http://news.yahoo.com/justice-dept-opposes-texas-voter-id-law-144238429.html
I hope the outrageous interference of the Federal government in the States’ affairs is as obvious to you as it is to me and other States’ Rights advocates.
This kind of unconstitutional interference is no different than that faced in the 1850′s. Texas and South Carolina are historically no states to be meddled with.
This issue is so much larger than two states being manipulated and violated by a bureaucratic board in Washington–made up of people who have anything but these states’ best interest in mind. This is the curse of a centralized consolidation of power. Our founding fathers knew this all too well as they witnessed firsthand the problems of colonies ruled by a distant ruler, who believed the colonies existed to serve him. We have the same situation today; the Federal government too often acts as though the states exist to serve them, well the founding fathers believed quite differently. And until 1850, the concept of state sovereignty was implied, understood and not questioned.
The first real threat against the state was when President Andrew Jackson threatened South Carolina with a damaging tariff. South Carolina governor John C. Calhoun refused to abide by it, claiming South Carolina’s state sovereignty and right to refuse federal legislation that damaged the state. Jackson threatened to send federal troops into South Carolina to enforce the tariff. Surprisingly to Jackson, his threat backfired when Calhoun informed him his federal enforcers would be met with musket-bearing South Carolinians at the state border. Jackson backed down to avoid a war.
After much political degradation and increasing progressive sentiments, South Carolina once again found herself between the U.S. Constitution and the President in 1860 when she seceded from the Union. Abraham Lincoln had no regard for the Constitution or desire to free the slaves–anyone who believes he did has obviously never read his speeches or personal letters or any European history. All Europe, the United States and Lincoln’s entire administration knew what he was doing was unconstitutional and far from the title ” noble emancipator” which he is crowned with.
Lincoln is always defended with the phrase: “he wanted to preserve the Union.” Yes, at the point of a bayonet. Lincoln’s beloved goal of “saving the Union” was merely his dream of a centralized, consolidated government that ruled the nation while extinguishing states’ rights and trampling the Constitution.
South Carolina has defended the Constitution with more tenacity and faithfulness than any other state. Texas is certainly not far behind.
May this episode serve as a grave warning to other states that the Federal government could just as easily and willingly violate and impeded their rights as these two states. As this story develops, I hope and pray South Carolina and Texas will rise to the occasion to nullify any Federal interference and stand with the same tenacity as their forefathers did.
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