Section 1. Popular sovereignty. All political power is vested in and derived from the people. All government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.

Section 2. Self-government. The people have the exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state. They may alter or abolish the constitution and form of government whenever they deem it necessary.

While I don’t think anything worse that a few grumpy people will come of this situation, it will change how people feel about the federal goverment. People in Montana don’t like the federal goverment getting in our way. Everytime the feds do somthing like this it give us another reason to hate them, and we come one step closer to saying “Screw it, you’ve become more of a problem than your worth. We are done.”

Oh, and did I mention that we like guns?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK9KuIiugT4

Asking that the lower courts take some vague sounding dicta over controlling precedent is asking for a lot. That might give me a glimmer of hope otherwise. But the case law on this is pretty clear and not terribly ambiguous.

SAF if nothing else is a past master at fund raising.

This wave of interest across the Nation is what the federal judiciary calls “emerging consensus” and will play an important role in validating the principles of the MFFA.

Consensus is very important … what if 10 states pass such a law? Twenty? Thirty?

Also and as an aside, I don’t like how the SAF and MSSA discuss this as an issue of “state’s rights.” Frankly, there is no such damned thing as the “rights” of a government at any level. There are powers. This is a 10th Amendment issue, and the 10A doesn’t mention state’s “rights.”

Amendment 10 – Ratified 12/15/1791
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.