Roman for Congress - States Rights

I believe the Ohio legislature should adopt and enforce a States Rights reolution similar to the one introduced in New Hampshire and 19 other states. You can see a copy of it by going to http://www.nhliberty.org/

James Madison, “the father of the Constitution,” said, “The powers delegated to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.” Our Federal government has oberstepped the Constitution and in effect "nullified it".

Thomas Jefferson emphasized that the states are not ”subordinate” to the national government, but rather the two are “coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.” This Founding Father knew why the Amendments were written.

Alexander Hamilton expressed his hope that “the people will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the general and the state governments.” He believed that “this balance between the national and state governments forms a double security to the people. If one [government] encroaches on their rights, they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by [the] certain rivalship which will ever subsist between them.”; and
WHEREAS, The scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be limited in its powers relative to those of the various states.

Is everyone going to just roll over and allow the Constitution to be ignored?

Start a States Rights movement in your State. Start one NOW!