Faced with runaway deficit spending and a potentially abusive federal government, states are finally trying to assert their rights.
You may not have heard much about it, but there's a quiet movement afoot to reassert state sovereignty in America and stop the uncontrolled expansion of federal government power. Almost half of the state legislatures are considering or have representatives preparing to introduce resolutions which reassert the principles of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution and the idea that federal power is strictly limited to specific areas detailed in the Constitution and that all other governmental authority rests with the states.…
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126 - Dave Nalle
When a serious issue like this starts to attract people like Sprinkman then it runs the risk of being marginalized by association with their other crazy beliefs.
This is not about fighting the New World Order or the Jewish bankers or the CFR. It's just about keeping the feds from taking autonomy away from state governments.
Dave
127 - Mike
Ultimately all politics is local.
We have to fight the propaganda such as "think globally, act locally." This is the mental underpinning of the Agenda 21 program which would deny individual property owners the right to use THEIR property as they see fit because some bureaucrat "has to save the earth."
128 - Dave Nalle
Acting locally no longer works when you have things like the Clyburn amendment rendering local government impotent against federal dictats.
Dave
129 - Roger Nowosielski
"It's just about keeping the feds from taking autonomy away from state governments."
Now, that's a clear statement.
130 - Dennis
I think Dave needs to take another look at the texts of some of these sovereignty bills before he declares that they are being misread by "extremists". Montana's in particular sounds very much like a chip has been placed on a shoulder, and a dare to knock it off has been uttered.
Good for them. It's about time.
131 - Roger Nowosielski
So you're saying the movement is for real, Dennis?
132 - Dave Nalle
Dennis, as I have pointed out in all of the articles I've written on this subject there are basically two different models for these bills. One is the Oklahoma model which is very straightforward and non-confrontational. Then there is the New Hampshire model, which is much more radical and offers a real challenge to federal authority. Only a small number of states have followed the New Hampshire model and I have a feeling most of those will not pass. The Oklahoma model is more common and much more likely to pass in most cases.
Dave
133 - Sara
I have been struggling with this subject for awhile now and found this site as part of my research on the subject.
You say that so far this is something being talked about but not acted upon by the states, but this seems in direct contravention of another article that reads:
"Today, the number of states claiming state sovereignty, some outlining specific federal actions that have far more to do with usurping the US Constitution than upholding it, has grown to at least thirty two... the magic number is 34.... "
It then goes on to list the various states. For instance, California is listed as: "1994: California - 10th Amendment."
"BILL NUMBER: SJR 44 CHAPTERED 08/29/94
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 93
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE AUGUST 29, 1994
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 23, 1994
ADOPTED IN SENATE AUGUST 15, 1994
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 11, 1994
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 1, 1994
or New Hampshire listed as: "2009: New Hampshire - 9th Amendment, 10th Amendment, Federal Reserve, Taxes, Martial Law, 2nd Amendment, Draft/War, Patriot Act, Labor Camps, 1st Amendment."
Article URL with links to each state's bills or resolutions.
As one who believes the Federal government should limit itself to defense, and stay out of the cultural issues, I cannot agree with Baritone's comments. But I struggle with this issue mainly because I do not have a good handle on the big picture ramifications of the sovereignty movement. It seems to be nothing more than a reiteration of Constitutional principles, but obviously there is is a major disconnect in this country. I already live in a nannystate and see the destruction it has wrought, yet there seems to be a large voting segment who wants, expects, the Federal government to be their Mommy, Daddy and Big Brother and does not believe in the ultimate right of the individual. The right to pursue happiness is not a guarantee of the right to have happiness. It gives us just as much right to fail as it does to succeed, but nowadays, failure can not be tolerated and therefore is either rewarded so someone doesn't "feel" bad, or it is criminalized, because someone has to pay for my failure, or so it seems.
134 - Turnip
Last year's total debt per person was $186,717 (up $11,563 over prior year's $175,154); this compares to $29,722 in 1957 (measured in inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars.
Is this any indication of what happens when power is so far removed from the people and concentrated in the Federal District? DC is a 10 square mile free fraud zone where our futures and livelihoods are bought, sold and indentured daily. Bring some of that corruption to the states where we can more easily tar and feather the offenders.
135 - Brandon
We need to make Debt Free Notes. Buy off the Government bonds to pay off dept to put this debt free notes in the bank's reserves so that way it can fill and get rid of fractional reserves. abolish the acts and amendments that give central banks the power to regulate money. move the monetary system back to the treasury. get rid of national debt.
136 - Dave
One could only wish Canada had become a republic instead of a Dominion. In fact we live under a two party federal system, the NDP will NEVER form a federal government, with an unelected senate that quashes anything that isn't partisan to their party.
We have gutless premiers that abdicate any provincial powers, and they have plenty, if it is politicaly expedient to do so. The exception being Quebec and they are endlessly villafied in the media for seeking only the powers every province holds under the constitution. Canadians should pay attention to the situation developing down south. By the way I am not French, I am a 4th generation Albertan.
137 - Sean OLeary
State sovereignty is what humanity is about. The entire libertarian and "personal sovereignty" movements are imperialist bunkum run by the global financial interests in their ongoing war against the Westphalian system of sovereign nation states. Ron Paul? The man's a free market extremist. Sure, the Federal Reserve is anti-constitutional and we should get rid of it, but the Federal Reserve is not a government body, it's run by private bankers. A national government that is sovereign, which means independent of globalist financier interests, is the best way to defend, support and uphold the principle of the General Welfare which means "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" each every individual.