carbinemike said:
Ignoring them will wake up the machine quicker than anything else. Another one was when Montana announced federal guns laws didn't pertain to guns made and sold within their borders.
Actually, several states introduced bills that said firearms made within a state, and never sold out of state did not fall within the boundaries of Interstate Commerce and therefore were not under Federal control or jurisdiction.
Tennessee and Kentucky also had similiar bills, but I don't know if any of them were signed into law.
In all honesty, there are very few things that Government is truly responsible for. Government was never supposed to be the answer to everything, and why individual States maintain their sovereignty, even though they are part of the replublic.
That was one of the main driving forces behind the civil war. Government kept over stepping their bounds. There were a lot more issues than slavery (which I always thought was 100% wrong and immoral). Slavery was just the main talking point to get people behind the President and in my opinion rightfully so on that aspect.
But contrary to popular belief today, there were slaves in the northern states too, and one of the main ports slave ships would dock is New York more than a hundred years prior to the civil war. There were slaves in Ohio, Illinois, etc so that was not just something that went on in the southern states although many northern states abolished slavery on their own accord on a state level prior to the civil war.
But one of the big truths about the civil war is, the Government did not like losing its' power and control over the individual states when they seceded and the Gov't lost out on all the land and minerals and materials the southern states had to offer when the states met and gave Washington the finger.
Keep in mind this was at the very birth of the industrial age and the expansion out west, and the Gov't needed everything it could get its' hands on to make it possible. Coal, iron, copper, brass, wood/lumber, etc etc etc
And when those materials were cut by at least a 1/3 (probably more if you calculate sheer land mass/area), that was the big reason the Federal Government declared war on those that seceded, and unrightfully so by law, and the way the Constitution was setup. Individual states are not obligated or required to "belong" to the Govt. If they were, there would be no 48 states in the continental U.S. Just one state nationwide from sea to shining sea.
The civil war was nothing more than a power grab, and declaring war on the southern states that seceded was unconstitutional at best because they no longer "belonged" or were part of the Federal Government. By the way our country was founded, states are not owned by the Federal Government.
I apologize for the hijack. I understand this probably doesn't belong in this topic altogether.