Nullification - "Insert State" ALEC Copy & Paste

If you google the word nullification for ONLY the last month

and look at only the first ten pages of results you will find that the following states have bantered about nullification.

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Idaho

Kentucky

Michigan

Mississippi

Missouri

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Texas

Virginia

Washington

Wyoming

And you have these folks talking nullification:

Police Chief’s across the US on the Gun Control Issue

Rand Paul

Nullification:

  …  resolutions stating it is the states duty to interpose themselves between their citizens and the federal government

Nullification:

A very dangerous place to go – because even though the CONservatives are pushing it in regards to Obamacare and gun control – once passed it would basically say

To hell with Federal regulations – the states can do any damn thing they please.

To hell with regulations from the EPA, the FDA, the NRLB – the states can do any damn thing they please.

When you look at the search results on Google you will see a lot of results form so-called “tenth amendment” centers.

But in reality – if you look at who is pushing it in your state

    and they are an ALEC member 

KNOW - yes know, that ALEC has been pushing this for over 20 years.

States rights - limited federal government

     1. Any act of Congress, or provision thereof shall be null and void .

     2. Any regulation, administrative directive or provision thereof shall be null and void

And if your ALEC member went to the last ALEC meeting  ....  

Your ALEC legislator probably brought home a crisp new copy of “model legislation/resolution” from the last ALEC meeting on nullification to copy/paste and introduce as their own original work (that's plagiarism).

ALEC - CONning their members by telling them that nullification leads to a "balancing" the powers between state and fedeal government. 

ALEC - CONning their members by brainwashing them that nullification is good for "the people".
ALEC - CONning their members because in the long run, the main beneficiaries of nullification are  ALEC corporate profit sector members - who will be able to buy off the individual state legislatures in regards to the passing regulations of all and any kind - corporate corruption.

ALEC is persistent – ALEC is patient.

ALEC is like a cobra silently waiting for the opportune moment to strike

ALEC is like a lion hiding in the tall grass waiting for the opportune moment to strike

ALEC is like a huge mountain lion stalking democracy and waiting for the opportune moment to pounce and kill our democratic, representative government.

Waiting, 

waiting for the opportune moment to use the vile legislation they have been writing for over 40 years that is locked up in their secret ALEC “model legislation” vault.

The American Legislative Exchange Council – with a vault full of the secret nasty “model legislation/resolutions” just waiting to destroy our republic.

1995 ALEC Sourcebook of American State Legislation

GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE AMENDMENT TO THE

CONSTITUTION O F THE UNITED STATES

• A resolution for the purpose of petitioning the Congress of

the United States to propose an amendment to the Constitution

of the United States for submission to the states to establish a

mechanism for nullification of federal laws and regulations

where the states determine that such laws or regulations exceed

the authority of the federal government under the U.S.

Constitution. (Update '96, pg. 6)

PART I 

Board of Directors' 

Committee em Federalism

GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

A resolution for the purpose of petitioning the Congress of the United States to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United Stales for submission to the states to establish a mechanism for nullification of federal taws and regulations where the states determine that such laws or regulations exceed the authority of the federal government under the Constitution of the United States.

Model Legislation

WHEREAS, the federal government was established by the states through ratification of the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the federal government was granted certain limited powers under the Constitution of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States requires, under the 10th Amendment 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;"

and

WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States established a system in which the states only ceded certain powers to the federal government; and

WHEREAS, the framers recognized that separation of powers is essential and ensured that the rights of the people would be protected by establishing checks and balances not only between the branches of the federal government, but also between the federal government and state governments; and

WHEREAS, the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government have by many actions usurped powers reserved to the states and to the people; and

WHEREAS, by the combined actions of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the federal government, the relationship between the federal government and state government established by the Constitution: and

WHEREAS, the federal Judiciary, itself a branch of the federal government, has failed to stop many of these federal excesses;

and

WHEREAS, the federal government is more distant from the people than state governments and is thereby less efficient and effective in providing for functions that, under the Constitution of the United States, were to have been reserved to the States

and to the people; and

WHEREAS, to achieve government of the people, by the people and for the people, government must become closer to the people; and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF {INSERT STATE}, A MAJORITY OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE TWO HOUSES CONCURRING SEPARATELY HEREIN, that the Congress of the United States is hereby petitioned to propose the Government of the People Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for submittal to the states for ratification, providing for the states to nullify federal laws and regulations, in such cases as the states dean that the federal government has exceeded the limits of its authority.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that to achieve the purpose expressed above that the Government of the People Amendment shall provide that:

1. Any act of Congress, or provision thereof shall be null and void upon the adoption of a Resolution of Disapproval by the legislatures of two-thirds of the states, provided that two-thirds of the states have adopted without subsequently rescinding resolutions of disapproval within any seven-year period.

2. Any regulation, administrative directive or provision thereof shall be null and void upon the adoption of a resolution of disapproval by the legislatures of two-thirds of the suites, provided that two-thirds of the states have adopted without subsequently rescinding resolutions of disapproval within any seven-year period.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Government of the People Amendment shall contain reasonable limitations on the use of resolutions of disapproval with respect to issues of national security and foreign policy.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of {insert state) transmit copies of this Resolution to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of each state legislature in the United States, and each member of Congress from the state of {insert state).