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August 6, 2009
Exclusive: Nullification – Should States Ban National Health Care?
As Americans all across this nation discover more of the alarming details contained in the socialized medicine bill that President Obama is trying to get Congress to pass, many are doing their best to make their voices heard by attending town halls to speak directly to their elected representatives. Unfortunately, elected officials who seem drunk on their own power, along with a complacent media, are doing their best to spin the efforts of frustrated citizens exercising their First Amendment rights by demeaning them as “Brookes Brothers” protestors and “mobs” egged on by “greedy” insurance companies.
One imagines that King George III and the governors he appointed to rule the original 13 colonies had similar thoughts back in 1773.
Is this the taxation with representation envisioned by our Founders? Where citizens with a legitimate grievance are dismissed because that grievance goes against the wishes of those who have become corrupted by a prolonged hold on the reins of power? Where unpopular legislation is rammed through because those in Congress deem themselves to be wiser than the people they purport to represent? Even though many of them have no idea what the legislation fully entails?
Finally: the idea of individual states exercising their Tenth Amendment rights and banning such nationalized healthcare is taking shape.
Reporting at the Tenth Amendment Center’s website, Michael Boldin explains what is going on in Florida regarding this very issue:
In response to what some opponents see as a Congress that doesn’t represent their interests, State Legislators are looking to the nearly-forgotten American political tradition of nullification as a way to reject any potential national health care program that may be coming from Washington.
The most recent effort comes from Florida State Senator Carey Baker and State Representative Scott Plakon, who this week filed a proposed State Constitutional Amendment (HJR37) as a means to prevent Floridians from being affected by any Federal Health Care Legislation. If approved by the legislature, Florida residents could be voting on it as early as 2010.
HJR37 would deny the ability of any new law to impose demands, restrictions or penalties on health care choices on Floridians. Versions of proposed federal health care reform legislation have included insurance coverage mandates, and certain penalties on employers who fail to provide employee health insurance.
You can read more here.
The Tenth Amendment states:
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.
Americans have a right – nay, a duty – to resist the increasing encroachment of federal government into areas that are not granted them by the Constitution. Our Founders were brilliant men; they included such a way to keep our freedoms intact right in our Constitution. It’s now up to us to make sure we deserve the freedoms described within that precious document.
If you’d like to chime in on this important issue, be sure to contact your state representatives.
Brought to you by the editors and research staff of FamilySecurityMatters.org.
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