Taken from the NH constitution:
Art. 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
I think we need to adopt something like this article back into the U.S. Constitution. We (or at least the states) had the right to secede from the union before the civil war. I think we need to have that right back.
Here is another nice tidbit from NH:
Art. 15. [Compensation of the Legislature.] The presiding officers of both houses of the legislature, shall severally receive out of the state treasury as compensation in full for their services for the term elected [two years] the sum of $250, and all other members thereof, seasonably attending and not departing without license, the sum of $200
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