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To: SeekAndFind; All
Patriots, regarding lawless Obamas actions concerning refugees and the states, please do not overlook the following. Corrupt Congress has always had the contitutional authority to impeach and remove Obama from office, but has stubbornly refused to do so, blatantly ignoring state sovereignty as evidenced by their passive support of Obamas constitutionally indefensible refugee policy.

So when patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect as president, they also need to support their new conservative president with a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to help patriots and the president restore America.

Getting back to lawless Obama and refugees, note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration, immigration therefore a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue.

In fact, both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had written, reflecting on 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty nonetheless, that the Founding States had not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.

Here is the relevant excerpt from Jeffersons writings.

” 4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, 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,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the - day of July, 1798, intituled ”An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

Here is the related excerpt from Madison's writings from the Virginia Resolutions.

"That the General Assembly doth particularly protest against the palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution, in the two late cases of the ”Alien and Sedition Acts" passed at the last session of Congress; the first of which exercises a power no where delegated to the federal government, ...

. . .

. . . the General Assembly doth solemenly appeal to the like dispositions of the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid, are unconstitutional; and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each, for co-operating with this state, in maintaining the Authorities, Rights, and Liberties, referred to the States respectively, or to the people [emphasis added]. ” James Madison, Draft of the Virginia Resolutions - December 1798.

Remember in November 2016! Again, support the new conservative president with a likewise new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress.

32 posted on 11/27/2015 2:14:15 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Thanks for posting. Someplace, I have a very old, little, government issued, pamphlet entitled the Alien & Sedition Acts.


43 posted on 11/27/2015 2:49:50 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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