Utah Intrastate Commerce Project Starts Legislative Initiative, Federal Agriculture Regulations First to be Exempted

Introducing the Utah Intrastate Commerce Project By Connor Boyack Utah Tenth Amendment Center Throwing any anachronistic caution to the wind, Congress now assumes the authority to regulate anything and everything it deems worthy of its attention. Over 300 federal regulatory agencies exist, such as the FDA, EPA, USDA, CDC, OSHA, HHS, ATF, FDIC, FAA, FCC, [...]

Connecticut Attorney General Candidate Favors Nullification

By Thomas E. Woods, Jr Martha Dean, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Connecticut, repeated her support for state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws in Monday night’s debate.  She opened up my book Nullification and quoted from Jonathan Trumbull, the nineteenth-century Connecticut governor who declared: “Whenever our national legislature is led to overleap the prescribed [...]

Does The Arizona Immigration Law Violate The Constitution?

By Stephen Otto STATESMAN SENTINEL August 6, 2010 In April of this year the Arizona state legislature passed a controversial bill commonly known as the Arizona immigration law (SB 1070).  The intent of the law, according to its author, is to essentially codify federal immigration policy within the state of Arizona. It also compels local [...]

Missouri Votes to Nullify Unconstitutional Healthcare Mandates

By Michael Boldin Tenth Amendment Center “The several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government.” ~Thomas Jefferson Today, voters in Missouri helped bring the Jeffersonian principle of Nullification one step closer to the mainstream by approving Proposition C – the Health Care [...]

Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’

Penny Starr CNS News Aug 2, 2010 Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government. Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law [...]

Washington State Governor Sued Over Climate Change Executive Order

By Paul Chesser The American Spectator July 21, 2010 Today the Evergreen Freedom Foundation’s Constitutional Law Center announced they would, on behalf of Washington State taxpayers, sue Democrat Gov. Christine Gregoire because last year she issued an executive order implementing climate change measures that the Democrat-run state legislature had rejected. “We believe Gov. Gregoire’s climate [...]

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Gun Rights in Iowa

National Association for Gun Rights In Iowa, a Federal judge has ordered the Osceola County Sheriff to issue a concealed handgun permit to a political activist and take a remedial course on Free Speech and the 1st Amendment. Iowa Gun Owners member Paul Dorr, father of IGO director Aaron Dorr, successfully sued Osceola County Sheriff [...]

Tom Woods Defends Constitutionality of Nullification on Freedom Watch

STATESMAN SENTINEL July 15, 2010 Tom Woods appeared on Fox Business Channel’s Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Independence Day weekend to debate Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett on the principle of nullification, which Woods makes the case for in his new book Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. [...]

What is State Nullification?

By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Capitol Weeky For those unclear on the concept, what is the basic principle of Nullification? Nullification is Thomas Jefferson’s idea, articulated most clearly in his Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, that if the federal government passes a law that reaches beyond the powers delegated by the states, the states should refuse [...]

We Need Constitutional Sheriffs Now!

By Carl Bruning “It is time for the sworn protectors of Liberty, the County Sheriffs, to walk tall and defend their citizens from all enemies of our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.” Americans are facing the stark reality that their Constitutional rights are being shredded. Nearly every action taken by the Federal government today [...]

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