WAYNE LONG FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 39
Standing up to biden
Arkansas must enforce its rights under the 10th Amendment. I support banning State and Local agencies from aiding Federal agents in the enforcement of any of Biden’s attempts at gun confiscation or any other unconstitutional law and mandate which are too numerous to list.
SB298 - KNOWN AS THE "ARKANSAS SOVEREIGNTY ACT OF 2021" did just that; it stated that federal government doesn’t have the authority to impose gun laws and regulations because of the 2nd and 10th Amendments. The bill also noted the state would not adhere to the federal gun laws and regulations or help federal agencies enforce them.
Just as importantly the bill went on to state this same standard would be applied to all other Federal usurpations of our Liberty that are protected by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights!
SB298 was one of my favorite bills ever to be introduced in the Arkansas General Assembly. I was heart broken when the Governor vetoed it. The State Senate over road the veto, but the House failed to do so.
I will gladly sponsor or co-sponsor this same bill, if I am blessed to be elected to the House.
Arkansas must enforce its rights under the 10th Amendment. I support banning State and Local agencies from aiding Federal agents in the enforcement of any of Biden’s attempts at gun confiscation or any other unconstitutional law and mandate which are too numerous to list.
SB298 - KNOWN AS THE "ARKANSAS SOVEREIGNTY ACT OF 2021" did just that; it stated that federal government doesn’t have the authority to impose gun laws and regulations because of the 2nd and 10th Amendments. The bill also noted the state would not adhere to the federal gun laws and regulations or help federal agencies enforce them.
Just as importantly the bill went on to state this same standard would be applied to all other Federal usurpations of our Liberty that are protected by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights!
SB298 was one of my favorite bills ever to be introduced in the Arkansas General Assembly. I was heart broken when the Governor vetoed it. The State Senate over road the veto, but the House failed to do so.
I will gladly sponsor or co-sponsor this same bill, if I am blessed to be elected to the House.
10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution (Which are few and well defined - see below), nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution (Which are few and well defined - see below), nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
James Madison, Father of the Constitution and the Forth President wrote the follow essay about the limits of Federal power and the almost unlimited power of the States.
Federalist, no. 45, 313--14.
26 Jan. 1788
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution 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, as war, peace, negotiations, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will for the most part be connected. 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; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
The operations of the Federal Government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State Governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State Governments will here enjoy another advantage over the Federal Government. The more adequate indeed the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendency over the governments of the particular States....
Federalist, no. 45, 313--14.
26 Jan. 1788
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution 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, as war, peace, negotiations, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will for the most part be connected. 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; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
The operations of the Federal Government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State Governments, in times of peace and security. As the former periods will probably bear a small proportion to the latter, the State Governments will here enjoy another advantage over the Federal Government. The more adequate indeed the federal powers may be rendered to the national defense, the less frequent will be those scenes of danger which might favor their ascendency over the governments of the particular States....
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional those acts of Congress that the Constitution did not authorize. In doing so, they argued for states' rights and strict construction of the Constitution. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 were written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, respectively.
The principles stated in the resolutions became known as the "Principles of '98". Adherents argued that the states could judge the constitutionality of central government laws and decrees. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 argued that each individual state has the power to declare that federal laws are unconstitutional and void. The Kentucky Resolution of 1799 added that when the states determine that a law is unconstitutional, nullification by the states is the proper remedy. The Virginia Resolutions of 1798 refer to "interposition" to express the idea that the states have a right to "interpose" to prevent harm caused by unconstitutional laws. The Virginia Resolutions contemplated joint action by the states.
