Posted on 07/14/2013 11:42:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Newton’s Third Law of Motion is beginning to be realized in western states politics. For every action of gun control, big union power grab, and anti-fracking, there is an equal and opposite reaction from liberty. State legislators are being successfully recalled by their constituent voters. Citizens and parents are regaining control of their local school boards. And a large gathering of contiguous counties of Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas are exploring the idea of forming a 51st state.
If all goes well for the denizens of Weld County, Colo., come November, there will be an item on their ballots asking them to vote on a new brewing issue: seceding with eight other Northern counties from the state of Colorado and forming America’s 51st state, Northern Colorado.
Apparently, they’re not bluffing. On Tuesday, Weld County's commissioners raised the issue quite seriously at a bi-annual meeting of the state's county commissioners. Sean Conway, one of Weld's five commissioners, said the idea had first been raised about two to three months ago by a group of concerned citizens.
Precisely 100 years after Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), representatives from the original thirteen states convened in Philadelphia for the adoption of the United States Constitution. What the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had in common with Isaac Newton was the goal of codifying natural laws.
Newton was addressing the matter of physics with his Laws of Motion. The state delegates were addressing the matter of self-governance with the Laws of Nature.
The United States Constitution was written as the supreme law in reflection of the discoveries pronounced in the Declaration of Independence eleven years earlier. Rather than promoting some desired utopian outcome, the delegates were attempting to capture an understanding of the Laws of Nature. Their guidance came from the postulate concepts in the nation’s founding document, that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Newton’s Laws of Motion are (1) an object either is at rest or moves at a constant velocity unless acted upon by a force, (2) the acceleration of a body is directly proportional to, and in the same direction as, the force acting on the body, and (3) when one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to that of the first body.
MIT’s magnificent physics professor Walter Lewin effectively explains the foundation of these principles with, “Can Newton’s Law be proven? The answer is ‘No...’ Do we believe in this? Yes, we do. We believe in it since it is consistent within the uncertainty of the measurements which all experiments that have been done.”
Similarly, Newton’s greatest admirer, Thomas Jefferson, provided the basis for constitutional law with his own founding principle, “We hold these truths to be self evident.” Jefferson’s approach to building the new nation reflected the science of those who had experimented before him, Francis Bacon, John Locke and Isaac Newton. In ordering a bust to be made of these icons, Jefferson wrote, “I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundations of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical & Moral sciences, I would wish to form them into a knot on the same canvas, that they may not be confounded at all with the herd of other great men.”
The reason that Americans have enjoyed such enduring success is that its cornerstone was fixed on the intended design for humanity as could best be understood from the cumulative experiences of history in the 18th Century. And the reason that the experiment seems to be rapidly failing in the 21st Century is that we have elected leaders who hold utopian ambitions rather than humble wisdom.
The people can look at 200 years of liberty to see the unprecedented results of Locke’s theories put into practice by Jefferson. And they can observe 50 years of Soros’ and Bloomberg’s theories put into practice in Detroit, California and Chicago by the Democratic Party, the AFL/CIO, the ACLU, and some well-placed judges.
One approach envisions the pursuit of happiness while the other envisions controlled perfection. The two hypotheses are in conflict. And only one is proven.
The problem here in Maryland is that outlying Counties on the eastern shore. Western Maryland and Southern Md. would love to dump O’Malley and his Democrat cabal, but he has the middle of the state, and it’s Obama voters locked in.
Which counties are they speaking about?
Perfectly constitutional. Takes only a majority of votes in the state legislature and in Congress. Which, of course, is not gonna happen.
I love it there. Wouldn't mind finding me a piece of land and building a log home there, when retirement time comes around.
It have to be those that touch each other through boundaries
Waht a pretty area. I would not blame you
Make that what
Was there once, about sixty years ago. What a beautiful place.
I’d love to see something like this get started in north Florida. Draw a line from north of Daytona Beach, to Gainesville (University of Florida) and over to north of the Tampa Bay area, and everything under that line would become “New Florida” or “South Florida.” We’d still be stuck with Tallahassee but we could deal with it.
We could add south Ga too to that mix. I would go for it even if it does not go that far south into Fla. My sister in law and her husband live in St Augustine and they are wide eyed liberals as are most of their nearby neighbors whom I have had the displeasure of meeting.
Ummm...
How about ... New Kansacolaska?
.
Don't be so quick to include Charles County in that generalization; for the most part it's gone over the the Dark Side after years of Liberal migration from Prince George's county to the north.
Typical scenario: they've ruined their area with years of Liberal insanity and one-party corruption; now they're migrating south for better schools, lower taxes and less crime: the same thing their forebears did when they moved out of D.C. into then-conservative, rural Prince George's County in the 60's and 70's.
Fyi
I was driving up from Denver, with my buddy's sister, along US-36.
We came around a curve and the valley opened up in front of us, then Rocky Mountain National Park came into view to the left of us.
I took a literal gasp and said "WOW".
My buddy's sister said "Yep, I was expecting you to do something like that."
Now...EVERY TIME I go to Colorado, I make my way up to EP and RMNP.
This is about what I saw the first time.
Maybe it could happen if they link up with the people in Washington, DC who also want to be a state. DC has around 630,000 population, more than Wyoming and Vermont. Past tradition has been to introduce pairs of states on opposite sides of some idea. Here we have DC, Liberal, and “North Colorado” and contiguous areas, conservative.
Let’s not forget Jefferson(cal + oregon).
Is there a map?
If Congress were to veto a legitimate Article IV Section 3 act by the states along party lines solely for the petty national political party agenda purposes of a few key individuals, it would be another reason to call for an Article V convention to repeal the 17th amendment and return control of Congress to the states.
-PJ
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.