Nebraska Moving to Join State’s Rights Movement

Last night Sean Hannity interviewed Nebraska state senators Tony Fulton and Mark Christensen about Nebraska’s move to join the growing state’s rights movement.

Senator Fulton said his resolution deals with “the reach of the federal government” and “how powerful we want Washington D.C. to be.”

As Fulton said, the measures the federal government is foisting on the people and the states these days involve unfunded mandates, where the federal government sets a policy that requires funding, but forces the states to come up with that money.  Things like the stimulus bill and others also require the states to do certain things in order to receive money appropriated from the federal government (from people who live in those very states).

Fulton obviously understands what few if any liberals today do: that the federal government exists to serve the people and the states.  It is not an overlord, it is not a supreme level of government that deals with “the important stuff” that the states can’t handle.

One of the straws that broke the camel’s back for Fulton was the government takeover of General Motors (GM), and then the dictation that car dealerships be shut down in many locations across the country.  These are privately owned businesses that are not a subsidiary of GM, yet the federal government is dictating the shutdown of these private businesses.

The federal government has very limited and specific authority, and those authorities deal with matters between the States and where the States act in unison.  Any powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.

Christensen pointed out that they are not looking to secede from the Union but are looking to restore the federal government to the size and scope dictated by the U.S. Constitution.  Though it should be pointed out that there is powerful precedent “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.”  If the free people of American will rise up and claim what is theirs before things get totally out of control, that won’t have to happen, though.

These efforts by South Dakota, Arizona, Texas, Nebraska and more are very welcome, and long overdue.  For far too long–for decades too long–we have stood idly by while the federal government has usurped more and more power, taking more and more freedom from the people and the states.

The people and the states must assert the powers and freedom that are rightfully theirs if we are to remain a free people.  If the people and the states do not demand that the Constitution be upheld, the entire country will be dragged down the abyss of destruction that liberals in our federal government seem determined to dive into.

What are you as an American doing to maintain our freedom and our republic?

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