From the United States Government Archives:
“During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a “bill of rights” that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.”
From the Preamble to the Bill of Rights:
“THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.”
The Bill of Rights was adopted to prevent tyranny of the Federal Government. The first 10 Amendments of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, not only guarantees, the rights of the individual citizen, but each state as well.
“The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which an independent state is governed and from which all specific political powers are derived; the intentional independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign interference.
Sovereignty is the power of a state to do everything necessary to govern itself, such as making, executing, and applying laws; imposing and collecting taxes; making war and peace; and forming treaties or engaging in commerce with foreign nations.
The individual states of the United States do not possess the powers of external sovereignty, such as the right to deport undesirable persons, but each does have certain attributes of internal sovereignty, such as the power to regulate the acquisition and transfer of property within its borders. The sovereignty of a state is determined with reference to the U.S. Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.” From legal definition.
Each state is sovereign and independent of the central government. Each state has the same characteristics of the federal government. Each state has three branches of government, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.
SOVEREIGNTY. The union and exercise of all human power possessed in a state; it is a combination of all power; it is the power to do everything in a state without accountability; to make laws, to execute and to apply them: to impose and collect taxes, and, levy, contributions; to make war or peace; to form treaties of alliance or of commerce with foreign nations, and the like. Story on the Const. Sec. 207.
2. Abstractedly, sovereignty resides in the body of the nation and belongs to the people. But these powers are generally exercised by delegation.
3. When analyzed, sovereignty is naturally divided into three great powers; namely, the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary; the first is the power to make new laws, and to correct and repeal the old; the second is the power to execute the laws both at home and abroad; and the last is the power to apply the laws to particular facts; to judge the disputes which arise among the citizens, and to punish crimes.
4. Strictly speaking, in our republican forms of government, the absolute sovereignty of the nation is in the people of the nation; (q.v.) and the residuary sovereignty of each state, not granted to any of its public functionaries, is in the people of the state. (q.v.) 2 Dall. 471; and vide, generally, 2 Dall. 433, 455; 3 Dall. 93; 1 Story, Const. Sec. 208; 1 Toull. n. 20 Merl. Repert. h.t.
Amendment IX to the United States Constitution:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X to the United States Constitution:
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.
The Federal Government has pushed, and over reached, the limits of it’s authority. The Constitution does not allow for gun control, of any kind, by the federal, or state governments.
Providing social security, welfare for individuals, or corporations, and medical care, are not functions of the federal government. There isn’t any restrictions, in the Constitution, that would bar the individual states from taking up these issues. These are issues that should be determined by the individual states.
The Department of Education, Department of Energy, the EPA, and so on, are not functions of the federal government. There is no right to an abortion in the United States Constitution,that is a state issue.
It is past time that the individual states reassert their constitutional authority. Unfunded federal mandates are bankrupting the states.
The states of Arizona, Hawaii, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Washington, have introduced resolutions to reclaim their 9th and 10th Amendment rights. Analysts expect the states of Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, Maine, and Pennsylvania to follow.
‘Lawmakers in 20 states move to reclaim sovereignty,’ By Jerome Corsi contains details of the resolutions that are already in eight states.
Related:
Asserting state sovereignty, Lawmakers in 20 states move to reclaim sovereignty.
From my blog:
The Bobby Rush Gun Owners Blues, The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not be Infringed.
Contact, and support, your state legislators, and reclaim your individual, and state rights.
Alex Jones and Jerome Corsi will be on Coast to Coast AM Monday night to discuss this issue. It will be worth staying up for.
