Hold all officeholders accountable to their fidelity to the Constitution. All officeholders swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States (and, except for federal officials, the Constitution of the State of Ohio as well). If monitoring the Statehouse seems too difficult or intimidating for you, then hold the feet of your city councilmen, township trustees, and county commissioners to the fire.
Councilman McAllister elaborates, on his page localpoliticians.net:
If "we the people" are ever going to have a Constitution that has any teeth in it, then "we the people" will have to give it meaning by acting at the local level and confronting local politicians who violate their oath. When the next local election comes up, the Constitution can be made the issue by making it known how many times an incumbent violated his or her oath.
A simple action plan Just ask your neighbor if he or she thinks it's right for their local politician to violate their oath to the Constitution. If your neighbor says, “No it's not right”, you've got a chance to make a convert out of him or her and explain the original meaning of Article I, section 8 [Page 8 on this link]. So now you've got two people monitoring the local votes. Two can become four in the same manner and four can become eight, etc.
Wouldn't it be nice if during "hearing of visitors" people came to their local government meetings and started publicly asking their local politicians if they were going to violate their oath by voting for an unconstitutional ordinance?
This is a movement that requires no national organization or money-raising. It is a movement that could "go viral" with emails, youtubes, blogs, etc. Every American respects the U.S. Constitution, but most have not read Article I, section 8 and do not realize that it is the part of the Constitution which places limited powers on Congress.
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