Are The Fifty States Really Sovereign?

by Joel Hendon⁽¹⁷⁹⁾ Red Star

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They most assuredly are, and every citizen needs to know it and know how and why they are. The original writing of the Constitution included sound facts and laid out a means for a peace loving country with personal freedoms assured. However, it became apparent very soon that additional declarations should be included. When George Washington was elected president he declared, in his inaugural address, some very strong urging of the congress to quickly add some declaration spelling out the individual rights of people and of the then eleven states.

James Madison was a member of the House of Representatives at that time and he composed a list of nine articles describing basic rights for individuals and for states. These were submitted to congress for consideration. They were then passed to the select Committee of Eleven, one representative from each state who, after reviewing them, passed them on to the full House for consideration. In the House, as has been their approach since that time, added to them and finally passed seventeen articles to the Senate.

The Senate, also as typical of them to this date, began to whittle and reduced the number down to twelve articles. A conference committee was formed from the House and Senate, headed by Madison from the House and Oliver Ellsworth of the Senate to study the findings of the full Senate. After coming together and agreeing upon the wording of the twelve articles, they were submitted to both houses. Both passed the twelve articles in September 1789 and submitted them to the states for ratification.

Then, in December, 1791, the last state, Virginia, ratified 10 of the articles and they became a part and parcel of the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. Two of the twelve were not ratified by the states. The Bill of Rights are perhaps the most important of all the Constitution. Congress assured the states and individuals of freedoms and laid out the things that the Federal Government could not enforce upon them.

As we are all aware, the federal government has usurped the authority over the states and have grown into the never intended monster that it is today. The only legal way the government can take this authority is by constitutional amendment which will never happen. Whether morally right or wrong, our civil war was fought because of the government overriding the Bill of Rights. I'm thankful that slavery was ended, but I am sorry that force was used to usurp states rights.

States do have a constitutional right to secede from the union, although under present laws it would almost be disastrous for one to do so as the federal government would then have no obligation to defend them or help in any other way. We all need to pray that such never happens. It would be as the Soviet Union after it was dissolved.

A number of states are presently passing resolutions to avoid allowing the federal government to take away their rights since there has developed strong evidence that this administration has plans to do just that. Our constitution is presently in danger of being overridden and socialism wedged in.

The prime reason for this is not just Obama himself, although he is a part of it. It is the wild spending mindset of our present liberal congress majority who knows nothing except spend. The states are simply letting it be known that they are not constitutionally bound to accept the enormous debt mandates handed down by the congress.

The Democrats don't seem to realize there are other elections coming and their wild and reckless spending is going to be running against them, all the way. And especially when the voters are seeing nothing in return. They don't seem to understand that the downfall of the Republicans under the last administration was that they did not hold down spending enough. Conservatives, such as myself, will quickly acknowledge that the Bush administration, was far too free in their spending...but nothing at all, as has happened in the past four months

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