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Saw this over at Keystone Conservative…

Rep Rohrer has introduced a resolution to lay claim to our states sovereignty under the 10th amendment of the US constitution.

Claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers, serving notice to the Federal Government to cease and desist certain mandates; providing that certain Federal legislation be prohibited or repealed and directing distribution.

Want to see a return to state sovereignty? Repeal the 17th amendment. The one that changed the election of Senators from the legislatures duty to one of the people.

Our states have no official representation in the US Government. The Congress represents the people (who elected them), and the Senate represents the same people. What about the entity known as the state?

Lobbyists? Ha!. Governors? Maybe… see Bobby Jindal’s refusal of stimulus money and VP Biden’s threat.

Instead we get decades of federal mandates from up on high forcing the states to deal with issues (once the federal moneys dry up), and the race to giving away the Treasury.

Yes, yes, I understand that people think that the state legislature is corrupt (at some level), and the Senator would be “a crony.”

I see this as a feature. That Senator is accountable to the few hundred who elected him and for his potential federal mandates.

While I applaud Rep Rohrer’s attempt to re-assert the Commonwealth’s soverignty, there is simply to no way to do so under the leviathan of the federal government which binds the state down in so many ways.. at least not on the state level.

It’s like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians while being sat on by a Brobdingnagian*.

“Please sir, kind federal state, please don’t sit on me…. and while you’re getting up, stomp out these myriad of laws and directives that keep me reigned in.”

* Yeah, I really made that analogy.

 

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