Thread: Michigan Senate Affirms Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment

Michigan Senate Affirms Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment

Posted on 17 September 2009

from the office of State Senator Bruce Patterson, (MI-7th)

(Lansing, MI) - Today, September 17th is Constitution Day. In a fitting tribute, Senator Bruce Patterson’s resolutions affirming Michigan’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not enumerated and granted to the federal government were passed unanimously in Senate session today.

The United States Constitution was completed and signed at the Philadelphia Convention on September 17, 1787. Senator Patterson’s Senate Resolution 17 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 are reminders that the founding fathers knew what was best when they established that our new country needed a commitment to the rule of law, limited government and the ideals of liberty, equality and justice for all.

Senator Patterson introduced these resolutions because our country is straying away from our founding fathers’ ideals. The Senator’s resolutions specifically affirm the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution. This part of the Bill of Rights specifies that each state should be able to decide what is best for their people.

“My reasons for so strongly stating my belief in the Tenth Amendment through these resolutions is that our federal government is becoming oppressive in size and is intruding in our lives,â€

Horray! I think we are going to see many more states enacting "States Rights" legislation. States will also have to think about how they will back up their legal assertion if the Federal gov't tries to bully them into submission.


PS
This means that the Health care reform bill is null and void, not only for it's content but for the process by which is was enacted.