Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obama’s Action
It's a start that needs to pick up speed.
Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obama’s Action
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30807
Excerpt:
State governors — looking down the gun barrel of long-term spending forced on them by the Obama “stimulus” plan — are saying they will refuse to take the money. This is a Constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the states unlike any in our time.
In the first five weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has acted so rashly that at least 11 states have decided that his brand of “hope” equates to an intolerable expansion of the federal government’s authority over the states. These states — Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas — have passed resolutions reminding Obama that the 10th Amendment protects the rights of the states, which are the rights of the people, by limiting the power of the federal government. These resolutions call on Obama to “cease and desist” from his reckless government expansion and also indicate that federal laws and regulations implemented in violation of the 10th Amendment can be nullified by the states.
When the Constitution was being ratified during the 1780s, the 10th Amendment was understood to be the linchpin that held the entire Bill of Rights together. The amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
FULL article HERE:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30807
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Ping! Ping! Ping!
These threads seem to be overstating what has actually been passed.
Most of these are either bills that have been merely ‘introduced’ along with UFO bills and impeachment bills that go into committee and go nowhere, or they are ‘resolutions’ which have no effect, no teeth, and no use.
Not to mention that the 9th and 10th Amendments were essentially muted at Appomattox in 1865.
What am I missing here?
Good article. Thanks Meek!
There’s going to be a Civil War here, as sure as I’m typing this post if things keep going the way the have been the past month or so.
Thanks for the ping!