Thomas Jefferson, 1799 "Kentucky Resolutions"
THIS is the response the states should consider.
JWK
Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs [pinko progressives on our Supreme Court]; know likewise the remedy….. ___ Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
Right on!
Walter E. Williams: States should nullify Obamacare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2903330/posts
Aside from patriotic Americans rising up this coming election and taking control of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency, Justice Roberts ought to be promptly summoned before a Congressional oversight committee to have him identify the specific kind of tax ___ a duty, impost, excise or direct tax ___ he has asserted may be used in connection with the individual mandate, and also identify which enumerated power beneath Art. I, § 8, cl.1 authorizes Congress to penalize and tax a citizen of Florida, or any State in the Union, for the sole reason of not having health insurance. Without these questions being answered, how is Congress or a regulatory agency created by Congress, to enforce Obamacare legislation within the four walls of our Constitution?
And what about the people in each of the various states? What happens when the federal government enters a state and taxes a citizen for not having health insurance, or the kind of health insurance Obama and his pinkos pals have dictated, and the person refuses to pay? Are we to expect federal officers to seize the property of that person without knowing which provisions of the Constitution authorizes the tax or the requirement to have health insurance? How can a federal officer act in good conscious under these conditions when each has taken an oath to enforce the Constitution as their priority, and Justice Roberts has not identified the provisions of our Constitution which federal revenue officers will be asked to act under?
And what about the various State Governors who have been elected to protect the citizens of their State and have likewise taken an oath to support two constitutions as their priority? Are our State Governors to sit idle when federal agents come knocking on their citizen’s doors for payment of a tax which penalizes a citizen for not having health insurance concocted by the federal government which their State has not itself approved?
Is it not beyond question that the powers reserved by the several States extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State? Was the Tenth Amendment not specifically adopted to enforce the reserved powers of the States? Are our Governors and State Attorney Generals to close their eyes to the assumption of power which Justice Roberts has been delinquent in explaining?
The bottom line is, the Roberts’ opinion leads to uncertainty and various constitutional crises because he has not preformed his job in identifying the specific kind of tax which may be used in connection with the individual mandate, nor has Roberts identify which enumerated power beneath Art. I, § 8, cl.1 authorizes Congress to penalize and tax a citizen of Florida, or any State, for failure to have the kind of health insurance which Obama and his socialist crowd has cooked up. Are these not legitimate reasons for a Congressional oversight committee to summon Roberts before and have him identify the constitutional provisions which are in play under Obama’s individual mandate?
JWK
Obamacare by consent of the governed (Article 5) our amendment process --- tyranny by a majority vote in Congress or a Supreme Court’s majority vote!