State Nullification

The wheels are beginning to turn. States are beginning to stand up and defend themselves from the abuses and bullying of the federal government.

South Carolina just introduced a bill in the general assembly to thwart the Interstate Commerce Clause. House Bill 4509 states the following:

“no public official of any jurisdiction may require registration of purchasers of firearms or ammunition within the boundaries of this State."

That means Butt Out to the feds. Montana and Tennessee have already passed a similar bill in 2009. There are 22 other states that are considering a similar bill known around the country as the "Firearms Freedom Act."

Since the days of FDR we have endured the intrusions of the feds, particularly through the creative machinations of politicians and jurist, who used the Interstate Commerce Clause to impose their progressive ideologue.

The 10th amendment is in ascendancy; and state nullification will put the federal government back in its place.

Our founding fathers new a thing or two about state nullification:

In the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson wrote in response to the hated Alien and Sedition Acts:

“The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government”

and

“where powers are assumed [by the federal government] which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them”

Now juxtapose that with South Carolina's H4509:

Federal agents have flouted the United States Constitution and forsworn their oath to support this Constitution by requiring registration of the purchasers of firearms and ammunition, and these requirements violate the limits of authority placed upon the federal agents by the United States Constitution and are dangerous to the liberties of the people

(B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no public official of any jurisdiction may require registration of purchasers of firearms or ammunition within the boundaries of this State.

(C) Any person violating the provisions of this subsection (B) is guilty of a felony and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both.

Congratulations to South Carolina, I hope your bill passes. I can only wish that North Carolina would follow your lead.

Source:

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/05/raising-the-bar-for-nullification/