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8:27 AM (7 hours ago)Is State sovereignty resurgent - or about to be surrendered?from feed/http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default by Old RebelThe Hill reports on a promising movement in Nebraska which owes its existence to the distribution of a book to legislators. Via The Other McCain:
Last fall, the Nebraska Campaign for Liberty distributed copies of Tom Woods’s book Nullification to 44 of the 49 members of the Legislature. They followed up with discussion with some other senators about the kind of things they’d like to see done and provided some “model legislation” — courtesy of the Tenth Amendment Center.
“We didn’t have great expectations,” said Laura Ebke of Red State Eclectic. “We thought that perhaps we’d get a little bit of notice, establish ourselves as some sort of states’-rights/limited-government presence, and maybe scope out which senators we might be able to work with on some issues.”
Then she got an e-mail from a legislative aide for one of her senators about a bill that was getting ready to be introduced. Here is a piece of it:
Sec. 3. (1) The Legislature declares that the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and violates its true meaning and intent as given by the founders and ratifiers and is hereby declared to be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, is specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.
Could be an interesting battle, said Ebke.
But there's an ominous movement underway as well. From the same story:
The New York Times reports today that policymakers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers: “Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles, because the states are considered sovereign.”
Hmmm. And just what would these "policymakers" be planning? Is it possible the financial crisis can be used to manipulate the States to formally surrender the sovereignty they've possessed since it was proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and recognized in the Treaty of Paris?
I wouldn't put it past them.
8:27 AM (7 hours ago)Is State sovereignty resurgent - or about to be surrendered?from feed/http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default by Old RebelThe Hill reports on a promising movement in Nebraska which owes its existence to the distribution of a book to legislators. Via The Other McCain:
Last fall, the Nebraska Campaign for Liberty distributed copies of Tom Woods’s book Nullification to 44 of the 49 members of the Legislature. They followed up with discussion with some other senators about the kind of things they’d like to see done and provided some “model legislation” — courtesy of the Tenth Amendment Center.
“We didn’t have great expectations,” said Laura Ebke of Red State Eclectic. “We thought that perhaps we’d get a little bit of notice, establish ourselves as some sort of states’-rights/limited-government presence, and maybe scope out which senators we might be able to work with on some issues.”
Then she got an e-mail from a legislative aide for one of her senators about a bill that was getting ready to be introduced. Here is a piece of it:
Sec. 3. (1) The Legislature declares that the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and violates its true meaning and intent as given by the founders and ratifiers and is hereby declared to be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, is specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.
Could be an interesting battle, said Ebke.
But there's an ominous movement underway as well. From the same story:
The New York Times reports today that policymakers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers: “Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles, because the states are considered sovereign.”
Hmmm. And just what would these "policymakers" be planning? Is it possible the financial crisis can be used to manipulate the States to formally surrender the sovereignty they've possessed since it was proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and recognized in the Treaty of Paris?
I wouldn't put it past them.
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