I've waited my 30 days to start a thread, just as the boss told me.
Something I've not seen much on the news is how states are drafting and passing States Rights Resolutions. So far 37 states are at one stage or another in the process. I have included a map here:
State Sovereignty Resolutions|Tenth Amendment Center
The states are telling the Feds to back off and to stop reaching into areas where they don't belong. Some think this is simple posturing on the part of the states while others see this as a movement forming that might actually put the Feds in their place. And some try to spin this as talk of succession, but the wording within the resolutions do not mention the word.
This topic drives arguments that we are a centralized or nationalized government and states are the agent of the Federal Government. Arguments also abound that it was the states that determined the shape, scope and duties of their agent, the Federal Government. In most state resolutions the word "Agent" is used to describe the Fed.
Since the states began to do this over this past year, it has started to branch out into more specific areas such as gun control and health care. For instance, Montana actually passed a law that removes them from Federal control as it relates to guns manufactured and sold within the state. Tennessee is following close behind with more states to follow. Arizona passed a thing that will be on the ballot next year that if passed will allow citizens of the great state the ability to opt out of any government run health program. They are planning ahead.
This whole movement is based primarily in the Constitution's 10th 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."
The States have served Obama, Reed and Pelosi with bonafide copies of their resolutions. Will the Federal Government listen to the States? Will they continue to hold back funds from the States if they do not comply with what they want? Should the Feds be held to the letter of the Constitution and be made to retreat back to what the clearly defined enumerated powers are as signed and documented by the States when the Constitution and the following Amendments were initially put into law?