Posted on 01/26/2011 10:13:47 AM PST by Idabilly
BOISE - On a straight party-line vote, with all 15 Republicans on the committee voting in favor and all four Democrats voting against, the House State Affairs Committee voted this morning to introduce legislation seeking to “nullify” the federal health care reform bill.
Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, told the panel, “The federal health care laws recently passed by the U.S. Congress have invaded the traditional sovereign powers of the state. This bill declares that this intrusion by the federal government is … null and void.”
Committee members had lots of questions for Barbieri. “Are you … aware that no court in the history of the United States has ever upheld a state effort to nullify a federal law?” Rep. Elfreda Higgins, D-Garden City, asked Barbieri. He responded, “I do believe no federal court has done that. The difficulty is that the federal courts are an arm of the federal government, so it would be very difficult to imagine an arm of the federal government ruling against itself.”
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lol. Appomattox. I would have more sympathy for the Southern cause if their Constitution weren’t such a pathetic copy of the US Constitution. WHat is the point of revolution if you’re going to make all the same mistakes? It’s absurd. The Confederate Constitution didn’t even create a confederacy! It was a consolidated republic with all the same fatal flaws as ours. Ridiculous.
The 10th Amendment delegates any powers to the states not delegated to the United States and not prohibited to by it to the states.
No, it reserves those powers. It delegates nothing.
So then the quesion becomes, what powers are those that are not delegated to the US, nor prohibited to the states, and second, under the Constitution, who decides such questions?
The answer, of course, is that the federal judiciary decides what powers are or are not delegated to the US. The states don't get to decide. You can't have some states deciding one way, and other states another way. That's not how the Constitution lays it out.
Regulating health care is not an enumerated power in Article 1 Section 8
You've never heard of implied powers? You should read up on it and disabuse yourself of this fantasy that the Constitution delegates expressed powers only. Would that it were so!
It's pretty damned smart, actually. You are just willing to roll over for hefty doses of Socialism or something?
Fatal flaws? Other than the failure of dishonest people to abide by their oaths, what exactly is fatally flawed about the Constitution? You do realize that there is a perfectly good manner to change any section; it’s called amending the Constitution.
However, no matter if evil people cannot and will not abide by the Constitution.
Don't blame me--I'm an anti-federalist. It's all you federalists who support the system that killed states sovereignty.
Well that is your opinion. How about not raining on every damned parade you see?
As for the amendment process, funny that when the patriots fought the revolution, they declared the right to alter or abolish the government. But then when the framers created their own, suddenly we only have the right to alter our government if we can get 2/3rds of both houses and 3/4ths of the state legislatures to agree. Not really in keeping with the Declaration of Independence.
LOL!
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Give it a rest Puck.
This rather pushy federal gumbint pushes Texas too far and secession may just be in the cards.
Also I saw your about page and saw the grateful dead posters.
Check out the free App “Concert vault”, (wolfgang’s vault)
Go to browse and to the band where you can listen to 109 different Dead concerts for free. Also another 400 under Jerry Garcia.
Just saying.
NTH - You're right, the South didn't LOSE. Lee took a time out to rearm AND get something to eat.....they were gettin' hungry!
Idabilly - Am I going to have to pack it up and move to Idaho or TX?! We can't even get AR to fight ohaha's (lower case intended) Health (S)care monstrosity! We weren't able to send enough of the dhimmis home in November, but we did make some headway.
This God given right to consent to your Government was never ceded away. It couldn't be since it is God given.
The Federal Government is not what concerns me, it is the thought process of my fellow Americans. To think that there are people that believe that one person's hard work and investment for their children's future is rightfully theirs for the taking, is downright sickening. Beyond the latest Republican victory, how do we chain Fedzilla within the confines of the Constitution, this time for good?
I'm of the opinion that the States, the creators, need to reclaim their rightful authority. This is no business for the courts, since they were not a party to the compact; but a creation thereof. I probably have more to risk than most that post here, as in regards to stock & bond market fluctuations and loss of capital. But, I'd give every cent I have to ensure my children can live free. Flags and songs be damned!!
Too bad the Gem state didn't put any teeth into it like Texas did. Make it illegal by state law to try and inact it, punishable by fine or jail time.
Our Governor has been moving Right! You forget, we have more gun stores,,, than bars. That term " gun broke " has real meaning around here. It will become law! Next, it will be reclaiming our State forest... then there's them wolves!
That's the theory. Now let's see what we can to to make them PRACTICE it.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding.
If it isn't an enumerated power under Art 1 Sec 8, then nothing Congress passes can make it legit. No, not even a SCOTUS ruling. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way. Not on paper at least.
We haven't stretched enough necks to make them follow it. So now they just figure they can ignore the limits.
They are in for a very rude awakening.
Don’t look for confines in the Constitution. It’s full of holes.
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