Open Letter to Idaho's Legislature in regard to Nullification
Posted by on Saturday, February 5, 2011
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I am writing you in response to Assistant Chief Deputy Brian Kane’s letter to Representative William Killen offering his opinion regarding the Constitutionality of Nullification. As you will soon be pressed to determine the fate of Idahoan’s with regard to the Obama Administration’s mandate to federalize healthcare; I offer the following rebuttal.
You are the Representatives for us the sovereign people of Idaho who are a part of this great nation of States. It is your duty to uphold the Constitution and defend it from usurpation by parties foreign and domestic. The Constitution is a compact with the several States to institute the affairs of the collective by a Federal Government. This government instituted by the several States is beholden to them and by Constitution only enumerated to execute specific powers.
Deputy Kane summarizes his opposition to Nullification based upon the Supremacy Clause. Take for a moment to consider such. Could the States enter upon a contract with a Federal government of their making with less power? If so, the States created a Frankenstein, more powerful than its master.
The Supremacy Clause says the Constitution and laws in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land. This is precisely what you must determine. Is the ObamaCare legislation Constitutional? Nullification holds the law in question, as considered by the State, unconstitutional. Without such rein upon the Federal Government, a monopoly of power exists and States become subservient to the sole proprietor and arbitrator thereof. Unbridled power leads to despotism, this, our Founding Fathers knew so well having relieved themselves, at great peril, from the bonds of monarchy that suffocated freedom. Will you be so powerless to protect your sovereign obligation to the people?
Read the Tenth Amendment once again, 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. I did not find after careful study of the Constitution where the States gave power to the United States in regard to my health care. My opinion, however humble, is further bolstered by Federal District Judge Roger Vinson of Florida who declared the law unconstitutional.
Representatives take heed. With half the world on fire because despotic dictators know better for their people than the people do, affect the necessary action to bridle this monopoly of power from Washington, pull back on the reigns and Nullify this unconstitutional power grab from those who seem to know best.
Sincerely,
Darr Moon, for the Custer County Tea Party Patriots
You are the Representatives for us the sovereign people of Idaho who are a part of this great nation of States. It is your duty to uphold the Constitution and defend it from usurpation by parties foreign and domestic. The Constitution is a compact with the several States to institute the affairs of the collective by a Federal Government. This government instituted by the several States is beholden to them and by Constitution only enumerated to execute specific powers.
Deputy Kane summarizes his opposition to Nullification based upon the Supremacy Clause. Take for a moment to consider such. Could the States enter upon a contract with a Federal government of their making with less power? If so, the States created a Frankenstein, more powerful than its master.
The Supremacy Clause says the Constitution and laws in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land. This is precisely what you must determine. Is the ObamaCare legislation Constitutional? Nullification holds the law in question, as considered by the State, unconstitutional. Without such rein upon the Federal Government, a monopoly of power exists and States become subservient to the sole proprietor and arbitrator thereof. Unbridled power leads to despotism, this, our Founding Fathers knew so well having relieved themselves, at great peril, from the bonds of monarchy that suffocated freedom. Will you be so powerless to protect your sovereign obligation to the people?
Read the Tenth Amendment once again, 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. I did not find after careful study of the Constitution where the States gave power to the United States in regard to my health care. My opinion, however humble, is further bolstered by Federal District Judge Roger Vinson of Florida who declared the law unconstitutional.
Representatives take heed. With half the world on fire because despotic dictators know better for their people than the people do, affect the necessary action to bridle this monopoly of power from Washington, pull back on the reigns and Nullify this unconstitutional power grab from those who seem to know best.
Sincerely,
Darr Moon, for the Custer County Tea Party Patriots
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