[marsh2]

Unfortunately, it is likely that all of your state's rights legislation will be shot down in court because of the reasons I have mentioned. Ignore them at your peril as this insight is based upon a long history of SCOTUS opinions interpreting the Constitution.

Believe me, I wish it were otherwise. I have spent the better part of the past 20 years fighting federal agencies on natural resource issues. The Sagebrush Rebellion, the Property Rights movement, the timber wars - we have tried everything we could think of.

The State resolution is a policy statement and has no legal standing. Our County has passed dozens of them and all they do is provide a small amount of political pressure. They can be totally ignored by the feds.

The State's have accepted the bribe to allow the feds to expand their power beyond Constitutional authority. You see a few Governors, like Palin, “getting it” with the Stimulus scheme and refusing money with strings. But as long as the State legislatures grab for the goodies, the American public and Constitutional limits get sold down the river.

I comment on your posts because you would sell the organic sovereignty of the People, which is what the American experiment in government was all about, for State sovereignty. I will not exchange being the “subject” of one sovereign for being the “subject” of another.

The People need to get off their duffs and vote out corruption and vote for candidates that will respect the Constitution. They need to organize and voice their beliefs, values and issues in an orderly and clear fashion. They need to stand up for that platform with shear numbers and apply political pressure to be heard and given due consideration.

[ForGod'sSake]

So, let me get this straight, you have fought the federales for 20 years and have achieved exactly - zilch. And yet you want to stay the course in hopes of obtaining different results?. When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail? I get it.

I comment on your posts because you would sell the organic sovereignty of the People, which is what the American experiment in government was all about, for State sovereignty.

I would do nothing of the kind but let's take a look at your point. YOU would have The People up in arms descending upon the snakes in DC. Imagine for a second what the Founders may have thought about the diffuculty of travel back in the day. Would you concede the point that by design of our Constitution was created to preserve MOST of the governing closer to The People? So that when The People had a beef they could take it up with their local government. If you can't concede that point, there's really no need for additional discussion of the issue.