New Hampshire: HCR6 – A Resolution Affirming States’ Rights Based on Jeffersonian Principles
February 4th, 2009Via: New Hampshire House of Representatives:
A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles…
…That any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the Judicatories of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to the government of United States of America by the Constitution for the United States of America and which serves to diminish the liberty of the any of the several States or their citizens shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the government of the United States of America. Acts which would cause such a nullification include, but are not limited to:
I. Establishing martial law or a state of emergency within one of the States comprising the United States of America without the consent of the legislature of that State.
II. Requiring involuntary servitude, or governmental service other than a draft during a declared war, or pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.
III. Requiring involuntary servitude or governmental service of persons under the age of 18 other than pursuant to, or as an alternative to, incarceration after due process of law.
IV. Surrendering any power delegated or not delegated to any corporation or foreign government.
V. Any act regarding religion; further limitations on freedom of political speech; or further limitations on freedom of the press.
VI. Further infringements on the right to keep and bear arms including prohibitions of type or quantity of arms or ammunition; and
That should any such act of Congress become law or Executive Order or Judicial Order be put into force, all powers previously delegated to the United States of America by the Constitution for the United States shall revert to the several States individually. Any future government of the United States of America shall require ratification of three quarters of the States seeking to form a government of the United States of America and shall not be binding upon any State not seeking to form such a government…
Research Credit: Jesse’s Crossroads Cafe
Live free or die, baby! I lived in NH for about 3 years. Would love to live in the northern NH mountains.
This warms my heart. Except, perhaps, for part VI, because it makes me picture my neighbors packing fully automatic assault rifles. How I wish machine guns had never been invented.
As an anarcho-capitalist, I thought about moving to NH as part of the Free State Project (“Liberty in Our Lifetime”), but, then, it’s still too subject to the jackboots of the feds. Escaped the US altogether, but certainly admire those who stand and fight.
I’m sure “the thing that ate the Constitution” is crapping itself.
Bravo NH!
The Articles of Confederation were never repealed. If NH decides that the Federal government is defunct according to the terms of this resolution, it and at least one other of the signers of the articles can together revert to them.