OK, someone clue me in, please. Why is this important? Does this have something to do with the stimulus bill, or some other shenanigans that the Dims in Congress are trying to pull?
I am with you, Purr. I am without a clue about the significance of this, and hope someone can ‘splain it to me.
Several proposals are in the works that override state laws.
The most prominent of them are the FoCA and the Employee Free Choice Act.
This is extremely important. This is the first step in a process that will make the stimulus bill, and anything else the feds do, void. It returns power to SC, and other states, that the feds have run away with.
You've got me there too.
It probably relates to abortion and labor legislation, with firearms in the background.
The thing is, the people who most support the resolution would find almost everything done by the federal government over the past century or more to be unconstitutional.
While we can all hope that voters will stand up to unconstitutional legislation, the controversy opens up a very large can of worms, and a lot of people will be skeptical if things that were accepted practice in 2008 suddenly become unconstitutional outrages in 2009.