Sheriff Mack speaks on State Sovereignty

INTERVIEWED BY OATH KEEPERS AT LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS

by John Charlton

(Nov. 2, 2009) — Sheriff Mack won national renowned in 1994 when with 6 other State sheriffs, he sued the U.S. Government for attempting to make his department to background checks on gun users in compliance with the Brady Bill.  His ground for suing were the violation of State’s rights.  Since that time Sheriff Mack has become a nationally recognized leader of the States’ rights movement, and has given more than 500 speeches on that and related issues.

Sheriff Mack recently wrote an article, entitled, “The States can stop Obama”, in which he spoke frankly and forcefully about the present National Crisis:

By now we have all heard the cliches and seen the posters from the “Tea Parties” espousing freedom, less government, and perhaps most of all, how the federal government had better back off trying to shove their national healthcare down our otherwise healthy throats.

The truth of the matter is all the slogans of “Don’t Tread On Me” or “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” or “We’re Mad As Hell And We’re Not Taking It Anymore,” don’t mean a thing when compared to reality; the real and actual answer to all the protests, marches, and outrage.

The answer is in our own backyards! The States can stop every bit of it! That’s right, the individual States can stop “Obamacare” and all other forms of out-of-control federal government mandates and “big brother” tactics. If Arizona, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Texas, etc. want nothing to do with National Healthcare as proposed by Barack Obama or Congress, then all they have to do is say “No!”

And he added:

The last of these basic foundational principles was the one to protect the power, sovereignty, and the autonomy of the States; the Tenth Amendment. This amendment and law underscores the entire purpose of the Constitution to limit government and forbids the federal government from becoming more powerful than the “creator.”

Let’s be very clear here; the States in this case were the creator. They formed the federal government, not the other way around. Does anyone believe rationally that the States intended to form a new central government to control and command the States at will? Nothing could be further from the truth. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution details what duties the federal government will be responsible for under our new system of “balanced power.” Anything not mentioned in Article 1, Sec. 8, is “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (Tenth Amendment)

Hence, the federal government was not allowed creativity or carte blanche to expand or assume power wherever and whenever they felt like it. The feds had only discrete and enumerated and very limited powers. Omnipotency was the last thing the Founding Fathers intended to award the newly formed federal government. They had just fought the Revolutionary War to stop such from Britain and their main concern was to prevent a recurrence here in America.

Sheriff Mack also gave an interview to Oathkeepers about the State Sovereignty issue.  Watch his video below: