SPOTLIGHT: STATES RIGHTS ON THE MOVE
By JB Williams
After four and a half years in fraudulent federal
dictatorship, Barack Obama has managed to stimulate only a few things in
America – race and class warfare battles, gun and ammo sales, a $17 trillion
public debt, a mass exodus of business investors and jobs heading overseas to
“free markets” and a growing fight to enforce States Rights.
As the democrats’ Global Agenda has driven the United States
deeper and deeper into Democratic
Socialism via federal
tyranny, literally unchallenged by DC Republicans who have almost entirely
abdicated all congressional authority to both the executive and judicial
branches, state legislators are rushing to reclaim their constitutional powers
through a plethora of states’ rights legislative measures.
Since the people have no influence in the government of, by
and for the people in Washington DC, they are turning to state governments to
protect their God-given and constitutionally protected rights. An increasing
number of state legislatures are answering that call for action.
In my last piece regarding the new Tennessee
Balance of Powers Committee, I announced that the Tennessee State
Legislature will soon begin reviewing and dealing with federal abuses of power
from the newly formed Balance
of Powers Committee. The new committee will meet on May 1st to
set the structure and agenda of the committee which will be open to accept
issues of concern to the people of Tennessee, and it will begin hearing those
matters on August 1, 2013.
But Tennessee is not alone… Oklahoma,
Texas, Missouri, Alaska and other states are answering the same calls for
action. North Carolina, Louisiana and other states are following these leads
and expect to establish Balance
of Powers Committees as well, sometimes referred to as States’ Rights
Committees.
These measures were launched in all fifty states back in
2011 by members of The United States
Patriots Union, the model
legislation drafted by the Constitutional Law Division under the direction
of Barbara Ketay. The Patriots Union division has since become The North American Law Center.
It took these groups three years of sustained effort to gain
a foothold for states’ rights in numerous states, now sweeping across the
country state-by-state. The people must support these brave representatives of
the people, as they take a firm constitutional stand for the people.
These measures have met with significant resistance from
both likely and seemingly unlikely sources.
To no surprise, leftist politicos who believe in and desire
unbridled central power in Washington DC, the power to dictate policy to the
states even on matters far beyond the constitutional authority of the federal
government, or support a One World Global Government concept, oppose these
measures with all vigor.
A Democrat Tennessee House member from Memphis made a fool
of himself during the committee hearing for the Balance of Powers Act by saying
– Well, I guess what we are saying here
is that we don’t need a federal government, the states can just run themselves….
(Paraphrased) In matters not within the constitutional authority of the federal
government, that’s exactly right Representative dingbat…
When the Oklahoma states' rights committee recently passed a
bill that prohibits cities and counties from adopting any environmental
recommendations in the United Nations' Agenda 21 plan, many of those in
attendance burst into applause. Some Democrats
were not impressed, however…
“Where is Jay Leno
when you need him?” said Rep. Mike Shelton of Oklahoma City, one of 29
Democrats in the 101-member state House. “If
I didn't know this was reality, I would think this committee was something out
of a movie.”
The legal beagles weighed in – “Under Supreme Court precedent, a state doesn't have the power to block
the enforcement of federal law inside its borders,” said Joseph Thai, a
constitutional law professor at the University of Oklahoma who served as law
clerk to Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White. “Most such measures do not merit serious
comment — at least, not after the Civil War,” Thai said.
According to “experts” at so-called conservative think tanks
like the Heritage Foundation and Wall Builders, the states lost their
sovereignty and their constitutional rights in the Civil War. Although the
Civil War ended without a single successful secession from the union, holding
in place the US Constitution and Bill of Rights for all states, some somehow misinterpret
these events as having destroyed the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
According to these “experts,” the Bill of Rights no longer
apply, either due to the Civil War which held these principles and values
intact, or due to some almighty Supreme Court precedence, which itself does not
carry a constitutional force of law.
In short, these folks believe that the federal government is
totally unbridled in its power, that the Supreme Court is the supreme law of
the land, that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are dead and that there is
nothing the states can do about it… Are they right?
Republican House
Speaker Jase Bolger has set himself on a track for defeat in upcoming
elections for coming out against the constitutional rights of Michigan. The
people of Michigan are furious with the turncoat behavior of their House
Speaker and they should be.
State legislators in a growing number of states beg to
disagree, and so do the vast majority of American citizens who are fed up with
Washington DC running their country into the ground while pretending that the
government of, by and for the people -- does not have to listen to the people,
nor the states.
Even a self-proclaimed “constitutional scholar” popular with
a few fringe liberty groups, foolishly came out against a state balance of
powers hours before its hearings. Many self-styled “constitutionalists” have an
agenda driven view of our founding principles and values too, usually aimed at
little more than self-promotion, of course.
The effort to derail was so childish and misguided that it
didn’t even warrant a response, or even public acknowledgement. Needless to
say, the author of that attack watched her bills die on arrival as the Balance
of Powers moves across the nation with increasing speed.
At the end of the day, no matter the opposition, there are
state officials in at least the legislatures (and a few governors’ offices) who
hear the cry from the people for a constitutional conscience and the
preservation of our inalienable individual rights as well as those of our
sovereign states.
Like it or not, states’ rights are now in the spotlight and
there will be no pushing these issues to the back burner again. State after state,
legislators rush to establish states’ rights committees to check
unconstitutional federal overreaches and it isn’t happening a moment too soon.
Now, it will be up to the people in each state to utilize
these committees to address federal and even state overreaches of powers that
infringe upon the God-given and constitutionally protected rights of the people
and their states.
No more letter writing, faxing, emailing, petitioning,
protesting or whining. These states have opened the door for average Americans
to bring issues before their states’ rights committees for instant redress in a
peaceful and lawful manner.
Saving America is not up to the handful of DC politicians
who never fail to serve themselves. It is up to the American people, via these
state legislative committees and their state governments. That’s how it was
intended to be from the beginning, and that’s how it shall be today, or we no
longer have a Constitutional Republic.
Thank you to every state legislator who is taking a real
stand for the American people at the state level. May God bless their honorable
efforts and may the people of each state stand firm with these brave state
representatives as they set a course to restore
our Constitutional Republic.
“We're a country of
citizens and not subjects,” said Oklahoma Republican Rep. Lewis Moore,
chairman of the committee. “It is our
fault for not acting as citizens all the time.”
To which I say, Amen Rep. Moore, Amen!
For additional information on a Constitutional Balance of
Powers in your state, contact The
North American Law Center.
JB Williams
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JB Williams is a writer on matters of
history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a
twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of
Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for
all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a
Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He
is co-founder of action organizations The
United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The
Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The
North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and
activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles.
Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com
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