You might have heard stories this past week about states that are petitioning the President for permission to secede from The Union. The Union, being The United States of America. But this actually is just sloppy reporting by the main stream media.
First of all, what are being filed are petitions on the White House’s website by groups of citizens. In order for the President to review them, or do whatever it is he does with them, they have to get a certain number of signatories. These are not, I repeat, NOT, petitions by the actual States themselves. Anyonereporting otherwise is simply wrong.
Second of all, it is a pointless exercise because States do not need to petition the federal government, much less the messiah, to secede. They simply say, “We’re seceding.” Then they secede.
See, the Constitution spells out the powers of our federal government. It also clearly states 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.” That would be in Amendment Ten.
Read more at Canada Free Press. By J.J. Jackson.
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Will if this is true I will be packing my bags and leaving Illinois within the next few mornths.
Me too! If this is true then I will be excited to move in Texas and bring my old dog and husband with me!! Pl’s Texas do not admit any demonscrat in your state bc we don’t want them to infiltrate the R
epub. state and ask for an handout from ppl working!!
Here is what SCJ Scalia had to say
http://joemiller.us/2012/11/justice-scalia-shoots-down-idea-of-leaving-the-union-there-is-no-right-to-secede/?utm_source=JoeMiller.US+List&utm_campaign=26af448336-11_14_1211_14_2012&utm_medium=email
All the governers need to do in all 50 states is close all federal offices and departments and ship the employees back to DC and say the fed is no longer welcome in our state. The individual states can take care of thie citizens better then the fed`s ever could. Think of what the states could do if they didn`t have to keep shipping their blood money to DC.
Yeah right! Can you aee BHO allowing that. He is now our supreme commander. Wait until January is over.
Scalia and the rest of the SCOTUS have proven themselves to be completely bias and dysfuntional, just like the other two braches of government. We cannot look to them for help. There are just as many other qualified judges who disagree with Scalia. And he’s supposed to be one of the more conservative of the bunch. Yikes.