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.
Article 4, Section 3:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Whats great is that there is a hot dog and pizza joint downtown, called Chicagos Best. Well, I live in the Chicago area and worked at a hot dog joint for a couple of years while going to college. The one thing being from Chicago and my girth will attest to, is I know good hot dogs. And Chicagos Best is like a little home away from home. The pizzas okay, but the hot dogs and cheese fries are very good. The EYEtalian beeeef is good to.
If they ever closed up shop, a hot dog joint might just be what I need for the retirement years :)
;^)
It's not just northeastern Colorado that's conservative, it's MOST of the state. The trouble is, the two most liberal counties, Denver and Boulder, are first and fourth (I believe) most populous. I think El Paso County is second or third most populous, and it's one of the most conservative counties. The trouble for the past ten years has been that 1) conservatives have sat at home and 2) voter fraud takes place in Denver. Despite voter fraud, though, we could take back this state if conservatives would stop whining and get the heck off the couch on election day. We still have a majority, just not a majority of the motivated.
Oh, and add to that the fact that many foolish conservatives were fooled by Hickenplopper's "moderate" stance. There's no such thing as a "moderate Democrat" anymore. I think people are finally getting that.
I refuse to give up on this state. I look at the photos of the Estes Valley that someone posted in this thread and I'm compelled to fight. This is much too beautiful a place to let leftists have their way with it.
YES! We live just over the border in GA, up a couple miles off of US 41. Would love to ba part of a conservative state.
Nebrakancol?
Why not go visit it again ? You won’t be able to in another 60.
We could build a concertina wire wall around Denver, up the turnpike and around Boulder, and let them have a State. They could call it Hudakistan. I would allow six months for normal people to emigrate—but no lobbyists, agency employees, social workers, shrinks or teachers. Then, they could happily vote themselves all the statism and redistribution amongst themselves that they want.
Colorado would be a pretty nice place.
What KS and NE counties? All I see are the CO counties mentioned, that have already been reported on....
Most of Illinois would love to spin off Chicago. Wouldn’t it be great to make all these “city states” their own problem?
Welcome aboard, works for me, we are just over the Ga border in extreme NE Florida.
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