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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT
There is no constitutional relationship between the governors of the several States and the executive branch of the federal government. To establish such a relationship under the force of law can have only one purpose, and it cannot be good. It is to subordinate the governors to the president. This is a compromising of the very structure of our federal republic.

The Left has been seeking to dissolve the States for years now and to relegate them to the status of mere administrative units of the federal government.

In so doing they render large parts of the Constitution moot. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments are already considered dead letters by the federal judiciary. The relatively modest and benign "Commerce Clause" has been distorted into a man-eating monster, a tail which wags the dog. Soon the power of the States to govern themselves will atrophy, strangled by the strings attached to federal funds.

I'm not clairvoyant, or privy to secret information. Just observe the trends and follow them through to obvious conclusions.

77 posted on 01/11/2010 9:07:17 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

I c ur point in the first few sentences.ty:)


80 posted on 01/11/2010 9:11:44 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: hinckley buzzard

ok,i’m a little slow but what about Posse Commitatus?how does this relate to that & vice/versa


83 posted on 01/11/2010 9:14:57 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: hinckley buzzard

well,i’m STILL ticked off @ that “National De-Classification Center”thing


93 posted on 01/11/2010 9:51:07 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: hinckley buzzard
This is a compromising of the very structure of our federal republic.

Yes, this is what this implies.

If they subjugate the governors legally then they can countermand anything a governor does, essentially making it impossible for a state to nullify a fed order.

At the same time if they are creating parallel structures of command and control to the ones that already exist then at some point the feds can shut down the existing govt entities and put its own fully-controlled and extra-constitutional infrastructure in to full power.

This is very, very frightening. Smart but completely corrupt.

We need to learn more about this and any other action to set up parallel control structures and state-nullifying measures.

154 posted on 01/12/2010 5:33:26 AM PST by paulycy (The Liberals' Racial DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE CRIMES.)
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