Liberty Asheville, the local afterrunner of Ron Paul’s Revolution, has submitted a state sovereignty resolution for consideration at the annual convention of the Republican Party of Buncombe County this Saturday. Activists hope support from a number of local conventions will encourage the state legislature to entertain a bill. Like resolutions in the legislatures of twenty-one states, this would request the federal government to cease and desist overreaching its Constitutionally-proscribed powers. Short and sweet, the document throws punches with whereases like:
the scope and power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and
today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and
the United States Supreme Court has ruled . . . that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states.
Representatives from Liberty Asheville said they did not want the resolution to be a “Republican thing,†but hoped Democrats and Libertarians as well would consider endorsing it in their conventions. The proposal has meaning in South Carolina, where the governor tried to stop stimulus loot from coming into his state. What does it mean in North Carolina, where government is high on bigger government, and addicted to free money?
