The struggle against overreach

“Remember there are kids who can’t pray in school. That ain’t my America!”
-- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Our original 13 colonies gave birth to the concept of federalism with a weak central government.  — not the other way around as the current administration would have you think. 
Our country’s roots lie in a powerful distrust of a strong central government. We see just this week the states pushing back against ObamaCare. 
In Virginia, the Attorney General sued the federal government and a federal judge in Richmond (the capitol of the former Confederate States of America) refused to throw it out, and has allowed the suit to go forward. As the AG said, “this is not about health care but the government’s claim that it can tell you what to purchase under the commerce clause of the Constitution.” 
In the state of Missouri voters just approved a state law that reputes ObamaCare as well. 
Proponents of a nanny state will say, “Well, federal law trumps state law.”  Just look at the recent ruling in Arizona with the immigration.  But I would remind them that again the government exists because of the states. 
These arguments we are having right now have been simmering since April 10, 1865.
General Order #9 written by Robert E. Lee begins with the following phrase: “After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.”
But the foremost question that inspired 13 states to leave our young country then was how far could the government reach into the lives and decisions of the states? (If you went to public school you do not know that the importation of slaves was outlawed in all states individually in 1858, effectively killing any long-term survival of that horrible institution.) Thus, slavery was not the issue.
Lee told his Army that they are only giving up because of the lack of resources, not the lack of conviction to the cause of limited government.
If you removed the emotion and asked every American citizen, “do you want the government to tell you what to do?,”  surely the answer would be near 100 percent. All over the country we see rallies, proposed legislation, actual laws, and a pervasive attitude pushing back against this government that we created. 
One by one incumbents of both parties are being eliminated in the primary election process.  It just happened in Michigan this week, to an eight-term lawmaker.  Sure, her son was the mayor of Detroit and is now in prison, but she would have been voted out anyways.  
What I am proposing is continued struggle against the government’s overreach into our everyday lives. Less taxes, less regulation, more individual liberties. As a representative republic we are not ruled by the majority.  It is actually the minority that has more power in our system of government — and that’s not the system of government the Founding Fathers intended.