YOU GO GIRL!

World News Daily
"Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a joint resolution declaring Alaska's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution – and now 36 other states have introduced similar resolutions as part of a growing resistance to the federal government."

So, how far will the federal government allow states to go in asserting their 10th amendment rights? For those that left their pocket constitution in their other pair of pants let me give you the 10th amendment:

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.

Seems pretty straight forward, doesn't it. Just like the rest of the original ten amendments. Of course, the commerce clause has been used to override the tenth amendment. Here is the commerce clause:

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.

The regulation of commerce has been construed in such a way as allow the federal government to gather to itself all of the powers reserved to the states in the tenth amendment. Instead of serving as a referee in disputes between the states it has become, regardless of the simple language of the Constitution, the real power to which all of the states must bend their knee.

Abraham Lincoln, in a speech before the House of Representatives on January 12, 1848, said this: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up,and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better." (Of course, somewhere along the line he apparently changed his mind about this.) I hope that the states will do as the constitution requires and reassert their sovereignty. Maybe these resolutions are the beginning.