States Stand For Constitutional Sovereignty Status Update Brief 27Feb10!! 40 Plus States Active!!

[Arkansas]

LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY!!

THIS MAP IS PRINT AND POST QUALITY!! SO PLEASE DO!!

CONGRATULATIONS UTAH! NEWEST CONSTITUTIONALLY SOVEREIGN STATE 25FEB2010!!!
http://statesstand.ning.com/profiles/blogs/utah-declares-state

SOUTH CAROLINA MAY BE NEXT!!
http://statesstand.ning.com/profiles/blogs/south-carolina-poised-to

ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE 12 NEW STATE SOVEREIGNTY DECLARATIONS IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW!! THEY INCLUDE ALABAMA. NEBRASKA, RHODE ISLAND, WYOMING, WASHINGTON, INDIANA, KENTUCKY, GEORGIA, KANSAS, MISSOURI, MISSISSIPPI, AND MARYLAND! http://statesstand.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ten-more-states-energizing http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=11853830

THE UNITED SOVEREIGNTY OF OUR MANY STATES BEING UNENCUMBERED BY UNAPPROVED DEBT WILL STAND!! HENCE, OUR NAME!!

WE DO HEREBY CONTEND!!...OUR MISSION STATEMENT!!

THAT WE SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE MANY STATES DECLARING SOVEREIGNTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!


THESE ARE THE RESULTS OF LAST YEARS WORK...GOOD AS IT WAS, IT WAS 2009 WORK AND THIS IS NOW 2010!!
OHIO SENATE AFFIRMS STATE SOVEREIGNTY 29SEP09!!
MICHIGAN SENATE UNANIMOUSLY AFFIRMS SOVEREIGNTY 17SEP09!

ALASKA OFFICIALLY DECLARES SOVEREIGNTY AND REAFFIRMS 2ND AMENDMENT ...

FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY!!FLORIDA INTRODUCES SOVEREIGNTY LEGISLATION UN...
LOUISIANA NEWEST SOVEREIGN STATE 25JUN2009!! SCR2!!
IT IS OFFICIAL!! TENNESSEE SOVEREIGNTY DECLARATION SIGNED BY GOVERN...
NEW JERSEY INTRODUCES SOVEREIGNTY BILL THE SAME DAY! NOW 38 STATES ...

TEXAS SOVEREIGNTY PASSES HOUSE 99-36 30MAY!!
MASSACHUSETTS MAKES IT 37 STATES ACTIVELY PURSUING SOVEREIGNTY DECL...
MS PASSES HOUSE AND SENATE! NOW BLUE-GREEN LEANING TO BLUE!! HCR69 ...
OK DECLARES SOVEREIGNTY 13MAY HCR 1028!! GO BLUE!!
MO AWAITING SENATE VOTE!! HCR13!
NORTH DAKOTA PASSES CONGRESS!! HCR3063!
WISCONSIN JOINS THE RUSH!! SR6!

INDIANA CHECKS IN 44-3!!
TX Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas’ Sovereignty Under 1...
IDAHO DECLARES SOVEREIGNTY UNDER 10TH AMENDMENT!!

IF THERE IS ANY DOUBT AS TO SUPPORT FOR THESE MANY STATES THERE SHOULD NOT BE (Minute 4:12 Points 4 and 5)!!

[Mary Jane Moore-Wright]

States to Feds: Step Off
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/02/05/states-to-feds-step-off/

We had no idea: states across the land are assembling their legislatures and passing these resolutions asserting their sovereignty. It’s all part of this push, it seems, to remind whomever — citizens, the federal government — that the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution imbue the states with certain powers.

The number of states deciding that these resolutions are worth doing are growing. South Carolina passed one this week. A Kansas resolution affirming the state’s 10th amendment rights was on Thursday sent to the state Senate for a full vote. Late last month, the Alabama legislature sent up a resolution essentially reaffirming the 10th amendment. For a full list of what states have done on this front, click here, for information from the Tenth Amendment center; click here for

By way of quick refresher, the 10th Amendment reads:

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.

On its face, it certainly sounds like an amendment that’s worth being mindful of (which one isn’t?). Thing is, however, that any new application or enforcement of the 10th amendment is going to require some new, perhaps forward-thinking litigation, and a Supreme Court that decides it’s high time to breathe new life into the largely moribund amendment.

