States Can Tell Feds to Shove It
Sheriff Richard Mack (Ret.)
of the matter is all the slogans of "Don't Tread On Me" or "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" or "We're Mad As Hell And We're Not Taking It Anymore," don't mean a thing when compared to the real and actual answer to all the protests, marches, and outrage.
The answer is in our own backyards! The States can stop every bit of it! That's right, the individual States can stop "Obamacare" and all other forms of out-of-control federal government mandates and "big brother" tactics. If Arizona, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Texas, etc. want nothing to do with National Health care as proposed by Barack Obama or Congress, then all they have to do is say "No!"
For you skeptics...let's look at the law. First, the U.S. Constitution is the ultimate and supreme law of the land. More specifically, the Bill of Rights was established, because some of our Founding Fathers, feared that the Constitution did not go far enough in restricting or limiting the central government.
Hamilton was one of a select few who wanted a bigger and powerful federal government. However, several key states and powerful delegates such as Patrick Henry, said they would not support the formation of a new government if the Constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights, a supreme law to establish basic and fundamental human rights that could never, for
all future American generations, be violated, altered or encroached upon by government. So the Framers of our Constitution came up with ten; ten God-given freedoms that would forever be held inviolable by our own governments.
The last of these basic foundational principles was the one to protect the power, sovereignty, and the autonomy of the States; the Tenth Amendment. This amendment and law underscores the entire purpose of the Constitution to limit government and forbids the federal government from becoming more powerful than the "creator."
Let's be very clear here; the States in this case were the creator. They formed the federal government, not the other way around. Does anyone believe rationally that the States intended to form a new central
government to control and command the States at will? Nothing could be further from the truth. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution details what duties the federal government will be responsible for under our new system of "balanced power." Anything not mentioned in Article 1, Sec. 8, is "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." (Tenth Amendment)
Hence, the federal government was not allowed creativity or carte blanche to expand or assume power wherever and whenever they felt like it. The feds had only discrete and enumerated and very limited powers. Omnipotency was the last thing the Founding Fathers intended to award the newly formed federal government. They had just fought the
Revolutionary War to stop such from Britain and their main concern was to prevent a recurrence here in America.
In perhaps the most recent and powerful Tenth Amendment decision in modern history, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mack/Printz v U.S. that "States are not subject to federal direction." But today's federal Tories argue that the "supremacy clause" of the U.S. Constitution says that the federal government is supreme and thus, trumps the States in all
matters. Wrong! The supremacy clause is dealt with in Mack/Printz, in which the Supreme Court stated once and for all that the only thing "supreme" is the constitution itself. Our constitutional system of checks and balances certainly did not make the federal government king over the states, counties, and cities. Justice Scalia opined for the majority in Mack/Printz, that "Our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other."
So yes, it is the duty of the State to stop the Obamacare "incursion." To emphasize this principle Scalia quotes James Madison, "The local
or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the Supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere." The point to remember here is; where do we define
the "sphere" of the federal government? That's right; in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution and anything not found within this section belongs to the States or to the People.
So where does health care belong? The last place it belongs is with the President or Congress. It is NOT their responsibility and the States need to make sure that Obama does not overstep his authority.
Just in case there is any doubt as to what the Supreme Court meant, let's take one more look at Mack/Printz. "This separation of the two spheres is one of the Constitution's structural protections of liberty. Hence, a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other..." What? The Constitution, the supreme law of the land,
has as a "structural protection of liberty" that States will keep the federal government in check? No wonder it was called a system of "checks and balances."
The States (and Counties) are to maintain the balance of power by keeping the feds within their proper sphere. So do the States have to take the bullying of the federal government? Not hardly! The States do not have to take or support or pay for Obamacare or anything else from Washington DC.
The States are not subject to federal direction. They are sovereign and "The Constitution protects us from our own best intentions." (Mack/Printz) Which means the States can tell national health care proposals or laws to take a flying leap off the Washington monument. We are not subject to federal direction!
