Vomiting on this thread with ad hominems and doing everything your simple mind can conjure up to distract from the gravity of NH's shot across the bow of the feral government doesn't speak well of your conservative credentials. Your feeble attempts to insult and ridicule efforts by those that hunger for ANY movement by ANYONE to reclaim their God given rights (allegedly)guaranteed by our Constitution is the ultimate foolishness. What exactly would you propose as another venue to tweak the noses of those that would be our masters?
I'm only ashamed that the great state of Texas wasn't the first to fire the shot.
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.
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.