Eleven delegates of the West Virginia legislature introduced House Concurrent Resolution 49 on 03-27-09 “Claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers; serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates; providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed; and directing distribution.”

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by Neal Ross

During last year’s election season, I went down to my local mall to buy a book entitled, Who Killed The Constitution. After purchasing my book, I sat down on a bench and waited for my wife and son to finish looking around the rest of the mall.

As I was sitting there I noticed a table set up by the entrance to Sears. There was a large crowd surrounding it talking and looking at literature. I paid no attention to it, as there is always some sort of table set up signing people up for one thing or another.

Eventually my wife came up to me and asked me to come with her, as there was a blouse she wanted me to look at in Sears. As we walked past that table I looked down and they had all kinds of Obama paraphernalia and one of them was saying, “Once he gets elected we still have a lot of work to do.”

I guess by the way my stride had slowed my wife could tell I was going to stop and say something, she gently grabbed my arm as if to say, ‘Keep on walking Neal’. I really wanted to stop and ask them a couple questions, but I guess my wife didn’t want me to start a fuss and embarrass her. Continue Reading

by Jacob Hornberger, Future of Freedom Foundation

The Constitution brought into existence the most unusual government in history. It was a government whose powers were limited to those enumerated in the document itself. If the power wasn’t enumerated, the government could not exercise it. Fearful that the newly formed government might try to break free of that enumerated-powers straitjacket, the American people, through their duly authorized representatives, enacted the Bill of Rights.

The first eight amendments to the Constitution expressly prohibit the federal government from denying people fundamental rights and important procedural protections. To ensure that federal officials would not later claim that the list of such rights was exclusive, the Ninth Amendment was enacted.

Then, to ensure that powers not expressly delegated to the federal government could still be exercised by the states, the Tenth Amendment was enacted. Continue Reading

by Patrik Johnsson, Christian Science Monitor

Atlanta - There’s an old joke in South Carolina: Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have surrendered at the Burt-Stark mansion in Abbeville, S.C., in 1865, but the people of state Rep. Michael Pitts’s district never did.

With revolutionary die-hards behind him, Mr. Pitts has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Washington establishment. As the writer of one of 28 state “sovereignty bills” – one even calls for outright dissolution of the Union if Washington doesn’t rein itself in – Pitts is at the forefront of a states’ rights revival, reasserting their say on everything from stem cell research to the Second Amendment. Continue Reading

In North Carolina, State Reps Cleveland, Justice, and Blackwood have filed H849 “supporting the state’s right to claim sovereignty over certain powers under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”

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by Ryan Cooper
Springfield News-Leader - March 17, 2009
“From the Right” appears every Tuesday.

“Every school child in America should be required to read the Bible.”

At that point, I stopped clapping for Patrick Buchanan, who was speaking in Kansas City during his failed 2000 presidential bid. The government shouldn’t force people to read books, even the Bible.

There is some truth to the liberal insult that conservatives want to create a Christian theocracy. Social conservatives tend to overemphasize religion when talking about social issues like abortion and gay marriage.

People who support limited government are turned off by the Republican Party because of the religious overtones. They don’t want a government run by preachers. Continue Reading

by Brian McCandliss

Before the Constitution was ratified, each and every state was a complete independent nation– just like England, France or Italy, or any other sovereign nation.

Even after the Constitution was signed, the individual states still considered themselves as remaining separate sovereign nations, and that the Constitution simply formed a “federal republic” among them– which by definition is 100% voluntary, i.e. member-states are free to depart from it at any time, and cannot be coerced by other member-nations. Continue Reading

by Brad Berner

“Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1779

In the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush administration and many Democrats crossed a constitutional Rubicon. By both presidential directives and legislation, constitutionally protected rights have been restricted and/or abolished, and the constitutionally mandated ’separation of powers’ between the executive and legislative branches of government has been erased by presidential fiat. Continue Reading