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American Made · November 17, 2011, 05:17 PM

My American rights should trump CT rights. If a state acts unfairly, then it is the duty of the federal government to step in and rectify that.
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When this Country was founded, the States and the "people" were the same. The people made up the States and the States formed the United States.

James Madison addressed where the power resides.[Federalist 45]:

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, negotiation, 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.

I am reminded of how the term "state" was used in discussions about the Constitution and our government. Madison said the following in his January 1800 Report on the Virginia Resolutions:

The other position involved in this branch of the resolution, namely, "that the states are parties to the Constitution," or compact, is, in the judgment of the committee, equally free from objection.

It is indeed true that the term "states" is sometimes used in a vague sense, and sometimes in different senses, according to the subject to which it is applied. Thus it sometimes means the separate sections of territory occupied by the political societies within each; sometimes the particular governments established by those societies; sometimes those societies as organized into those particular governments; and lastly, it means the people composing those political societies [states], in their highest sovereign capacity.

Although it might be wished that the perfection of language admitted less diversity in the signification of the same words, yet little inconvenience is produced by it, where the true sense can be collected with certainty from the different applications. In the present instance, whatever different construction of the term "states," in the resolution, may have been entertained, all will at least concur in that last mentioned; because in that sense the Constitution was submitted to the "states;" in that sense the "states" ratified it; and in that sense of the term "states," they are consequently parties to the compact from which the powers of the federal government result.

The states and the people of the individual states, never surrendered their sovereignty. They delegated aspects of it to their agent, the central government. That is what the Tenth Amendment is about as well.

November 17, 2011, 05:17 PM	#77
American Made Member Join Date: September 21, 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 92	My American rights should trump CT rights. If a state acts unfairly, then it is the duty of the federal government to step in and rectify that. --------------------------------------------------------- When this Country was founded, the States and the "people" were the same. The people made up the States and the States formed the United States. James Madison addressed where the power resides.[Federalist 45]: 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, negotiation, 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. I am reminded of how the term "state" was used in discussions about the Constitution and our government. Madison said the following in his January 1800 Report on the Virginia Resolutions: The other position involved in this branch of the resolution, namely, "that the states are parties to the Constitution," or compact, is, in the judgment of the committee, equally free from objection. It is indeed true that the term "states" is sometimes used in a vague sense, and sometimes in different senses, according to the subject to which it is applied. Thus it sometimes means the separate sections of territory occupied by the political societies within each; sometimes the particular governments established by those societies; sometimes those societies as organized into those particular governments; and lastly, it means the people composing those political societies [states], in their highest sovereign capacity. Although it might be wished that the perfection of language admitted less diversity in the signification of the same words, yet little inconvenience is produced by it, where the true sense can be collected with certainty from the different applications. In the present instance, whatever different construction of the term "states," in the resolution, may have been entertained, all will at least concur in that last mentioned; because in that sense the Constitution was submitted to the "states;" in that sense the "states" ratified it; and in that sense of the term "states," they are consequently parties to the compact from which the powers of the federal government result. The states and the people of the individual states, never surrendered their sovereignty. They delegated aspects of it to their agent, the central government. That is what the Tenth Amendment is about as well.