Posts Tagged ‘10th Amendment’
Not Always Supreme: The Supremacy Clause Explained
Writing an article explaining the meaning of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution was on my to-do list for this week. But then I found this superb article. Not only does it save me the trouble, Dr Brion McClanahan writes far more effectively than I, so…
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The Health Care of Obaminations — Time for Nullification
Democrats have just provided us with the largest expansion of the welfare state since Republicans did the same under George W Bush. But why, exactly, is Obamacare so atrocious?
For one, it represents a transfer of wealth. The many are taxed to pay for health insurance premiums for the few. Thirty-five million people (and Big Insurance) will enjoy the benefits of the money earned by the over two hundred million who actually worked for it.
Ron Paul the Copperhead
Timid Rebels
While the outbreak of the Tea Parties is exciting, I cannot help but be under-whelmed by this supposed radical resistance to Obama.
Where were all these protesters when Bush and a Republican Congress drove up record-level deficits? Or when Bush bailed out Big Business and Big Banks? Or when Bush escalated the government’s assaults on liberties? Or when Bush drove us into two destructive wars?
What, exactly, is the message of the protestors? Obama is awful and destructive, but Bush was acceptable?
Texas State Sovereignty Resolution
Texas Governor Rick Perry has added his support to the Texas State Sovereignty Resolution (HCR 50) that has been submitted to the legislature. It reads as follows:
“Affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed. ” Read the rest of this entry »
States Rights and the Left
In this excellent article, Jack Hunter explains how state sovereignty represents an enduring fortress against federal tyranny, be it Republican or Democrat.
Mississippi State Sovereignty Resolutions
State Representative Steve Palazzo has introduced a state sovereignty resolution into the state House. (See HC-69.)
Numerous other states are working on similar resolutions. For a map, click here.
Let’s cheer these moves on. The last time I checked, the 10th Amendment was still part of the Constitution.
States’ Rights Rebellion Brewing in the Heartland?
Let’s hope so. For well over a century Washington, DC has expanded its powers at the expense of local self-government. Federal meddling prevents local communities of citizens to live under laws of their own choosing. While some haughty elites may sneer, some of us still find the notion of local self-government an attractive alternative to federal tyranny.
The early 1990s witnessed a similar states’ rights resurgence, particularly in the West, but sadly it came to nothing. Let’s hope this one produces fruit. Let’s hope constitutional liberty can at last be restored.
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