Last fall, we cited Radley Balko, writing in Reason, who cited this passage from Ken at Popehat:

“The Tenth Amendment is close to a dead letter in American jurisprudence; the unrestrained growth of the federal government reflects that modern courts have refused to find that it acts as any sort of brake on federal power.”

As we wrote, it would take an enormously courageous (or ill-advised, depending on your perspective) federal judge to strike down federal legislation on Tenth amendment grounds. But this is a court that decided to pick up the Second amendment and give it another look. So who knows?

[Mary Jane Moore-Wright]

Link for the article below: http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/05/raising-the-bar-for-...

[Mary Jane Moore-Wright]

Raising the Bar for Nullification
05. Feb, 2010
Michael Boldin
SOURCE & LINKS in ARTICLE

Wall Street Journal Report: States to Feds, Step Off!

“The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government."
--Thomas Jefferson

BREAKING: South Carolina Bill proposes 5 years prison for public officials "of any jurisdiction" that attempt to require registration of "purchasers of firearms or ammunition within the boundaries" of the state.

In short, nullification means this: The state is taking a position that a particular federal law is unconstitutiona​l,​ and thus, the law in question is void and inoperative, or ‘non-​effective,​’ within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as that state is concerned.

But nullification is much more than just mere rhetoric. To nullify a federal law in practice requires active resistance to it by the people and the state government.

Around the country, twenty two states are currently considering a bill known as the “Firearms Freedom Act.” This bill declares that guns, accessories, and ammunition made within a state, sold within that state and kept in that state are not subject to federal laws or regulations under the “Interstate Commerce Clause” of the Constitution.

Montana and Tennessee passed a Firearms Freedom Act into law in 2009, and a number of states are moving that direction in the 2010 legislative session. In South Carolina, where a Firearms Freedom Act was also introduced in 2009, some representatives​ have taken things a step further.

NULLIFYING GUN REGISTRATIONS

Introduced in the South Carolina General Assembly this week is House Bill 4509 (H4509), which if passed, would make law that “no public official of any jurisdiction may require registration of purchasers of firearms or ammunition within the boundaries of this State.”

No caveat for regulations under the commerce clause. No caveat for types of firearms either. This bill says NO to all gun registrations – period.

The principle behind such legislation is nullification, which has a long history in the American tradition.

In the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote in response to the hated Alien and Sedition Acts:

“The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government”

and

“where powers are assumed [by the federal government] which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them”

In short, nullification means this: The state is taking a position that a particular federal law is unconstitutiona​l,​ and thus, the law in question is void and inoperative, or ‘non-​.​.​.​.​effective,​’ within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as that state is concerned.

But nullification is much more than just mere rhetoric. To nullify a federal law in practice requires active resistance to it by the people and the state government.

INTERPOSITION

In the Virginia Resolution of 1798, James Madison wrote of the principle of interposition:

That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties; as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting the compact; as no further valid that they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.

Here Madison asserts what is implied in nullification laws – that state governments not only have the right to resist unconstitutiona​l federal acts, but that, in order to protect liberty, they are “duty bound to interpose” or stand between the federal government and the people of the state.

H4509 includes strong language to assert this principle:

Federal agents have flouted the United States Constitution and foresworn their oath to support this Constitution by requiring registration of the purchasers of firearms and ammunition, and these requirements violate the limits of authority placed upon the federal agents by the United States Constitution and are dangerous to the liberties of the people

(B) Notwithstanding​ any other provision of law, no public official of any jurisdiction may require registration of purchasers of firearms or ammunition within the boundaries of this State.

(C) Any person violating the provisions of this subsection (B) is guilty of a felony and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both.

A GROWING MOVEMENT

Supporters of such legislation point to laws passed by other states that have effectively nullified federal laws around the country. Fourteen states have now defied federal laws on marijuana. And, two dozen states have refused to comply with the Bush-era Real ID Act, rendering that 2005 law virtually null and void today.

Guns, national ID cards, and weed might be just the early stages of a quickly growing movement to nullify other federal laws seen as outside the scope of their constitutionall​y-​delegated powers. In states around the country this year, bills have been proposed to defy or nullify federal laws on health care, use of national guard troops overseas, legal tender laws, cap and trade, and even the process of collecting federal income taxes.

The final goal? It’s a long way off – a federal government that follows the strict limits of the constitution, whether it wants to or not.

CLICK HERE to view the Tenth Amendment Center’s Legislative Tracking Page for Current Nullification Efforts.