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More states join move to assert States’ Rights web posted April 15, 2009 COLUMBIA – The South Carolina State Senate is one step closer to approving the resolution reaffirming South Carolina’s states’ rights from the Federal Government, a move that is sweeping the nation with Texas Governor Rick Perry announcing a similar resolution this week in Texas. “I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said in a new conference on Tuesday. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.” Though Texas’ resolution denotes both the ninth and tenth amendment, South Carolina’s resolution covers just the tenth. “Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring: That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, claims for the State of South Carolina sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the United States Constitution,” S.424 states. The move to reassert states’ rights has grown over the past year with almost half the states introducing similar legislation that is designed to stop the federal government’s increasing control over individual states by imposing withholding of taxpayer dollars collected from the states if they do not conform to the federal government’s wishes and unfunded mandates. South Carolina’s resolution asserts, “Be it further resolved that this resolution serves as notice and demand to the federal government, as South Carolina's agent, to cease and desist immediately all mandates that are beyond the scope of the federal government's constitutionally delegated powers.” The resolution is currently working its way to the Senate floor for a vote. © Copyright 2009
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