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Alabama: We Dare Defend Our Rights

By on January 30, 2010 in Federalism, State Sovereignty 7

alabama-flagI am certainly pleased that the Alabama Legislature has passed a resolution affirming the sovereignty of our state under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Alabama now joins many other states which have passed such resolutions as a principled response to unprecedented threats to our liberties by the bloated and ever-expanding federal government.

The principle of states rights known as “federalism,” and contained in the Tenth Amendment, grew from a healthy American fear of abuse of power, particularly power centralized in one person or political body. When the American Colonists became the United States and threw off the bonds of Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence, one of the grievances listed in the Declaration was that the King and Parliament were “declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.”

Alabama’s state motto is, “We Dare Defend Our Rights.” Because of repeated injuries and usurpation of our federal government in both Republican and Democrat administrations of recent years, it is altogether fit and proper that the states should take alarm and affirm the Tenth Amendment to voice their opposition to federal abuse of power.

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MichaelBoldin
MichaelBoldin

While I am definitely with you on the horrendous attacks on liberty that came from the republican thugs the last 8 years - from DHS to the Patriot Act, Foreign Policy and more - my question is this - what do YOU think the First Amendment means?

Lex
Lex

A good question, MB, and the best *short* answer I can give would be this rhetorical question to Congress: What part of "no law" don't you understand?

You can glean a more nuanced understanding from my blog, which you can reach by clicking on my name..

Lex
Lex

How delightful that Judge Moore, having demonstrated to the world that he can't read his way out of a wet paper bag where First Amendment jurisprudence is concerned, now presumes to lecture us upon the Tenth.

Sorry, "Judge," the Stoopid People got to run the country for eight years and we see what that got us -- massive government bloat via the Department of Homeland Security and the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, serial violations of Constitutional guarantees and federal and international criminal laws, and the list goes on. And I haven't heard you say one damn word about them. So much for your oath to uphold the Constitution.

It would pain me somewhat to see Alabama secede, inasmuch as one of my ancestors was one of the state's first white settlers and I still have family in the Talladega area. But the fact is that if Alabama DID secede, it would instantly become a third-world country and you know it, so you and we all know you aren't going anywhere. So just spare us your bluster.

DerekSheriff
DerekSheriff

Hopefully Arizona will be the next state to say NO to the federal supremacists.

Ruth Ann Wilson
Ruth Ann Wilson

Judge Moore,
I have great respect for you. You paid a price for your Americanism.

I must maintain if the 1965 Revenue Sharing legislation is not REPEALED, I see no hope that the State Legislatures will resist the "FEDERAL GRANT SYSTEM". They will not stop this "REVENUE SHARING SCHEME".
This pernicious scheme has "LOCKED DOWN" the State & County Legislatures. They will not stop "participating" with the Feds because of the HOPE of GRANT MONEY.

Money must stay at the point of collection. NO MORE "SHARING THE WEALTH".

For God & Country
Ruth Ann Wilson

J Carlton
J Carlton

This is fantastic. It's high time the States asserted their jurisdiction and said NO to Federal Authoritarianism.

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