “We are legally bound by our oath and pledge to the Constitution, the supreme Law of the land, and can no longer participate in, and reject this administrative government as illegitimate to that Constitution.” Not as a rebellion, but as legal fidelity to the original and fundamental Law of the land. The problem isn’t America, its laws, or its people. The problem is the illegitimate regime claiming to run it, and how far from the Constitution they’ve already gone, with no plans to slow down.

It’s not secession, it’s Constitutional loyalty.

This kind of break would send a message: We the States are NOT leaving the Constitution. We ARE leaving the people who have already abandoned it.

And if that seems radical, ask yourself: what’s more radical than a government that ignores its own laws?

What About the National Guard?

Let’s be clear: the National Guard doesn’t belong to the president. It belongs to the governors, and to the States. That’s the entire point. When the president activates the National Guard, it morphs into part of the federal military, but if governors resist that federalization, those troops are supposed to answer to their State. This may surprise some of you, BUT THIS IS THE GOVERNORS SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT. In my humble opinion, activating the national guard over the objection of its Governor is a direct violation of a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State. It is a violation of the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, which shall not be infringed. Hey…that sounds familiar!

So if trump calls up the Guard and uses them as shock troops against American citizens, as he’s already hinted he would, then governors have not only the right, but the duty to refuse. The question is: will they?

That’s where this all gets dangerous.

Because if governors won’t stand up, and the courts are too slow, and Congress is too scared, then we reach the final, darkest check on power of the American experiment: We the People, with nothing left but the rights given to us by the document we’ve built every power and principle on. The document that maintains We the People hold the power and make the decisions, no one else.

And that’s where the Second Amendment argument comes in, because we must recognize that when the government becomes tyrannical, there will be no one left to stop it except the very citizens it was supposed to serve. Taking control of any States private militia is a direct violation of the Second Amendment, and it’s time the Democrats made that case.

So Where Does This Leave Us?

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: if the Constitution is being shredded in real time, then the legal authority of the federal government collapses with it. In that vacuum, the States, and the people, become the final arbiters of legitimacy.

The army is supposed to defend the Constitution. The Congress is supposed to write up new laws to it. The courts are supposed to hear arguments over it. The governors are supposed to preserve it. And the president is supposed to execute it. If all of them fail, then We the People must stop the bleeding.

Not in some abstract patriotic sense. But in the very real, very painful process of resisting an unlawful regime.

That’s not revolution. That’s legal self preservation.

Because if we aren’t prepared to act, the next document we’ll be governed by won’t be the Constitution. It’ll be the trump Doctrine: cruelty for cruelty’s sake, power without limits, and punishment as policy for anyone who disagrees.

If we truly believe in the Constitution, then we must act like it still means something, even if this government doesn't. The States must choose. The People must choose. And the choice must always be the Constitution, because history will not remember neutrality as anything but complicity.