Posted on 03/15/2009 8:40:07 AM PDT by DNME
That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that when-so-ever the General Government assumes un-delegated powers, its acts are un-authoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party:
I couldn't find this petition on a search of mass.gov legislative bills, but it might be somewhere in the system.
I just thought you folks might enjoy the sweeping language of this. And my apologies in advance if I screwed up this posting. I mostly just lurk and comment. ; )
This is the way to defeat this big government abuse. Get the states to go back and redefine what we want from our federal government.
This is a recreation of the Kentucky Resolution of 1798, authored by Jefferson, in response to the Alien & Sedition Acts.
What it is, in essence, is nullification. A state (AND ITS PEOPLE. as state-level representation is a truer reflection of constituency interest than insulated congress-things could ever comprehend) saying, "Hell NO!"
Other forms of de facto nullification are already in place -- liberal cities refusing to enforce federal immigration laws, for instance.
It's only when a group stands up to LIBERAL federal interests that they get slapped down.
A link to the Library of Congress site with the original nullification documents' transcripts, as drafted by the original libertarian.
i'd html it up all pretty and all, but haven't really invested the time to learn the keystrokes:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj080201))
All the Obamination administration has to do is just suspend the Constitution until “order” is restored .... just what the MSM was accusing Bush of trying to do ....
There is NO way that the People Democratic Republic of Massachusetts is going to join the 10th amendment fight. The bill may have been filed FOR a citizen, but will never see the light of day. The present government of Taxachusetts would take the position that the Minutemen were lawless TERRORISTS, and additionally RAISE TAXES to pay for the medical treatment for the BRAVE REDCOATS SO WANTONLY INJURED BY THE OUT OF CONTROL MINUTEMEN. Also, the mourning families of those British “HEROES” who were killed would be awarded pensions averaging $125,000 per year. Do not, I beg you confuse the glorious PAST of this state with its PRESENT.
I’m a Massachusetts resident, Captain. You’re preaching to the choir.
I can even rememer the license plate campaign, “Massachusets, where it all began.” Now it’s more like, “Massachusetts, where liberty goes to die.”
Oh, and you forgot to mention all the Minutemen being locked up for firearms violations! IFRC, they had to make special provisions in the law so that Minuteman re-enactors could carry their flintlock muskets in parades. Sad.
He can’t suspend the Constitution, he doesn’t have the Constitutional authority; it would be unconstitutional. He’d be guilty of Treason!
Parts of it then? Like Lincoln suspended : habeas corpus during the Civil War?
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