20 + States Declaring Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment!!! Pennsylvania State Rep Sam Rohrer

Pennsylvania State Represenative Sam Rohrer on the 10th Amendment...Pennsylvania needs our help! CALL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND STATE SENATOR!!! The Problem: States Under Seige Most Americans - by simply reading the text - understand the nature of the 10th Amendment. It ensures that any powers not granted to the federal government through the Constitution are reserved to the states and the people. However, through various expansions of federal authority, the government in Washington, D.C., has impeded on the powers reserved to the states and the people. This significant transfer of powers from the individual states to the national government came not through revolution, but through ongoing and unchecked encroachments. Now, this federal intrusion on state sovereignty has reached a breaking point.

Below are some examples where national government has or could infringe on state sovereignty: * By collecting taxes from state residents and then using that money to compel sovereign state governments - through the use of "strings" attached to federal funding - to implement programs and provide services in accordance with the desires of federal authorities. * By pushing states toward financial distress by providing financial incentives to implement programs and services without supplying adequate federal funding. * By enacting national laws that go far beyond the federal powers enumerated in the U.S. Constitution. * By potentially providing federal funds to fill state budget deficits, which were created - in part - through over-spending prompted by federal financial incentives to create new programs.

The Answer: Putting Federal Authorities on Notice In an attempt to proclaim and reassert Pennsylvania state government's independence and sovereignty from the federal government, I plan to introduce a House resolution reminding federal authorities about the constitutional limitations on their powers and calling on them to cease and desist with all activities that infringe on the powers reserved to the state of Pennsylvania and its citizens. This is an issue that is currently being addressed by more than 20 other states across our nation. Like our sister states, Pennsylvania must draw a line in the sand and reassert its sovereignty. I am currently circulating the resolution among my peers in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Please encourage your family members, friends and acquaintances who live outside our legislative district to contact their House member and urge them to support this measure to protect Pennsylvania's independence. To read a copy of the resolution click the following link:

http://samrohrer.com/uploads/10thAmendment-HR.pdf

GET IN THE GAME!!!!!

http://www.campaignforliberty.com

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[ifyourgonnabestupid]

i love my country but hate my government. secede

[postalmeter]

The 10th Amendment is meaningless without the sovereign power of the states to OVERRULE the federal government.

The People of the states ratified the Constitution, so they can withdraw from it as well; there's nothing in the Constitution that expressly says they can't.

Charlatans will always CONSTRUE the Constitution to say this, but it's not plainly stated in the Constitution, so it's not valid as such.

[CamusTheDark]

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

10th Amendment~

Take that as you will, just thought I would post it so you all could all come to your own decision about it.

[SovereignStatesman]

@KenMacMillan

Dogma is affirmed by failure to DENY it.

[KenMacMillan]

@SovereignStatesman Civil War is just the common name that it's known by. That's how I meant it.

[SovereignStatesman]

@KenMacMillan

Except it WASN'T a civil war. As my video proves, each state is a sovereign nation by law, via its People-- who could therefore overrule the federal government AT WILL.

Slavery was simply a convenient moral strawman to distract from this fact through appeal to emotion, where law and reason would not suffice.

However the fact remains that each state is STILL a sovereign nation, by law.

[SovereignStatesman]

Does anyone bother READING the 10th Amendment? It never USES the word "sovereignty--" but RESERVED POWERS!

And whom does the Constitution place as JUDGE over such "powers?" That's right: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

So basically, these states are not declaring sovereignty, which is the power to OVERRULE the federal government! They are declaring the right to PETITION the government over disagreements with federal law-- which they ALREADY HAVE, under the FIRST amendment!

Catch that wild goose yet?

[libertarian4lyfe]

will be casting my vote for Sam Rohrer in PA

[KenMacMillan]

Since this is from 2009, anyone have an update?

[KenMacMillan]

@Bonesy4444 States in both the north & the south used states rights in favor of abolition & slavery. The Civil War was started because the federal government was funded by tariffs on cotton that were bleeding the southerners dry. The federal government wouldn't lower them because they needed the money to fund their expansion into the west. Abolition of slavery didn't become a goal until 15 months into the war. Lincoln said that he had no intention of ending slavery where it already existed.

[onejanedoe2003]

@Bonesy4444 The North. You buy into lies.

[sandman3697]

"state cant print money" then dont. introduce a competing currency thats not taxed by the fed[bank and govt]. allow employers to pay with this currency. start producing goods to sell to the other states or even other countries.