Tenth Amendment Movement Aims to Give Power Back to the States (States are fed-up!)

FoxNews.com ^ | 5/26/2009 | James Osborne

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Fed up with Washington's involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government's growing intrusion on their rights.

At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.

"This has been boiling for years, and it's finally come to a head," said Utah State Rep. Carl Wimmer. "With TARP and No Child Left Behind, these things that continue to give the federal government more authority, our rights as states and individuals are being turned on their head."

The power struggle between the states and Washington has cropped up periodically ever since the country was founded. But now some states are sending a simple, forceful message:

The government has gone too far. Enough is enough.

[BornToBeAmerican]

This is a good read.

“The government has gone too far. Enough is enough.”

Bambi, go home to Kenya whee you belong and let us, “we the people” govern ourselves in due process according to OUR Constitution

[television is just wrong]

the last civil war was about states rights. is that where we are headed?

[Dead Corpse]

Paper tigers. Let’s see what happens when the FedGov tries to assert it’s unConstitutional authority in the face of these “resolutions”.

[dynachrome]

But do these states mean it?

[ModelBreaker]

“the last civil war was about states rights. is that where we are headed?”

Sadly, the South was correct on State’s rights and wrong on slavery. They picked the wrong battle with the wrong opponent. 150 years later, we are pretty much stuck with the state’s rights result of the Civil War. A noble doctrine, the right of a state to secede, is forever tainted with the stench of slavery.

And, much of the same geopolitics exists today as in the Civil War. Washington will never allow the mouth of the Mississippi to be controlled by another nation. Plus, there are new factors. Now that taxes are direct, Washington will never let go it’s hold on tax revenues from Texas without a war.

[ANGGAPO]

I suspect that a few of our states are serious about the invasion by the Obama government. Those states dominated by the Democrats will likely fall into line and kiss the Obama boot. However, those states that lean toward a Constitutional Government could have other ideas.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Thanks for the ping!

Excellent 10th Amendment summary from Fox News!

[The Mayor]

BTTT!

[MrB]

This time, it will be about slavery as well,

except it will be the fedgov that is attempting to enslave the producers of this country to the non-producers.

Men will not live in slavery when they have the means to resist it.

[Still Thinking]

Excellent tagline!

[bamahead]

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[Blood of Tyrants]

The “interstate commerce clause” was NEVER meant to give the federal government the practically unlimited power it has grabbed. Just as the “general welfare clause” was never meant to allow the government the power to take money from one individual and give it to another.

[Dead Corpse]

I'm not saying I disagree. It's so obvious I'm almost embarrassed that they feel they need to try this effort to reassert their independence.

I also think most of them are full of sh*t and will toe the line if the FedGov sneezes at them the wrong way.

[Political Junkie Too]

Obama will just call the states racist, and that they're only doing this because there is a black man in the White House.

-PJ

[Blood of Tyrants]

I am questioning the resolve of theses states, too. The resolutions have no authority or legal weight. Are they going to ignore the next law that Congress passes that infringe on states’ rights or just roll over?

[marsh2]

The tenth amendment also recognizes that the People retain certain rights over which they delegated no regulatory authority either to the state or to the federal government. The State police powers of regulation used to be limited to prevention of substantial injury to the general public health, safety or morals. Now they use it to advance the “public welfare” or public benefit and successfully avoid just compensation for taking private property.

There should be a parallel movement to hold the line on the regulatory appetites of legislators and restore individual freedom. The States have encroached on retained rights of the individual just as much as the feds. have.

[Dead Corpse]

I hope we never have to find out...

[Landru]

"At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution."

Glad to hear, but what'll they do when our modern day Lincoln tells 'em to pound sand?
The best --& really only -- answer to that question would be given by Jefferson Davis and/or the thousands of people slaughtered by Lincoln.
They're all dead now, and that leaves the Republic with a revised historical record, a revised historical record we'll all being seeing a lot more of in our near future.

"The power struggle between the states and Washington has cropped up periodically ever since the country was founded. But now some states are sending a simple, forceful message: The government has gone too far. Enough is enough."

Sounds *gooooood*. ;^) /sarc

[TheOldLady]

Thanks for the ping, 10thAC.