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'Tenther' movement aims to put power back in states' hands
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| Feb 10, 2010
| By Ed Hornick, CNN
Posted on 02/10/2010 9:17:09 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson
When an all-consuming Federal Blobocracy does exist, the people shall be obligated to rein it in and return it to its proper and legal functions assigned under the Constitution.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:18:47 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: Jim Robinson
Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman wrote that this push has a "particularly nasty legacy." "It helped precipitate the Civil War, and in the 1950s and early '60s it was cited by Southern states claiming the right to ignore Supreme Court rulings ordering the end of segregation," he wrote.Would you rather a state ignore a civil rights law or an entire country ignore it , you moron.?
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:20:59 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: NormsRevenge
To: Jim Robinson
As per another poster on here (I forget who coined the phrase), I sometimes call the Obama supporters “fisters,” after Kevin Jennings.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:21:51 AM PST
by
cvq3842
(A fool and his liberty are soon parted.)
To: Jim Robinson; ForGod'sSake; bamahead
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:22:33 AM PST
by
EdReform
(Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
To: Jim Robinson
“It helped precipitate the Civil War, and in the 1950s and early ‘60s it was cited by Southern states claiming the right to ignore Supreme Court rulings ordering the end of segregation,” he wrote.
This is a classic technique used to turn opinion.
You associate a position with something that is universally abhored (slavery and Jim Crow laws in this instance), then you can turn people against the position.
We need to come up with a solid answer to this technique. Otherwise the left will turn this into a referendum on racism, not the 10th amendment.
To: Jim Robinson
"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 ignoring of the Tenth Amendment, and the marginalization of those few of us who understand the intent of a LIMITED federal government--that is the root problem of the Big Government that has been spiraling increasingly out of control since the beginning of FDR's administration 77 years ago.
BTW, I prefer "Tenth Amendment constitutional conservative" to "Tenther," since "Tenther" could be used as a way to marginalize us constitutional conservatives as kooks.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:23:46 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(Tenth Amendment constitutional conservative)
To: Jim Robinson
“particularly nasty legacy.”
. . . but the over-reach and near bankrupting of our country, the selll-out of our culture for political control,the big-government, big-business, big-labor alliance against the people, and the bribery of non-productive citizenry for political control is not a nasty legacy???? . . . give me a break
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:24:11 AM PST
by
RatRipper
(I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
To: Jim Robinson
Governor Perry is leading a tenth amendment town hall here in Texas on Monday.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:24:22 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: cvq3842
As per another poster on here (I forget who coined the phrase), I sometimes call the Obama supporters fisters, after Kevin Jennings.
Fisters?
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:24:56 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
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To: Jim Robinson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion; what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” — Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:26:43 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: Jim Robinson
Also, Roe v. Wade should be overturned on Tenth Amendment grounds. It was a case of the federal government (SCOTUS) unconstitutionally exercising power over the states' right to have laws against abortion. Pro-lifers need to be able to argue the CONSTITUTIONAL case against abortion, not only the moral case.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:27:55 AM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(Tenth Amendment constitutional conservative)
To: Jim Robinson
Unfortunately ever since Marbury v. Madison, the Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is even when the decision is by a 5/4 margin. Short of having the SC reverse prior decisions as they pertain to broad interpretations of the Commerce Clause, there isn’t much that can be legislated and be upheld by the courts.
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:28:29 AM PST
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: Jim Robinson
New to 10ther? A little primer I made for my friends
here. (If you already understand the issue, move on, what I posted there was "basic info" but a good start for a newbie to the subject.)
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:30:29 AM PST
by
ThePatriotsFlag
(http://www.thepatriotsflag.com - The Patriot's Flag)
To: Jim Robinson
Jay Bookman failed to mention the leaders of those Southern States were men like D-TN Al Gore,Sr., D-WV Robert KKK Byrd, D-AL George Wallace and so on...
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:33:03 AM PST
by
parthian shot
(When do we stop asking and start telling?)
To: Jim Robinson
Actually;
The “States Rights” issue was trampled on first, by the pro-slavery forces.
Dred Scott and the Fugitive Slave Laws trampled all over the rights of the Free Soil and Northern States.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:33:03 AM PST
by
Kansas58
To: Jim Robinson
Other critics point out that if states want to send a clear message to Washington -- and not just pass resolutions -- they would refuse federal money or other services...this is the key. states are addicted to the "federal govt. money" game and somehow need to be set free from that.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:34:46 AM PST
by
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
To: Jim Robinson
These talking heads on the MSM have not read nor understand our Constitution. The Founding Fathers feared an all powerful federal government might lead to tyranny and thus strictly limited its powers leaving the states free to govern in all areas in which they are not prohibited by the Constitution. For 200 years we have seen a growth of the power of the federal government at the expense of states. It is high time that we go back to the Republic that was created in 1789.
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posted on
02/10/2010 9:35:28 AM PST
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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