Daily Caller:
READ IT ALLA Tea Party activist is working to get state backing for a constitutional convention to pass a constitutional amendment that would give two-thirds of the states the ability to repeal congressional acts, such as the new health care law.
"It restores a lot of the sovereignty and a lot of the power that the states have lost," said Marianne Moran, executive director of RepealAmendment.org and *former executive director of Tea Party In Action.
The Tenth Amendment has become useless because of Supreme Court decisions that have expanded federal power and because of the Seventeenth Amendment that stripped state legislatures of their right to name U.S. senators, Moran said.
"This doesn't undo some of those bad Supreme Court cases and doesn't resolve some of the problems of the Seventeenth Amendment, but it does restore some of the balance of power that was originally intended ? and the mechanism by which we can control some of the out of control spending and get our debt under control," she said.
Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett initially devised the idea in a 2009 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, which drew the attention of numerous Tea Party activists.
Several Tea Party groups back the amendment, Moran said.
Just imagine the new set of claims that a desire for more local control is going to bring. Of course none of these issues would be so raw and boiling on the surface if the political elites were not so completely out of touch and embroiled in the lint on each others' navels
UPDATE.... wonder why this kind of stuff takes hold? READ ON....
1 comment:
Hi Epaminondas.
I think the States should take back the power that has been shifted away rom them.And it is pretty obvious where Obama and the unions are heading to.A totalitarian workers society.They tried that in the USSR.
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