(Right-wing extremists gather to say no to totalitarianism and monarchy)

THAT PESKY 10TH AMENDMENT

It's almost dead. The Obamunist is poised to finish it off for good. Fortunately some states, like Texas and like Montana where they are asserting their state's gun laws over the feds, there's a fight on to preserve our Constitution.

From Right Wing Nuthouse:

TENTH AMENDMENT: 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.
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It’s called “The Forgotten Amendment” for good reason. While everyone waxes poetic about their love for the Bill of Rights - the first ten amendments to the Constitution - some of us are very selective in which of those amendments we actually recognize and support.

While the left can bore you to death telling you how much they adore the First Amendment and how only the most expansive interpretation of it can be accepted, something sticks in their throat when applying the exact same rationale to the Second Amendment. Here, only the narrowest of definitions should be used (”Militia” means militia, goddamnit!).
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This is not about civil rights, or nullification, or secession, or any other bugaboo with which liberals are trying to smear and besmirch the efforts of state sovereignty supporters. And since the left is positing the ridiculous notion that the exercise of 10th amendment rights by the states threatens the republic, then one is left with the real reason for their gripe; they object to the concept of federalism as it was envisioned by the Founders.
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We are a federal republic. It’s about time we started acting like one again.

Read the whole well-reasoned and fair discussion of this here.