Posted on 02/04/2009 7:03:19 AM PST by freedom lives
A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 1, Article 7 declares that the people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled; and
Whereas the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, Part 2, Article 1 declares that the people inhabiting the territory formerly called the province of New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign and independent body-politic, or State, by the name of The State of New Hampshire; and
Whereas the State of New Hampshire when ratifying the Constitution for the United States of America recommended as a change, “First That it be Explicitly declared that all Powers not expressly & particularly Delegated by the aforesaid are reserved to the several States to be, by them Exercised;” and
Whereas the other States that included recommendations, to wit Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia, included an identical or similar recommended change; and
Whereas these recommended changes were incorporated as the ninth amendment, the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, and the tenth amendment, 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, to the Constitution for the United States of America; now, therefore, be it
(Excerpt) Read more at gencourt.state.nh.us ...
All this reminds me of the scene in an old World War One movie - “The Fighting 69th”, when the 4th Alabama Infantry comes marching into camp and the Fighting 69th “New York Irishers” starts harassing them with southern jokes and wisecracks.
“Fighing 69th??? Where’d you get that moniker?” one of the Southern boys asks.
“In the Civil War” answers one of the 69th men...”Why, do you remember us?”
“Civil war, huh? Question is, do YOU remember us? Ya ought to - we shot the pants of ya...” says an Alabama man.
And then the fists started flying and a general vulgar brawl ensues, until the commanding officer and Father Duffy break it up, explaining that the 4th shot the 69th to pieces at Marye’s Heights, Fredricksburg. But they were one army now - part of the Rainbow Division, and they put aside the old hatreds and divisions to fight a common enemy.
Any of this getting through???
The other side is salivating, and we’re disorganized.
One team, one fight, gentlemen. We are all on the same side, and have a common enemy.
LFOD
Sure...convince yourself that it’s just some sort of complex and not a reaction to the way you people act.
The Mason-Dixon Line traditionally ends at the PA border so I am referring to the NorthEast US as Yankee Land. Nebraska is not in Yankee Land. Are you denying that the North East corrider is socialist? If you can't see the geography of this whole conflict then sir Please look at a 2008 Election map. There is only one or two Republicans (not that yankee repubs aren't RINO's) HR Reps in a 7 state area. NY,CT,MA,RI,NH,VT & ME. I wish they would go and form their own Socialist Utopia and leave us alone. And take CA with ya. I can dream can't I.....
Ah....I think he/she is on your team:’)
potheads on patrol.
this issue was resolved with the civil war.
This is just the left doing the divide and conqure BS.
Remember Obama’s mentor (and Obama?) advocated the dividing up of the USA into occupied territories.
This is utter garbage and should be treated as such.
Really. Can you believe Yankees are roaring? I would have expected it from Texas or Oklahoma but NH? :’)
The irony of this is that the Kentucky Resolutions written by Jefferson in 1798 (on which the HCR 6 draws heavily upon) was viewed by New Hampshire folks as military threats.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
June 14, 1799.
The committee to take into consideration the resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, dated December 21st, 1798; also certain resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, of the 10th November, 1798, report as follows:
The Legislature of New Hampshire having taken into consideration certain resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, dated December 21, 1798; also certain resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, of the 10th of November, 1798:
Resolved, That the Legislature of New Hampshire unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this state, against every aggression, either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.
That the state legislatures are not the proper tribunals to determine the constitutionality of the laws of the general government, that the duty of such decision is properly and exclusively confided to the judicial department.
That if the Legislature of New Hampshire, for mere speculative purposes, were to express an opinion on the acts of the general government, commonly called “the alien and sedition-bills,” that opinion would unreservedly be, that those acts are constitutional, and in the present critical situation of our country, highly expedient.
That the constitutionality and expediency of the acts aforesaid, have been very ably advocated and clearly demonstrated by many citizens of the United States, more especially by the minority of the General Assembly of Virginia. The Legislature of New Hampshire, therefore, deem it unnecessary, by any train of arguments, to attempt further illustration of the propositions, the truth of which, it is confidently believed, at this day, is very generally seen and acknowledged.
