Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Rallying Cry Of Resistance For State Lawmakers - Finally A "Neutral" State's Rights Article By The Mainstream Media

Let me make a quick update here. There is a Constitutional scholar who writes that Article 6 of the Constitution grants the federal government as the law of the land in any dispute with states. That may be true but the Constitution also states that "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."

In other words, the federal government is limited in its powers and Article 6 is in reference to those powers. The federal government cannot simply decide to infringe on State's Rights with no Constitutional authority and claim Article 6. A rather misleading and incomplete quote in the article. But generally the article is neutral in its tone.
posted by TimingLogic at 10:42 AM