Letter to Editor: State Senate at standstill over state rights bill
January 18th, 2010 in Constitution, Newspaper, South Carolina, State Sovereignty ~ No CommentsIn response to State Senate at standstill over state rights bill by Robert Dalton.
Sens. Hutto and Lourie, you and I both know that actual state sovereignty legislation hasn’t a shadow of a chance of passing if we cannot pass a non-binding state sovereignty resolution. Furthermore, if dealing with the 12% unemployment rate is really more important, get out of the way and pass the “useless” resolution and move on. Contrary to your words, your actions show you feel this is a very significant resolution.
Several binding pieces of states-rights legislation have already been filed or are in the process of being filed, but before we can begin to nullify unconstitutional federal legislation and refuse federal funds for unconstitutional programs, we have to put the feds on notice that the South Carolina legislature believes that the 10th amendment actually means something, and we are prepared to stand our ground.
There is nothing controversial about this bill. This non-binding resolution merely restates what the U.S. Constitution already says, 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.” We the people see through your political games and we’re sick of it. To Democrats and RINOs alike: stop being obstructionists and get on with business.
Nullification: Resisting Federal Tyranny
September 3rd, 2009 in Constitution, Healthcare, State Sovereignty ~ No CommentsInteresting historical context on state nullification of federal laws from the Tenth Amendment Center.
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Nullification has a long and interesting history in American politics, and originates in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. These resolutions, secretly authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, asserted that states, as sovereign entities, could judge for themselves whether the federal government had overstepped its constitutional bounds, to the point of ignoring federal laws.
Virginia and Kentucky passed the resolutions in response to the federal Alien and Sedition Acts, which provided, in part, for the prosecution of anyone who criticized Congress or the President of the United States.
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Re-establishing State Sovereignty–while preserving the Union
August 30th, 2009 in Constitution, Freedom, State Sovereignty ~ (2) Comments
What do you do when Congress continuously tramples our God-given, Constitutionally protected freedoms and refuses to listen to the voice of the people?
What do you do?
The 2010 elections are more than a year away. Will America as we know it still exist then? If Barack Obama in his first 6 months in office can spend more than every prior U.S. President combined, what might the next year hold? TARP, the “porkulus” bill, socialized medicine, Cash-for-clunkers, Cap-and-tax… all the while ignoring the real solutions to the problems we face. What will they do next?
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Americans have had just about all they are willing to take–especially in Texas.
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