Tenth Amendment Remembered

...from Tenth Amendment Center JEFFERSON CITY , Mo. (Dec. 18, 2020) – Bills filed in the Missouri House and Senate would legalize retail sales of raw milk in the state and take a step toward nullifying a federal prohibition scheme in effect. Rep. Ann Kelley (R-Lamar) prefiled House Bill 309 ( HB309 ) on Dec. 2. Sen. Bill Wright (R-Joplin) filed a companion, Senate Bill 235 ( SB235 ), the day before. The legislation would legalize retail sales of raw milk or cream produced in Missouri at grocery stores, restaurants, soda fountains, or similar establishments, as long as the milk is clearly marked with a specified warning label. Currently, Missouri law only allows the sale and delivery of raw milk directly from farm to consumer. The House bill includes a few regulations that the Senate bill does not. It would require the state milk board to do periodic inspections of raw milk bottlers and distributors and it would require any dairy farm producing raw milk to have its herd accredited ...

...from Tenth Amendment Center ATLANTA , Ga. (Dec. 18, 2020) – A bill prefiled in the Georgia House would put limits on state and local law enforcement agencies’ ability to acquire certain military equipment from federal programs. Rep. Sandra Scott (D-Rex) filed House Bill 16 ( HB16 ) last month. The legislation would prohibit a state or local law enforcement agency from acquiring or possessing the following military equipment. (1) Controlled firearms, ammunition, grenades, or explosives, including, but not limited to, stun grenades and flash-bang grenades (2) Controlled vehicles, highly mobile multi-wheeled vehicles, mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, trucks, truck sump, truck utility, or truck carryall (3) Unmanned aircraft that are armored or weaponized (4) Controlled aircraft that are combat configured or combat coded or have no established commercial flight application (5) Silencers (6) Long-range acoustic devices Any police department in violation of the law woul...

...from Tenth Amendment Center The Founding generation fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from an empire – the largest government in history at the time. Today, they’re probably rolling in their graves because the people have long-embraced the same centralized despotism the founders and old revolutionaries struggled to throw off. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: December 18, 2020 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adans (5 Oct 1787) Fisher Ames (18 June 1789) George Washington Farewell Address (18 Sept 1796) The Nature of the Federal Government You Should Barely Know the Federal Government Exists America Embraces the Tyranny its Founders Fought to Reject Richard Henry Lee to Edmund Randolph (16 Oct 1787) ALTERNATE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on LBRY Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Twitch.tv Watch on Brighteon Watch o...

...from Tenth Amendment Center The federal government commits all kinds of unconstitutional acts. Your response might be…”Yeah, and?” In other words, what are you going to do about it? Words on paper can't – and will never – enforce themselves. #10thAmendment #nullify #constitution #resist #liberty @mmaharrey10th pic.twitter.com/P6xHKT2nIE — TenthAmendmentCenter (@TenthAmendment) December 16, 2020 Some people take this to imply the Constitution is ineffective in protecting your liberty. And in a sense, it is. But how can you expect words on paper to protect liberty if you’re not willing to actually do something to back up those words? For Further Reading A “Parchment Barrier” Needs Enforcement A Parchment Barrier: The Constitution Doesn’t Enforce Itself The post Yeah...And? first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center Blog . Mike Maharrey December 17, 2020 at 07:45PM

...from Tenth Amendment Center MONTGOMERY , Ala. (Dec. 17, 2020) – A “Constitutional Carry” bill prefiled for the 2021 legislative session would make it legal for Alabama residents to carry a firearm without a license in the state, fostering an environment hostile to federal gun control. Sen. Gerald Allen (R- Tuscaloosa) prefiled Senate Bill 5 ( SB5 ) on July 30. Alabama state law currently allows residents 19 or older to apply for permits at the county level. Under the proposed law, anyone who is legally allowed to own a gun could carry it concealed without a state-issued license. However, gun owners would still be restricted from bringing weapons to certain places already prohibited by state and federal law. Alabama residents would still be able to acquire a concealed carry permit in order to carry in states that maintain CCDW reciprocity with Alabama. If approved by the state legislature and signed into law, the change would take effect three months later. Last year, Allen file...

...from Tenth Amendment Center With President-elect Biden announcing retired general Lloyd Austin as his pick for Defense Secretary, 10 U.S.C. 113(a) is back in the news.  It  provides : A person may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force. General Austin does not meet the seven year limit, so he needs a waiver from Congress.  Or does he?  Maybe the statute is unconstitutional. Mike Rappaport had an interesting  post on this issue  four years ago in connection with President Trump’s nomination of James Mattis as Defense Secretary (Mattis also failed the seven year test, but got a waiver from Congress).  From the core of his analysis: The argument for concluding that the Congress cannot pass the qualification requirement is that [the appointments] clause gives to the President and the Senate the decision whether a person is quali...

...from Tenth Amendment Center OKLAHOMA CITY , Okla. (Dec. 17, 2020) – A bill prefiled in the Oklahoma Senate would prohibit deployment of the state’s National Guard troops into a foreign combat zone without a congressional declaration of war as required by the Constitution. Passage into law would take a step toward restoring the founders’ constitutional framework for a state-federal balance regarding the state militia. Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-Broken Arrow) filed Senate Bill 135 ( SB135 ) earlier this month. The legislation would require a congressional declaration of war before Oklahoma National Guard units could be deployed into combat in a foreign country. The legislation reads in part: “The Oklahoma National Guard and any member thereof shall not be released from the state into active duty combat unless the United States Congress has passed an official declaration of war or has taken an official action pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 15 of the United States Constitution t...