The Shot Heard Round New Hampshire

[RJ Connors]

This HRC-6 bill might be more troublesome that what it initial looks like on it's surface. Of course it was created by all Republicans in what could be construed as an attempt to create more division and unrest within the country. Which admittedly has been one of the main goals of the Republicans for the last eight years. Of particular concern is the follow snippet.

"Maybe HCR 6, the shot heard round little old New Hampshire, will inspire more Americans to realize the desperate need to free ourselves from an overreaching federal government. In which case, the shot heard round New Hampshire might become the next shot heard round the world."

Seems to me this little piece of propaganda could be construed as having intent to incite unrest against the United States government, which if I recall correctly the United States Code has some rather unpleasant things to say about those kinds of actions.

Here is the rest of the article and link.

February 04, 2009
The Shot Heard Round New Hampshire
Larrey Anderson
Four New Hampshire state legislators have introduced a resolution affirming Thomas Jefferson’s defense of states' rights. House Concurrent Resolution 6 was recently introduced into the New Hampshire’s State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee by Rep. Itse, Rep. Ingbretson, Rep. Comerford, and Sen. Denley.

Interestingly, the authors of the New Hampshire Resolution took most of the language from the document commonly known as “Jefferson and Madison’s Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.”*

Following in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers the New Hampshire Resolution declares:

That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, -- delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress….

The New Hampshire Resolution boldly defends the state’s (and its citizens') rights preserved under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

(con't) The Shot Heard Round New Hampshire

Also, here is a link to the current status of the bill. New Hampshire General Court - Bill Status System HCR-6

[struggle4progress]

1. Perhaps it is to the common good, that the Republican faction takes notice of the late

controversies surrounding the Sedition Act

As we do not, however, presently confront the threat of war with France, as the Act itself has been buried these two centuries, and as even the great Mr Jefferson lies long silent, the sudden concern, of these New Hampshire lawgivers, for such issues, appears a trifle untimely

Had they but sounded the alarm against more recent dangers -- when the former President's lawyer insisted that the President could order any child mutilated, or when the Executive claimed the power to detain anyone entirely beyond the reach of any court, and when their party prepared for the Congress a bill allowing the Administration to strip anyone's citizenship by decree -- then their pretense as "friends of freedom" might perhaps have fallen more favorably on the public ear

But they left to others the hard work of striking that hot iron, and the time has passed

In contemplating their resolution, therefore :rofl:

[bperci108]

2. Sounds like a bunch of Libertarians and Paultard types.

"...free ourselves from an overreaching federal government."

:eyes:

Democrats in WH and Congress = Mass Republican and Libertarian Hysteria

Gawd....you could almost set your clock by it.

[bemildred]

3. Oh good, let's do the Civil War over again. nt