Given the remote possibility that you haven’t already seen the following information, you might find it interesting.
Regarding political privileges, note that the Founding States made the Constitution’s Clause 1 of Section 10 of Article I to prohibit themselves from establishing privileged / protected classes.
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphasis added]".
But this is what misguided, low-information, pro-LGBT activist state officials are effectively doing with respect to pushing politically correct LGBT “rights” imo.
Also, when the states ratified the 14th Amendment, they prohibited themselves from abridging the freedoms that they amend the Constitution to expressly protect, so-called LGBT “rights” not among those enumerated rights.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
So, misguided, LGBT activist states are not only probably violating the Nobility Clause, but also violating the 14th Amendment imo.
In fact, patriots who value 1st Amendment-protected religious expression should note that Acts 22:25-29 indicates that Paul claimed his protections as a Roman citizen to save himself from being flogged.
Finally, consider that another major problem related to constitutional rights is this. Regardless that Congress has the 14th Amendment power to strengthen constitutionally enumerated rights, the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress just sat on its hands during the lawless Obama Administration while several states abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of religious expression and speech.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Governor Brown of California just returned from a trip to Asia where he signed some international trade agreements between foreign governments and California. . . he is also negotiating Global Warming agreements with foreign governments to side step President Trump. How are these agreements not unconstitutional?
I believe and have stated that I think the time is long overdue when a complete examination of the size and nature of the Federal Courts below the Constitutionally established Supreme Court, should be done. And the scale of federal laws pertaining to things that the Federal Government is not authorized by the constitution be determined and should be returned to the state courts.
There are far too many federal laws and unresponsive federal courts. (Prime example? The entire 9th Circus)
It is also TIME to DownSize DC! Close Entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments, including their SWAT Teams.
Time to declare open season on the Bureaucrap. I believe that Donald Trump is the correct man to do this job.