Amendment X
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.
One of the states that means it.
God Bless Mr. Perry, Mr. Creighton and the state of Texas.
Yeeeehaaawwww!!!!
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
This is NOT the governor Perry I know. Actually growing a pair? I’ll believe it when I see it.
Every so often, Governor Hairdo says or does the correct thing.
PING
Also Glen Beck will be at the San Antonio Tea Party on the 15th at the Alamo!!
Even our little town is having a tea party. Wow.
Any guy who signs a law giving in-state tuition to illegal aliens while still charging out of state tuition to other citizens of the United States clearly thinks he's apart from the rest of the gang.
So much so that I called his office the day he did it and told the startled lady on the other end that Texas had just left the Union, and did they realize that?
States’ rights movements are the first serious step towards revolution against the Washington oligarchy. Three cheers for Governor Perry.
This is all well and good but this goes back to way before Obama. The entire welfare state is un-Constitutional.
Build the Texas National Guard into a real fighting force, then I will take these paper pronouncements seriously. 16 million people could support at least dozen Brigades to secure the borders of Texas. Otherwise, the swamp people won’t listen, they laugh instead at the fly-over rednecks.
It’s hard to get excited unless there’s an actual discussion of secession. It’s time to part ways and re-establish the Republic the way it was intended. Otherwise this just makes good theater.
It must be campaign season again. ;)