What we need are some republican men - freeholders with character, ie. men who have internalized and who are living out the cardinal virtues, the capital virtues and the theological virtues, to find their way into office in the respective states and to lead state interposition, state nullification and ultimately if necessary state secession.

There is, however, a problem with my assertion! We no longer live in and have not lived in from nearly 150 years a union of constitutionally federated republics. We live in a Hobbesian state which has a monopoly on coercion and the means to define the limits of its own power. Even if republican men engaged the general government, the usurpation and the rot therefrom are too deep.

I would not put my faith in even a Jeffersonian who managed to rise through the ranks and sit among the nine, life-serving and unelected divines. The court is the heart of darkness of the Hobbesian state. The power would corrupt. You cannot defeat the enemy with the very rings which he has forged.

You are astute and wise. Scalia is a neo-Hamiltonian cheerleader for executive power, despite his consistent originalist record concerning homosexual and abortion "rights" and religious messages in public. We need a Jeffersonian states-rights-oriented Justice, or rather 9 of them.