State Sovereignty Movement

CNN picks up a story on sovereignty. Link to article.

The article is a little more balanced than the initial sentence tends to suggest it wil be,

“Republican lawmakers from more than 20 states across the country are willing to take federal funding, but only on their terms.”

To begin, this is far from being a Republican effor, but is and should be supported by members of both major political parties. Second, the article fails to observe that the money belongs to the people in the first place. The government takes it from us, then offers to give us back a portion of it, but with strings attached. And in doing so, it pretends it it somehow their money, and that the offer is somehow magnanimous on their part.

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Today the New Hampshire House of Representatives defeated a resolution in defense of the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Bill of Rights.  And, the Arkansas resolution never even made it to the floor of either chamber for a vote, dying in committee. 

It is up to the people to communicate with their lawmakers  in defense of their sovereignty rights.  Please contact your the congresspeople, senators, and governors in your states to make your wishes known.

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New Hampshire

Arkansas

From WVZ Radio in Boston

Concord, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire Republican lawmaker is telling the federal government to stay out of state affairs.

The New Hampshire House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on Rep. Daniel Itse’s resolution asserting state sovereignty, or the right to ignore any federal law or policy that violates the Constitution. Itse groups the federal stimulus bill, the No Child Left Behind Act and any new assault rifle ban in that category.

Lawmakers in at least 15 states are sponsoring similar resolutions. Some sponsors have filed them in prior years but say opposition to the stimulus may be spurring a larger movement this year.

Critics say the sponsors are misreading the Constitution. Itse’s supporters are planning a rally on Wednesday before the vote.

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The Spartanburg GoUstate.com reports on the sovereignty efforts in South Carolina. See the link to their story here.

Associated Press, reprinted at Vermont’s WCAX site, reports that the New Hampshire House is scheduled to vote this Wednesday on the sovereignty resolution introduced by Representative Daniel Itse.

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On Sunday, March 1, 2009, the State Sovereignty Movement web site was initiated.  The goals of this site are:

• To find and report news in all 50 state capitals and in Washington, DC relating to the movement to declare and enforce the sovereignty of  the people and their state & local governments. 
• To act as a channel of communications through which all Americans may exchange information relating to sovereignty efforts.
• To inform citizens in all 50 states about their rights to self-government as guaranteed in Amendments 9 and 10 of the Bill of Rights and to inspire their local and state legislators and governors to defend that right on their behalf.

In addition to news here at the main site blog, the site provides a forum for engaging in discussions of these and other topics.

We in the United States protect our freedoms listed in the Bill of Rights with dogged determination. Freedoms of speech and assembly (1st Amendment), religion (the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment), freedom against unreasonable searches (4th), due process and against self-incrimination (5th), the right to keep and bear arms (2nd), against cruel and unusual punishment (8th), and others carry such impassioned support among the people that we will defend them with our last breath. But there are two basic human freedoms at the end of the list of ten that we have sadly neglected for over 100 years.

The 9th Amendment makes it clear that the powers given to the Federal Government by the constitution are not removed from the people, but rather granted by them. The people retain ultimate sovereignty and the government serves at the pleasure of those it purports to govern. The 10th outlines that the Federal Government is authorized only the very few powers given to the by the Constitution. All other powers not specifically listed as belonging to Washington are reserved to the several state governments.

These two Amendments have been sadly neglected, and the Federal Government has crept into supreme power as a result. In fact, by this year of 2009, the Federal Government has grown into a separate entity with its own self-interests that are unrelated to the interests of the people and the local and state governments they create. Its prime constituency today is its own quest for power and not a desire to serve the needs and desires of the people for reasonable self-government.

The encroachment of the Federal Government permeates all three branches and both major political parties. The solution cannot be a partisan remedy. It is not a red/state issue, a Republican/Democrat struggle; it is not conservative, nor is it liberal. Rather, it predates all those labels, and it became apparent during the First Presidential Administration of George Washington. It is the difference in governmental philosophy that caused Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to argue bitterly and constantly, while competing for President Washington’s agreement. Most of the original thirteen states would never have ratified the Constitution had it not been for the inclusion in the Bill of Rights of these two liberties.

Washington the capital can no longer be looked to for enforcement of these two freedoms. It is now necessary for the state governments in the 50 capitals to take up the cause of fighting for their own sovereignty. State legislators and governors must be made aware that it is up to them to defend the people’s right to self-government.

This web site is devoted to news and communication related to the movement in all 50 states to declare and enforce state sovereignty.