Kudos to Governor Branstad. Spit in the devil’s eye and dare him to do something about it. More of this, please.
Wonderful news! Hopefully other states will follow! I have noticed since Arnie Duncan’s obnoxious “ white soccer mom” comment there has been an onslaught of pro-common core articles all over low the web.
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The founding fathers had good reason to pen the Tenth Amendment.
The issue of power – and especially the great potential for a power struggle between the federal and the state governments – was extremely important to the America’s founders. They deeply distrusted government power, and their goal was to prevent the growth of the type of government that the British has exercised over the colonies.
Adoption of the Constitution of 1787 was opposed by a number of well-known patriots including Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others. They passionately argued that the Constitution would eventually lead to a strong, centralized state power which would destroy the individual liberty of the People. Many in this movement were given the poorly-named tag “Anti-Federalists.”
The Tenth Amendment was added to the Constitution of 1787 largely because of the intellectual influence and personal persistence of the Anti-Federalists and their allies.
It’s quite clear that the Tenth Amendment was written to emphasize the limited nature of the powers delegated to the federal government. In delegating just specific powers to the federal government, the states and the people, with some small exceptions, were free to continue exercising their sovereign powers.
When states and local communities take the lead on policy, the people are that much closer to the policymakers, and policymakers are that much more accountable to the people. Few Americans have spoken with their president; many have spoken with their mayor.
Adherence to the Tenth Amendment is the first step towards ensuring liberty in the United States. Liberty through decentralization.
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/about/about-the-tenth-amendment/#.Up_mYaUw1z8
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
Our only hope is states reasserting their power like this.
“charter of negative liberties” ALERT!
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I remember taking the Iowa Tests at the end of the sixth and seventh grades. Our next-year’s class assignments were made accordingly. I still think there is a case for that. It certainly helped in my case.
Nice job guv.
Iowa has come a long way since that Democratic [sic] party clown left the governor’s office.
Bravo!
Bobby Jindal has embraced Common Core foolishness in LA. He can’t run in 2015.