Ending Popular Vote for the U.S. Senate: TNGA Hill-Campfield Nullification Scheme

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Scratch a little deeper behind the groups writing the nullification legislation that TNGA Rep. Matthew Hill and TNGA Senator Stacey Campfield have filed with the Tennessee General Assembly, and you will quickly learn that Hill and Campfield are wanting to put an end to the U.S. Constitutional Amendment giving Tennesseans (and other American citizens) the popular vote right to elect elected members of the U.S. Senate:


U.S. Patriots Union and Stand Up America State Nullification Act
http://thepatriotsnews.com/indx.php/content/77
Source: Press Release - (1/13/11)

NATIONAL PRESS RELEASE January 12, 2011 - The United States Patriots Union(1), in strategic partnership with Stand Up America(2) and our joint 2011 Call to Action, have launched a nationwide initiative to introduce and pass broad-based state nullification legislation in all fifty states. We present this model legislation, The State Nullification Reaffirmation Act(3), as a proposed state bill for the following reasons.

The sovereign states lost congressional representation of states interests in 1913 with the passage of the 17th Amendment, which removed the constitutional right of each state legislature to choose two representatives of state interests, to be seated in the US Senate.

Since then, all branches of the federal government have increasingly acted against the best interests of the states and the people, reaching farther and farther beyond the scope and authority granted them in the U.S. Constitution and today, the federal government functions with utter disdain for both states’ and individual rights.

With no legitimate venue available in which to demand redress of grievances in the legislative, executive or judicial branches of the federal government at present, we have determined that the people of each state, via their elected state officials, must take broad but specific state measures to force the federal government to live within the confines of the U.S. Constitution and the enumerated powers, for the sake of the sovereign states and the citizens thereof.

On this basis, The United States Patriots Union acting in strategic partnership with Stand Up America, commissioned the Patriots Union Constitutional Justice Division to draft a model bill granting the states the power and mechanisms to nullify any federal statute, mandate or executive order which the state determines to be unconstitutional. It is our joint intention to see this bill passed and enforced in every state as soon as possible.

The United States Patriots Union, LLC and Stand Up America present this model bill for consideration of legislators in each of the fifty sovereign states. Additional information is available at both sponsoring organizations.

Researched and prepared by The United States Patriots Union, LLC
The Constitutional Justice Division
1617 North Main Street, Suite B, Sheridan, WY 82801
http://www.PatriotsUnion.org

(records filed with the https://wyobiz.wy.gov/Business/FilingDetails.aspx?FilingNum=2010-000589446">Wyoming Secretary of State (click "Parties" hyperlink) reveal that Anthony VonDollen is listed as "Organizer" of the Sheridan based United States Patriot Union, LLC.)

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Even the conservative World Net Daily blog is referring to the Hill-Campfield HB1705/SB1474 nullification legislation as "rebellion":

Thursday, February 24, 2011
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=267141">REBELLION IN AMERICA
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Tennessee joins states looking to yank fed reins
'We have to smack their hand a little to get it out of the cookie jar'

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TNGA Rep. Matthew Hill, TNGA Senator Stacey Campfield
http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1705&ga=107">*HB1705 by *Hill (SB1474 by *Campfield)

General Assembly - As introduced, directs the general assembly to appoint a committee to review all federal laws and regulations for constitutionality; requires the committee to submit for a vote of the general assembly all federal laws and regulations it deems to be invalid under the Tennessee or federal constitutions. - Amends TCA Title 3.

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