PLEASE TAKE 2 MINUTES to send your support for SB2775/HB2795 Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act. This legislation creates 5 pathways in which a state and the people of the state can invoke the 10th Amendment by means of Nullification. This act would be invoked each and every time our federal government and that includes the Supreme Court steps outside its constitutional lane; which it does the majority of the time. The states and the people of the states are the final arbiter of the Constitution. Precedent is use to by-pass the original intent of Constitution and it is time we set the record straight. Precedent DOES NOT override the original intent of the Constitution which is what the American people agreed to when the Constitution was ratified.
Just in case you need some proof:
"The states then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their soverign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated". James Madison
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Federalist 45 - "the powers delegated by the proposed Constitution are few and defined. Those that are to remain in the state government are numerous and indefinite". James Madison
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Federalist 46 - "Schemes of usurpation will easily be defeated by the State government, who will be supported by the people"
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"The several states that formed that instrument (the Constitution), being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." Thomas Jefferson (its is not only our right it is our DUTY)
Supremacy Clause Artcle 6 Paragraph 2
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; (the Constitution and the enumerated powers in the Constitution) and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary withstanding." (they conveniently always leave out the 3 defining words in Art. 6 "in pursuance thereof)
The Supremacy clause does not say the federal government including the Supreme Court is the supreme law of the land it says the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and that only when law is constitutional shall it be upheld. Anything outside the 18 enumerated powers in Art. 1 Sec. 8 of the Constitution are the powers vested to the state and the people of the state.
Our bill to protect the sovereignty of Tennessee is in jeopardy. We have an Attorney General’s office that thinks precedent trumps the original intent of our Constitution and because we allow them to usurp our rights many people today believe precedent overrides the original intent of our Constitution. Why? Because most Americans today do not truly understand the Constitution or the authority of the states and the people of the states as opposed to the federal government including the courts. And believe me they do not want you to know.
Many states are watching this bill and if passed in Tennessee we will see other states step up too.
PLEASE SHARE with other Tennesseans.
THANK YOU, Karen Bracken
Thanks Karen. Message sent. I'm gonna make an effort to get to Nashville Tuesday. Gotta find out about parking and all that.
Shared with folks in TN.