Pres. Andrew Jackson, "How, then, can that state be said to be sovereign and independent whose citizens owe obedience to laws not made by it, and whose magistrates are sworn to disregard those laws when they come in conflict with those passed by another?"

   "The states severally have not retained their entire sovereignty.

   "It has been shown that, in becoming parts of a nation, not members of a league, they surrendered many of their essential parts of sovereignty. The right to make treaties, declare war, levy taxes, exercise exclusive judicial and legislative powers, were all of them functions of sovereign power. The states, then, for all these purposes, were no longer sovereign. The allegiance of their citizens was transferred, in the first instance, to the government of the United States: they became American citizens, and owed obedience to the Constitution of the United States, and to laws made in conformity with the powers it vested in Congress. This last position has not been, and cannot be, denied. How, then, can that state be said to be sovereign and independent whose citizens owe obedience to laws not made by it, and whose magistrates are sworn to disregard those laws when they come in conflict with those passed by another?"–President Andrew Jackson, President Jackson’s Proclamation, Of The 10th of December, 1833, Concerning The ordinance Of South Carolina, On The Subject Of The Tariff [Elliot’s Denbates, Vol. IV., Pg. 590-91]

   Now if we can just get the federal government back operating the way it was intended. Then they would go after the states that are disobeying the "Supreme Law of the Land" and the rights secured by that instrument. But, that will only happen if enough of us stand up and MAKE it happen. It is OUR Constitution after all....