Posted on 05/27/2009 9:27:29 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
On Tuesday, 05-26-09, Massachusetts State Representative Jeffrey Davis Perry (R-Sandwich) filed a Resolution before the House of Representatives to protect the Founding Fathers’ intent and the Constitutional protections of the 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which 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.”
“The purpose of this Resolution is to clearly affirm to Congress and the President our State’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution and to demand that the federal government halt the practice of assuming powers and imposing mandates upon the states for purposes which are not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States of America” said Representative Perry from the State House.
As cited by the Tenth Amendment Center, “James Madison, during the Constitutional ratification process, drafted the “Virginia Plan” to give Congress general legislative authority and to empower the national judiciary to hear any case that might cause friction among the states, to give the congress a veto over state laws, to empower the national government to use the military against the states, and to eliminate the states’ accustomed role in selecting members of Congress. Each one of these proposals was soundly defeated. In fact, Madison made many more attempts to authorize a national veto over state laws, and these were repeatedly defeated as well…
The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal government, and also that which is absolutely necessary to advancing those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. The rest is to be handled by the state governments, or locally, by the people themselves.
The Constitution does not include a congressional power to override state laws. It does not give the judicial branch unlimited jurisdiction over all matters. It does not provide Congress with the power to legislate over everything. This is verified by the simple fact that attempts to make these principles part of the Constitution were soundly rejected by its signers.”
The language of the Resolution is as follows:
AFFRIMING THE CONSTITUIONAL PROTECTIONS OF THE 10TH AMENDMENT
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States specifically provides that, “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”; and
WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution of the United States and the principle of Federalism is the constitutional division of powers between the national and state governments and is widely regarded as one of America’s most valuable contributions to political science; and
WHEREAS, The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be limited in its powers relative to those of the various states; and
WHEREAS, Many federal mandates are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and infringe upon Massachusetts’ reserve powers and the people’s reserved powers; and
WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous administrations and some now being considered by the present administration and from Congress do infringe on the States’ reserve powers and the people’s reserved powers, and may further violate the Constitution of the United States; Therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States and this Resolution shall serve as a Notice and Demand to the federal government to maintain the balance of powers where the Constitution of the United States; and it be further
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House shall immediately transmit copies of this Resolution to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of each state’s legislature of the United States of America, and each member of Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
“The Tenth Amendment was adopted after the Constitutional ratification process. A primary purpose was to enshrine the fact that the individual states are unique and retain their own sovereignty. The Constitution does not delegate to the federal government an endless supply of power. We must always remember that the purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect freedoms of individuals and the states, not expand the power of the federal government” added Representative Perry.
The Resolution was filed with the House of Representatives Clerk and was cosponsored by Representatives Jones (R-North Reading), Vallee (D-Franklin), Humason (R-Westfield), Webster (R-Pembroke), Evangelidis (R-Holden), Poirier (R- North Attleboro), deMacedo (R-Plymouth), Ross (R-Wrentham), Gifford (R-Wareham), Smola (Three Rivers) and Polito (Shrewsbury).
How did Mass. get its mouth off the govt tit long enough to say all those words??????
Please ~ping~ me to articles relating to the 10th Amendment/States Rights so I can engage the pinger.
I've stopped scouring threads and unilaterally adding names to the ping list, so if you want on or off the list just say so.
Additional Resources:
Tenth Amendment Chronicles Thread
Tenth Amendment Center
The Right Side of Life/State Initiatives
Sovereign States
Find Law(Brief narrative on 10th Amendment)
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What will the degenerates that run that state say now? What an utter embarrasment they are to the memory of our founding fathers.
No offense, but Massachusettes is NOT going to be the state that adopts this kind of resolution. They love the federal pork. Libs won’t back this.
They may have been the place where the first revolution took place. Never again.
Mass is considering a 10th Amendment bill? LOL
I can’t put myself into the mindset of a libtard so I have trouble understanding why they would not be as inclined towards States “rights” as conservatives. They could then have all the sodomy and other assorted forms of degeneracy they wanted in their State, no? I suppose they feel their way is just so truly wonderful they feel compelled to impose their degenerate mores on the rest of us.
Massachusetts is such a Nanny State mess that this sort of resolution is hardly more than talk. IMO, there’s virtually NO likelihood that the resolution will even gain ground, let alone pass.
Unfortunately, this will all be for naught as the lib Dem govt will handily vote this down.
Embarrassingly enough, I was born in Massachusetts. Observing its behavior in recent years leads me to little hope for this resolution. Even if it passes, it will be toothless, I expect.
Mindset of a libtard, as quick as I can:
Man is basically good, some are more evolved than others, those who are have superior intellectual and moral ability to the masses and are able to make better decisions than the masses. These individuals have a DUTY to seek the power necessary to make those better decisions for everyone else.
Those elites alive today, by virtue of being born later in history, have more information, and therefore can make decisions superior to those who wrote laws/constitutions/contracts in the past, so they are not bound to those. Similarly, traditions and morals have no value as they are based on past information.
If you want more, I could go on. I’ve spent some years studying this, mostly so that I could be discerning of material and information based on liberal assumptions so as to screen, filter, and explain it to my kids.
Honestly...
I wouldn’t even bother with pings for states that are as far gone as Mass. Massachusetts will not be free of her own accord and will set herself against us when the time comes.
Even Mass???
Knock me over with a feather.
Thomas Sowell is a syndicated columnist (not in hiding),
and most of that information I gleened from
“Conflict of Visions” and “Vision of the Anointed”.
Of course, researching the Christian vs Secular Humanist worldviews before reading those books really gives a firm foundation (1 cor 3:11) from which to learn.
>God’s “worldview”, ie, the truth, is that mankind is fallen, flawed, wicked, and in need of a Savior.
>The secular/worldly, Satanic, worldview is that man is basically good.
All other aspects of the dichotomy of worldviews extends logically (yes, I said logically) from these two basic assumptions.
Our culture is in the process of being turned upside down by an insidious attack on each of the principles that have held our nation together for over 200 years. It's no coincidence that God, the foundation of those principles, has been summarily booted from the culture. I take some comfort in knowing the He will not be denied forever. Sadly, unless there is a re-awakening, our nation will suffer the consequences of other great cultures that strayed from the very principles that made them great in the first place.
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