North Carolina GOP attempting to nullify the 10th amendment

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House Bill 494, filed by Republican Rowan County Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford, would refuse to acknowledge the force of any judicial ruling on prayer in North Carolina – or indeed on any Constitutional topic:

“The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people,” the bill states. “Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion.”

The Tenth Amendment argument, also known as “nullification,” has been tried unsuccessfully by states for more than a century to defy everything from the Emancipation Proclamation of the Civil War to President Obama’s health care reforms to gun control.

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Eleven House Republicans have signed on to sponsor the resolution, including Majority Leader Edgar Starnes, R-Caldwell, and Budget Chairman Justin Burr, R-Stanly.

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=h+494&submitButton=Go

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/04/03/north-carolinas-turn-on-the-rack-again/

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1. The absolute idiocy

of State reps around this country when it comes to the Constitution just fucking astounds me.

I'm starting to think we need to have basic IQ tests performed on people planning to run for office. Perhaps we can run this out as a Constitutional amendment and then these fuckwits can try to nullify it.

[bemildred]

2. 150 years later and we still have these fuckwits running southern states. nt