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CALL TO ACTION:

On April 9th Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states rights under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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.

In his speech Gov. Perry states “I believe the federal government has become oppressive. I believe it has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion in the lives of its citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state.”

The Freedom Factory is launching a campaign to get every state government to adopt comparable legislation, reaffirming their legitimate rights within the context of a free American Republic.

We need to spread the word, to mobilize residents from every state in the Union to remind our public servants that we will not tolerate erosion of our rights and the Constitution that guarantees them.

Here’s a sample letter you are urged to send every public servant in your jurisdiction. Send this to your state’s governor and state legislatures, and leave a comment below to sign our petition:

The federal government has grown too big and too powerful, infringing upon the legal sovereign rights of our state affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. There is a resurgent federalist movement best highlighted by the Texas Legislature that I want implemented in [list your state]. The Texas legislature will soon be voting on House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 that reaffirms state sovereignty. We need similar legislation in our state.

No one in Washington D.C. knows how to run our state better than our own residents. I am tired of our government bowing to federal authority. I demand that we reassert our right to self governance. I urge you to do all you can to support this movement and regain control of our state from Washington D.C.

The residents of this state need you to protect them from a growing central government. I hope that you have the courage to stand up for those to whom you are responsible.

Here’s a great resource for finding the names and contact information for your elected representatives. Take a few minutes to cut and paste the sample letter into an e-mail and let these lawmakers know we mean business. Enough is enough!

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You can read more about Gov. Perry’s speech here, or watch it directly below:

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4/9/2009 – AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Highlights from transcript:

I’m here today to offer my unwavering support to the millions of Texans that are tired of Washington D.C. trying to come down here and telling us how to run Texas.

The 10th Amendment was enacted by folks who remembered what it was like to have a very repressive government, to be under the thumb of tyrants and an all powerful government. Unfortunately, the protections it guarantees have melted away over the course of the years.

You’re prob familiar with that old adage of how to boil a frog: You just get him to sit there in that pot and you turn up the heat a little bit by a little bit, before you know it the frog doesn’t realize it, but he’s done.

And since the U.S. constitution has been ratified the federal government has been slowly turning up the heat, and they’ve eroded the notion of states rights.

Texans know best how to govern Texas. We’re proof that good things happen when government lowers taxes, and lowers regulations, it reduces spending and encourages private sector growth.

I happen to believe that the constitution does not empower the federal government to overrule state laws without restraint. I agree with Texas’s 7th governor, Sam Houston, who said “Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”

I believe the federal government has become oppressive. I believe it has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion in the lives of its citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state.

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The question of whether or not some law or action being taken by U.S. political leaders is constitutional is always showing up in the news. Such coverage begs the question, why pay attention to a piece of paper written over two hundred years ago? What relevance does this document have to politics in the modern world? And how does it affect my life?

A Contract

The U.S. Constitution is a contract between citizens and their government. It divides government into three branches. Each branch has certain powers, but none of them have total power. This prevents too much power being concentrated into the hands of one or a few people (despite popular consensus, Hope, Peace, and Change require more than one man). Concentrated power leaves a nation of millions subject to the whims of one individual. The Constitution prevents such a situation.

Protection

The Constitution states clearly what the government cannot do. Nearly all of its amendments begin with the phrase “Congress shall make no law…” Similarly, it delegates many powers to the states. This gives each state the freedom (each having varying demographics) to make laws that suit its own needs. This increases personal freedom by giving individuals the ability to make their own laws locally, rather than submitting endlessly to politicians in Washington DC (which is not even a state).

One Line between Freedom and Tyranny

The Constitution is inviolable because it restrains government. Without such a document, we have to rely on politicians to restrain themselves. This is obviously a difficult task even with the authoritative help of the Constitution. It is imperative that we do not allow politicians to break this contract, even when claiming national crises, emergency, or necessity. If we allow the Constitution to be ignored, then there is no stopping the control the Federal government will take over our lives. The Declaration of Independence declares that “all men were created equal;” therefore, we cannot allow ‘the few’ to rule over ‘the many.’

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) debates actor Stephen Baldwin on CNN’s Larry King Live.

Who makes the more compelling argument?

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With all the controversy over legislating gun laws it is worth revisiting why the 2nd Amendment exists:

Dr. Suzanna Gratia had both of her parents executed in a 1991 massacre along with 21 other people in a Texas restaurant. A gunman plowed his pickup truck through the restaurant window and then opened fire with a Glock 17 pistol and later a Ruger P89. Gratia’s father charged the gunman and was mortally wounded by a shot to the chest. His wife refused to flee and crawled over to her husband of 47 years at which point she was shot in the head while cradling her husband’s body.

Dr. Gratia relates that she had a pistol less than 100 yards away in her car, but due to concealed weapons laws in Texas at the time, was not allowed to carry the firearm on her person. Without that law, she says, her parents and dozens of others in that restaurant could have survived.

Addressing the Texas legislature, Dr. Gratia dismisses some common beliefs that firearms are intended for sport, and says why the 2nd Amendment really exists:

“I’m not going to make very many friends saying this, but it’s about our rights, all of our rights, to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.”

The text of the Second Amendment:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

This is a statement relinquishing the federal government from the ability to regulate weapons. There is controversy over interpretation-many feel as though the term “militia” implies that the federal government has authority to regulate firearms amongst individuals, but not state militias.

The purpose of the law is to restrict the federal government from regulating weapons, period. Militias were, and in many cases are, comprised of individuals who retain their own weapons. The intent of the law is to restrict federal authority and provide a check on power-the people are supposed to maintain the right to physically remove federal authority should they find it unacceptable.

At the time of the creation of the law states maintained full sovereignty, exercising greater latitude of authority than the federal government. It was never envisioned that states would be subordinate to the central authority. Now they are.

After the civil war beat states into submission, and nearly an hundred years of accepting federal handouts, states no longer retain comparable authority to limit federal power. The final check on the central bureaucrats has always been, and still remains, the people. As such, it is perverse to think the federal government has the right to disarm its populace.

In order to remain free, a people must have the right to self-armament with weapons that are at least comparable to that which federal troops possess.

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