Five More States Join Sovereignty Movement
By Aaron - March 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Filed under Indiana , Issues , Kansas , Kentucky , State Sovereignty , Tennessee , West Virginia
Filed under Indiana , Issues , Kansas , Kentucky , State Sovereignty , Tennessee , West Virginia
According to Human Events, five more states have joined the growing state sovereignty movement sparked by RLC activists and legislators. The new states cited in the article include India
na, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
The Indiana RLC has been lobbying hard on behalf of that states’ resolution. It was introduced by RLC-friendly Senators Walker and Stutzmann, who recently attended the Indianapolis-area “RLC Callout” event (see photo, right).
The online information for Indiana’s 10th Amendment Resolution has been updated to represent that State Senator Mike Delph (district 29) was indeed one of the co-authors and initiators of this legislation along with Senators Greg Walker and Dennis Kruse. Not only that, but the list of Senators now listed along with them on this bill has grown to fourteen.
In Kentucky, RLC-friendly legislator Stan Lee of Fayette County is a co-sponsor of the resolution, 
HCR 168. I received an e-mail this week from Rep. Lee’s office in response to a message I wrote to him, saying, in part, that “Rep. Lee shares [the RLC's] vision of limited government.”
In Tennessee, RLC-endorsed State Rep. Susan Lynn (left) introduced the resolution, HJR 108 (pdf). At her blog, Rep. Lynn says: “State sovereignty is a big deal to state legislators; hopefully, it is to you as well. It is what keeps the federal government from over stepping its constitutional bounds.”
The Kansas resolution was introduced by a Republican Senator. Kevin Patrick, a RLC ally in West Virginia, has set up a website in support of that state’s resolution.
On March 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am
“All the townships united have but one representation, which is the state, the center of all national authority; beyond the action of the township and that of the state, it may be said that there is nothing but individual action.”
-Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
On March 7th, 2009 at 1:52 am
This kind of resolution may be our last chance to get this Behemoth Federal Government, which has vastly more power than our forefathers ever intended, to wake up to the fact that it has way overstepped it’s bounds. It is oppressive and tyrannical.
The government’s job is not to tell us how or what to think. This is what Hitler did. We must have freedom of thought, privacy, movement, speech ,etc., without coercion to be free.
We’ve got to work against this oppression for ourselves and the generations to come.
On March 7th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
We must stop this attack on our Constitution. Our State and Local elections have now become more important than ever before!
‘ We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.’
James Madison – 4th US President and Father of the Constitution!