The New Hampshire House passed a Tenth Amendment resolution on Wednesday.
HCR0019 affirms that the U.S. Constitution constrains the federal government to specific enumerated powers and that all other power remains with the state and the people.
I. Therefore, words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers, ought not to be so construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument; and
II. Therefore, whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
The resolution goes on to specifically summarize the scope of federal authority, citing specific articles and sections of the Constitution, highlighting their limits.
The bill passed the House 242-109 and will now move to the Senate for consideration.
New Hampshire Tenth Amendment Center outreach coordinator Dan Kanna says he thinks the resolution will likely pass the Senate.
“My wild guess is that it will pass, based on the fact that even moderate Republicans are on board with sovereignty, and the Democrats are simply there for decoration since they were spanked so vigorously this last election; they don’t even have enough numbers to flee the state,” Kanna said.
The Boston Herald reports that opponents of the resolution call it confusing and object to the fact that it “appears to reject most of Congress’ authority to regulate.”
“It appears that way because most of the regulating that the fed engages in is indeed unconstitutional,” Tenth Amendment Center executive director Michael Boldin said. “House passage of this resolution in New Hampshire is further proof people are waking up to the fact that the federal government has grown far beyond its intended scope, and it’s time to reign it in.”
Since 2009, 14 states have passed similar resolutions supporting original constitutional principles. These non-binding resolutions do not carry the force of law, but do make an important statement.
The New Hampshire resolution is part of a growing grassroots movement in state legislatures across the country as a protest to the intrusion of the federal government into state government affairs, and is an essential first step towards efforts to push back, or nullify, unconstitutional federal laws and regulations.
CLICK HERE to view the Tenth Amendment Center’s 10th amendment resolution tracking page
CLICK HERE to view the Tenth Amendment Center’s model 10th Amendment Resolution, which you can send to your representatives when urging them to introduce one in your state.
We all must come to the realization that our legitimate general government has been hi-jacked. Our resources are now being looted and used against us to satisfy the sick ambitions, greed and mentally malignant elitist that are, in fact, "our government". All of DC is a whorehouse and the thugs of federal reserve are, in part, their pimp. As most of us that even bother to read these political post know the national and international bankers, Military Industrial Complex and multi-national corporations to mention a few, make up this criminal cabal. Soooo, what it comes down to is we all serve the very slime sucking troll's that assaults us every second of every day with total impunity. What a HOOT huh…we continue to feed the hand that bit's us! The time is now that we must decide whether we will continue to submissively live on our knees or resist on our feet. My hat is off to guys and gals of the New Hampshire Legislature for making their decision!
Here's the part of my above comment that I had to 'break up' due to its' length:
Since 1933 our country has been in a declared "State of Emergency" by each consecutive president including Clinton, Bush, and Obama. By doing this, our political leaders get to bypass our Constitution. In fact, if you dig deeper into this, you'll find that the only reason right now that we civilians have any 'rights' at all is because our federal government simply hasn't yet declared us to be "enemies". Maybe it's because of all the guns we own so far…
That is a good point. Every single thing is an emergency of some kind and both parties do this. Bush issued a report saying the CRISIS in manufacturing. He couldn't just say domestic manufacturing is losing ground to foreign rivals. It had to be an emergency in order to get us excited. Its like a person in your family yelling fire just so they can get you to move more quickly to help them. The effect is the same with government. My declaring 'fire' the citizens act immediatly to whatever cause they want.
The federal government always finds something new to do to snub it's nose at our Constitution…the latest being Obama's sending in warships, etc, to maintain a no-fly zone in Libya which ended up being (surprise?) active warfare…WITHOUT Congressional approval per our Constitution's requirement.
I heartily agree with New Hampshire's passing of the Tenth Amendment Resolution, and also believe that EVERY state needs to do this in order to send a clear message to our federal government 'leaders' that we're sick and tired of being illegally governed.
However, this resolution will continue to have no teeth to bite back with unless we vote in a president who will declare that our country is now going to start following it's Constitution as it should have been followed for all these years past…and stick to it!