30 July 2009

Who Is Sovereign in the U.S.?

The Tenth Amendment Center has been tracking the states' rights movement, and providing updates as developments occur. The founder's son, an attorney, has written a legal opinion about who is supposed to be in charge, in the U.S.A.

"..the Federal government today does not recognize the Sovereignty in the people of the respective states; it does not recognize the respective States’ jurisdiction over all matters not expressly delegated to the federal government; and it does not seem to acknowledge State Sovereignty under the 10th amendment of the US Constitution. Given their evident intent and purposes to continually grow in power and to continually oppress and suppress the sovereignty of we the people, against our respective states, the question becomes, how will they be made to understand this? It is of course up to the Sovereigns in each state to answer this question. And we see the answers arriving through State laws such as the Firearms Freedom Act.

The time has come in America where to be free necessarily means to resist status quo and federal usurpation and to actively change the course and philosophy being shoved down our throats. There really is no middle ground any more. This is not a matter of politics anymore. This is not a matter of Republican and Democrat. This is a matter of FREEDOM, as much so as were the matters of 1775 and 1776. It is staring you in the face, daring you to make a move. May we never be guilty of causing, whether by our apathy, indifference, laziness or comfort, this nation to lose the freedoms that our founders attempted to secure with infinite pains and labors. We the people must once again reassert our Sovereignty in this country and the States must recognize and act upon their God-ordained role as Freedom protectors and tyranny resisters."

This is a long but very interesting opinion piece. Read it all here.

h/t The Maritime Sentry

1 comment:

Steven M Nielson said...

The problem is that like minded Democrats see the state's rights movement as little more than an attack on their annointed one, rather than a contest between We the People and the Tyrannical Federal Government. The message needs to be one, as was hinted at in this exerpt, of non-partisan sovereignty... The only way to do this is by reason - getting them (and even Repubs as well) to understand the importance of true liberty in this nation... lest we truly lose it all!