Ping me if you find a new article or FreeRepublic thread, and I will add it to this thread.
It would also be good to have contact information for state officials to urge them to pass these measures.
Any other thoughts and ideas welcome!
The initial ping was for the posters of the threads above. It's a one time thing, not to be repeated unless you request update pings. Let me know if you'd like to be on my (first!) ping list for significant thread updates.
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Thank you! Excellent resource page!
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Do you know if this proposal got any further in the state of Washington? It’s been 13 years since California asserted its version of states rights. (Now they are groveling and taking all the money they can get.)
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:55:26 PM by conservativegramma
The TenthAmendmentCenter.com reported today that Kentucky State Rep. and Majority Whip John Will Stacy (D) introduced HCR168 (status page):
Declare state sovereignty over powers not given to the the federal government by the U. S. Constitution; demand the federal government to cease mandates beyond constitutionlly delegated powers; prohibit federal legialtion requiring state passage of laws under threat of penalties or sanctions; direct the Clerk to distribute copies of the Resolution.
Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:40:29 PM by MissouriConservative
Republican legislative leaders said Wednesday that they are willing to turn down $133 million in federal stimulus money rather than change Missouri's law on jobless benefits.
Unemployed Missourians already are to receive a $25 weekly boost in benefits as a result of the federal stimulus law. That won't be affected.
But Republicans say they don't like a second prong that would require Missouri to expand unemployment benefits to receive additional federal money. They fear businesses would shoulder a higher tax burden to continue the expanded benefits when the federal money runs out.
"This is essentially a federal bribe to change state laws permanently, and the bribe lasts two years or less," said Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder. He was joined at a news conference by House Speaker Ron Richard, R-Joplin, Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, and other Republican lawmakers.
I don't expect I'll do this very often, but something has come to my attention that I think will help us stay up to date with what's happening within our respective states, or even other states of interest relating to 10th Amendment and related items. And that is:
BTW, I have gone back over quite a few existing threads and added states to the "Topics" section but I'm running out of gas...
Any comments or suggestions? Let me know! Many thanks. Carry on.
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Gotta admire his sentiments though.Lately I've heard a great many people wondering what we can do beyond calling our elected representatives in Washington, D.C., to save our nation from a slide into socialism and to restore common sense. I've been thinking, though, that maybe we've been calling the wrong people. Maybe we should be calling and meeting with people a little closer to home.
In all 50 states, our elected state representatives have abdicated their responsibilities to us, and have stood by silently while letting the federal government bully them and bribe them with our federal tax dollars.
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution reads, "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."
The powers and responsibilities of Congress are laid out in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, and they are limited. Similarly, Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution spells out the limited powers of the president.
Congress and the president need a very firm reminder of these limitations. They've shown themselves to be far too disconnected from the public and from reality, and too addicted to the powers they have given themselves. That's why we need to press our state officials into standing up for us, and standing up to the federal government.
Now contact them and tell them to start doing their jobs.
Thus Always to Tyrants
Patriotic Resistance ^ | March 3, 2009 | valerie inMtVernon
Posted on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:36:17 PM by Retired_Navy_CTI
Virginia at last is considering asserting her rights under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. HR61 was introduced 2/26/09, by Peace, Fralin, Byron, Cline, Cole, Gilbert, Landes, Lingamfelter, Marshall, R.G., Morgan, Ware, R.L. and Wright. Text of the bill: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HR61.
In doing so, we join the majority of states that has felt it necessary to take back the powers currently being usurped by the federal government. The government's favorite tactic of expanding power by creating constituencies dependent on federal largess is evident on every slimy page of the stimulus bill. The ultimate goal is behavior control, where the feds impose California values on God-fearing Virginians.
The bill is an example of the concept of “stimulus control.” A subject can be forced to react a certain way, given the proper pleasant, or very unpleasant, behavior reinforcement. The stimulus bill is thus aptly named. They dangle money in front of cash-starved states, forcing them to accept provisions that clash with state law. Want road money? You have to use union labor, even in a right-to-work state. Want unemployment help? You can’t force people ever to go back to work. School renovation funding? Make sure the schools are never used by those horrible religious groups, which I assume includes Girl Scouts. States are forced to support propositions and philosophies their voters have rejected.
Chronic dependence wreaks psychological devastation, and is anathema to the pursuit of happiness. The stimulus includes $250 billion in expanded welfare payments, virtually assuring that yet another generation will be lost to the seductive support of the welfare state. We turned our backs on this as a nation in 1996, with the GOP congress’ welfare reform. Virginians benefitted. Most families, 85%, stayed off welfare and reduced their need for food stamps and other assistance. Most, 83%, had health coverage for their children within 18 months of leaving welfare. Their incomes rose steadily, our economy benefitted, and those forced off handouts benefitted. More families stayed together, single mothers put off having children. Removing welfare-to-work is the ticket to impoverishing Virginia by increasing our dependent class, luring them to the dole with Medicaid, free lunches, food stamps, and free government cheese. No, really; there is $50 million for surplus cheese in the stimulus.
It doesn’t begin or end with the stimulus. The Freedom of Choice Act, FOCA, will rip out all state-decided restrictions on abortion. How dare they. There is nothing more tyrannical than the government confiscating taxes under threat of imprisonment, only to use the money for morally reprehensible purposes in opposition to the voters’ wishes. HR45, Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, will make gun ownership so burdensome as to be a de facto ban. Virginia hunts, and Virginia will defend herself.
What right do Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have to ax Virginia’s successes in fighting poverty, in refusing unions, in supporting religious groups’ good works? To force us to support what we have rejected in the polling booth?
Virginia’s motto is “Thus always to tyrants.” It should be the title of this bill.
Strangers in a Strange Land
5 March, 2009 | joanie-f
Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:10:06 PM by joanie-f
Many conservatives, myself included, have backed away from the political fray since November 4, 2008. Each of us has his or her own reasons for doing so, but I suspect that those reasons fall into two broad categories for most:
(1) A sense of hopelessness and futility, even as regards the pen and the ballot box, to make a difference in the direction in which our republic is being steamrolled. Rampant ignorance and apathy brought us to the brink, and evil men in leadership positions are gleefully providing the final push.
(2) Where to begin even attempting to bring about activist solutions anymore? We daily awaken to new and incomprehensible affronts to our intellect and our sense of belonging. We are beginning to feel like strangers in a strange land. I have no use for my fellow Americans who voted for ‘change’ that was beautifully gift wrapped, but about whose contents they knew nothing. Nor do I anymore quite understand those well-meaning patriots who are chanting ‘Sarah in 2012!’ and the like. I suspect that they believe they can still work within a system whose foundations have putrefied, and whose rule-makers are corrupt to the bone.
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