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6:48 PM (6 hours ago)Six states seek to nullify health care billfrom Charging Elephant by divingnews@gmail.comby Harold
Tenth Amendment Center
For Immediate Release:
While Congress wrangles over repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, lawmakers in six states have taken steps to bypass Washington D.C. completely and take matters into their own hands.
State legislators in Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming have introduced bills into their state assemblies that would declare the health care bill unconstitutional, therefore null, void and unenforceable in their states. All six acts also establish penalties, including fines and jail time, for any agent seeking to enforce the health care bill within its state’s borders.
The Tenth Amendment Center provides much of the philosophical and intellectual muscle behind the nullification movement.
“By and large, American’s aren’t familiar with the concept of nullification, but it’s really pretty simple. It’s nothing more than states saying, ‘No!’ to unconstitutional acts,” TAC communications director Mike Maharrey said. “It sounds radical and extreme to a lot of people, but it was a concept articulated by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson just a few years after ratification of the Constitution. We can’t depend on the feds to limit their own power. The states have a right and duty to interpose on behalf of their citizens.”
Numerous states have quietly defied federal laws in the recent past. Fifteen states have legalized medicinal marijuana, and numerous states refused to implement the 2005 Real ID Act, rendering it virtually void. But TAC founder Michael Boldin says the massive constitutional overreach of the federal health care bill created something of a tipping point, thrusting nullification into the national spotlight.
“Six states considering full rejection of a federal law is a sign to us that people will no longer just go to the federal government to solve problems created by the federal government. Instead, they seek to follow Thomas Jefferson’s advice – when the federal government exercises undelegated powers – ‘a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.’”
With the legislative sessions just getting under way, the likelihood that any of the six nullification bills will pass remains unclear. But Boldin says the mere filing of the legislation serves notice that American’s have grown weary of overreaching federal government.
“For decades, Americans have followed a standard route when they believe the federal government has violated the Constitution – sue in federal court, protest and ask the feds to restrict their own power,” he said. “But decade in and decade out, government power continues to grow and our freedoms diminish. The status quo is not working, and people want to do something different.”
6:48 PM (6 hours ago)Six states seek to nullify health care billfrom Charging Elephant by divingnews@gmail.comby Harold
Tenth Amendment Center
For Immediate Release:
While Congress wrangles over repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, lawmakers in six states have taken steps to bypass Washington D.C. completely and take matters into their own hands.
State legislators in Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming have introduced bills into their state assemblies that would declare the health care bill unconstitutional, therefore null, void and unenforceable in their states. All six acts also establish penalties, including fines and jail time, for any agent seeking to enforce the health care bill within its state’s borders.
The Tenth Amendment Center provides much of the philosophical and intellectual muscle behind the nullification movement.
“By and large, American’s aren’t familiar with the concept of nullification, but it’s really pretty simple. It’s nothing more than states saying, ‘No!’ to unconstitutional acts,” TAC communications director Mike Maharrey said. “It sounds radical and extreme to a lot of people, but it was a concept articulated by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson just a few years after ratification of the Constitution. We can’t depend on the feds to limit their own power. The states have a right and duty to interpose on behalf of their citizens.”
Numerous states have quietly defied federal laws in the recent past. Fifteen states have legalized medicinal marijuana, and numerous states refused to implement the 2005 Real ID Act, rendering it virtually void. But TAC founder Michael Boldin says the massive constitutional overreach of the federal health care bill created something of a tipping point, thrusting nullification into the national spotlight.
“Six states considering full rejection of a federal law is a sign to us that people will no longer just go to the federal government to solve problems created by the federal government. Instead, they seek to follow Thomas Jefferson’s advice – when the federal government exercises undelegated powers – ‘a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.’”
With the legislative sessions just getting under way, the likelihood that any of the six nullification bills will pass remains unclear. But Boldin says the mere filing of the legislation serves notice that American’s have grown weary of overreaching federal government.
“For decades, Americans have followed a standard route when they believe the federal government has violated the Constitution – sue in federal court, protest and ask the feds to restrict their own power,” he said. “But decade in and decade out, government power continues to grow and our freedoms diminish. The status quo is not working, and people want to do something different.”
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