Federal Overreach and the New States' Rights Movement

Ever since the election of Woodrow Wilson, America has been concentrating more and more power and control in the federal government. With the 2008 elections, the century-long creep towards statism accelerated. America is not only on the wrong track -- she's on an express train to Big Government hell.One bright spot is that the states are standing up to federal overreach. We see this in the preemptive gun law recently enacted in Montana. Kahrin Deines writes: Still, much bigger prey lies in Montana's sights: a legal showdown over how far the federal government's regulatory authority extends."It's a gun bill, but it's another way of demonstrating the sovereignty of the state of Montana," said Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who signed the bill.Progressives are troubled that this is nullification, which "holds that state legislators have the capacity to invalidate federal laws to which they are opposed." Nullification goes back to our founding, and latter-day...(Read Full Article)

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