Does YOUR state support freedom from the Feds? The Balance of Powers Act

Mississippi House Bill 490


(e) In accordance with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, the general welfare clause does not empower the federal government with the ability to do anything it deems good. It is instead a general restriction limiting the exercise of the enumerated powers of Congress set forth in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, requiring that Congress only enact laws which serve all citizens well and equally. When James Madison was asked if this clause were a grant of power, he replied, "If not only the means but the objects are unlimited, the parchment [the Constitution] should be thrown into the fire at once." Thus, we reestablish that this clause is a limitation on the power of the federal government to act in the welfare of all when passing laws in pursuance of the powers delegated to the United States, showing no favor to any race, creed, color or socio-economic class. Likewise, the commerce clause was not meant or understood to authorize Congress or the federal judiciary to establish religious, sectarian or foreign statutes or case law as controlling or influential precedent. Accordingly, the foregoing public meaning and understanding of Article 1, Section 8, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and the Tenth Amendment, of the United States Constitution is a matter of compact between the state and people of Mississippi and the United States as of the time that Mississippi was admitted to statehood on December 10, 1817.

Last Edited by No Dhimmi on 01/27/2013 10:12 PM

In this model bill are the following state powers:

Reclaims and reasserts both Ninth and Tenth Amendment Rights
Provides the Constitutional grounds for broad state nullification power

Defines “constitutional” as the powers delegated and enumerated in the Constitution

Rejects all “unconstitutional” acts by the federal government

Addresses abuses via the commerce clause, necessary and proper clause, and general welfare clause

Requires that all federal actions pass US and State Constitutional muster

Rejects abusive judicial law making practices via precedent and procedure as without authority

Establishes a state Constitutional Review commission to recommend case-by-case nullification

Establishes rules and time limits in which the state must review and nullify upon determination of unconstitutionality

Reaffirms that the U.S. Supreme Court has “original jurisdiction” in all matters between the Federal and State governments, in accordance with Article III – Section II

Reaffirms state referendum authority as the final word of the people, in the event of improper adjudication (in compliance with standing state statutes concerning referendums)

Positions each state legislature to protect and preserve for the people of their state, freedom from federal executive, legislative or judicial tyranny

SECTION 3. (1) In accordance with the United States Constitution, Congress and the federal government are denied the power to establish or affect laws within this state which are repugnant and obtrusive to the United States Constitution, the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, state law and the citizens of the state. The federal government is restrained and confined in authority by the eighteen (18) items as set forth in Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.

SECTION 5. (1) It is the duty of the Mississippi State Legislature to adopt and enact any and all measures that may become necessary to prevent the wrongful enforcement of any federal laws or regulations duly neutralized within the boundaries and limits of this state.

for once i'm gonna 5 star ya dhimmi-wit!!!

there ya go..

Thank you!

I for one, can't rely on any politician playing by the rules of the constitution, be it state or federal. It goes without saying that our congress is nothing but pigs at the trough. On the state level, you have the bush league hopefulls just waiting to move up to the big leagues in Washington for their bite at the apple. They're all liars without exception, the payoff dictates their actions.

"If it saves one child, how many children does it kill? If you ban Freon over an unproven fear that it contributes to ozone depletion, for example, and require use of a more expensive, less efficient, and incidentally more toxic and corrosive substitute, all because it might save one child, how many babies did you kill with spoiled milk and meat? What other consequences to your intervention are you ignoring?

This reminds me of the time Madeleine Halfbright was told that the sanctions she saw imposed on Iraq had killed about half a million children, and she answered: "Yes, it was costly, but we think it was worth it." These people are hypocrites – and extremely dangerous. Sociopaths. They don't care about saving human lives; they are more than willing to expend any number of them, like pawns on a chessboard, to advance their quest for power".

-Doug Casey in recent interview

Finally Information which has purpose.. Excellent information at a time when it is greatly need as opposed to Complacency.. My Hats off to you OP..

Thank you! This was a great find - tangible actions we can press for at our level!

(4) The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution secures and reserves to the people of Mississippi, as against the federal government, their natural rights to life, liberty and property as entailed by the traditional Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty and as secured by state law, including, but not limited to, their rights as they were understood and secured by the law at the time that the amendment was ratified on December 15, 1791, as well as their rights as they were understood and secured by the law in the State of Mississippi at the time the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 was adopted on November 1, 1890. The people and state hereby proclaim that the guarantee of those rights is a matter of compact between the state and people of Mississippi and the United States as of the time that Mississippi was admitted to statehood on December 10, 1817.


Upon passage of this act, a certified copy shall be sent to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, each member of the Mississippi congressional delegation, with the request that this act be officially entered into the congressional record.

. . . the United States has lost its importance. It has turned its back on the world and has become so arrogant and hostile just to visit since 911, people are refusing to kiss its ass. In Europe, behind closed doors they see the USA as the land of corrupt bankers and has become the schoolyard bully plowing down international law.

[link to armstrongeconomics.com]

Washington, D.C. has extracted power and money from the United States into a centralized location to become the country's greatest "boomtown," despite not creating anything.


Schweizer, the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute, highlighted how the permanent political class that relies on lobbying and influence peddling makes more money by "growing the size of government," which leaves no incentive on either side of the aisle to limit government.

[link to www.breitbart.com]

Anybody who thinks the U.S. is in a so-called recovery isn’t listening to economist John Williams. He contends, “We haven’t had a recovery and we’re not about to have one, and it’s getting worse.” Williams says it’s because, “The consumer is in very serious trouble. . . . The average guy is not making it. His income is not keeping up with inflation.” As far as Congress getting the budget and debt ceiling under control, Williams says, “Both sides are faced with devil’s choices.” If Congress does not get its financial house in order by the new deadline in mid-May 2013, Williams predicts, “It will be the end of the road . . . . They are not going to have another opportunity . . . they are pushing the limit as it is now.” Williams says he expects, “. . . a negative reaction in the next 3 or 4 months to the dollar.”
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[link to www.silverdoctors.com]

The chart located at the below link proves that politicians and those who would disarm Americans by going so far as to call for a repeal of the 2nd Amendment have ulterior motives – or they’re completely ignorant of the facts.

[link to www.blacklistednews.com]

Good information. Stuff we should all read.

Thank you!

Eliminate the income tax and you shrink the size of government sharply. Today the IRS collects over $2.4 trillion each tax year from around 234 million tax returns. They has 106,000 employees and Obama authorized the hiring of 26,000 more just for Obamacare.

The elimination of the income tax would result in a huge restoration of civil rights and equalize the tax burden to anyone who is here. It will not be a tax break for the rich, since they pay more when they spend. Moreover, it would eliminate PAYROLL taxes reducing the cost of labor making it more competitive. This would actually inspire job growth instead of taxing labor and sending jobs offshore.

[link to armstrongeconomics.com]

Another example of why we need this Act at all state levels

Another Family Business Destroyed: Morningland Dairy Raw Milk Cheese Raided

Crony capitalism


Washington - A government auditor harshly criticized the Treasury Department for approving "excessive" pay packages for top executives at three companies that received large government bailouts.


[link to www.detroitnews.com]

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

~ Founding Father, George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment

who gives a crap about the States or the Feds or how much power they have.

i'm only concerned about my own power.

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