Comments on: States’ Rights Ride Again?

By: Walter Matthews

Walter Matthews — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:31:21 +0000

Absolutely, Michael. The only 2 states that are electing governors this year are Viginia and New Jersey. This would be a good time to start pressing the candidates in these states to adopt planks in their platforms that will call out any Senator or Congressman from their states who try to use “coercive legislation” to force states to give up their 10th Amendment rights.
Ultimately, this has to begin and stay at the grass roots level.

Remember, the framers expected this country to be governed from the ground up. The fault for it being turned upside down is the fault of the citizenry.

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:23:18 +0000

Walter, an interesting idea. Not sure how it could be put into practice…any ideas?

There is a growing nullification movement – where state legislatures are working to simply nullify, or refuse to implement, unconstitutional federal laws. Getting interesting…

By: Walter Matthews

Walter Matthews — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:14:24 +0000

Has anyone thought of pushing back in more public and vocal way on this issue?

What would happen if governors and individual state legislators and legislatures started “calling out” individual Senators and Congressmen
from ther respective states who propose, support and/or vote for any legislation that has the potential of eroding a state’s Tenth Amendment protection.
Admittedly it would be a tough sell, and would need to cross party lines and will also cuase a fair amount of discord between politicians of the same part, but is that really a bad thing?

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:17:56 +0000

Jim, it seems to be a simple question – why, right? Unfortunately, federal politicians don’t like it, and many state politicians are happy to receive the bribes…um, I mean funding, from the federal government.

It’s good to see some backbone coming from the statehouses. We just need to stay on top of them so we can get these things pushed through!

By: JimB

JimB — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:10:58 +0000

Why shouldn’t the states do what their people want done? The federal government tends to bully the individual person lets see how much spine the states have. The way things are looking, all it’s going to take is 1 state that has the cajones to tell big brother to F%$& off and most of the rest will follow suit.
When the federal maintains 731 bases in 156 countries at 640 billion a year, please tell me why WE have to BORROW 1.3 trillion dollars to fix our economy?

By: Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:03:20 +0000

Lyle – I think the best thing to do is to contact some local representatives and let them know that this is what you want them to do. If you get any feedback from them, drop us a line here to let us know what’s going on in FL – a big state – should be making some big noise!

You can email here with the “contact” button at the top of this page, or by writing to info@tenthamendmentcenter.com

By: Lyle Simpson

Lyle Simpson — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:56:37 +0000

Since it appears my home states of Az. & Ok. are on board how do i help my adopeted state of Fl. wake up?