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States Must Demand Sovereignty from Federal Government

I had really hoped Obama would give me some time to blog about other things that interest me. You know: Writing, religion, life, fun, recipes ... sigh, but no. He's dismantling democracy as fast as his little fingers fly and lying lips can move. And Congress has happily fallen into line, throwing the Constitution out and ushering in an era of Marxism, or communism as it is known to the rest of the world.

So, for yet another day, I am alerting you to a possible solution to the federal government encroachment on state's rights at every level. Here is an article from WorldNet Daily where 20 other states are using the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Constitution to assert their states' rights:

Lawmakers in 20 states move to reclaim sovereignty
Obama's $1 trillion deficit-spending 'stimulus plan' seen as last straw
Posted: February 06, 2009
11:50 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

NEW YORK – As the Obama administration attempts to push through Congress a nearly $1 trillion deficit spending plan that is weighted heavily toward advancing typically Democratic-supported social welfare programs, a rebellion against the growing dominance of federal control is beginning to spread at the state level.

So far, eight states have introduced resolutions declaring state sovereignty under the Ninth and Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, including Arizona, Hawaii, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington.

Analysts expect that in addition, another 20 states may see similar measures introduced this year, including Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, Maine and Pennsylvania.

"What we are trying to do is to get the U.S. Congress out of the state's business," Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Randy Brogdon told WND.

"Congress is completely out of line spending trillions of dollars over the last 10 years putting the nation into a debt crisis like we've never seen before," Brogdon said, arguing that the Obama stimulus plan is the last straw taxing state patience in the brewing sovereignty dispute.

"This particular 111th Congress is the biggest bunch of over-reachers and underachievers we've ever had in Congress," he said.

"A sixth-grader should realize you can't borrow money to pay off your debt, and that is the Obama administration's answer for a stimulus package," he added.

The Ninth Amendment reads, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

The Tenth Amendment specifically provides, "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."

Brogdon, the lead sponsor of the Oklahoma state senate version of the sovereignty bill, has been a strong opponent of extending the plan to build a four-football-fields-wide Trans-Texas Corridor parallel to Interstate-35 to Oklahoma, as WND reported.

Rollback federal authority

The various sovereignty measures moving through state legislatures are designed to reassert state authority through a rollback of federal authority under the powers enumerated in the Constitution, with the states assuming the governance of the non-enumerated powers, as required by the Tenth Amendment.

The state sovereignty measures, aimed largely at the perceived fiscal irresponsibility of Congress in the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, have gained momentum with the $1 trillion deficit-spending economic stimulus package the Obama administration is currently pushing through Congress.

Particularly disturbing to many state legislators are the increasing number of "unfunded mandates" that have proliferated in social welfare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, in which bills passed by Congress dictate policy to the states without providing funding.

In addition, the various state resolutions include discussion of a wide range of policy areas, including the regulation of firearms sales (Montana) and the demand to issue drivers licenses with technology to embed personal information under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative and the Real ID Act (Michigan).

Hawaii's measure calls for a new state constitutional convention to return self-governance, a complaint that traces back to the days it was a U.S. territory, prior to achieving statehood in 1959.

"We are trying to send a message to the federal government that the states are trying to reclaim their sovereignty," Republican Rep. Matt Shea, the lead sponsor of Washington's sovereignty resolution told WND.

"State sovereignty has been eroded in so many areas, it's hard to know where to start," he said. "There are a ton of federal mandates imposed on states, for instance, on education spending and welfare spending."

Shea said the Obama administration's economic stimulus package moving through Congress is a "perfect example."

"In the state of Washington, we have increased state spending 33 percent in the last three years and hired 6,000 new state employees, often using federal mandates as an excuse to grow state government," he said. "We need to return government back down to the people, to keep government as close to the local people as possible."

Shea is a private attorney who serves with the Alliance Defense Fund, a nationwide network of about 1,000 attorneys who work pro-bono. As a counter to the ACLU, the alliance seeks to protect and defend religious liberty, the sanctity of life and traditional family values.

Republican state Rep. Judy Burges, the primary sponsor of the sovereignty resolution in the Arizona House, told WND the federal government "has been trouncing on our constitutional rights."

"The real turning point for me was the Real ID act, which involved both a violation of the Fourth Amendments rights against the illegal searches and seizures and the Tenth Amendment," she said.

Burges told WND she is concerned that the overreaching of federal powers could lead to new legislation aimed at confiscating weapons from citizens or encoding ammunition.

"The Real ID Act was so broadly written that we are afraid that it involves the potential for "mission-creep," that could easily involve confiscation of firearms and violations of the Second Amendment," she said.

Burges said she has been surprised at the number of e-mails she has received in support of the sovereignty measure.

"We are a sovereign state in Arizona, not a branch of the federal government, and we need to be treated as such, she insisted.

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We need to stop the federal government. They are completely out of control. And although there are Americans willing to play the roles of sheep and mice, Americans, by tradition, are lions. We fiercely defend our freedom and the freedom of others. We don't allow tyranny to creep in, or at least we didn't used to. It is time for the lions to rise once again and defend America to our last breath. Contact your legislators and let them know it is time for your state to declare it's sovereignty from the federal government.
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2 comments:

  1. Via Email:

    Okay I am not normally a political analysis, but the the things that are happening in the Obama administration is turning me into one.

    Does anyone know how the government is supposed to be run? In Candace Salima's blog
    States Must Demand Sovereignty from Federal Government
    located at: http://candacesalima.blogspot.com/2009/02/states-must-demand-sovereignty-from.html you'll get a good idea of what it isn't supposed to be.

    Federal Government was established to be a liaison with foreign governments. The State has all authority to act within its boundaries. The County within its boundaries and the towns/cities within their boundaries without federal government involvement. In other words the people have the right to to determine what is good for their area.

    With the federal government telling the people what to do in their own homes and neighborhoods they have violated the very foundation upon which a free government was established by our founding fathers. How else are we to govern ourselves?

    The government tries to tell us what our children will be taught (homosexuality is normal), what can and can't happen in our homes (no teaching of principles which are opposed to government teaching, like homosexuality being normal). We demanded our freedom from Mother Britain so that the government could not tell us what we had to believe in.
    We must demand that our states take back their sovereignty. We must demand that power be returned to the people. We must demand that we do not come under a socialistic or communistic rule. We must demand that our appointed representatives listen to the voice of the people. We must take action in order to save this nation from falling into a course of government that it cannot escape from.


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  2. With further investigation, this is only the first step. In order to gain true sovereignty, the states must begin whittling away the federal dollars they take until they are truly self-sufficient from the federal government who will be then left to its original purpose as laid out in the Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

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