Tag archive for ‘state sovereignty’
Posted by Tenth Amendment on December 4th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as arizona, california, constitution, indiana, mexico, republic, state sovereignty, supreme court
The battle raging between the federal government and the State of Arizona over its so-called anti immigration law has raised several constitutional issues
Posted by Tenth Amendment on November 22nd, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as alabama, constitution, epa, nullification, republic, sovereignty, state sovereignty, supreme court, taxes, thomas jefferson
one of the finest and most systematic defenses of the Virginian states’ rights school of constitutional interpretation ever written
Posted by Tenth Amendment on June 5th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as arizona, california, colorado, constitution, epa, eric holder, iowa, medical marijuana, new hampshire, nullification, state sovereignty, supreme court, tenth amendment, town hall meeting
Isn’t it time that Governors and state Attorneys General stopped wasting our precious time and money playing these silly legal games, grow a spine, and actually fulfill the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution, including the Tenth Amendment?
Posted by Tenth Amendment on April 22nd, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as arizona, constitution, firearms, north dakota, nullification, real id, state sovereignty, supreme court, tenth amendment, thomas jefferson
Nullification in North Dakota? That’s just what could be coming if Governor Jack Dalrymple signs Senate Bill 2309
Posted by Tenth Amendment on February 23rd, 2011 | Categorized as History, Network Posts | Tagged as civil war, constitution, florida, kentucky, maine, new york, north carolina, nullification, south carolina, state sovereignty, supreme court
Students accustomed to equating states’ rights with South Carolina may be stunned to learn that it was the Wisconsin Supreme Court asserting the nullification doctrine in the mid-1850s.
Posted by Tenth Amendment on February 14th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as arizona, california, constitution, declaration of independence, florida, new hampshire, nullification, republic, revolution, state sovereignty, supreme court, tenth amendment
I predict that Arizona’s SB 1178 will startle our overlords in Washington, DC and deeply offend them in much the same way that the immigration act, SB 1070, did.
Posted by Tenth Amendment on February 11th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as constitution, freedom, nullification, politics, sovereignty, state sovereignty
“if freedom has a chance to survive in these United States, the American people must get their eyes off of Washington, D.C., and start focusing on their individual states”
Posted by Tenth Amendment on February 9th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as arizona, constitution, deficit, epa, new hampshire, ninth amendment, nullification, patriot act, republic, sovereignty, state sovereignty, supreme court
If federal lawmakers and their alphabet agencies refuse to obey the very document on which their political authority and legitimacy is based, then it is up to state and local governments to pass and enforce laws like the Intrastate Commerce Act, which explicitly remind the feds where their authority ends.
Posted by Tenth Amendment on February 3rd, 2011 | Categorized as History, Network Posts | Tagged as california, civil war, constitution, idaho, kentucky, medical marijuana, nullification, revolution, state sovereignty, supreme court, tenth amendment
It’s not just the left that’s confused about nullification, it’s the right too. Steve Palmer takes on the standard objections.
Posted by Tenth Amendment on January 30th, 2011 | Categorized as Network Posts | Tagged as constitution, epa, firearms, guns, healthcare, maine, nullification, real id, republic, sovereignty, state sovereignty, tea party, tenth amendment
Back in 2007, Maine generated national headlines when it took a step that then was not known to our mainstream political world