State Rights

The U. S. Congress is totally out of control. They have gone way beyond the Constitution. What good is a Constitution if the Congress chooses to create a new one in their own image of corruption and power. The Constitution is almost shattered beyond saving UNLESS Patriots stand up now and defend her.One way we can curb the Congress is by reasserting State Rights. Nullification is the best way to begin to restore the Constitution to its rightfully place as the Supreme law of the land. The principal behind nullification is when a state 'nullifies' or defies a federal law, stating that the law in question is null and void and non-effective within the state.

Several states are beginning to take action against the abuse of the Commerce Clause and the 2nd amendment. Some of those are Montana, Kentucky, and Texas. We need to pressure our politicians in Oklahoma to stand up and be counted. Hopefully the legislature will reintroduce HJR1003 which states that the state of Oklahoma claims sovereignty. This was voted by the Governor. Let us make sure that our next Governor will sign it.

The Congress has no right to mandate Health Care and Oklahoma should 'nullify' it. There is a long history in America for states to affirm their right to resist federal encroachments on their powers. The States have slowly but surely allowed the Congress to take away their (our)power and freedoms. The Congress uses our tax dollars to bribe and intimidate the states by threatening to withhold funds for projects such as highways unless the states accept federal mandates (seatbelt laws are an example).

Once freedom is lost it is hard to get it back. Too many people love the nanny state. The States should Call a Constitutional Convention to repeal the 16th amendment (income tax). This will starve the Congress and help get them back under control. Another amendment should impose term limits on Congress.

A little history of nullification:
In 1798, the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky approved resolutions that affirmed the states’ right to resist federal encroachments on their powers. If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the resolutions’ authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow – regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power. The Virginia Resolutions spoke of the states’ right to “interpose” between the federal government and the people of the state; the Kentucky Resolutions (in a 1799 follow-up to the original resolutions) used the term “nullification” – the states, they said, could nullify unconstitutional federal laws. More by Thomas E Woods