The nation seems poised on a precipice, ready to plunge into chaos. Each day new laws are passed and Supreme Court decisions rendered that anger ordinary citizens, while partisan politics begin to frustrate and even overwhelm some dedicated lawmakers at the nation's capital; lawmakers who must decide if they will resign, and perhaps take up arms. One by one some leaders and ordinary citizens begin to believe that active rebellion against Washington and its collective mindset, which seems to believe that Congress and the President must run the daily lives of the nation's inadequate citizenry, is the only way to solve the perhaps insurmountable chasm which has developed between the rulers and the ruled. Slowly, and then with increasing speed, states declare refusal to obey legislation signed by the President and . . . one by one states begin to declare independence from objectionable laws, as a new secessionist mindset develops in the Inter-mountain West. Some fear that a new Civil War is not only possible, but inevitable. This time it's not North versus South, but East versus West. As some race to succession and perhaps war, others desperately labor to stop and maybe even reverse the course of legislative arrogance that seems to be driving the nation to war with itself. Can the nation survive another time of brother against brother and father against son, as nanny-state laws seem to leave the unraveling Constitution hanging by a thread?
About the Author: The author, C. Lewis Clark, has been practicing law for twenty-five years and has been a student of history since reading Johnny Tremain as a fourth grader, and politics ever since his high school government class. After the Supreme Court ruled that 18 year olds had the right to vote he was the first 18 year old in his home town to register as a Republican, to the disappointment of his high school civics teacher (county Democratic Party Chairman ) and parents (life-long Democrats). This was in the era where the young were expected to be card-carrying radical leftists. Later in law school he attempted to organize a chapter of The Federalist Society (a conservative legal organization), where he was opposed by the school's administration. Through the years he has maintained an interest in conservative causes and even hosted a television talk show called "Legal Sense and Nonsense," where he, along with a co-host, discussed the law and debated the necessity of state and national legislation. He currently practices law and maintains an interest in history, law, and the rights of man.