Political Forum » Secession Or Sovereignty

Back in April, just as the Tax Day Tea Parties were swelling with support, Texas Governor Rick Perry made this statement:

"I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state," Gov. Perry said. "That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states' rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union."

A state sovereignty movement reasserts the idea that states do have rights & are protected from an overreaching federal government. The federal government is there, in theory, to ensure the states don't trample on our rights --- to protect us. Today, it seems the states are the ones trying to protect us from the federal government's ever extending & far reaching arm. Proclaiming sovereignty is not the same thing as seceding from the Union. States can & should remain sovereign without seceding & destroying the Union. The federal government needs to respect that sovereignty; so long as that state is not violating the right of the people as laid out in the Constitution.