In the final order pursuant to the Mack/Printz ruling Scalia warned, "The federal government may neither, issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States' officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our
constitutional system of dual sovereignty." It is rather obvious that nationalized health care definitely qualifies as a "federal regulatory program."
Thus, the marching on Washington and pleas and protests to our DC politicians are misdirected. Such actions are "pie in the sky" dreaming that somehow expects the tyrants who created the tyranny, will miraculously put a stop to it. Throughout the history of the world such has never been the case. Tyrants have never stopped their own corrupt ways. However, in our system of "dual sovereignty," the States can do it. If we are to take back America and keep this process peaceful, then state and local officials will have to step up to the plate.
Doing so is what States' Rights and State Sovereignty are all about.
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Original Title -The States Can Stop Obama
Speech by Sheriff Mack (Video)
Thanks to Phil for guidance.
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First Comment from Paul Andrew Mitchell
Congratulations! I believe that all Americans need to study that excellent piece.
I do wish you had taken the next step after citing Article I, Section 8:
the Clause at 1:8:17 is a very important key to understanding
why the Republic is devolved into near extinction, of late:
http://www.supremelaw.org/ref/
("exclusive" here means no State jurisdiction whatsoever)
And, this key Clause is THE reason why D.C. cannot join the Union
without a Constitutional Amendment expressly permitting it to do so.
If you will take the time to review the articles we have authored and
assembled concerning the failed Fourteenth amendment [sic]
and the ugly legal consequences of its historical aftermath,
it shouldn't be too difficult for men of your intelligence
to see how all of the following have served to empower the Feds and to dis-empower the States and their Citizens (UPPER-CASE "C"):
(1) federal citizenship is a Federal MUNICIPAL franchise
domiciled in D.C.;
(2) there was only one class of State Citizens prior to the Civil War,
and thus prior to 1866;
(3) the 1866 Civil Rights Act originally created federal citizenship,
and it too was Federal MUNICIPAL law: it could not and did not amend any of the Qualifications Clauses which mention State Citizens ONLY; in point of fact, those Clauses have never been amended;
(4) similarly, the "Citizens" mentioned in the Arising Under Clause and in the Privileges and Immunities Clause were likewise State Citizens ONLY (there was only one class of State Citizens between 1788 and 1866);
(5) without belaboring any of the other important historical details,
it is now clear that the population of federal citizens who inhabit
the 50 States are an absolute legislative democracy that is domiciled in D.C.;
(6) federal citizens owe their allegiance to a jurisdiction which is
not protected by the Guarantee Clause; strictly construed
as it should be, that Guarantee Clause only guarantees
a Republic Form of Government to the 50 States,
NOT to the "United States" (federal government) read "D.C.";
(7) the consequences of this fraudulent scheme have been numerous, far-reaching and long-lasting, e.g.:
(a) presently only federal citizens can vote and serve on juries,
whether grand juries or trial juries, whether criminal or civil juries;
(b) only State Citizens can serve in the House, Senate or White House (remember here: the Qualifications Clauses have never been amended: as such, they retain today the meaning they had when they were first ratified on June 21, 1788 -- my birthday, by the way :)
(c) therefore, those who are qualified to be federal lawmakers
cannot vote or serve on any juries -- State or federal, civil or criminal, grand or petit juries!
(d) those who are eligible to vote and serve on juries
are not qualified to be federal lawmakers;
(8) this obviously twisted situation has already been well documented in litigation, e.g. see these documents, for starters:
http://www.supremelaw.org/
http://www.supremelaw.org/
http://www.supremelaw.org/
http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/
http://www.supremelaw.org/ref/
http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/
http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/
http://www.supremelaw.org/
http://www.supremelaw.org/
http://www.newswithviews.com/
Now you know why the Feds persist in harping on "democracy in America": in doing so, they are using false propaganda to perpetuate a majority of federal citizens who presently populate the 50 States, while doing everything within their power to ignore the State Citizens who also inhabit those same 50 States.
Jan. 25, 2010
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