Help for Gibson Guitars
The following is a letter I sent to both the Lt. Governor and Governor of Tennessee… ******* Dear Lt Gov Ramsey, I have recently become aware of an ARMED federal raid on Gibson Guitars’ manufacturing facilities in Memphis and Nashville that took place on 24 August. Despite evidence provided by Gibson that they are in [...]
The negative effects of nationalism
War is coming. Not foreign but a war domestic, the war for control of Washington, D.C., in 2012. Look what hangs in the balance: energy and education policy, income and corporate tax rates, agriculture subsidies, environmental regulations, retirement pensions, the health care system, and more besides. Quickly! Quickly! To the blogs, to the streets, to [...]
The hyper-regulating executive branch
Over at National Review Online, Jim Lacey has done everyone a favour by illustrating the utter contempt the federal government has come to have for the document that gives it its very life – the U.S. Constitution. He draws a hideous picture of an executive branch engaged not in some occasional rule-making of a trifling [...]
Do federal elections really matter?
Do federal elections really matter? The answer around the Tenth Amendment Center seems generally to be No. Perhaps a more nuanced way of answering the question would be, in the near term, Yes, but in the long run, No. The trouble is with the place itself. Washington, D.C., has indeed become ‘ “the asylum of [...]
We Must Choose Another Path
Nullification is perhaps the best kept secret of our country’s history. A textbook in recent use at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, American Passages, devoted a meagre five out of its 1,003 total pages to the subject. This despite the past use of nullification in states across the Union on a variety of objects, such as [...]
Mending our Illness
When looking at any sign advertising the price of gasoline or diesel fuel, the effect of the Obama administration’s drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico could not be clearer. And the full scope of the troubles wrought by this ban encompasses more than higher fuel costs alone. Many seem to think that Louisiana and [...]
Freedom to Drill Act
The federal government persists in hindering efforts to begin new offshore drilling for energy resources in the Gulf of Mexico. http://thehayride.com/2011/02/mendacity-insanity-and-stupidity-the-obama-administrations-offshore-drilling-policy/ However, the Louisiana State Sovereignty Committee (LSSC) contends that the states never did delegate authority over their territorial waters or seabeds to the federal government in the U.S. Constitution and therefore retain the authority [...]
The Commerce Clause super precedent
Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney-General for the State of Virginia, makes a cogent point in his interview with CNSNews.com regarding the Commerce Clause of our federal constitution: Would the newly freed citizens of the 13 States have given the federal Congress and president more power to regulate their commercial activity in the Constitution of 1787 than the [...]
Texas and the EPA
Texas vs. EPA update: At this moment, the State of Texas is clashing with the EPA over the EPA’s arbitrary and unconstitutional changes to the Clean Air Act. (The EPA seems to have forgotten that Congress, not a department of the executive branch, writes our laws.) The whole story is here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/25/texas-fights-global-warming-power-grab/?page=1 Texas Attorney General [...]
Local interposition
Please thank this man! St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis shows Gov. Jindal and a host of other state and local officials how the Principals of ’98 (interposition) can be implemented if only they can find the courage to challenge the perceived omnipotence of the federal government. “Simmering distrust on the oil-coated Louisiana coast boiled [...]
Civil disobedience on the Gulf Coast
Deroy Murdock had a devastating piece July 9th on the federal government’s unconscionable response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (http://article.nationalreview.com/437803/gulf-state-officials-should-defy-obstructionist-feds/deroy-murdock). The catalogue he provides of federal ineptitude and interference is worthy of reading in and of itself, but it is his advice at the end that I wish to draw your [...]
Supreme Court ruling on firearms…and nullification
I generally take a dim view of gun-control laws, believing they do more harm than good (i.e., making the law-abiding more vulnerable to criminals). That said, today’s decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in McDonald vs. City of Chicago does not have me rejoicing. The further expansion of the SCOTUS’s 14th [...]
No State Legislator Left Behind.
Just as Sheriff Mack of Arizona launched a campaign to deliver copies of his book The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope (see www.sheriffmack.com for more information) to every county sheriff in the United States, I would like to recommend that we launch a similar campaign to deliver copies of Dr. Thomas Woods’s latest book Nullification: [...]
Disposing the Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy
In addition to Robert Nagel’s column on rejecting judicial remedies for our political disagreements (posted earlier on the Tenther blog), National Review Online has also treated us to two columns by Prof. Robert Lowry Clinton. The first, “Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution,” disposes of the doctrine of judicial supremacy by looking at the Supreme Court’s [...]
Against Judicial Supremacy
Much has been made of the coalition of state attorneys-general suing the federal government over the constitutionality of the recently enacted health care bill. But while many of us are happy to see the state governments taking some form of action to preserve their powers and to protect the liberties of their citizens from federal [...]
Refreshing the Spirit of Liberty
It is remarkable just how much the situation of the states today resembles the situation of the colonies prior to the War for Independence with Great Britain. As our Patriot forefathers before us, we are met with a corrupt, distant government – theirs in London, ours in Washington, D. C. – intent on concentrating all [...]
What to do with those donation requests from political parties
Just an idea I wanted to pass along to you all: If or when you receive a letter from the state or national political parties asking for money, don’t throw it away. Instead, write a short note to the effect that you will not donate money to them until they make a firm commitment to [...]
Defending the Guard
The following is a letter sent to Louisiana State Rep Brett F. Geymann. I encourage you to do the same with your state reps: On January 11, 2010, Pres. Obama signed an Executive Order, which grants the executive branch of the federal government new, far-reaching powers over the National Guard of each state. You may [...]
They’ve Been Trampling Our Rights for Decades!
The following letter is from Louisiana State Senator, A.G. Crowe to all the other legislators in that state. He’s a 10th Amendment Pledge signer and author of SCR2, Louisiana’s State Sovereignty Resolution, which passed both houses in 2009. Linda and I want to take a moment to let you know that it is an honor [...]
Enough is Enough!
I am no revolutionary, but if Congress is intent on passing an unconstitutional healthcare bill despite repeated requests not to, I say we should be equally intent on not obeying it. To that end I have put together a flyer that I hope you will distribute in as many ways as you can think of: [...]
Introducing the Louisiana State Sovereignty Committee
After all the Tea Party protests and town hall meetings, the question still lingers in the minds of many Louisianans: “What can I really do to stop the policies in Washington, D. C., that seek to make the federal government all-powerful in many areas of my life and the life of my state?”
Aug 25, 2009 | Categories:Activism, Announcements, Commentary, Groups | Tags: 10th Amendment, Louisiana Sovereignty, New Groups, tenth amendment, tenth amendment center | 6 Comments »