Florida 10th Amendment Center warns EPA nutrient standards will ‘strangle’ state’s farmers

Lone fisherman on St. John's River. [Photo by Kay B. Day]

Andrew Nappi, director of the Florida Tenth Amendment Center, has issued a warning about water nutrient standards the Environmental Protection Agency aims to impose on The Sunshine State. In an official statement, Nappi asked state legislators and congressmen at the federal level to “stand up for Florida’s agriculture and sovereignty.”

Nappi said, “Everyone wants clean air and water.” But he said the Clean Air and Water Act is an “unfunded mandate imposed upon the sovereign states by the general government.” Nappi believes the act will “wreak destruction on Florida’s farmers.”

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US Constitution’s wiggle room could benefit Arizona law

Federal judge Susan Bolton, as anticipated, issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday, prohibiting parts of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 from going into effect. The parts she blocked involved i.d. issues and immigration status issues.

But an unbiased reading of Article I, Sect. 10 to the US Constitution, in my opinion, offers wiggle room.

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L. A. think tank says states should nullify healthcare bill

Screen snip of Tenth Amendment Center's Facebook Page. where more than 12,000 members come for news and information.Relying on a federal lawsuit to invalidate the new Health Care Reform Law is not only an uncertain endeavor in the face of decades of bad Supreme Court precedent; it could also take years to go anywhere, according to the Tenth Amendment Center. “The reality is this, considering a lawsuit as the primary response leaves the people in opposition holding the bag,” says Michael Boldin, founder of the Center. “That's why we advocate a solution to this mess that leaves the people, not the courts, in charge."

(Los Angeles, CA)—"Prominent founders such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison warned us that if the federal government ever became the sole and exclusive arbiter of its own powers, those powers would continue to grow, regardless of elections, courts, separation of powers or other much-vaunted checks and balances in our system," said Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center.

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As Constitution Day approaches, states mull options to limit Washington

By Kay B. Day

The Library of Congress said James Madison came to be known as the "Father of our Constitution...among the most influential delegates at the Constitutional Convention" in 1787.[Lithograph after a painting by Gilbert Stuart, circa 1828, from the digital collection at the LOC.] September 17 is Constitution Day, so it seems appropriate that states are rallying in an effort to combat a federal government expanding beyond its historically legal powers. Two bills, HR 2454 and healthcare legislation in progress, will affect the daily lives of every American. A columnist at The Tenth Amendment Center said the states have a ‘nuclear option’ on healthcare—nullification.

The Tenth Amendment Center is calling attention to September 17 because on that day in 1787, members of the Constitutional Convention signed the draft of the document that is the keystone for liberty. As Congress attempts to expand the powers of the federal government to historic levels, the Center’s founder Michael Boldin said in a news release, “This year seven states have passed sovereignty resolutions under the 10th amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”

Laws passed by states include nullification of some federal firearms regulations. Boldin added, “[T]hree states are considering constitutional amendments allowing residents to effectively opt out of any future national healthcare plan.”

More than 2 dozen states have passed or are in the process of trying to pass state sovereignty resolutions.

In a column at the Center website, Josh Eboch addresses the means some in Congress have threatened to use to ram healthcare legislation through with a simple majority, a process rather ridiculously called ‘reconciliation.’ If Dems ram historic legislation down the throats of American taxpayers, there will be nothing friendly about it. Eboch said this would be a “strategic error” and a “miscalculation.”

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Idaho latest to push states' rights in 10th amendment

Republican Liberty Caucus (Florida) chair Will Pitts, addressing the 2009 National RLC Convention in Jacksonville, keeps members informed about politics and legislation.[Photo by Kay B. Day]Idaho is the latest state to remind the federal government that power is “inherent in the people.” Republican Liberty Caucus chair for Florida Will Pitts informed members late Wednesday Idaho passed the 10th Amendment Resolution Memorial. Pitts said the resolution “will now be forwarded to the US Congress and the President as a notice and demand to cease and desist all unconstitutional activity.”

According to The Tenth Amendment Center, more than 30 states have either passed such a resolution or are in the process of doing so. The movement actually gained momentum during President George W. Bush’s term as conservatives and libertarians grappled with implications of The Patriot Act and other issues.

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