Lawmakers in New Hampshire are telling the federal government to back
off because plans for a federal handgun license, "hate crimes" laws to
regulate Christians' speech about their own religious beliefs on
homosexuality, President Obama's youth corps for mandatory public
service and the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" to "balance" talk radio
are none of them constitutional.
Such plans by the bureaucrats and administrators in Washington, D.C.,
are "altogether void" and if mandated, "shall constitute a
nullification of the Constitution for the United States," the
lawmakers are warning.
The Tenth Amendment states, "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," and also is
being cited in the New Hampshire plan.
It states that New Hampshire people "have the sole and exclusive right
of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State;
and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power,
jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not
hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of
America…"
That means, the resolution states, any "Act by the Congress of the
United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States
of American or Judicial Order by the Judicatories of the United States
of America which assumes a power not delegated to the government … and
which serves to diminish the liberty of the any of the several States
or their citizens shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution
for the United States of America by the government of the United
States of America."
It lists as actions that the federal government would be prohibited
from doing:
* Establishing martial law or a state of emergency within one of
the States comprising the United States of America without the consent
of the legislature of that State.
* Requiring involuntary servitude, or governmental service other
than a draft during a declared war, or pursuant to, or as an
alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.
* Requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service of
persons under the age of 18 other than pursuant to, or as an
alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.
* Surrendering any power delegated or not delegated to any
corporation or foreign government.
* Any act regarding religion; further limitations on freedom of
political speech; or further limitations on freedom of the press.
* Further infringements on the right to keep and bear arms
including prohibitions of type or quantity of arms or ammunition.
New Hampshire Rep. Dan Itse, a sponsor of the resolution, said he
wants New Hampshire to be among the states "standing up to the federal
government, enforcing the Constitution."
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