Texas Governor Wants To Amend The Constitution So States Can Ignore The Federal Government
SOTN Editor’s Note:
There are very good reasons why the MSM (Maintream Media) has been working overtime to keep this HUGE story off the front pages.
First, the U.S. Federal Government has been operating in gross violation of constitutionally mandated states’ rights. There has been an onslaught of transgressions against the states over many decades. Slowly but surely the legitimate rights and powers guaranteed to each of the 50 states have been profoundly eroded. Washington has essentiall usurped state authority by unlawfully arrogating power to the federal government, where it does not belong. By quite methodically usurping states’ rights in contravention of the U.S. Constitution, the FEDs have finally forced a standoff. There was NO avoiding it.
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Secondly, the MSM has been given strict orders by the Executive Branch to keep this story buried for fear that other states will join the cause. With each initiative that Texas, or Alabama, or Vermont, or Tennessee takes toward reclaiming their rightful powers and rights, the FEDs get real nervous. The only reason why most states go with the flow is to receive their massive annual federal funding that comes from corporate and income tax revenue.
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However, the Obama Administration has become a lawless tyranny, treating the red states as though they are Syria or Libya. Some of those states like Texas have drawn the line in the sand. When Austin takes the initiative to retake possession of its gold being held in New York City you know it’s game on.
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The U.S. Government has finally overstepped and overreached. Because Obama has relentlessly shown transparent favoritism to the blue states over the red states, those governors most adversely affected have come to a realization that this unfair treatment will be the new normal. Such outright abuse of federal power, they understand, must be checked before it gets completely out of control.
State of the Nation
January 9, 2016
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Short of secession, it’s probably the next best thing.
Sam Levine
The Huffington Post
MICHAEL NAGLE/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to limit federal authority over states.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Friday proposed a series of amendments to the U.S. constitution that would permit states to override the Supreme Court and ignore federal laws.
One of the proposed measures would allow a two-thirds majority of the states to override federal regulations, while another sets the same threshold for overturning decisions by the Supreme Court. The governor also wants to change the Constitution to block Congress from “regulating activity that occurs wholly within one state,” and to require a supermajority of seven Supreme Court votes before a “democratically enacted law” can be overturned.
Abbott said in a document explaining the proposed changes that they were motivated by federal officials’ disregard for the constitutional limits on their power. Recently, he has been critical of federal actions such as the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriageand President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
“The Texas Plan is not so much a vision to alter the Constitution as it is a call to restore the rule of our current one. The problem is that we have forgotten what our Constitution means, and with that amnesia, we also have forgotten what it means to be governed by laws instead of men,” Abbott wrote.
Abbott is calling for a constitutional convention to ratify his amendments. A constitutional amendment may be added through a convention called for by two-thirds of state legislatures, but no amendment has ever been added through that process.
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Texas Governor Wants To Amend The Constitution So States Can Ignore The Federal Government