Which report being read and considered, was unanimously received and accepted, one hundred and thirty-seven members being present. Sent up for concurrence.
JOHN PRENTICE, Speaker.
In Senate, the same day, read and concurred unanimously.
AMOS SHEPARD, President.
Approved, June 15th, 1799.
J. T. GILMAN, Governor. A true copy.
Attest,
JOSEPH PEARSON, Secretary.
maybe traditional political thinking is in the box thinking. Some would say it would be wise think inside the box, the ammo box? Will it come to that, I wish I knew.
Well if at first you don't secede, try again.
One has to step back and consider the motivations of NH. Is the feral government not nearly the nanny state NH would like them to be and they figger they can out-socialize DC??? Play what if: NH wants to blunt any future rumblings of truly disgruntled citizens of states where such an action might be taken more seriously - like a Texas for example? I would have expected it from Texas or Oklahoma but NH? :’)
Indeed! Which begs the question, just what are they up to? While I may not know their motivation(s), I absolutely agree with this action. The shot across the bow coming from a weak sister is still a shot across the bow.
To whom are you referring?
Blah, blah, blah.I love the south; I was born there. In fact, I like it so much I wish my ancestors would have been deported there, generations ago, instead of New England. That said, I love New England, especially Massachusetts and New Hampshire. I'll probably never leave here.
But to the southerner, I'm a f*cking Yankee, and to the New Hampshireman, I'm a Masshole. Heaven forbid I can't be a conservative because of where I live, or where I was born.
Preconceived notions and all that.
So forgive me if I was tweaking their noses with a few absurdly-worded preconceived notions of my own.
Free Republic is going soft.
I would GLADLY secede from any union with a state as anti-yankee as VA. NOT ALL NEW HAMPSHIRITES ARE SOCIALIST. We’ve been hijacked by Massholes and NY-ers who’ve moved here to escape the confiscatory taxes and regulation of their own states - THAT THEY VOTED FOR - only to continue voting the same way in NH...thus changing our political landscape from one of freedom and independence to one of nanny-state dependence and serfdom.
We haven’t fallen yet, but it’s close at hand.
Curious. I posted a couple of threads within the last couple of weeks re states reclaiming their, AND our rights, to check the pulse of Freepers generally to the notion. Little response. I ran across many references to the Kentucky Resolutions during my brief research. Based on many of the responses on this thread, one has to wonder what those that would debase such actions are thinking. I get the impression there are many on Free Republic who would just as soon join the dark side in dialoguing everything to death. We have become a society that values words over actions???
Not to intrude on your dialogue with others but thought I might share my thoughts. Just as Jefferson was opposed to the Alien and Sedition Acts when he drafted the Kentucky Resolutions (which HCR 6 draws heavily upon), it may be the folks up there are opposed to the Prosperity Partnership of North America agreement.
I was coming out of a Rite Aid parking lot in Bristol, NH. Some joker in a Ford pick-up with NH plates cuts me off, completely, while yelling out the window "Masshole!"
I'm doing a load of laundry in a laundromat in Bristol, NH. I'm the only customer there. A few locals are sitting around at a card table, bitching loudly about Massholes and flat-landers. Again, I'm the only customer in the joint. If I wasn't there, there'd be no customers there. If no "Massholes" were there, there'd never be any customers at all.
And my taxes---lumped with everyone else's taxes---send these peoples' children to school. They fix the roads, they pay for the upkeep of the town . . . they even allow for the town to put out a nicely bound edition of their yearly proceedings, something my own town down here in MA can't even afford to do.
I've never once done a disparaging thing to a New Hampshire person because he or she was from New Hampshire. It wouldn't even cross my mind to do so.
The whole Masshole thing is a NH inferiority complex. And a silly one at that.
Living there soils you and your children(if you have any). You must leave there, sorry but it is guilt by association. It is cowardice to not do so.
I need no preconceived notions, I know what it must be like for you. I left the DPRM (Democratic Peoples Republic of Maryland) for VA. You can do it. You are miserable there. Admit it. Alone, isolated, surrounded by libtard Yankees. How far off am I?
Check the deed to your property. It was formerly owned by the hysterically insane who believed in the cause. Its folks like you who have destroyed New England.
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