There’s a movement going on in these United States of America (H/T Mike Church), and whether it’s going anywhere remains to be seen. There aren’t any Gallup or Rasmussen polls asking people how they feel about the sovereignty of states or abolishing our federal government. Maybe Frank Luntz can do a focus group.
It seems we’ve simply become accustomed to an ever expanding government. Too many people are looking for the easy way out, with little understanding that what they think is the easy way out is tearing our republic apart.
For far too long we, the people, have allowed our elected representatives to trample the Constitution. Both parties have done so, one just happens to be worse than the other. Is it time to say enough? How is this better than King George? Read the Declaration of Independence. Read the grievances the colonists had against the Crown. Is it time for a new Declaration of Independence? We can keep most of it and just change the grievances.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Our current grievances are already listed here. States are beginning to champion their rights under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. The Oklahoma House passed a resolution asserting the rights of the States and set a path for other states to do the same. (H/T Defense of the Republic) Eight other states have drafted similar resolutions and as many as twelve others are contemplating doing so.
I just have to wonder, is this going anywhere? There isn’t much hope for my state, New York. I forwarded a link to New Hampshire’s HR6 to my state senator and state assemblywoman and didn’t even receive an auto reply. Nothing at all. What happens if only a hand full of states assert their rights, while states like New York continue sucking off the federal teat?
Does anyone out there have an answer? Is it time for a new Declaration of Independence? Who knows, maybe states like New York will pull an Obama and simply vote “present”.
Well, there’s always this option.
http://www.wethepeoplecongress.org/PROJ/REVOLUTION/0-Nutshell.htm
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