On Feb 4, 2009, at 4:07 PM, double bluff wrote:
> Sorry this seems potentially a big thing and I need some clue for
> interpretation since I've never been in the US.
> It seems that 6 US states are invoking the 10th amendment to reclaim
> sovereignty:
Um, we fought a Civil War over that. The matter's pretty well settled.
This is choice. Evidently I'm wrong to call it a civil war:
<http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?p=3333>
> OK State Rep to Reintroduce State Sovereignty Bill
> Submitted by Phil on Sat, Jan 31, 200911 Comments
>
> George Mason University economics professor and one of Rush
> Limbaugh’s fill-in radio hosts Dr. Walter E. Williams posted a July
> 16, 2008 article on a State sovereignty bill introduced by State
> Rep. Charles Key that passed the State House but got stopped in the
> State Senate during last year’s Legislative session and is slated to
> be reintroduced during this session:
>
> Update: The PurpleOakPolitics blog is passing along word about
> getting together on February 28.
>
> One of the unappreciated casualties of the War of 1861, erroneously
> called a Civil War, was its contribution to the erosion of
> constitutional guarantees of state sovereignty. It settled the issue
> of secession, making it possible for the federal government to
> increasingly run roughshod over Ninth and 10th Amendment guarantees.
> A civil war, by the way, is a struggle where two or more parties try
> to take over the central government. Confederate President Jefferson
> Davis no more wanted to take over Washington, D.C., than George
> Washington wanted to take over London. Both wars are more properly
> described as wars of independence.
>
> Oklahomans are trying to recover some of their lost state
> sovereignty by House Joint Resolution 1089, introduced by State Rep.
> Charles Key....